I have spent a lot of time in the London area, actually.

For someone not British who doesn't really travel that much.

Here are some B&W shots I took in Greenwich (where the time meridian is, among other things) back in December 2000, in the midst of an 18-day visit which culminated in attending a wedding in a castle in Sussex (of two Americans. heh).

It was FOGGY. (Surprise, surprise.)

(You can click through to Flickr to see 'em bigger if you'd like.)

Wow, I am such a slug.

I just resort to doing almost NOTHING once school is back in session. Have barely taken any photos. So it's a good thing I am doing that Project Archive isn't it.

Here are some shots from the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island back in 2001.

(You may want to click through to Flickr where you can find links to view them bigger.)

And here's a shot of the Korean War Memorial from a 2001 trip to DC (it's a companion piece to the shot I showed you a couple weeks ago of the Vietnam War Memorial.)

And of course I do continue to experiment with my new lil camera as I wander about my days. Here's a shot from Union Station where I went to get on the train to the suburbs the other day:

And here's from a walk through Evanston on my way to a board-game playing party! (Do I know how to PAR-TAY or what?!?!)

OK well I better get some sleep because I am a Movie Dictator! tomorrow (the entire group has to sit and watch whatever movies I pick. hahahahaha.) and I've got to get up eary and make some cookies to offer my suffering dictatees.

Oh, for me? Why, thank you, me.

So I had all these thank you points piling up on a credit card and I've been biding my time trying to figure out what I wanted. Christmas seemed a good time for a new camera, don't ya think? It's an Olympus Pen or EP-1 and it does all kinds of crazy fun stuff. Like you can shoot in square format with a Holga-esque filter and frankly I've only shot a couple random shots in any other mode so far!

Check it out:

The best part is that while it is a slight upgrade from a point 'n' shoot in its capabilities, I can actually carry it around even when my bag is already full of school books (unlike my DSLR or my hassy!!) so I might actually be able to do some random shooting during the semester. Yipee.

OK gotta go do some stuff! Later!

I did some knitting over Christmas break!

I freaked out when I realized Cinnamon's winter hat was made of cotton. I mean, COME ON, we live in Chicago. So I remedied that.

I made myself another purty little shawl that I will mostly wear Bandito-style but here's a look at the full thing.

And I made this crazy three-way cowl that I might end up wearing all scrunched up like this:

Because I have such a hard time deciding which of these two looks I like better.

Well, it's back to school for me tonight so that is likely the end of major productivity but I do have a half-finished hat, 3/4-finished sweater and almost-done pair of socks, so we'll see...

I do miss living in NYC at Christmas time, 'tis true.

(Not that Chicago isn't fantastic at Christmas. It's just...different. And not where I lived for 13 years.)

And below are three differently angled shots of the same subject: mannequin rockettes in a window with psuedo double-exposure appearance due to reflections of the city. The above photos I had printed years ago (in the darkroom); these below I've never really gotten a good look at until I scanned the negatives in today. I am so pleased.

OK, my spring semester starts tomorrow and my house is a nuclear disaster minefield thanks to construction events of last week. I gotta go continue my slow-ass meandering around the house trying to get things back in some degree of order.

Note: top 3 photos December 1998; bottom 3 photos December 2002. If you wanted to know.

I'm an idiot.

I just bought tickets to Gomez without checking what day of the week the date was...and it's a night I'm pretty sure I'll be in class. SHIT.

Anyone wanna buy 'em off me? (Chicagoans.) March 4th at the Vic. They are a truly great band to see live.

Project Archive

I decided I'm going to (attempt to) upload an old photo per day for my Flickr project this year. Which is great except I could not access my scanner all week so now I'm way behind! Yuh-oh. I'll have to catch up today and tomorrow.

Anyhoooooo (as Ame would say), here are the first four shots, all taken years ago.

From DC, the Vietnam War Memorial:

From MN, Mom and Sullivan:

From NYC: Ellen at the Pool Hall:

And also from NYC: Building 72

That last one is one of my all-time faves but apparently no one on Flickr digs it the way I do! (It got no comments.)

Another baby quilt DONE.

This one is for my cousin's baby Felix. I finished the quilting back in August but just ran out of time to do the binding before school started. But it's bound now! Yipee!!

I love doing the binding anyway / but particularly on this quilt I think the blue binding was just PERFECT, it sets both the front and back off so nicely.

Oh yes.

I've just gotten back a ton of B&W film I shot in the fall and I am gettin' giddy over all the great shots!

Like these two, shot in a quiet moment at Dragon*Con when the Twins were taking naps and I took a little wander 'round the hotel.

OK well I hope the grocery store is open as I want to start my year off with some naw'leans style red beans'n'rice but I don't have all the ingredients I need....

Hey I finished Tiny Schmoo's quilt!

(Tiny Schmoo = Carrie's baby on the way!!)

And I'm so excited about how it turned out! Yippee!!

F.I.N.A.L.L.Y.

Winter is here!

Oh, yessssssssssss.

Two more!!

