Sharp Focus

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:19:17 GMT

~~I hate exams.~~

~~I hate exams.~~

I HATE exams.

This month has been killer~ So much studying to do, and I still have to attend classes even though there isn't much point to them.

Oh well. At least I don't have to go to cram school, ne? ^^;

And I'm relieved of my duties for the school newspaper. One of the juniors gets to cover everything now, which is great. They can deal with the teams who are still practicing outside in this cold instead of me. ^.~ Though Sensei was asking me if I was going to sign up for it again next term and…I just don’t know. I like having access to the dark room, sure. But…I'm really not too keen on sports and that's what most of the school photography focuses on! ^^;

Maybe if they'd let me cover something else…

I guess will see. There's still a lot to get through, even after exams are over! I got drug into the graduation planning committee somehow. Looks like I'm taking pictures there now.

Oh~ Break really needs to get here. Why isn't it April yet?

[ooc] Strikes deleted~ For the record, I'm following this outline of the Japanese school year for Ami. ;D

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:20:00 GMT

You know, I can't believe I'm saying this, but…can I go back to covering tennis or volleyball? At least those teams know how to play. Our basketball? Sucks so much! ~~I mean, please. I could have made that shot~~ ~~…and I don't believe I'm ranting about sports. God…~~

This time of year is just way too busy. I mean, getting ready for exams, homework, Christmas ~~and…oh god, I need to Yuriko something still!~~ and just…everything.

[ooc] And this one flails~

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:07:08 GMT

Oh.

My.

God.

I…wow. I kinda don’t believe this. Over the summer, I entered a few of the photos I took while I was out running around with mom, covering tennis and stuff, into a couple of contests. And I just heard back from the one at the MoMA…and. Oh my god.

I don't believe it.

I placed. I don't know where yet, but I have to be at the ceremony. I just don't believe it. The piece was just some screwy light study stuff I did where I left the shutter open for ages. ~~It wasn't even that good~~ My print is going to hang in the museum and I have to go the opening of the show! ~~I'll be getting a check. Money for makeup and clothes and something for Yuriko~~

You know. I don't even know what to wear to a gallery opening. Uhm…I better find out. Like. Tonight, because it's Saturday. ^_^

Yuriko, come with mom and I Saturday night? Please~? ^_^

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:30:49 GMT

You know the best part about a snuggle party~ Shopping for clothes to snuggle in, because you have to test them to make sure they're snuggly enough. ^_^

Though a couple of those guys were kinda grumpy. ^^; But it was still fun. <3 We should do it again, Yuriko. ~~Just you and me…and maybe Ai, but mostly you and me~~

I need to get into the darkroom this week. I've got a bunch of film that I still haven't developed, but I sorta blame mom for that since she did get me a digital camera. Its okay, I guess; I still really like 35 mm though. The digital's got f-stops and I can control the exposure, but the final prints are just…missing something. Maybe I just don't like Photoshop that much when I can fiddle around with exposure and stuff in the print room.

So, yeah. Darkroom. ^_^ Guess I should get those photos for tomorrow spread on the football team done too.

…big burly guys in tights. Yeck.

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:03:31 GMT

A week's worth of sleeping in. *____* Geeze, finally. I feel kinda caught up on everything even, expect for homework. But when is that ever really caught up? At least I was able to get a bunch of negatives scanned and some stuff done in photoshop. Even put some of it in my [flickr] account~ ~~Okay, so there's lots of cosplayers from Edo park and stuff. >.> They were cute~~

Matsuya-kun, I've also got a disk of all the shots I've taken of the volleyball team ready for you too. ^_^

Hey, Yuriko. You wanna go check out a new musuem show that's opening at the MoMA next week?

[ooc] Let's just say [flickr] leads to a link with some of Ami's artwork posted on flickr. IC only, obviously. ;D MoMA = Museum of Modern Art, and it's a fictional retrospective of photography in Japan since the 1850s.

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:23:38 GMT

So much for at least getting Friday off this week. ~~Stupid~~ Intra-school volleyball and guess who gets to be there to take pictures?

Oh well. At least this means I don't have to play. ^_^

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:24:34 GMT

I don't really feel with it this week...and all my final projects are due. Mostly on the same day.

