not that anyone asked

Been a while since I last posted...this blog continues to suffer from a severe case of anti-computer sentiment on my part. While I am no longer suffering through a shitrain of horrible essays at work, I am still reading student responses at work, 40 hours a week, and those run the gamut of utter crap to average to highly entertaining. I'm sure the state would be horribly dismayed to hear that the entertaining ones are all from students who refuse to take these questions seriously, but that's the truth of it.

Add to that the fact that my weekends have, of late, been spent photographing lady bowlers. Yes, the state bowling womens championships are held in Austin this year, and it turns out I used to work with one of the dudes in charge of photography during the tourney. So he extended an invitation for me to work for him and I agreed. Which has meant 16 hours per weekend taking pics, uploading them to a computer, cropping them, printing them off, & placing them in frames to be sold. I also have the dubious privilege of gluing the frames together (they're cardboard) and so at present I have a box of them to put together before this weekend gets here. I'm sure it'll arrive sooner than I expect. I suppose I could be doing that now, but instead here I am. Really though, the bowling gig has been mostly fun so far, and essential in helping me maintain my bills. I am thankful for it.

Other than that, well...the giraffe baby continues to grow steadily & spends a lot of time dancing around these days. We have confirmed the baby is ours by its big feet. That picture is from a few weeks ago (maybe a month now? Jesus has it been that long?) so hopefully the feet won't get so big that the baby gets hung up on the way out. Heh. And we've taken to referring to our child as Baby E, due to the fact that regardless of gender the baby's name will have the letter "e" somewhere in it. Ah yes, let your speculation begin...

And that brings us up to the most recent events. This coming Saturday, V and I will have been together ONE YEAR. If you'd told me at this time last year she'd be pregnant now I would have laughed hysterically. And yet here we are, and we're both very happy of that fact. Normally, we'd go out this weekend and celebrate, but as luck would have it I have photography work this weekend. So instead we celebrated this past weekend. Saturday we went to UT to check out the Our Body: the Universe Within exhibit, which was like a crash-course anatomy lesson with actual human samples. Infotainment! Dinner Saturday was hibachi-style Japanese food, which was Tasty. I dig the musicality in their food preparation even more than the visual spectacle it is. Yesterday, aka Sunday, we slept in, then went & got full-body massages together. And now I'm addicted and want to go once a month. Heh. I felt so much better afterward, and I'm hoping regular trips will help work out the knots I've built up over time. Beyond that, we mostly relaxed and enjoyed spending time together without any obligations. We both needed it.

And now we're back to the grind, such as it is. She started a new job at her work, and they rolled out the red carpet for her today. I take that as a good sign. She'll be doing technical writing work now, and I know she'll be awesome at it. Meanwhile I'm looking for a new job because lord knows this one won't last me much longer. So that's fun. And I've got bowling photography now through the end of June at least, with one more possible weekend gig in July. We shall see.

OK, that's it for now. I'll be back when I have more to say...