Next Year, Baby....

Okay, so I TOLD you there would be more where that was coming from, and I am (finally) following through with my promise. This is, in large part, because it involves a New Year's resolution where I "share" something with you, my small, but ever loyal blogging audience.  This year for Christmas, I received a camera from by boyfriend, Pete. And not just any camera, a digital SLR camera...something I have been wanting for AGES.  (For those of you who aren't too familiar with cameras, it's a mighty nice camera, and the beginning of a line of professional cameras.  If you want the technical difference between your everyday point and shoot and an SLR camera, click here and here.  Long story short, it get a better picture.)  After talking to Andrea about my awesome gift, she told me about one of her friends who received a camera last year and did something she called "Project365" where she took one picture everyday, posted it, and watched her year evolve. 

This idea intrigues me, and it is now one of my new year's resolutions to participate in my own "Project 365". I intend on coming up with a new name for it just to make it my own, but the concept is the same: EVERY DAY I will take (at least) one photo, and post it both on here, and on a Flickr feed (I have yet to figure out the address to share the feed...if anyone is familiar with Flickr...please help me out! When I get it, I'll post it for certain).  I'll add captions and stories, and potentially post more than one picture everyday on this blog, and post the single best picture on Flickr so as to keep the number of files small...and within my monthly "limit".  There are no parameters on the content of the picture...just something from my life that day.

This has two practical implications for you, my loyal band:
1) I need your help!  I am committed to doing this, but I am also a stereotypical American who sticks to their resolutions for about six weeks and then falls off the deep end. So, if you notice I haven't posted anything by about noon every day, I need you to post and comment and bug and harass me (but only under those circumstances) to make sure I post and remember to take the pictures. 

2) No more personal dirt...through words, anyway. Not that I've been all that great about writing about what's going on the past couple months, but I won't really be writing about my life at all beyond the scope of my pictures. But, I believe that you'll gain a lot more than what you loose.

I don't have any of my 2008 artsty-fartsy pictures, or pictures I've taken with my new camera, available to me at this point and time, so you'll have to do with one of my favorites from London in 2007, and a picture of my brother Ben and I during the annual family Christmas tree hunt.  :)  See you tomorrow!  And Happy New Year!!

Testing Testing, 1, 2, 3!

This is a test...of the e-mail posting system.  There is more...oh so much more in store for you, starting tomorrow! Yippie!

Per a request from the "Emily Friedman's Fan Club", I will try and update more frequently.  Tonight, I must go to bed.  To sustain you for now, I will share this clip with you and tell you that I get to go to his concert on Sunday with a really great boy. :)  More soon.

Two Days Drive

I caught up with one of my dear friends from undergrad tonight on my way home from, well, home. He's in a band --Two Days Drive--that is making waves in Denver, and I'm trying to help that wave reach Kansas.  Check out their MySpace page:  http://www.myspace.com/twodaysdrive

In case you're wondering which is my friend, he's the bass player, Jed.  He's the third guy back on their background picture.  Woot woot! :)

Public Service Announcement

AHHH! It's been forever since I've updated. I apologize. I just haven't had much gusto to write lately. Hopefully that desire, and your loyal readership, will return soon.  Until then, this is my public service announcement: REGISTER TO VOTE! The 30 day deadline is almost here, so hop to it.  Follow this link to "Rock the Vote".  They will help you complete the form making it simple to slip it in an envelope and put it in the mail.  I'm off to be nerdy and watch the vice-presidential debate...hopefully it will be an entertaining one. :)

RESULTS

I PASSED THE BAR

I PASSED THE BAR

I PASSED THE BAR

I PASSED THE BAR

I PASSED THE BAR!!!!

Want to see for yourself?  http://www.kscourts.org

I'm number 00024

Keep waiting, keep keep waiting

STILL no bar results. I apologize to any of my fellow classmates who read this blog and have gotten antsy about the bar because of what I said.  I've been exchanging e-mails with my friend Matt while at work and we're both freaking out.   There was one point today where my stomach had such butterflies in it, I was sure that it was going to take off.  This has to come soon...I'm not sure I can handle many more days of this.