kaitymae

Sorry about the quality of my photos lately - I'm really out of practice and will probably just delete half of them. There was a long period where my flow of ideas just stopped. I wanted to take photos so badly, but I had no idea what to actually shoot. However, I have been thinking a little about how people perceive other people (like when you fail to notice something really obvious about a person but then someone else points it out and you're like, OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT, MATT REALLY *DOES* STARE OFF INTO SPACE AND BLINK WILDLY WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT BORES HIM fun fact: i have a friend named matt who does this) and how mu

-You guys. YOU GUYS. Dar Williams (aka that supercool singer who I have a mad crush on despite the fact that she's way older and reminds me of someone's aunt or something) was at The Ark last month and I didn't know about it until today! I'm sooo steamed! I'm 100% in love with her music and I cry every time (no, seriously, every time) I listen to "You're Aging Well". Plus, she says "basses" when she mentions orchestras in that song, and like, we never get any love so she gets bonus points. -I really want a lensbaby lens, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to shell out cash for something that might only work well for, like, four shots. You know?

Ok kiddos, sorry for the journal-spam. But I have to rage about this somewhere. What the FUCK is with everyone marginalizing transfolk, acting like they're a circus sideshow, or pretending they don't exist? Seriously? I was in a musicology lecture this morning with a prof who, to keep students listening, incorporates a lot of shock value humor and off-color remarks into his lectures. In the middle of discussing early Italian opera, he remarked that he was "really an Italian in an American's body. You know, like those women you've heard of who were born in a man's body or what have you." I spent the rest of the lecture taking REALLY INDIGNANT