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I ordered a new violin back in March, because the time had come to upgrade from the annoying-sounding beginner violin I started on three years ago. Lucky me, work became insanely busy right around that time, so I’ve only had a chance to play it a few times so far.
Its sound, like its color, is warmer and more beautiful than the old one’s. Now I have to practice more to live up to its beauty.
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Rabid fans may have noticed that I didn’t update Matchingfreak for about the past three weeks until a few minutes ago. I had my reasons…
So I spent the past few days taking the pictures in my balcony during the day, because I didn’t go to work. But now that I go to work tomorrow, I’ll have to find some lucky volunteers to take my body shot for me. I’m too shy to ask people, though. I’m also too embarrassed to get my picture taken in public.
Like my mom said, I put the “freak” in Matchingfreak.
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When I re-started Matchingfreak back in 2008 for the second time, I was excited that I would have an excuse to take self-portraits again. There had been a serious decline in picture-taking since college, and this project was to salvage the little amateur photographer in me.
Well, I do take more pictures in a day now, but no more “discretionary” shots than I had been taking before. Is it that my surroundings are less inspiring, or that I am less inspired? Perhaps both, and I realize this.
I got a haircut last Saturday. They made my curls look so perfect that I knew it was a good self-portrait photoshoot opportunity, for old times’ sake.
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A few weeks ago, I was blessed with a free $100 Google AdWords gift card sent to me by my website hosting company. I figured I’d try it out, since it’s free (I’m sure this was their intention). I want to milk every last penny out of this opportunity to promote Matchingfreak, so I started an ad campaign for it. When I noticed that my one image ad has an almost five times higher clickthrough rate than to the text ads, I decided to crank out a couple more, almost one of each size available. And here they are!
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On Friday I wore a color scheme that reminded me of an outfit I’d worn and documented back in 2003: red, blue, and bright green. Below is a comparison (click to see larger versions):
 June 5, 2003 |
 September 18, 2009 |
I remember that morning in high school well. I had worn a light blue shirt underneath my red v-neck sweater. Just as I was about to head out the door, I had thought, “I need an outer layer. What could it be?” and had pulled out my bright green jacket, which I think I have given away since. It was with the same feelings I’d pulled my bright green cardigan out of my drawer while rushing out the door for work. Those were the only two instances where I was in the mood to wear those colors. Who knows when the next occurrence will be?
P.S. Finding that 2003 outfit would have been a lot more arduous if it weren’t for the Matchingfreak search page.
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It’s been a busy week. Sometimes, I’m so tired when I get home that I don’t even check my e-mail! That’s unheard of.
I received my first paycheck in the mail today! This calls for a celebration.
I’ve been struggling to find outfits to wear to work. I work in a refinery, so the dress code is “casual,” or as people call it, “jeans and a t-shirt.” I often have issues with dressing casually, because my idea of casual is wearing dress slacks instead of jeans, frilly lace instead of t-shirts, argyle socks instead of white athletic socks, and ballerina flats instead of sneakers. That sort of outfit does not really fit in considering that I have to wear coveralls and a hard hat when I go out into the field. I think I’m going to have to break down and buy a pair of jeans, just to wear to work. (I’ve been slightly “protesting” jeans for the past few years, because it’s what 99% of the population wears nowadays. I own one pair, but I almost exclusively wear it at home.) This means that I’ll soon be adding new clothes to my wardrobe; I’m excited about that.
Here are two outfits I wore to work in the past week. As you can tell, I was pretty tired when I took these pictures. However, I’ve gotten so used to taking matchingfreak pictures in the past few years that it doesn’t take me as long to take the pictures anymore. I don’t like the yellow light in my room, but I can’t think of any solutions for that at the moment.
The above picture is a dead giveaway of my favorite color scheme.
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I went to the music library today to look for a book. I couldn’t find the book, but I did take some pictures. The aisles were so narrow that I can’t explain it in words (click on the pictures to enlarge):
Last night, I moved the printer onto the floor, because it took up too much room on my desk. The printer part doesn’t work, but I still use the scanner part, so it’s still connected to the computer.
Today I made a bookcase out of a cardboard box and put all my books and folders in it. Guess where all those things used to be before I made this bookcase? ON THE FLOOR! Now there’s so much space opened up that I’ve realized how badly I need to vacuum.
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Look at what I did to my laptop!
Everybody was leaving their unused stuff in a large room on the first floor of the dorm, and somebody had left behind a roll of transparent wrapping paper. I fell in love with the design and bought it. Then I had the idea of taping some onto my laptop. I even cut out the apple! How is it?
By the way, I’ve begun putting up pictures of the day again. Yay 
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Hi. I’m sorry! I’m aware that I need to update the blog more often, because I know there are at least 10 visitors who come here every day. Thanks, those of you. And for the additional 10 that usually come whenever I start to update daily, thank you too.
Today it randomly snowed. It was getting warmer, but it snowed all day today. It’s not snowing anymore, but I took pictures. Here’s one:
And here’s another:
Ha. That is all I’m going to show you for now. Today I was looking through the photos I’d taken since I came to MIT, and realized that I have enough to do a photography update. So maybe this weekend? I don’t know, I’ll try and make time for it because it’s not that hard to.
Today I was really happy until I realized that I have a lot to do this week. No, I’m still happy.
Other than that, my suitemate Derric thinks his moldy bananas are worthy of display, so they’ve been sitting on the table in a tupperware container since Saturday morning. GROSS. I wrote a nasty note on it this afternoon so I hope he takes it away soon. Well it’s not too nasty, it just lets him know that his bananas aren’t welcome here. MOLD. Intolerable!
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Yesterday I was sick, but at least my hair looked nice:
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