HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today, October 26th, 2010, is my friend Timothy Hawkins' 21st birthday!
He is one of the most amazing people I have ever known and because the Universe decided for him to be born on this day, it is a great day!



Timothy, Happy Birthday!
I love you very very much.

KARMA where are you?

I don't think there is such a thing as KARMA any more.
I think people just keep talking about it so that YOU will do what they want and YOU will be good to them and YOU will be a safe driver and a good lover and make lots of sacrifices for the people, but the people don't really plan on returning the favors. The world doesn't really want to help you out in return.

There is no such thing as KARMA.

I might as well take a vow of charity and all of those other vows that monks and nuns take.
And since it is ugly to be jealous and bitter, I will just keep all of these thoughts in my own head and keep appeasing the ones who I care about, even though, they will never appease me.

A sacrifice is a difficult thing to make, but I have learned to just accept the hardship and make the damned sacrifice so all the babies of the world won't drown me with their tears of selfishness.

I AM HAPPY?

Personali-WHO?

My good friend JR is an awesome photographer, and he is doing this really cool photo project right now. He is taking pictures of all his friends, but kinda as if they were their personality. At least that's how I interpret the collection. The collection isn't done, but so far it's awesome.

So, I found out about all of this coolness while I was on my trip. My friend Simone, in Santa Cruz, was on Facebook and saw all the pictures. I was kinda bummed, though, because I didn't think I would get to partake, since I was out of town, but sure enough, JR wanted to take my picture, too!

Now, the problem was how to depict my personality. What is my personality, anyways?
Do I do the maternal idea of Susie-home-maker, or do I do the tom-boy/armpit hair idea?



Well JR decided: "hey, why not both!"
So we came up with the idea that half of me would be feminine and the other half masculine.
Our friend Heike did my make up, and I had two outfits to wear: a dress and an apron for the mommish picture, and a greased up wife-beater for the tom-boy picture. And on top of the two outfits, I made an apple pie to hold in one picture and I brought a wrench for the other. After JR took the girly picture and the tom-boy picture, he cut the two in half and pasted them together using cool technology that I don't understand.



The picture turned out really cool. It's kind of really creepy but it is exactly how I imagined it would be.


Photo credit: JR Racine, duh!