Donuts so good I'm inspired to write a song about them.

My boyfriend bought a printer that could print labels onto cds, and the one he ended up getting also has a scanner, so guess who has a free printer and a free scanner? ME! 'Tis awesome. Microcenter also had a rebate deal of $75 if you purchase any digital camera. I advised my boyfriend into getting a Nikon P50. (I just walked into his office to see what kind it was again, and he asked me if I got the scanner working. I told him I haven't even tried. I thought to myself, 'I figured I'd blog about it first.') The sales man was trying to get him to buy a Canon. He has a Canon video camera, but I told him that Nikon is just as good for what he wants to use it for and has a better price. Yeah, I'm a Nikon person. I own three of them.

Microcenter is in the PanAm shopping center in Fairfax. While we were there, we first stopped by the Fractured Prune for some "breakfast". This place has the best donuts ever!!! No lie. So incredibly delicious. They have these plain donuts, and you order them individually with different glazes and toppings, and then they are made to order. They are all hot, soft, and yummy when you eat them. Mmm. I found out about them because one of my bosses at Job B decided to get some. The best one is called Morning Buzz:


The picture doesn't do it justice. Not at all.
It has Mocha glaze and Oreo topping. So GOOD!!!
I'll try to take a better picture next time I get me some delicious donuts.


They also have breakfast sandwiches made to order.
I got egg and cheese on poppy seed bagel.
What can I say? I love my scarce amount of opium.
Poppy seed bagels are the best bagels.


Here are a couple more food pictures:


Baja Fresh. Nowhere near as good as Chipotle (what the hell is?), but it's good.


The last time I went to my mom's my brother made some noodles.
I took a picture.
He thought it was weird.

And now I leave you with one last picture. When I was at my mom's, I also sat in my brother's recliner and watched Cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model on MTV. Yes, those are my feet, and I have duckies on my socks.

And yet, I'm still awake.

This has been such a long week (because of Job #1, my week is now Monday thru Sunday, as opposed to Sunday thru Saturday).

Monday - Supposed to have classes but instead spent the day waiting for my car to be done then went and picked it up in the evening. First day this semester I skipped classes. Worked on homework and Job #2 stuff. Oh, and editing the Jimmy Eat World concert photos of course.

Tuesday - Accidentally kept hitting the snooze button. I set my clock 25 minutes ahead (don't ask). Set alarm for 3:00 AM. Finally jumped out of bed when it said 4:30 AM. Had to be at work at 4:15 AM. Do the math. I had to be at work in 10 minutes. I was 10 minutes late. No harm. Worked at Job #1 until 10:00 AM. Worked on Job #2 stuff. At 5:00 PM drove to DC for a theater photo shoot. First one. It was exciting. I love extreme learning experiences (you know, where you're forced into learning a bunch of stuff just because of the situation).

Wednesday - Had class at 11:00 AM. After that I went to Borders to buy Alternative Press since there's a huge Jimmy Eat World article in there. I also saw Keira Knightley on the cover of Elle, so I bought that, too. I also bought Chipotle. Mmm...Chipotle. Then it was back to home for more homework and Job #2 stuff.

Thursday - Job #1 from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Holy crap I can't remember what else I did. More homework and Job #2 stuff?

Friday - Job #1 from 4:15 AM to 10:00 AM. Job #2 from 11:00 AM to 4:15 PM. Good times.

Saturday - Job #1 from 6:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Then off to DC for another theater photo shoot. This time it was for the post performance discussion of the same play. The lighting was so dark I hardly got any good shots if any. I need a faster lens.

Sunday (today) - Job #1 from 6:30 AM to 3:00 PM. DC again for the second post performance discussion. The guest at the discussion was an actress I used to watch on "In Living Color", but I wasn't sure if that's what I remembered her from or not because she seemed so mature and not goofy, so I didn't think she would have been on a show like that. But she was.

