So there are new galleries from the past few weeks. Updates close at hand. Have been rather busy.
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So, I was looking at visitor statistics for no steam shovel yesterday afternoon, and I came across something very unnerving, and, a little bit funny (depending on how you look at it)… I have visitors coming to my site from Susquehanna (or in relation to, rather) University.
Evidently there is a new college-search website out there that pools blog posts mentioning various colleges and displays them on the college information pages, and my last post evidently made a blip on their radar…
Needless to say, I was quite surprised to see a few visitors originating from: http://college.mychances.net/college-1274-Susquehanna-University.html. Yet, in a way, it was a pleasant surprise…
I don’t know how it finds posts mentioning these colleges. I didn’t link to the university home page (and won’t) and I highly doubt the school has a ping-back server… As far as I can tell it identifies posts based on tags (as thats the only thing that identifies the university, other than the text, in my post). If thats the case, they must find pertinent posts via Technorati. Very sneaky.
How ever they do it, maybe now I can say all those unpleasant things about SU that I have been harboring for so long, and someone will actually read them… Excellent…
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a listing for NESCom, so all my praise will unfortunately fall on deaf ears… Alas… Can’t win them all… 
Jenifer and I are going Kayaking this afternoon. Where to, I have no idea, but it will be fun never-the-less.
She should be arriving shortly, so I should probably get things cleaned up a bit before she arrives.
Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend.
Geez, keep taking these breaks… Have to get a handle on that.
So! Summer is finally here! Made it through another school year, I’m out of that damn apartment in Old Town, and I’ve got a new kitten.
Meet Mali.
Sorry, couldn’t help it. She’s just so adorable. Stole her from my ex-roommates actually. Jen and I bought 4 cans of cat food, fed her one, left for two days, came back, and there were still 3 cans left… So I fed her some and waited to see if Caleb made a move to feed her. He didn’t. Fed her the next morning (both times being careful no one noticed, to see if anyone else cared to feed her), Caleb left for work, making no move, so I left for home. With the cat. And if you are reading this Caleb, tough.
Wow, that was all kinds of grammatically incorrect. Oh well.
So school is out and I am back to mowing. Every day. All day. From 8:30am till 6-9pm… And I enjoy it.
God I am happy to be out for a bit. I mean, I love NESCom (MUCH more-so than SU), but I was dogging it there in the last few weeks. Mostly because of English (contrary to the stereotype of most Bloggers, I HATE structured writing…), which I was sure I would nearly fail.
That in mind, imagine my surprise when I received my grades the other day and pulled in a B+ or higher in every class but Intro to Media (C+). Yeah… That look you just made? Imagine mine…
Pretty much, everything is awesome right now, save the back of my hands, which are sun-burnt to the very edge of blistering…
I’ve spent fair amount of time with Jen the past two weeks. Once last Wednesday, then again this past weekend for my birthday, for a full two days. Makes me smile, real-big-like. I’m going back to Waterboro tomorrow night, Justin in tow, to catch a 1am showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with Jen and the crew. Should be fun. And then we’re going kayaking next Tuesday.
You know, I think I could dig this woman. 
Got some pretty cool stuff on my birthday. John and Cathy (Jen’s mum and dad) got me a remote-controlled helicopter, which absolutely kicks ass! I am in the process of calibrating the tail rotor over the past few days… Out of the box they are only roughly calibrated to stay straight, but if you want, you can fine tune it to stay more true (not spin around in circles). We’ll see how it turns out.
Jen’s Grandma got us tickets to WARPED TOUR 2007! Fucking right!
I played with Jen a bit (I got both tickets in my one card), and I think she actually believed I was going to take Justin with my spare. HA! Right…
Jen got me a “Meh.” shirt (much cooler than you think, I can assure you), and a book on photographic lighting. I only looked over the book briefly, but I can tell I am going to like it. I will review it after I get some time to go through it in detail…
And last, but not least, mom got me a watch (which I have yet to really wear, as I am afraid to dirty it), and some shirts…
But not just ANY shirts… Company shirts. Namely, CoverThis Photography. I really can’t describe them, so I will have to post a picture at some point.
