Getting Ready!
I'm so excited, but also very apprehensive. I leave for China in 4 days, but I still can't believe it yet. Not till I land on PRC soil will it hit me that I'm going to be stuck in a totally "new" country for the next 6 months...! Yikes, that's a long time...
Over the past few days and weeks I've been wasting away at home studying, practising violin, and taking lots of pictures. This blog is a little personal to release to the public so I'm going to post my pictures on a new blog. Check it out!
My Photo Blog
I spent most of today programming that scrolling gallery in Flash, then failing to create a loading bar along with it. Oh well, at least the pictures look great! I'm very excited to start building my portfolio :D
It's incredible, I really enjoy photography. I wish I discovered this sooner, it's like the perfect marriage of Photoshop, art, and retouching, without the tedium of drawing something myself first. I love it! Once I come back from China, I think I'll be pursuing photography as a side job. Now don't laugh...but I want to get into nightclub photography!! YES! Taking pictures of good looking people, having fun, getting paid...wow that's the life.
In other news, I finished reading Jane Eyre again. Man, this is the most incredible love story ever written. Everything Bronte wrote, absolutely everything, is how I would feel in Jane's position. I identify with her character completely, I mean...it's like she's looking into my mind as she's writing! I love Jane's moral character and her judgment. I just wish I could grow up and be as strong and independent as she. What an amazing woman. Such strength of mind, devotion to principle, and righteousness! My heroine, there has never existed any woman as stirring.