(see previous post for details)

Color Week with Bonus Book Briefs.

Yeah, I have not really had any time for photography at all lately but I did decide I could manage one shot a day for Color Week. And somehow I wound up doing book recommendations two days in a row so I figured I'd carry it on. Then on Friday I clearly had a little too much time on my hands (PROCRASTINATION TIME that is), and went for three. I'll come back and tell you more if I follow through on the weekend.

(p.s. click on the pictures to go through to Flickr for thoughts on the particular books and/or sometimes the authors more generally. You can (probably?) also find mention of these books or authors either somewhere on Snip or else on the old (OLD) book page.)

I know you're all already over the Polanski thing.

But I just saw this video and I love it.

Rapists are rapists. That's all there is to it.

Also these words from Kristin Cashore (a fantastic writer I've just read): The man made some fantastic movies and clearly he's loved by many people. Newsflash: lots of people who do criminal, awful things also happen to be talented, charming, likable, lovable. In what galaxy does anything about Roman Polanski's personal qualities remove his liability for raping someone? In what galaxy does the passage of time change what happened? The reason so much time has passed is because 32 years ago, after he pleaded guilty to rape, HE RAN AWAY, and no one followed. And to those who insist that he's served his time because he's suffered... the mind boggles. First, find me someone who hasn't suffered, and after that, I invite you to notice that he hasn't served any time. That's the whole point.

For the first time in a coon's age,

I actually knit something! Two somethings in fact.

One:

Two:

The second one doesn't really count as knitting PROGRESS however as it's a re-do of a previous version that was a wee bit too large for me noggin.

(Click through pictures to Flickr for details and/or Ravelry links.)

OK that is all, carry on.

Did you hear?

It's 'Roid Week again! YAY!

One from last year:

One from this year:

Gotta go take some more shots! Later!

My friend Andrew

Here after his first win at Settlers:

And here playing Monopoly:

And HERE as one of Crain's 40 under 40.

Woot. Yay Huff!

I have had an insanely social last few days for a girl with a BOATLOAD of homework to be doing.

Thursday night dinner at Meera & Ross' awesome new apartment.

Friday night pizza party at my place (see previous post for a shot of our awesome homemade (completely) pie).

Saturday night Huffencooper Halloween party. This year's theme: superhero.

I was so destroyed today it took me forever to get moving at all, let alone studying. And now once again I am in the position of "all daily/busy work for the week done but not a damn thing on the big idea assignments. GAH!"

Gotta get my act together, I've got lots and lots of writing to do!!!

Homemade pizza! (with homemade wholewheat crust)

Easy AND delicious = the perfect combination!

(There are mushrooms as well, they were cooked in the sauce so you can't see them under the three different kinds of cheese!)

I have really been cooking up a storm lately. Did I mention the chicken hand pies? (like individual chicken pot pie basically)

So good!

It's a monsoon out there.

But there were a few moments without rain the other day. OK I gotta go get some studying done, and drop by the post office, and pick up a comic book, and get some emergency yarn, and meet Lauren & Francesca for dinner and crafty time. I got things to do, places to go and people to see. For rlz. Later, yo.

Mmmmm moss.

I just finished up two lesson plans and I'm so having a hard time convincing myself that no, it is NOT time for a huge extended studybreak because I STILL have to work up my script for tomorrow night's presentation and I STILL have to work on my position paper outline or proposal or rough draft or whatever I'm supposedly going to hand in to my other professor tonight.

HOW IS IT ALREADY THE 10TH WK of SCHOOL? I have so.much.writing due in the next six weeks. SO MUCH.

Dessert is my favorite food group.

I'm planning to whip up a quick pumpkin pie when I get home tonight. Although a lot of my "when I get home from class exhausted at 9 p.m." plans don't seem to pan out. Wonder why that is? Oh the mystery! HA! Back to writing a lesson plan and daydreaming about a position paper and waiting for my leftovers to be ready to eat. At home studying? IS HUNGER INDUCING. Just so you know.

(You can click through to Flickr for recipe details.) Later, peeps.

Also found in Iowa? BARNS!

We'll be going back at some point to see the barns w/ quilt blocks in better lighting. (There are apparently a LOT more of them than just those two.)

Since the leaves in Chicago have been resisting changing colors

we drove 300 miles to Iowa to see some good ones. (OK well really we drove to Iowa for pie shakes [yes, that's pie and ice cream blended together into a shake OHMYGOD CAN YOU FEEL THE MAGIC], but hey! trees! with pretty leaves! were a bonus.)

Pretty, eh.

Downtown with Meera.

Met Meera for a sammy (that's sandwich to you) last night and a walk through a few super modern (and hence super bizarre) exhibits at the Chicago Cultural Center. Once it got dark we decided to swing through Millennium Park. The Joffrey Ballet was performing at the Pritzker so there was some lovely orchestral background music as we wandered to and fro amongst the lights shows happening on the various structures.

(in reality that structure is white)

(the new wing of the Art Institute)

(in reality that structure is white as well)

(where I'll be tonight! yipee!)