The Self-Portrait v2 Photography Experience™ - Day Two

[jackshoegazer]

This summer, I'll be working 6:45am to 3pm. While that means I have to leave the house an hour earlier, it also means I am home much earlier. I think I'm going to like it.

Jacquelyn is heading off tomorrow to give a talk/poster of her research. She'll be gone the rest of the week.

Ethan and I helped Jacquelyn start her community garden plot. A lot of tomatoes, mostly heirloom varieties, squash, zucchini, pumpkins, cucumbers, and peppers. Ethan requested his own jalapeño plant and thus he received. The initial work was hard but from here on, it shouldn't be too bad. Weekly watering and weeding. There was something good about working in the dirt, even if simultaneously I hated being dirty.

brdgt's birthday party was a blast.  I learned of a weird game called Ladderball, which led to many inappropriate jokes about dangling balls.  There was a ton of food and drink and all of it very yummy.  I made Jacquelyn's margarita cupcake recipe, which I did up extra-lime-y and were well received.  Bridget is officially the coolest hostess of all time.  I'll be editing and posting pictures soon.

I got a letter from my school. I received a 4.0 for my first year. I'm on the Dean's List n' shite.

Huge thunderstorms are on the way, I can feel it. I meant that literally, not metaphorically.

Comments

[were-duck.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your grade! It was good to see you the other night :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ditto! I'll be posting a FO post of pictures from the party later tonight. I'm pretty sure we got a couple of you and your girlie :)

[cashmirjungle1.livejournal.com]

Dude. . .your eyes look all crazy and stuff. I like it! And those cupcakes sound simply divine. Think your lady would mind if you shared her secret recipe with the rest of the class?

I planted my tomatoes about two weeks ago. I don't have many places in the yard that get direct sunlight, so I put them in pots on my back porch. In just a week the plants have grown so much. I'm really excited for another season of fresh tomatoes! (And an orange pepper--thought I'd try something new!) Good luck with your garden :o)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Recipe coming up!

I decided to do more unconventional self-portraits this time around. I can't keep doing the same face a la Zoolander :)

[katachthonios.livejournal.com]

Ack! My brain stumbled over itself it reply comments. Here they are, sorted:

first -- margarita cupcakes?
second -- flippin' sweet on the 4.0! I'd love to see someone's GPA as "pi", but that's the next coolest thing.
third -- margarita cupcakes?
fourth -- the first photo ought to have a caption saying: "I WANT TO TAKE YOUR PICTURE, CAN I?" or something equally way-too-happy-paparazzi-ish

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Recipe coming up!

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

I love the pictures :) Congrats on the deans list!

I miss thunderstorms, I haven't had a decent one in 2 years, I'm going through withdrawal here.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

My storms never came :(

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

damn thunder storms, they are hanging out in indianapolis (some friends of mine there can't seem to get rid of them)

does the weather understand how much i really really need a thunderstorm? i'm going to go crazy!

[symwyse.livejournal.com]

4.0! Congratulations! Oh, and an idea for your next post:

Margarita cupcakes: THE RECIPE.

Thank you that is all.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Recipe coming up!

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a good time - I was worried that I didn't have enough food (what with everyone bringing beer and all!).

It looks like rain this week, so I'll keep your stuff inside and if you happen to be in the neighborhood, I'll probably be home.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

There was plenty of food, or at least I was never hungry (I drank most of my dinner ;)

I'll stop by when I'm in the neighborhood. I just posted the pictures from our camera.

[decemberthirty.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the garden! Sounds like you'll have lots of great veggies by the end of the summer.

Hooray also for good grades, fun parties, margarita cupcakes, and thunderstorms.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the hoorays :D

[explodingalice.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the grades, though I knew you'd be getting high marks from your earlier posts.

Yay on the veg garden. We just did the same (though in our backyard) and I was planning to post about it shortly.

Enough with the buggy eyes - yer freakin' me out. :P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Maybe no more buggy eyes... We'll see what I come up with for today's post :)

I haven't had a garden, well.. ever, so this will be neat. Though, I think we planted waaay too many tomato plants :P