Facebook rules this one.

So obviously I suck at keeping up with this thing... I'm much better at facebook :)

Here are things you've missed:

I have been exploring the city much more since I have been back. I went to Twin Peaks and to see the Painted Ladies (aka Full House Park) with my friend, Kim. Click here to see the album. Then The next weekend I went exploring up by Fisherman's Wharf and Kim and I met up to go see Berkeley. Click here to see that album.

One of my goals was to find a nice place to run where I don't deal with rude people, smokers, and traffic lights. I found this place at the beach! One of the buses drops off a mile and a half away, so I start there and run back for a very beautiful, smoke and traffic-free run (that isn't very hilly, I might add). This is where I run.

And last weekend I took my friend, Shannon up to where I run and to see the Palace of Fine Arts up in the Presidio. I bought a new phone (yay- no more verizon!) and got pretty creative with my phone's panoramic setting in the camera. Artsy Fartsy.

So that gets you pretty much up to speed on the pictures I have been taking. I have exciting news though... I bought a brand new camera! It should arrive sometime this week! :) I am very excited about it and just want to say, Thank you, Uncle Sam, for not completely screwing me over and giving me a hefty return this year. You win :)

Also, my mom is coming to visit me soon! She will be here at the end of my Spring Break and I will show her the town. Cross your fingers for good weather!

That should be about it on my end. If I think of more, you will be the first to know!

One step closer to being a real photographer...

Today I got my light meter! For those of you that don't know what a light meter is... it looks like this:

It does readings of the light on a subject so that I can correctly expose my images. It's a very nice and professional thing to have. :) One step in the right direction of actually being able to feel like a real photographer. At this point, I kind of feel like I have lucked out with my images, but who knows.

Also, yesterday a few of my fellow students in my lighting class and I rented a studio at the school for the morning to get our projects/homework done. It was really fun and I learned a lot. I'm glad to start meeting more people in my department that are really awesome people to hang out with. Most of us went out for mexican food after working. SO glad to start having some people to hang out with and to work with finally. Maybe now this city might be a better fit for me. Only time will tell.

Distractions.

I have officially finished week 2 of my classes. I'm pretty happy that things are going right along, I'm just having issues with my assignments. I've had a lot on my mind and have been distracted. It's been a very hard week or so. I keep getting pretty terrible critiques on my images. Luckily, things are looking up because it's still early in the semester and the sun is still shining.

In the midst of all the chaos that has been going on, I got a roommate. She's very nice, but I doubt we'll be hanging out very much- Just different personality types.. That's ok though, especially because I have been meeting some really cool people lately. People that I hope will become good friends quickly.

Well I am not feeling so hot tonight, so it's off to bed for me. I hope you all sleep well and miss you!

I bet you 5 bucks you missed me.

So tomorrow it will have officially been 2 months since I last posted! Crazy how fast time can fly.

What's happened since I left, you may ask? Condensed version:

1. School ended, I got decent grades. I went back to NC... with MUCH effort, but I finally made it.
2. I made it back to Brevard with NO snow.
3. Snow storm.....
4. Christmas Eve with the whole family.
5. Christmas. Snow storm. Very quiet, relaxing, and wonderful.

Gotta love Carhartt :)

6. New Years in Washington, D.C. with old roomie, Sarah, and her sister Jen (who used to live in SF). Great time, spray tan, wonderful food, partied, hung out with a girl all night that no one knew was deaf, saw awesome Aunt & Uncle, delicious coffee, drove back to Brevard.

Sarah and I after Midnight on New Years!

Sarah was Paparazzi on the Metro

 7. Forest run.
8. Cielito's, Square Root, Jordan Street and a time or two in Dugan's.

Cute :) Square Root.

Cielito's for Grandes, food, and birthday Mariachi band fun

9. Icy hike.

Lauren is in the red jacket.

Ice, Ice baby

10. Snow storm. Yes, again.

Empty shelves in produce section at Ingles

We got like 6 inches in 2 hours.

Bubble butt car covered in snow

11. Brews Cruise. Cool Bus. Cool people. Asheville. GOOD BEER. Dead battery. Push bus. More good beer. Shake weight. New battery. Sleep.

The Cool Bus crew

The inner workings of The Cool Bus

Pisgah Brewery Beer

Trying to charge it...   

Push!

12. Little office work here and there.
13. Charleston with Mom and Lauren. Seafood :) Sea shells. No sand dollars :( Starfish, pier, bridge.

