Day 8: 1-8-12

by mav • January 8, 2012 • 2 Comments

Day 8 of the New Era

Fucking Tim Tebow!

And I’m out of Breaking Bad episodes to watch on Netflix until whenever Season 4 is up. What the fuck am I supposed to do with my Sundays now?

Day 7:1-7-12

by mav • January 7, 2012 • 4 Comments

Day 7 of the New Era

I just didn’t feel like stressing and stuff for today’s picture. So instead I decided to do kind of a concept piece. It’s the future you see.

Where’s my flying car?

Day 6: 1-6-12

by mav • January 6, 2012 • 4 Comments

Day 6 of the New Era

Ok, things are starting to look a little better. Let me explain some of the stress. Basically, I’m losing my job at the end of the month. I’m a contractor, and I’ve kind of known it was coming but thought I’d have a little longer. Nope, guess not.

In any case, I have another gig lined up to start the next week. Still need to sign the contract, but barring something really out of the ordinary, I’m fine there. But that job is only going to be 1-2 months, and after that I have nothing lined up.

But I also decided that I wanted to go to grad school. Actually, I decided that a long, long time ago. But when I found out I was losing this job, I decided that I want to try to go this fall. So now, instead of taking months to a year to get all my ducks in a row for the application, I am reducing the whole process to 7 days. I take the GREs on Tuesday. I now have all reference letters farmed out. So all I have left is finishing my application and finishing my writing sample.

Basically, I’m cramming for everything, just like a real student. Hopefully if I can get in, I can get away from that practice.

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Day 5: 1-5-12

by mav • January 5, 2012 • 0 Comments

Day 5 of the New Era

So yes, this is basically the same picture as my Day 3. That is intentional. Everything from that day is still true and I am just as stressed.

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Day 4: 1-4-12

by mav • January 5, 2012 • 2 Comments

Day 4 of the New Era

Last time I did this project, I used to carry my camera around with me everywhere I went, just in case I had a really good shot opportunity. But I haven’t been doing that in quite a while. So now when I see something like a pretty sunset out my window at work, I have to use my iphone to capture it. Turns out, it’s not that bad. Yay technology.

Btw, this was completely captured and edited on the iPhone 4s.

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Day 3: 1-3-12

by mav • January 3, 2012 • 1 Comment

Day 3 of the New Era

Remember when I said that this year was going to be about making difficult decisions and changes in my life. Well, time to start. Really, this isn’t as bad as it looks.

I hope.

Crossposted to my blog

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Day 2: 1-2-12

by mav • January 2, 2012 • 3 Comments

Day 2 of the New Era

So, I was wondering if I had a day 2 in me. I had insomnia last night. (pretty common for me). I was tired, so I tried to go to sleep at 12:30. It didn’t go so well. I was up til 4:30. I’ve been doing a lot of reconsidering my life options lately. Details I don’t particularly want to go into publicly jus yet. In any case, basically I came up with nothing… I simply managed to not sleep and get myself nice and tired. Which means I woke up tired. Which means I didn’t really have much creativity in me. So I was thinking, huh… this is going to be pretty lame right from the start.

But luckily, it didn’t so much matter so much. Its snowing pretty hard for the first time this winter. The bad news is that’s going to mean shoveling. The good news, well, it gave me something representative of my day. Old man winter it is.

Sometimes it’s nice when you don’t have to actually think about anything. Here’s to being able to come up with a day 3.

Crossposted to my blog

365 Days, Imported From Flickr

Day 1: 1-1-12

by mav • January 1, 2012 • 30 Comments

Day 1 of the New Era Once upon a time, I saw a photo by a man named Stephen Poff who was attempting to take a self-portrait every day for an entire year. It inspired me to do the same. Mostly, I just loved the challenge of it. Stephen had admitted that he’d even missed…