i guess that's what i get for waiting until the second day tickets are on sale - the wilco show is sold out! %#@&! hopefully i'll still be able to acquire a ticket somehow ...
boo!
Monday, January 11, 2010
being there
i just found out friday that wilco is going to be playing at carnegie music hall in april! i'm so excited that a band i like is finally going to be stopping in pittsburgh - they usually just go right by! i still need to get my tickets which went on sale yesterday. it'll be great!
i had been looking for at least a month for my wilco cd 'being there' which lived at the cellomics lab with me and came home shortly before the move. for some reason it had never made its way onto my ipod and i've really been jonesing for it recently. today, as peter was working on cleaning/organizing for erik's birthday party and our visitors next weekend, he found it buried in a pile of CDs that i had looked at several times but always missed it. yay! i now have it both on my ipod and my laptop, so it will be with me at pretty much all times. thanks peter!!!
i had been looking for at least a month for my wilco cd 'being there' which lived at the cellomics lab with me and came home shortly before the move. for some reason it had never made its way onto my ipod and i've really been jonesing for it recently. today, as peter was working on cleaning/organizing for erik's birthday party and our visitors next weekend, he found it buried in a pile of CDs that i had looked at several times but always missed it. yay! i now have it both on my ipod and my laptop, so it will be with me at pretty much all times. thanks peter!!!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
one of a kind
check out this beautiful snowflake that i photographed this morning. i love this one in particular because its center looks just like a daisy!
Friday, January 8, 2010
foray into fisheye
i've been dying to play with my new fisheye lens so i decided to take it to the lab today where there is copious light and lots of interesting things to photograph. i still need lots of practice, and to develop a better eye for what will look interesting with this technique, but i had fun shooting people and things around the lab. i got home a little earlier than peter and erik, so after i was finished shoveling the driveway, i snapped a few photos of our house/neighborhood/trees. this is my favorite, a hibiscus:
some snowy pines at the cemetery this morning:
the view from my window at the lab, down the monongahela river towards downtown pittsburgh:
marco in our bay:
my desk:
my snowy neighborhood:
hopefully i'll have a lot more time to experiment this weekend! i want to try to take erik sledding (for the first time ever) tomorrow, and we're going to a party at my friend jamie's house tomorrow evening. plus lots of cleaning to get ready for erik's party next weekend. it's going to be a busy weekend!
some snowy pines at the cemetery this morning:
the view from my window at the lab, down the monongahela river towards downtown pittsburgh:
marco in our bay:
my desk:
my snowy neighborhood:
hopefully i'll have a lot more time to experiment this weekend! i want to try to take erik sledding (for the first time ever) tomorrow, and we're going to a party at my friend jamie's house tomorrow evening. plus lots of cleaning to get ready for erik's party next weekend. it's going to be a busy weekend!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
another day
from start to finish, it was yet another very snowy day in pittsburgh today. other than the roads being a little slippery and dangerous, i'm finding all of this snow very pleasant and beautiful, a blanket of pure white on an otherwise gray cityscape. i haven't even been minding the shoveling. it's nice to have an excuse to be outside when the weather is like this, so pretty and peaceful.
nothing exceptional about today really. i worked happily in the lab most of the day, actually really enjoying some of the things i'm doing as it looks like a tough ligation finally worked and i may be able to start making my virus next week. i have some planning to do for a second virus that should come together much more quickly than this one, but i'm having trouble wrapping my brain around its design. erik's doing much better, nearly 100% and back to his old self tonight. the three of us had a good evening with peter giving him his bath and me tucking him in. now we're watching the dvd peter got me for christmas - 13 most beautiful ... songs for andy warhol's screen tests which is most excellent. i will definitely be watching this again and again. peter is going to try to figure out how to rip the soundtrack off of it so i can have it on my ipod. if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know!
i've been listening a lot this week to galaxie 500's album 'on fire.' so many great songs on that album, including leave the planet, snowstorm, strange, and an excellent cover of new order's ceremony. but i've completely fallen in love again with the hauntingly beautiful another day:
Why close your eyes to the sky today?
Why do you cry today just because the sky is grey?
Cause it's ok if every day is not the same day
It's just another way that every day is not the same
How can you see the sky when you close your eyes?
How can you run away just because the sky is grey?