Just beachy

Pier

Starfish

Cooper Bridge

 14. Eye doc (no Rx change- first time since 1st grade!), regular doc: yay for good health!
15. Lots of work at the office, train one lady, she left, train another lady.
16. Date night at The Admiral (best food ever)
17. Fly back to SF, much better than the other way. See Tahoe and Yosemite (waterfall and all) from plane window.
18. Mist, clouds, rain, chilly.
19. Settle in- still no roommate! I love having my own room.
20. Take classes. Rework schedule. Settle in to new schedule. Find out I need more equipment.
21. Lunch with Kim!
22. SUNSHINE!!!! ALL WEEK!

LOVE LOVE LOVE the weather!

23. Coffee with my new friend, Heath. Then Twin Peaks, Full House park, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, and Yerba Buena Island.

Heath falling off the mountain

I went to save him ;)

View of the city from Twin Peaks

FULL HOUSE! *cue sappy music "everywhere you look...."*

Coit Tower

View from Yerba Buena Island... that is the Bay Bridge

Downtown and a very sad, broken pier

Downtown

24. Janna is in town!! Hung out at Ritz-Carlton. Lots of wine, lots of cheese, lots of conversation. Very fun time.

Me & Janna!

25. More class, lunch with Janna, more class.
26. Realize my bank account is disappearing, apply to MANY jobs. Hope for calls back.
27. Homework.
28. Hopefully more homework done this weekend.
29. Adventure with Kim this weekend somewhere!
30. Ahhh Netflix. :D

Sorry, no posts for a while...

Basically, I have only 3 days of work off in the next 2 weeks and SO MUCH to do for finals. So I hope everyone has a Merry Christmahanaquanzika and a Happy New Year!! I hope to see everyone at when I'm home in 13 days!

Love, E

Miss me?

Hello Lovelies. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I got to head on over to Las Vegas and hang with my aunt and uncle that live there. I had a great time, mostly because I was nowhere near The Strip. That is just not my thing. Anyway, on my trip, I got to go to Zion National Park with my aunt. It was SO gorgeous! I have way too many images to post on here, so take a look at my photo album, on Facebook instead: click here.

So I am back to classes and everything is going well. I finally got some papers back from teachers and my Photo History teacher liked my redo midterm much better, so hopefully my overall grade in that class will get better. I start back at work for a marathon run before I head out on the 18th. Basically, I have either class, work or both every day except 2 days until I leave. Luckily, it's usually one or the other and the latest it lasts is 9 pm anyway.

Nothing strange to report yet... then again I only got back Monday night. I'll let you know if anything weird happens :) For now, it's time for me to get some homework done. See you NC people so very soon!!!

Field Trip Fun

Today I had a field trip. I cannot begin to tell you how young those words makes me sound. "Field Trip." lol 'Hi. I'm 6 years old and going on a field trip... no my mom didn't sign my permission slip.'

Anyway, my class went to the City Hall and looked at a couple of photography exhibits there. That building is so beautiful. There is gold leaf accents everywhere inside and out. I got a bunch of pictures inside, but not much outside. I will have to go back on my own and take some more pictures. It was a pretty good day.

gorgeous staircase inside City Hall

looking up into the dome

scale model of the City Hall

head that fell off a statue during the 1906 earthquake and was somehow found at Knots Berry Farm... seriously

replica of part of the Golden Gate Bridge

front side of the City Hall replica

heart art- the artist blurred it, not me

side of dome/window

dome

aww ;)

even the lights were gold :)

awesome details

pretty entrance. Luckily you can't see the metal detectors we walked through to get in.

top of staircase

there were faces everywhere.

So the funny part was walking home. First, I had a guy just about accidentally put his cigarette out on my leg as he passed. He was holding it in his hand down by his side and wasn't about to move out of the way of any other pedestrian in his way. Luckily, I move fast. Second, I had a lady (another person that didn't care about other people walking) ram me with her yoga mat as she passed me. Last, I saw a homeless man, with his dog, eating Starbucks ice cream. Can you blame the guy for having good taste? 

I'm a week out from heading to Vegas for turkey day (33 days to NC). I am trying to hang on. I really need someone to come see me soon (hint, hint, hint...). I'm getting anxious for the trip. I want it to happen NOW. Someone distracting me from my countdown would be great. A girl can hope and dream.

Well, I'm off to find something on Netflix to watch. Cross your fingers that my internet is fast enough to play it. Night lovelies.