Compare & Contrast

I first saw this ad in HOW magazine. The image itself is hilarious...the big, mean Doberman wearing a cotton-candy pink sweater. The color contrast is dramatic as well. The ad is for Corbis.com, a stock photo site.

Mounting and Rat Bites

So, I just finished mounting my obit. Does Letramax make cutting easier? I bought all the fancy toys: Exacto knife, straight edge, mat cutter, rubber cutting board, high-in-a-can Super 77 and non-Letramax matte board paper stuff. I cleared a space on the table, put on some relaxing music and starting cutting. I thought it would be so much fun. Unfortunately the mat cutter is designed for a right-handed person--I am a lefty. Adjusting the cutter involves a Phillips-head screwdriver, which I have...somewhere.

After giving up on making the cutter lefty-friendly, I continued cutting. After a few close calls involving my dining table, I moved the show to the floor. I did get the board cut, but it's not pretty. It looks like a rat gnawed off one side of the board. And somehow after carefully measuring and marking the board, it's a 1/2 in. larger on two sides than the other sides. The larger sides are also the rat sides.

Now, I know I should try to even the sides...but considering what it took to get the uneven rat board, I'm quitting while I'm still slightly ahead.

Popularity issues

Ok...truth is I really don't like blogging. It's too popular. I like the idea being able to put my writing up for people to read and give feedback, but everybody is doing it. I have no problem with those who blog; it is just to 'in' right now for me to partake.

Last spring/summer everyone (ok, all the girls....and some cross-dressers) were wearing those linen peasant skirts, the long gauzy types. I love those hippie-esque skirts. I bought one in May and stuck it in my closet. Around October or November when people moved on to gauchos, I flounced around in my skirt. (as a side note...gauchos? Seriously. Why spend hours at a gym to cover the work with elongated culottes? These are the kind of pants that fundie-Christian girls wear when they rebel but feel guilty about it.)

Point is, I hate conformity. And if that means being a fashion season behind, so be it.
Granted, I am now blogging...as part of my class requirements. Who knows, by the end of the semester I may have gotten over my popularity issues and will love blogging.

Show and Tell

Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English
James Cochrane

I chose this book cover because I think it does a good job of describing editing. The red copy edit marks and broken pencil with bite marks are what caught my attention to the book.