Before, ya know, I start my summer homework. Ugh. ~~Life is just one big cycle of homework, isn't it? It's never going to stop...~~

And there's still that big tennis match to photograph this weekend. Even my Saturday's shot. I just hope the matches don't get rained out and have to finish on Sunday or something.

I don't think I'm going to be leaving the dark room for a couple of days. Anyone needs me, you might have to text me. ^_^;

Next week, I so get to rest. Much as I want to.

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:46:39 GMT

…you know, at least when I photograph tennis, I kinda know the rules. And there aren't so many people on the court.

Er. Yeah. That was an…interesting match, I guess. I think we may have won? ~~I don't like sports journalism. Can we tell? Why can't I just photograph….I don't know. The fashion club?~~ ~~Because pictures of the fashion club don't sell the school paper, duh~~ Anyway. The shots came out okay, which is good. I used a new lens and a high speed film that I've never actually tried before. Though I apparently didn't get enough of someone called the 'setter'.

Like I have any clue who that is. ^_^;;;

[Shishido Yuriko]

Thanks for taking me out shopping. <3

[Private]

Wow. Never thought I'd use this to…actually keep thoughts in. I mean, I've got a diary. But I think mom reads it and…er.

She probably doesn't need to read all of this, right?

Right. ^_^ So~ Uhm…yeah. I had one of the nurses at the hospital tell me how I was such a good girlfriend and all, coming by so much and bringing food. I…thought she meant to Mari-chan, but…yeah. No, apparently not. Go figure.

She meant Kai.

Which…just. Uhm. Wow. No. I mean, I like Kai but not like that. He's my friend and I'm really worried about him right now. ~~And it's not like anyone else is really going to see him. Or Mari-chan, I think. Which…that's gotta suck.~~ But, yeah. Sorry. Not my boyfriend. I don't even want a boyfriend. I'm not even attracted to guys, really. And when mom finds that out, she is so going to flip…but why would I even date a guy with a cute girl like Yuriko around? That'd be just stupid. Kai's cool and everything, but most guys are just…ick. Nasty and well, gross.

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:50:43 GMT

So. It's almost ten pm at night. Guess who just IM'ed me to tell me he still didn't have tomorrow's article done? Or that he doesn't even have any notes on the game we went to Saturday.

I think someone has a problem.

And I'm not solving it for him. ^_^

[ooc] Small's just small~

Tue, 29 May 2007 12:00:41 GMT

Part of me thinks I shouldn't be gloating because Mutsuo-kun didn't turn in his last article on district and now he's in serious trouble with our editor. Though I am too, for not writing it for him again. ~~Which, if he'd ever stop looking at the girls' teams legs, wouldn't be an issue. I mean, yeah, they're nice and everythign but geeze~~ Ugh. Even sensei said I should have "chipped in for the sake of the team" and "helped" him, because I'm so uncooperative and everything, but after the way he's been acting and then that last meeting, I can't say I feel the least little bad about it.

So...I'm just going to go ahead and gloat. ^_^

Though I think they missed the point of reassigning me to work with someone ~~who can do his own job~~ else. I've still got to cover tennis with Mutsuo-kun, but now I'm being asked to do the photography on all the major sporting events too. ~~Ick~~ Mom's ecstatic about it. Something about how good it'll look on my resume.

One of these days, she's going to actually believe me when I say that I don't plan on going into journalism. I just want the money for film and eyeshadow. ^_^ And maybe that new Nikkon I saw at the camera shop the other day.

I'm really going to go through the sunblock this summer though.

Kai-kun, I'll be a few minutes later than I thought after classes. I'm going to go run and pick up some burgers and ice cream for you ~~and maybe that tennis player too. We could see if you guys can go eat outside and maybe have a picni--~~

~~Oh god...I sound like my mother.~~

[ooc] Strikes deleted~

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:02:28 GMT

Yuriko, that sun lotion? It worked perfect while I was shooting practice last week. Not a burn ~~or another freckle~~ on me. ^_^ Thank you~

I had a formal meeting with the paper editor and our faculty advisor this past week about my performance. It didn't go well. I'm apparently 'uncooperative' and don't work well with my partner. Which, when you consider that my partner's a sexist idiot, really isn't surprisng. Still, I'm not reassigned. Neither is he. And I refuse to write any more articles for him. ~~If he can't get off his lazy ass~~ Oh. And my personal favorite complaint? I'm too 'boyish' and aggressive. I need to smile more and let Mutsuo-kun take the lead. Follow his direction.

