I’ve hit a wall, again, in my self-studying of this expensive and taxing hobby that I’ve immersed myself into. Photography is draining in many, many ways. Obviously you’re going to have to shell out a lot of money for proper equipment. And then you’ll have to either walk around or go to far-flung places to shoot something new and innovative (or hopefully do something different with what’s been done before) — that will drain you of money, again, and strength. And if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also be drained of your creative juices after you’ve practically tried everything you could ever think of and still you haven’t really found that One Big Shot that would forever leave you contented.

So anyway, hitting the wall. Whatever. Here’s hoping that soon enough that wall will crumble and I’ll find my enthusiasm again. Until then, I’ll just pepper my Flickr stream and Facebook account with self-portraits LOL.

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I’ve recently started this huge writing project that’s starting to eat my time and sanity. I initially estimated it to be just under 10k words but quickly scratched that idea after I reached the 10k mark before reaching 25% of the plot. I’m now almost over 40k and I haven’t even gone to 50%. Pretty epic for a personal project, yes?

I hope I can finish this, if only for my sanity and my faithful beta-reader’s (who doesn’t want to point out my errors and is just enjoying being entertained lol). I don’t think I’ll ever let anyone else read it though. I’m shy like that haha.

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The Storm season’s underway. We’re currently sitting at the top of the Western Conf with 5 wins and 1 loss. We’ve been the comeback kids for 3 of those games, lost one at Chicago, and decimated the Silver Stars in the last game (which I missed — complete fan fail!).

LJ’s healthy and she’s already won a Player of the Week award which is all sorts of awesome. Birdy’s second in Assists behind Cappie with 6.6 a game (I think she even led the league before that loss at Chicago but I’m just speculating). Swin’s playing like a monster whenever we’re in trouble. It’s almost great, this start of the season is. I really hope we can keep this up.

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Photo by Simon Butterworth [Link]