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In an amusing cliche, I got whistled at by a construction worker today. Not sure why, it was cold out and I was wearing a winter coat. But it's kind of funny to have that actually happen to you.

My brother has my car; he's on a roadtrip to visit friends. I also won't have it for the first week back at school, because my brother's got off a week longer than I do and he'll drive himself back up with it, something I'm not comfortable doing. Kind of frustrating, but whatever, I'll deal.

I didn't get to see the Screwtape Letters; it didn't work out. I'm sorry about that, I was really looking forward to it.
I've been pretty useless for the last couple of days. I have a lot to get done, and I haven't been working on it. The screenplay thing is most important, but I still don't know what to write about.

Maybe I'll play some Prince of Persia. It's better to at least do something I like, if I can't focus on work.

New camera, new pictures

Working on figuring out how to use my new camera. It'll be nice to finally have access to a real one when I need one. When doing some further cleaning out of the junk in my room today, I discovered a bag full of disposable cameras I never got developed. I'm curious as to what's on them all; God only knows how old they are. It'd be awfully expensive to get them developed all at once, so maybe I'll do them one at a time and discover what all they're from. Might be fun, remembering the occasions on which I took the pictures.

Perhaps it's my inordinate personal vanity-- one of my most stubborn failings --but I have a fixation with how I look in pictures. I'm convinced I am the least photogenic person on the planet, except maybe for my grandma. My Gigi was an adorable tiny woman, but I never met anybody who looked less like herself in photos. I must have inherited that quality from her. Some people say that for them the camera adds ten pounds, and luckily that's never been my problem, but my skin always looks oily and discolored and my hair always seems to be flat. It's very shallow of me to care so much, but it bothers me that I always seems to photograph so badly. I mean, God knows I like the way I look in real life, but I hate that my pictures don't really look like me-- or at least, I hope they don't. 

So I'm hoping to figure out how to use the automatic function on the camera and try to take a picture of myself that actually looks like me, or at least one that I don't hate. I know, I know, how very self-absorbed of me. But it'll be nice to have a photo of myself that I don't despise.