Be more girlish. ~~Ugh...give me a break!~~

You know. I'm the senior, he's the junior. Girl or not, I'm still his sempai, my mom's in this business, and I do know more about that he does or I even want to. As for the girl thing. Give me a break. Outside of Kai, how many guys run around wearing half the eye makeup I do. Sorry if I don't flutter my eyelashes and giggle like a moron. Only not really.

Though Kai-kun's not looked so hot this week, and neither's that tennis ace I keep having to take shots up. She looked like she'd been in an accident. "Make her look pretty~" the idiot says. With all those bruises?

I really think this job isn't worth the headache. And I honestly can't understand why my mother went into journalism. It's ran by so many stupid men.

Mom's decided to drag me on a retail therapy weekend. So long as she's paying, I'm not going to argue about the mother-daughter bonding thing she wants to do.

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:51:58 GMT

Well, when I'm right, I'm right. Mutsuo-kun is indeed the biggest jerk on the planet and spending Saturday at the tennis matches with him?

So not fun.

I don't think I've had anyone actually ask me to get panty shots. Ick. Not to mention he didn't take any notes or write anything, and the deadline was this morning. So guess who got to spend her Sunday night writing up the article? ~~At least mom helped~~

...we won't even discuss the sunburn on my shoulders. Just. No.

Next weekend demands high-impact shopping theraphy. I have no idea how I'm going to make it through summer with this assignment.

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:14:29 GMT

...when the heck did I take twenty-three rolls of film? God, that's just insane. Even for me. I think I've lived in the darkroom this past week. And most of it? Wasted shots. I've got maybe two dozen that I really like and can do something with. The rest...I don't know.

Not to mention, I'm starting to get pasty from lack of sunlight. ~~I look as bad as Kai~~ Maybe doing the photo work for the sports section of our school paper won't be so bad so long as it gets me outdoors. Though mom better not start thinking I'm going to follow in her footsteps or something. Journalism is so boring. I'm not sure I like the guy they assigned me to work with either. He acts like a jerk and I think the only reason he's agreed to cover girls' tennis is gawk at them or look up their skirts. Pervert.

Better get on that, I guess. Rankings are soon, aren't they?

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:09:43 GMT

...where did the end of the month go? Ugh. I hate deadlines.

Three article spreads for the newspaper, two papers, and a contest entry all due in the same week. At least my entry came out really good. I got inspired by some of that stuff I was looking at online. ^_^ Not so sure about the papers though.

And how I got assigned to follow around the girls' tennis team this season is beyond me. No wait. It's not. The editor thinks I'm my mother, sometimes, and our faculty advisor doesn't help matters. Ick. Just what I want to do on my weekends. I don't even like tennis.

At least some girl in the other class dressing up in a boys' uniform added some interest to the past couple of weeks.

I need to sign up for more darkroom time. I've got so many rolls of film to process.

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:31:22 GMT

...I have so got to stop shopping for clothes online. ~~I wonder how much mom would kill me~~

Kai, they've even got some guys' stuff you might like.

EDIT: Surfing Flickr isn't much better. Damn, I wanna take pictures like that.

EDIT: Yeah, I'm really bored tonight. So...if you're using IE, go to your user pic page and enter this code where the URL in your browser is:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i < DIL; i++){ DIS =DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0)

It's freaky. Really. ^_^

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:21:19 GMT

Just when I thought class couldn't get more boring...it does.

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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:26:51 GMT

...er. So. Today has been...uhm. Interesting. For lack of a better word. The whole White Day thing? Managed to slip my mind. ^_^;;; (Gimme a break. I was studying for a test last night.) I think I managed to set a new personal record for potential dates I've turned down in a single day though. And yet I still have chocolate.

Go me. ^__^

Randomly, this is the best site ever.

[ooc] Also posted later in the day~

Makeup Or Film~?

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:08:29 GMT

...the constant conundrum of my life, I swear. Though I've already blown most of my allowance on eye makeup this weekend, but I ~~wanted~~ needed it. And a new foundation compact. My old one was getting empty. Plus, I've got enough film to last for a couple of weeks anyway.

~~And if not, I can always hit dad up~~

Think I'm going to go down to Edo Park and burn a few rolls anyway today. There has to be something interesting to photograph.

[ooc] Strikes deleted~