http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/ I'm a highschool student who has fallen in love with photography. I use my parents' 1978 manual Canon AE-1 (now mine) with black and white film for school projects and everything. I also use my Digital Olympus C-2020 Zoom because sometimes it's more convenient. I love all arts, movies, music, dogs, playing piano, writing, poetry, and (of course) pictures. I love shopping but hate spending money. And I am completely addicted to Diet Pepsi. Go check out my personal Xanga site at www.xanga.com/jersey1113 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:47:28 GMT Fri, 16 May 2008 13:47:28 GMT http://www.fotopages.com/images/rss_logo.gif http://shw.fotopages.com/ 40 60 I wish I were at a casino on this lucky day! So the finale of Harry Potter is upon us and I am absolutely devastated. I am excited to read Deathly Hallows but at the same time, I know then when I close the book, it will be over forever. Stephen King said "Goodbye" to Harry in his article in Entertainment Weekly and it made me realize in how much of my life and our culture in general Harry Potter is engrained. "The Internet blog sites will be full of this was bad and that was wrong, but it's going to boil down to something that many will feel and few will come right out and state: No ending can be right, because it shouldn't be over at all. The magic is not supposed to go away." http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=1219616 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT Can't believe I got editors choice! Very exciting. Here are the birdies but a little more grown up. They have since flown away and started their own lives but these are from when they were littler. My dog Jersey loved looking at them every day (being very friendly and curious) and he still looks in the empty nest now, trying to find them and wondering where they have gone. When the first bird flew away, actuallly, it kind of flew right at his face at first and startled him. Crazy little animals. It was so emotional to see them grow up! I feel like we were their parents and it was heartbreakign to see them finally fly away. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=1197682 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT Time is flying. I'm starting to realize that the older I get, the faster everything will go by and I actually find myself not only appreciating but hoping for those days that seem to drag on forever. We are surrounded by baby birds. We had 3 nests at once but two have already moved on. 3 baby birds in the nest on the front door, 2 baby robins on the ledge outside the window, and 4 baby robins in the bush by the back door. The first two nests we found when the birds were already born. The one in the bush, though, we have watched since they were just tiny blue eggs. We're watching them grow and they are so cute and fluffy. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=1182514 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT WOW. I have been getting emails about fotopage updates and have been so sad to not have any time to keep up with this site. FINALLY, though, it is summer. The fall semester was a piece of cake compared to the spring, where I was taking 19 credits as opposed to the usual 16, working 2 jobs, and dealing with one absolutely horrible class. It was called Mothers and Daughters, and I thought it would be a nice english elective to take (I am not even an english major) and would help me understand my relationship with my mother and all that fun stuff. It turned out to be about the depression of motherhood and the unhappiness and misery associated with being pregnant, as well as dealing with daughters' hatred of their mothers and the mothers' jealousy of their daughters. Possibly the most depressing stuff I have ever had to read. Anyway, my dad and I recently ventured to Chicagoland for a two-day trip of memories. We lived in Arlington Heights from about '88 - '92. May 17th was my dad's 50th anniversary of his first baseball game so we went out to see the Yankees where they were playing the White Sox at US Cellular. The next day we went to Wrigley and saw the Cubs play the White Sox. We did some touring, visited our old house, my old school (where they actually remembered me!), and ate at some of our favorite old restaurants. We also saw this adorable goose family. I really hope to keep my promise when I say I'm staying for good (at least for the summer, that is!) and that I'll keep up with posting. Until next time! http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=1174478 Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT It's been a while (again!) and life has once again begun spinning at an uncontrollable rate. I have a job now (and potentially a 2nd one, too). Working in retail at Crabtree and Evelyn, learning a boatload of product knowledge, and using free lotion all day! It is not as easy as it sounds though, and I have now have complete respect for anyone who happens to be working on the other side of the counter. School has started up again and I am diving into my position on the student government, as well as my studies. Taking two 4-credit classes (as opposed to the regular 3-credits) AND trying to find time for friends and, lastly, myself. The good news is when I DO find time to post (hopefully will be more often than I am leading you to believe) I will have some interesting stories about interesting customers (and there are MANY, already). So much has happened! Got a new hybrid car and doing my best to make the world a cleaner, healthier, happier place. Still playing piano with lessons once a week and watching my yankees as they try to clinch the division championships yet again. The picture is of the infamous "coke and mentos" experiment. I don't really know the science of it, but it has something to do with the candy coating on the mentos (not the actual mentos) that react with the coke that make this reaction... Twas very cool, to say the least. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=931476 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT Miami and the Bahamas were amazing. Such a relaxing and much-needed vacation! I'll post more about it later. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=907791 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT The physics class has ended and now I officially begin my REAL 3 week long summer vacation where I actually have NO classes. I thought it would be nice to commemorate my crazy Russian teacher with some of his best quotes that I never hesitated to jot down in class: "When you turn on the lightswitch, what happens? Little animals run around in the wire. What makes them run around? It's the electric force." "Did you ever see a compass? It used to be you neeed it to go into the forest. Now you can use a GPS device." "The oil refining process is very simple. You can do it at home in your laboratory* if you like." "Water is such a beautiful substance, actually." "You know, the sun has a very high temperature." "Latent heat is something sleeping inside an object, waiting to be released when you heat it." "CH3OH can paralyze your nervous system. It's very sad." "Oh, if wires are on the ground, please stay away from that place! You should call the police immediately." "Everyone is familiar with electrons. They are our best friends!" "You never played, in your childhood, with a small atomic bomb?" I'm going to Miami for two weeks so I won't be posting while I'm gone. Have a great day!!! __________________________________________________________________________ * Even funnier was his Dexter's Lab-like pronunciation of la-BOR-a-tor-y http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=886434 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT I feel like such a child. My friend just turned me on to The Suite Life of Zack and Cody on the Disney Channel and now I can't get enough of it. It's about two, young, identical twin boys who live in a hotel and basically wreak havoc and it's the BEST show ever. I still have to come to grips with the fact that more than half the viewers are more than half my age. It's almost 100 degrees outside and the government has curtailed our air conditioning. We apparently signed something that allows them to shut off our air conditioning during ridiculous heat waves to help conserve energy... I'm all for the environment, but it seriously has to be over 80 degrees in here... My teacher is no longer of unidentified nationality, as we have found he is from Russia. We figured this out because he said "And since I am from Russia..." It's interesting hearing about events like Chernobyl from someone who was there to experience it. And from someone who is CRAZY! Only three more physics classes and I'm finished until september! I'm going to Miami and the Bahamas for 2 weeks, leaving next wednesday, so I'm very excited for that. "President Bush says he is personally working on a solution for global warming. He says soon every American will receive a voucher for a free popsicle." --Jay Leno I'm going to go have a popsicle. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=879550 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT I love overhearing bits and pieces of strangers' conversations. Some shocking, some hilarious, all entertaining. Mother and daughter in the fitting room at Nordstrom: "I look at you, Bianca, and I see that you don't give a hoot about anybody but yourself. I really don't know how you are my daughter." Young boy, age approx. 11, to his father: "Dad, give Mom a hug; she smells good." Last year, Barnes and Noble; the manager speaking to a new employee about her job: "Just realize that for the first couple of weeks, you're going to be nothing but in the way of everyone else. That's just how it is." http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=869145 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT Environmental Physics seems fun. We're talking a lot about energy and about global warming issues--a lot of stuff that I'm currently really interested in. My teacher is crazy, but the good way that those classic crazy physics teachers are. He's from some unidentified eastern European country. I'm still trying to figure out which one. http://jersey1113.fotopages.com/?entry=859171 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT