...The fuck?

So, I come to my blog today to see what, you  may be asking yourself? Fucking NOTHING. My entire god damn blog was GONE. So, my brain being full of fuck, I decided to look at my posts. And they were all reverted to drafts.

I don't know what the fuck happened. So I republished everything, but now I have to go back and make sure that only those things I wanted published are published. I have about 10 drafts that I kept as drafts just for me, and nobody needs to see those.

Anyway.

In photo news!!

I saw a set of paintings that I want to try and recreate as photos. I'm fairly excited to start doing that.

I've finally quite smoking again. I haven't had one since yesterday, and I feel really good about it. Well, sort of. I still want to smoke, quite desperately. But it's cramping my style when I run. And that, while I have a very serious love/hate but mostly hate relationship with it, is far more important.

I've started ironing out details for the big drive-a-thon next month. I am so excited for just about every single aspect of it. The driving (I love it. Nothing helps you think like vast stretches of open road and waiting sky. Yes, please), the picture taking (because obviously), and the destinations. Yippee!!! I don't want to jinx anything, which is why I'm not being specific. But details will come the second they're solidified. I tried to get Amber to go with me, but she can't. And that makes me sad. But I don't mind doing it alone. In fact, it's almost better that way. Then I don't have to share the spaces where the world is empty with anybody, and I can just fill it all with my own thoughts.

This photo is noisy. I don't care for it at all. My ISO was cranked WAY too fucking high, and I paid the price. Also, that weird purple tone. I don't like that, either. Harrumph.

Is there anything prettier than a fluffy cloud? I don't think so. In let-me-point-out-the-flaw-to-you news, there's a weird squiggle in the left corner. It's in a few of my other photos, too. I think I must have had a gunky something or other stuck on my lens. I really need to buy a fucking camera bag. :/ But, I also want new lenses and a new camera body and all of that other stuff. I'd rather have those things than the bag.

Man, one of these days I am going to nail EV so fucking hard! While that day was not this day, I still love this photo.

I took these on Tuesday. I ran around taking photos for several hours, and I found three that I liked. But that's ok, I also went through them wildly late, and I was exhausted. I haven't gone through them again, so perhaps there are more.

I do need to go back out and take some more photos. I thought about doing so tonight after I run, but I am really so sleepy already. I didn't sleep terribly well last night. mostly because I got insanely drunk at the party (which was a blast. I told The (Boy)Friend that I finally learned how to play beer pong, and I'm actually REALLY fucking good at it. I played three games and won them all. By no small margin. Against seasoned payers. Yay!), and I kept waking up because I needed to drink more water. I felt dried out. Allen, however, out-championed me at drinking. He had the equivalent of two rum and cokes in one drink, three or four beers, and then FIFTEEN jello shots. Christ. I had my one rum and coke (of course I did, first of all, and second of all, it was god damn STRONG), I had a hard cider (yum!), a few sips of Allen and Hannah's beers, and then seven jello shots interspersed throughout the evening. And I felt pretty evenly lit the entire night. It was a really great time, though. I even thought ahead and brought my camera (with all of the correct accoutrements! I'm growing!), but I never once had a use for it. I had a great time, though. Hannah and Allen and I were pretty tight for the evening. Hannah and Allen really seemed to get along pretty well, which was nice.

I did actually accomplish a great deal of work here today, since, you know, that's where I am and everything. But I still have more work to do, and only forty minutes to do it all in. It won't be a problem, but I do want to get it all done without scrambling around for the last ten minutes that I'm here.