10:54p

like a zombie
you know, this blogging thing can get a little addicting. i spent a lot of time today messing around with
my layout. again, i spent a lot of time on it, mostly because i'm still a beginner HTML-er.
It was fun, though...thumbing through my old HTML book, following directions, and just plain experimenting. (hence the very elementary look to my page)
I love books. I don't always read them,
but I love having books around me for those "just in case" moments.
and this was one of them.
anyway, I just kept coming back to my computer every so often today.
I literally felt like a zombie who had no control.

arrrgghhh!!!!
still no progress with my damn bathroom (how many days has it been ?).
too many details to discuss, but basically I'm just frustrated with stuff.
I'm realizing that I get very impatient and frustrated when i get stuck on home decor/
carpentry stuff. 'Just need to stretch out my mind more and think positively, I guess.
I just want everything to look good...no crappy stuff. It's not that I'm a perfectionist...
trust me, I'm not even close...i just want my projects to not look half-ass.

I'm feelin' a little crappy right now. partly because of the above, partly cause
I didn't get much done today, partly cause of some other stuff ('don't really want to talk about it here).
Basically, I feel very unproductive...

I "touched the future"
BUT, the one productive thing I did today was vote.
Yes, i actually emerged from the house to go to my assigned voting precinct.
The voting process was different this year. It is now electronic, so we no longer
have to deal with the "chad" dilemma. Now, we simply have to worry about hackers. ;)

I must admit it was pretty neat though. The whole system came in this portable voting booth
complete with a monitor and a little device that accepts your access card in order for you to
enter the system. And all you do is enter your votes via a touch-screen. Very "Jetsons".

I just hope folks voted, though. I must admit that I didn't do much research on
the different propositions or my city council candidates. I feel pretty guilty about that.
I actually got this e-mail from my friend in Washington D.C. about how Pilipinos are the
2nd highest in the U.S. minority population behind Latinos...but because we have such a low
voting rate, candidates for seats in office don't try to cater to us...hence, our needs as a Pilipino community
are never considered...hence, no candidate for office ever tries to kiss our ass. ;)
hmm...definitely makes sense. again, I hope folks voted today.

through his eyes
on a lighter note, my boyfriend finished his homework and went to photography class tonight .
His assignment was to come up with contact sheets of about 400 pictures that he has taken.
He didn't quite come up with all 400 (hehehe...it was actually half of that), but he took what he had to
class to share with the rest of his classmates.
He came home from class pretty happy. His classmates were impressed with his work, and one
classmate was impressed by his perspective.

I feel the same....
I'm no photographer, but I know what I like when I see it, and my boyfriend definitely has a unique
eye on/perspective of the world.
Sometimes when I am looking at some of his slides, I'm literally just awestruck at how he
is able to capture the depth and beauty of the simplest images.
His photography draws you in and begs you to look deeper, reflect, analyze, to find meaning for yourself.
I would say it is like poetry.

I've always known he was an artist in one way or another (mostly a con-artist..hehehe ;) )
...but looking at his pictures makes me realize that there is so much
more of him for me to discover,
which is kinda wierd considering that we've been together for over 10 years now.
but there is.
and I'm so excited to see how much more he will grow in this new journey of his.