Tomorrow is the start of another long week. I haven't seen my friends in forever. I haven't had a full eight hours of sleep in a while. Maybe I should stop doing shit on the computer and get my priorities straight.

Don't steal my car! Wait....is that an olive?

After three hours of sleep I woke up to find out I slept in (or rather kept hitting my snooze button without any awareness of what I was doing). This was at 4:05 AM. Yes, that was oversleeping. I was 10 minutes late to Job #1, but luckily the shift manager who opened didn't care too much. During my shift I felt like crap and kept sneezing. Not good in food service. I was standing outside in the cold all day Saturday car shopping, and then I was standing outside in the cold all day and then part of the night (also in slight rain) for the JEW concert. So more than likely I'm sick.

A few weeks ago, an Artistic Director of a theater in DC called me about photography. He wanted to see if I was interested in shooting some stuff for their play. We never finalized whether I would do it or not, so yesterday I sent him an e-mail because the photo call was today. He called me today to say yes can I be there tonight and also for the post show discussions on Saturday and Sunday. I said sure even though I need sleep, I need to do my homework, I still have to write a research paper that was due last Sunday (hey, I've been a little distracted with car stuff and almost getting smacked by a drumset), and I have stuff to do for Job #2. I spent two hours working on Job #2 stuff, so I could at least send them something. Homework shmomework. As long as I pass the classes with a B I'll be satisfied. I'll write the paper. Hopefully tomorrow. I'll sleep when I'm dead.

So at around 5:00 I hopped in my car and went to DC. The theater I was going to is located next to another theater where I had an audition at two years ago, so I was sort of familiar with how to get there and the awful parking situation. It was either deal with the parking situation or walk all the way from the Gallaudet Metro stop, which is a mile from the theater. Walk a mile through a raunchy part of DC at night? Hellsno!

It only takes about 30 minutes to get there. I had to be there around 7:00. But I hate being late to things like that, so better super early than a little late. I got there around six because I missed a turn and had to wing it through a whole other way (luckily my intuition is like a GPS system...which doesn't explain why I missed the turn), and then I did a weird lap around the place trying to find parking on the street. The street had meters, some were covered with "Emergency Parking Only" signs, and there were signs sectioning off parts of the curb you couldn't park at. I finally settled on a spot but wasn't sure it was kosher. During the whole time I was inside the theater, I was worried my car would be towed, ticketed, or stolen.

Luckily Simon was ok.

There was condensation on my windows, so I used my wipers and such, and as I was driving, I noticed a little black thing on the hood of my car. It looked like an olive. I thought, 'What the fuck? Did someone rub a Subway sandwich on my car?' And instead of planning on cleaning it off when I got home, I hoped it wouldn't fall off because I planned on taking a picture of it instead. A picture of a random olive on my car. Funny stuff, man.

Then I noticed another one on the other side in an identical spot, and it occurred to me that they weren't actually olives but may in fact be parts of the car.

I didn't check though. I don't like standing around outside in my neighborhood. I get inside as fast as possible.

I may be a very trusting person and think highly of people, but I watch out for my own ass.

So now I'm home. I was going to edit the pictures and put them on a cd, then I discovered...all my pictures are tiny. It was the first time I did a whole shoot using all manual settings, and I had been messing around with stuff, and I thought all my other shoots had been done on a raw format as well but apparently not. I shot half of the play using RAW+B, but it was taking up too much memory, so I thought I would just do RAW. Well, apparently doing RAW means I have to use PictureProject and connect my camera directly to my computer otherwise they will be the stupid thumbnails I see right now! DAMN YOU NIKON!!!

I'm starting to feel like Canon is the better brand. Have you seen Elyse Sewell's pictures? They are amazing, and she uses a Canon, and it's a oneshot, not a dSLR. That's impressive.

Although I'm sure a couple of you are probably thinking the RAW thing is not just Nikon, but still...they could have explained it better.

And Canons look more professional. I think because they are so fucking huge.

I'm going to deal with the RAW images tomorrow. I'm done for the day. No more. I can't take it!