I've decided that I'm a very inspirational person. I mean, sitting here, procrastinating from studying while drinking coffee out of a "Failure is not an option" mug? I may as well listen to "I believe I can fly" and it would complete this picture of my incredible inspirationalness. On a side note, in all honesty, I hope that someday I say something so wonderful that people print it on coffee mugs.

I was playing with my camera yesterday, and after two years, I finally figured out how to change the color setting. I experimented with sepia:

 

I like how sepia accents the shadows. For the second picture, I plugged in a desk lamp, turned off all the lights in the hallway, and held the lamp so that I could get a nice shadow. I'm so glad my family is used to my slightly eccentric ways.

In awesome news, I convinced my parents to half give me a new camera for my birthday. I'll pay for the other half, but I'm perfectly fine with that. Right now mine is an extremely basic point and shoot, and I want something more versatile. I decided on a Cannon Rebel, which is fairly pricey, but I've been saving my money for a while. 

Video of the day: Are You Popular? and Communism
I came across this series of instructional films from the 40's and 50's. I find it funny that these were legitimately meant to teach people things.

The Are You Popular? one is just extremely corny, the Communism one is pretty biased and includes lots of slightly comical speed up footage of Russia, or, as said in the film, "the threat to life as we know it today."
Love,
-J-