Picture This

angamainyu has posted another set of photos from our last photoshoot together. I'm very pleased with them, and he's also a real pleasure to work with. Wanna see? They're NSFW.

I model again tonight, this time for Kim Taylor. I think I'm doing a series of mask photos. We shall see.

Work has kept me very, very busy. I get up at 5:30 every morning to pour coffee for eight hours. Today, I made about 60 cents in tips. Gah. Yesterday, I applied for work at an upscale coffee shop. I'm sure the tips are better there. I really don't mind working in a coffee shop, but I do mind the terrible pay for all the very hard work I do. Tomorrow, I get to start scheduling breaks for all the employees. That should be a laugh riot.

One afternoon, while biking home from work, I spied a dead seagull lying on the grass by the side of the road. It was white with a spackling of coffee-brown. Its wings were half spread, and its head was bent under its breast. There was no blood, and although I'm pretty sure it must have been hit by a car, it didn't look like it had died violently.

Every day that I'd bike home, I'd look at the gull. Even though there were several very hot days and one rainstorm, it never changed in appearance, and I never caught a whiff of corruption. Then, six days later, it was gone. Not a trace of it remained.

Maybe it had just been sleeping off one hell of a bender.

And last week, I was walking with snowy_kathryn and zero_design when I saw a black squirrel chimney climbing its way between a church's stucco wall and a garbage can. "Squeasel!" I yelled (elanya's appellation for the rather weaselly-looking black squirrels around here). And then I zoomed up to the garbage can. The squeasel darted to the far side of the can, and I ducked my head to face him. I could have grabbed him, if I were so inclined. "Raaa!" I said.

The squeasel then impressed the whole lot of us by doing a Spiderman impression. He ran across the wall, around the corner, and straight up the wall to the top of the steeple. I've never before witnessed a squirrel scale a wall. Hoorah for rodents with superpowers!

And now, before I prepare for tonight's photo shoot, I'll leave you with a few links. Enjoy!

Two Minute Hate: Charlie's take on the whole "worse than 9/11" fiasco.

Swiss Mini Gun: For shooting Smurfs, I presume.

Woman finds 'God's water' gurgling from tree: "Lucille Pope's red oak tree has gurgled water for about three months, and experts can't seem to get to the root of the problem."

Stalking user #2281868: You can view who's been searching for what. I'm very curious about this individual's proclivities.

Passport photo of girl, 5, banned 'in case it offends Muslims': Maybe all women should wear burqas in their passport photos in case they offend certain Afghanis, too.

Humans With Amazing Senses: Ben Underwood gets around via echolocation, just like a dolphin.

And I've saved the best for last. This woman could potentially get breast cancer in her foot.