BABY T SHIRT I

I got tagged forever ago and just never got the time to sit down and carry out this idea. sooooo here's my ten things. And if I tagged you, you BETTER post a selfie with your ten things (this means you, Misses Madeline and Melia).

1. I will use unnecessary big words in everyday conversation. I also seem to trip over my own tongue a lot. People look at me funny because I don't speak like a normal Western Pennsylvanian. Or human being.

2. I have spent my entire life overcoming how socially awkward I am. I have always hated this about myself. College has helped me so much in that I'm not as uncomfortable in social situations as I used to be. Now people can't get me to shut up.

3. I miss singing more than people understand. I don't even care if I was the best singer in the bunch...I sang with heart. I miss performing in general, because it gave me a reason for living. Without music, marching band, etc, I would not be the person I am today.

4. I want to travel. Period. If this means that I have to wait tables in new cities or be an airline stewardess, so be it, but I already have 2 trips planned out financially over the next 4 years. My biggest heartbreak will be if I need to stay at home.

5. Photography-wise, I pour my soul into every shot and I am extremely competitive. I want to be the best and I want my degree in photojournalism to mean something.

6. I'm afraid of opossums and dying. Which is funny because opossums play dead. Badabum-CH. Oh and mayonnaise...I cannot go near mayonnaise.

7. I read crazy amounts of books, but of all my favorites, I can honestly say Harry Potter has changed my life. Don't you laugh. I am a Harry Potter fanatic. It got me through endless summers, family fights, everything. I believe I'll get my Hogwarts letter someday.

8. I would like to use my degree to tell the little stories. Details and backstories, especially in people's lives, are very important to me. I want to capture the everyday lives and details of little-known cultures in a beautiful way.

9. Fashion will always hold a special place in my heart. I will sooner spend money on Christian Louboutins than on a month's rent. I should probably fix this before I live on my own.

10. I used to hate change. Now I accept it, but I still just want my friends back together, sitting in an Eat N Park booth sharing onion rings and gossip. I'm one of those people who annoy you by believing in the awesome power of the high school friendship. I am slowly being proven wrong.

11. I have two hot pink streaks in my hair, a nose piercing, and at least 8 planned tattoos (or at least I used to have the nose). So I would LOVE to move to a less conservative town where people don't hate you for things like that.

12. I like that people call me Asian Invasion and things like that, because although I pretend to hate it, it reminds me that I belong to something enough to make me an inside joke. I get the warm fuzzies.

13. Last thing I swear! That shirt in the top left corner is from the John Mayer concert. I bought 30 dollar lawn seats but ended up winning front row center upgrades and singing onstage with Train, whom I love. It was the best day I can remember in a long time.

This working-in-an-office thing has definite upsides. I worked late tonight and... by the time I left... no one was around but the security and cleaning staff.

I've always liked the reds in here... and I often thought of doing something like this... but, of course, in my imagined shoots... I have my tripod with me. I shot these using my incredibly lame... limpnoodly... mini-tripod... which only stays still for a minute at the most. I set the little bastard up on the counter... and went to do a test shot. And... as I stood there, remote in hand... it started slumping over... and I had to run to keep my camera from sliding into the sink. Putting the camera right on the counter didn't work... so I used the damned mini... and just took these four shots really quickly. Like... all in the space of less than a minute. And I had no idea whether things would turn out or not. In the last shot... the one on the right... I am literally shaking my head at my own wacky photomania.

Anyway... just a bit of fun after work... since I've wanted to shoot this room so many times... but really can't during regular hours. Bonus: even though it's a very conservative place, they don't complain when I dress like this... at least on Fridays. I figure... after four days of skirts and heels... I really need the balance that only a skull shirt provides.