I applied for a job as a digital photo retoucher/processor yesterday. No mention of pay was made, but at this point I’ve really got nowhere to go but up.
These are some photos I took yesterday. I almost never upload any photos to Flickr without adjusting them first, and here you can see why:

They kind of [...]

Didn’t wear the shoes (ran out of time and motivation). We came on the late side and stood towards the back, and when they showed the twin photo on the giant screen, several people turned around and said, “Oh look, it’s them!” Little celebrities already. That picture of the girls won an honorable mention, [...]

One of the better photos I’ve seen of the flooding in New Orleans…and the eye of the storm.
On an unrelated note, check out the new iPod. I’d call this one “impossible” to keep track of…why must everything become the size of matchbooks?

The mama page is back up for parents (and/or soon-to-be-parents).
I was listening to more Fiona Apple and Jonatha Brooke on the ipod last night, thinking about how their songs are just beautiful, carefully-woven tapestries of sound—especially Apple—when it struck me: dang, they really need to stop dating assholes. Apple’s Extraordinary Machine is Jagged Little Pill [...]