Cause it's ok if every day is not the same way
It's just another way that every day is not the same
nothing exceptional about today really. i worked happily in the lab most of the day, actually really enjoying some of the things i'm doing as it looks like a tough ligation finally worked and i may be able to start making my virus next week. i have some planning to do for a second virus that should come together much more quickly than this one, but i'm having trouble wrapping my brain around its design. erik's doing much better, nearly 100% and back to his old self tonight. the three of us had a good evening with peter giving him his bath and me tucking him in. now we're watching the dvd peter got me for christmas - 13 most beautiful ... songs for andy warhol's screen tests which is most excellent. i will definitely be watching this again and again. peter is going to try to figure out how to rip the soundtrack off of it so i can have it on my ipod. if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know!
i've been listening a lot this week to galaxie 500's album 'on fire.' so many great songs on that album, including leave the planet, snowstorm, strange, and an excellent cover of new order's ceremony. but i've completely fallen in love again with the hauntingly beautiful another day:
Why close your eyes to the sky today?
Why do you cry today just because the sky is grey?
Cause it's ok if every day is not the same day
It's just another way that every day is not the same
How can you see the sky when you close your eyes?
How can you run away just because the sky is grey?
Cause it's ok if every day is not the same way
It's just another way that every day is not the same
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
i have fisheye!
i'm so excited that my final christmas present arrived in the mail today - my new fisheye lens (thank you peter)! unfortunately it was already dark when i got home, but i couldn't resist snapping a few pictures around the house. the lighting was terrible, and my technique leaves lots to be desired, but i couldn't resist posting a couple of shots. here's one of my kitty xena looking sufficiently distorted:
i can already tell i'm going to have lots of fun with it when i can find the time to really play! things are going to be pretty busy over the next week and a half as we prepare for house guests for erik's third birthday party, but i'm sure i'll have a few chances to experiment with my new lens ... at least i hope so!
i can already tell i'm going to have lots of fun with it when i can find the time to really play! things are going to be pretty busy over the next week and a half as we prepare for house guests for erik's third birthday party, but i'm sure i'll have a few chances to experiment with my new lens ... at least i hope so!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
sick day/snow day
it's been snowing constantly since the start of 2010. i think my theme song for this year might be 'snowstorm' by galaxie 500:
erik has been sick for the past few days with a cold, stuffy nose, yucky cough and the like. this morning i left him inside to play while i went out to shovel the snow, and when i came back inside he was whimpering on the floor and said "hold me mommy!" i felt terrible that i'd left him, and when i picked him up, he threw up all over my shoulder, then said "you need to change your shirt." poor kid. i couldn't send him to school like that, so i let him stay home. we spent a lot of the day watching maisy and he actually took a nice long nap. i stole a few minutes while he was sleeping to go outside and photograph some more snowflakes.
peter came home a little early so i could spend the evening catching up on my work at the lab. afterward i went over to the southside to grab a quick dinner, and it was just beautiful, a blanket of white covering everything and muting all the sounds, the streets almost empty of cars and people. i got home in time to tuck erik in, and he seems to be doing much better tonight. hopefully he'll be well in the morning so we can get back to normal. but for today, it was a nice sick day/snow day.
erik has been sick for the past few days with a cold, stuffy nose, yucky cough and the like. this morning i left him inside to play while i went out to shovel the snow, and when i came back inside he was whimpering on the floor and said "hold me mommy!" i felt terrible that i'd left him, and when i picked him up, he threw up all over my shoulder, then said "you need to change your shirt." poor kid. i couldn't send him to school like that, so i let him stay home. we spent a lot of the day watching maisy and he actually took a nice long nap. i stole a few minutes while he was sleeping to go outside and photograph some more snowflakes.
peter came home a little early so i could spend the evening catching up on my work at the lab. afterward i went over to the southside to grab a quick dinner, and it was just beautiful, a blanket of white covering everything and muting all the sounds, the streets almost empty of cars and people. i got home in time to tuck erik in, and he seems to be doing much better tonight. hopefully he'll be well in the morning so we can get back to normal. but for today, it was a nice sick day/snow day.
happy snowy new year
i'm not going to make some silly resolution that i can't keep, like being more diligent about updating my blog! i somehow lost interest in it a couple of months back, but it's not forgotten completely. the best way to keep tabs on me these days is either via facebook or flickr ... i update both sites very regularly with photos. here's a preview of what i've been up to. this morning i made my first attempt at photographing snowflakes and am pretty happy with the results. i can't wait to take more!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
pittsburgh on my mind
i do believe that this is my 200th post! i've been very neglectful of my blog again. why does this always happen? we've been up to a lot of awesomely fun stuff lately. i love the fall! plus i've been spending more time playing with photoshop than blogging. here is my latest creation made with a photo i took from the hot metal bridge this past may.
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