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July 19, 2005
Fort Awesome
Jimmy James: I wanted a house just like "Xanadu," but without a dorky name.
Lisa: So what did you call it?
Jimmy James: "Fort Awesome."
Tonight I'm starting to move in to our new place in Somerville, Fort Awesome. I'm living with three other guys in a four bedroom place with two bathrooms. It's really a pretty sweet setup, and the guys I'm living with are top-notch. Really can't speak highly enough about them.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price
Finished the new Harry Potter book last night. If anyone else has read it, I'd love to talk about the new developments. My copy has already been passed off to one of the fellow residents of Fort Awesome, Mr. Malwitz. Maybe each of us residents needs a title... Anyways, the book is worth a read.
I really think some people overestimate JK Rowling and her writing. It's a kid's book. An enjoyable one even for adults, but I wouldn't put it up there with any other classic literature for adults. Don't get me wrong, I really like it, but it seems to me to lack a certain depth. Course, that's just me being a snob.
I recommend it.
Photography
I haven't been doing much photography lately. Partly because I've been really busy, but partly because, for some reason, I just didn't feel like it. I really started missing it again today.
Photography is and odd thing for me. I'm half decent at it in a relative sense, but compared to real photographers, I'm just not that good. My whole life I've primarily only loved doing things I was naturally good at. I only liked things where people would say, "Wow, you're really talented."
After taking a photojournalism class last semester, I found out that I'm really not that great. Public critique of your own work is never easy, especially when people aren't fond of it. But it forced me into a different place. If I was going to keep doing photography, I could no longer keep doing it just because I was good at it.
So I finally do it now because I love it. Photography is one of the first things in my life that I've ever really loved.
Entry posted by byscuits on July 19, 2005 03:56 PM
Comments
I finished HP and the Half Blood Prince a couple days ago...would love to discuss it...call me at 314-322-2242 anytime, it's my cell, we should talk!
Comment posted by aptaylor at July 19, 2005 08:16 PM
in the old tradition of roommates:
"Your MOM is one of the first things in your life that you've ever really loved"
Comment posted by Brian at July 19, 2005 09:47 PM
funny, your mom is one of the first things i'd ever loved, too ;)
re: photography - part of it is the big fish small pond kinda thing, i'm sure. remember math and other analytical pursuits? prior to MIT, you were probably da man in your school. You're probably not "da man" in your pond anymore (especially when you're going to school with people such as Max Plank 3rd or 4th or whatever, but you're probably a heck of a lot better at it now than you were when you were in high school. re: photography - you were better than other peeps in chez willie and you've got an "eye," which is something many yearn for, but now you've reached the point where you're stepping into the bigger pond, where you may have to work to be really good. it doesn't mean you're not good at it, it might just mean you're not the nobel laureate that teaches physics at MIT.
Comment posted by gb at July 24, 2005 02:22 AM
