The Beach Fiasco

This is the tragic tale of the time I tried to go to the beach.

Friday through Monday went according to plan, but this bliss was short lived. 5:30am on Tuesday morning found me (and not my family, who were playing on a beach somewhere) frantically writing a lab report I'd been procrastinating on. By 8am, I was sitting in ochem lab, which ran over time and I didn't make it home until 1pm. At home, I was delighted to find that the cable, wifi, and phones were out from a storm. The refrigerator had already been broken. The cable guy came, fixed stuff, and then left an hour before another storm so we lost power again. I wrote my lab report by candlelight. I couldn't google the answers so it would be safe to say I probably did not get an A on that. (Update: 36%! Go me!) I eventually decided it wasn't fun pretending to be smart so I went to bed. The air conditioning didn't work so it was like 200° and I couldn't sleep. At 7am on Wednesday of my "vacation," I couldn't toast my breakfast and the garage door wouldn't open because the power was still out. Then I messed up on every single step of the lab. Even if it's not possible, I will always find a way to do it wrong. It's a real talent.
After this struggle, I went back to the beach after class on Thursday. That was fun because I got the worst headache of my life the night we went out to dinner and while I was busy looking like death, our waitress happened to be a girl from high school. Luckily, she was probably never aware of my existence. When I finally arrived at the beach, thinking I was safe from calamity, I sat down to enjoy the sun and promptly got pooped on by a bird. I went into the water to wash it off, dove under a wave, miscalculated the depth in front of me, and face planted. My sister laughed at me. I got a mouth full of sand and a huge scratch on my forehead and the side of my nose. Yay.
This is the story I'm going to tell at parties when people ask me how my summer was. I'll probably make a lot of friends. But good news! I took a picture!

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see the second one bigger and better here

Side notes: On move out day, when everyone was panicking to get out by the deadline, my friend's car broke down and we had to go jump it... we didn't make it out by noon. Also, the time I brought my camera to the beach to take this picture, it didn't turn on. 

fourth of july fireworks on the beach (flickr)

driving home

lame quotes on pictures i took a long time ago

title says it all. i'm bored and unemployed so I was spending too much time online on wannabe hipster websites and then this happened and... i apologize. i hate me too. 

here's the hero picture and the free picture on my flickr and the original diamond picture in an old blog post

Melt Me

Short acoustic guitar original by me
melt me

butterfly photo

Aaaand you should check this out too :)

Come As You Are

song

https://soundcloud.com/570rm/come-as-you-are

step by step tutorial

New music. Partly inspired by a book (Mindset, by Carol Dweck) and partly inspired by this picture 

http://lesaventuresdelamode.tumblr.com/post/14008921960

It started out as this

And I think it ended up sounding like a weird mix of these 2 songs

Go Wild Spraypainted Tshirts

Here they are! https://www.etsy.com/listing/190299136/go-wild-barcode-spray-painted-unisex
And I made a website so you can check them out before you buy one :) http://gowildtshirts.wix.com/original
And here are my tumblr, flickr, and pinterest so you can stalk them/me more!

Social Media Takeover

Good news! The Etsy shop is finally online!

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/190299136/go-wild-barcode-spray-painted-tshirts? 

Now I'm crossing my fingers that the spraypainted tshirts actually sell. To use online, I tried to take cool pictures (that ended up all looking more or less the same) and failed a little bit but oh well. Light painting at 5 am is still a fun time. 

Do you have a favorite? I really couldn't decide. I hated all of them equally.

I have more good news! Because I am ridiculously lazy, I was spending a typical summer day on the couch watching TV. An ad came on for wix.com that lets you create a free website. I was a little bit skeptical but it actually is free and also so easy that I designed the whole thing overnight, plus it's mobile friendly. It gives a little more background about the Go Wild TShirts that I'm selling on Etsy and it has links to all my social media accounts. So if you have free time, maybe you should head over to 

http://gowildtshirts.wix.com/original 

...I love you...

The plan is to post all over social media so the people that I know in person or follow or share similar tastes and interests with can find my shop on Etsy easily. Since I am still trying (unsuccessfully) to become employed, I have too much free time and I decided to put this to good use by reading up on SEO, visibility, web analytics, and all that stuff with big words I couldn't define if you asked me. This has so far amounted to a grand total of zero sales, but we'll see. 

Fountain Photography

My last post kind of sucked. It was A LOT of text and no pictures, so here's a story: One time I thought it would be a really cool idea to jump into a freezing cold and moldy fountain. And then I took pictures! 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53774180@N08/14237874470/

(Actually, credit belongs to my friend who took them for me, I just edited)