How long before every little thing stops setting me off?

I am very sad.

Pictures for the fun of it

Here are a couple of the pictures that I've been taking while down here at the Cape. They're not award winning photos, but taking them make me happy.

(Also I got the week of teaching in Maine, and I have a confirmed surgery date of 6/25.)

The First Zap

I was out doing homework for Thesis Prep while walking the dog. Here's the assignment.

Challenge A The First Zap. With this challenge we determine what the audience sees with a given shot, versus what the filmmaker HOPES the audience sees, upon initial viewing. To this end, take 3 photographs of three different images that compel us, the viewer, to register the image PLUS its qualifier at the same time. In other words, you want us to see: Big Tree, not just Tree. Official Building, not just building. Neurotic Mother, not just Mother. Red car, not just Car. You get the idea. More explanation in class.

Blue is not happy

For a while I was in the "getting worse before it gets better" stages of packing. Now I think I've turned the corner and it's starting to get better. I have some actually empty rooms now. The downside to the very clear signs that change is a foot is that Blue is starting to get anxious.