There was something else, but I can’t place it… :-/
Anyway, the past few days I have been dubbing around, trying to get Step Mania to work on this old laptop. Had a turn for the better this afternoon, but still not quite there. I’ll document it here in a few days.
Right now, however, I need a shower, and some aloe-vera. Just wanted to check in, tell you I’m not dead, and such. So, that said, have an evening…
So, looks like summer decided to get off its fat ass and show up…
The first shot is from two weeks ago, but really, it looked the same up until last Friday. There was snow on the ground until just a few days ago…
And this one is of the exact same branch, at the same angle at the same focal length… This afternoon… It was like 70+ degrees out… Well, actually, I guess I was a little closer in the second shot, but whatever…
It is about damn time…
I have a SHIT ton of work to do this weekend. I have a business plan to write up by 5 this afternoon… Did you catch that? 
I have a video to finish by April 10th… I have a video to shoot by next Tuesday. I have a research paper to write by Monday. I have commercial product shots to shoot by Tuesday. I have two sites to design by Monday. I am shooting the hypnotist this evening, and I need to set up at 8:30. And to top it ALLLLLL off, it is Jen and I’s 6 month. Well, it was the 16th, but we agreed to celebrate this weekend…
Wow… It seems like an awfull lot of work when I writ it out like that… Gah…
And there you have it. The end of the world as we know it.
April 13, 2007
Michael Mulligan
New England School of Communications
One College Circle
Bangor, ME 04401Dear Michael,
Congratulations! you have been selected to flil a 2007-2008 Resident Assistant position. Your request for a hall and floor has been taken into consideration.
If you accept this position you must be available on the following dated. The dates listed below are required for this position.
- August 17th, 2007 - September 4th, 2007 for Resident Assistant Training and New Student Orientation.
- November 20, 2007 at 8pm you are able to leave for Thanksgiving Break.
- November 25, 2007 at 8am you are to return from Thanksgiving Break.
* Unless scheduled for key duty on November 25, 2007 at 8am, you are to return November 24, 2007 by 8pm.- December 22, 2007 at 8am you are able to leave for Winter Break.
- January 12, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Winter Break.
- March 1, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Spring Break.
- March 15, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Spring Break.
- May 11, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Summer Break.
Enclosed is a document to accept or decline this position, which must be completed and returned to the Student Life Office in 104 Peabody Hall no later than Monday, April 16, 2007 by 4pm.
Sincerely,
Fran Tracy
Director of Student Life
HA! Good RIDDANCE Old Town! After May 11th I will have no more to do with ye! No more driving back and forth, land-lords, utilities, unpaved driveways, disgusting roommates… Hallelujah!
Now, I know its not going to be a walk in the park, but I think I can handle it. I have found through past experience that the more I am challenged, the better I do. It’s when I am not challenged that I fall to the wayside. We’ll see.
Really, this is going to be such a great opportunity. I am excited beyond words.
You know it’s been a slow set of days when you get serious responses to photos like this:
So, I narrowly missed getting evicted today…
Hows that for catching your attention?
Evidently I was quite literally “A day late and a dollar short.” Seven days and three-hundred dollars, to be exact. But I’m all set now, for those of you who care, with no ill effects. On this note I would like to inform you of the consequences of being evicted. I, myself, was not fully aware of such matters. However, it was rather nice of my landlord to provide me a paper with an easy to understand list:
1. Eviction Court: This will be humiliating, and a matter public record.
2. Dispossession: This also will be humiliating, and a matter of public record.
3. Judgments: This too will be humiliating, and a matter of public record.
I will tell you, the pamphlet was quite helpful and informative, I practically feel like I was there…
Actually, we were all served (Caleb, Danny and I) an eviction notice, and come to find it was primarily Danny’s fault, such a nice change. However, I am sure I didn’t help the matter.
God I have to get out of this house…
For more about work, school and the unraveling of modern society, read on…
I was reading up on the Technorati Ranking system this morning when I came across this interesting post and its accompaniment over at docsaab. And it got me thinking, why do we blog?
Is there a particular method to coming back from the dead? I like to think not. First, it’s a fantastical occurrence (doesn’t happen… often…), and thing like that don’t really have methods. And second, when I wake up from a bad dream, as I would venture to assume death seams, I sit square up in my bed ready for action… I don’t just lay there in a lazy stupor, like I do most mornings…
This in mind, I suppose running right back in to blogging after over a months hiatus is similar to hastily frying up some eggs at 2am after waking with a start from a truly terrifying dream… Or something like that…
I’m game… I’m back from the dead… I just want readers.
In a similar vein, it seems as though winter has risen from the ashes as well. I woke this morning to find just about a foot of snow covering everything. Not something I like to see five days in to April, or in April at all for that matter. What the hell is going on? And I hear rumors of more on the way… Not a happy camper.
So I took pictures…
On another note, more of my posters got approved during the Student Government Social Committee meeting this afternoon. Now Pam has no excuse to not use them.
Also, come to find out, she doesn’t really like anybody, and nobody really likes her.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one…
Those of you who are photographers may or may not know the name. I didn’t until just the other day… A day late and a dollar short.
I often frequent the site of Ken Rockwell, an esteemed photographer, and evidently a man who doesn’t merely adjust his depth of field, but changes space-time. He is very knowledgeable in the ways of photography, and tells things how they are, without all the measurbation everyone else gets caught up in.
I was on his site the other day when I noticed a fleeting obituary.
… Monte Zucker, the world’s most famous wedding and portrait photographer, passed away from pancreatic cancer on March 15th at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. He was 77.
I am ashamed to say I had never heard of Monte Zucker until I read this, and I didn’t, at first, realize how much of a loss this really was.
Monte Zucker is an AMAZING wedding and portrait photographer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It’s not that his photos are fantastic (they are much more), but that he is such an amazing teacher. Within moments on his website I learned more about posing for portrait photography than I have all year at NESCOM. Yes, it is Bridal portraiture, but the concepts are pretty much universal, and to a growing photographer, invaluable.
His death is a huge loss to the photography industry, both for the loss of all the wonderful images he could have taken, and for the loss of his wealth of knowledge for all the aspiring photographers of the world. If you are interested in the what knowledge he left behind for the lost of us, his educational videos are still for sale here. However, I would expect there would be a delay in processing and shipping while his family mourns his passing.
A true lesson as to the frailty of life, and speed and ferocity with which it can be taken away still stands on his site with his listing of class schedules:
Seems as if some serious health issues may cause a slight change of my schedule. As of now, I’m planning to go through with most of my plans for this year and next year.
Doctors today confirmed that I have a form of pancreatic/lymphatic cancer. I will begin treatments December 11th. The prognosis is that I have 9-12 months to live. Plenty of time to get things in order.
My goal is to teach my Las Vegas/WPPI class, and to teach once more in my home town, the Washington, DC area. I am also going to do everything in my power to teach the class in France.
Anything after that I’ll just have to wait and see.
Monte Zucker passed away on March 15, 2007, at a young 77 years in his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
From his website:
The Passing of a Legend
Monte Zucker: 1929-2007Celebration of the Life of Monte Zucker
Sunday, April 22, 2007, 1-4 pm
It’s freakin’ APRIL! Gah… It’s been nearly shorts-weather for the past week, few weeks, and now its just as white outside as February… Ew… It’s not even cold enough! It’s still kind of warm out…
Whatever.
I feel I owe you, dear reader, an apology.
It seems my “update” yesterday was more of a rant than an honest, all encompassing, update. And I am sorry…
Sure, some bad stuff has gone down, but things have been on the up ‘n up too. And here’s where I get to boast…
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