Today was a pretty good day, I guess.. :) I got away without suffering in ECA (except for the bits where I had to take two pictures of Ms. Bell, although I suppose that was technically more funny than painful), and I think we did our Interview pretty well.. for all that I won't admit it to the one person who congratulated me on it.

And during the rest of the day, I took pictures.

I love the power that the camera gives me; people will automatically show me a face that they give the whole world. Occasionally (sans la camera) I get this brushoff look from people; the look that says, "Bugger off, twerp". But people almost never do that to a camera. And for all that we know, these days, that cameras don't steal bits of your soul, nevertheless there's power in a camera. And it's almost intoxicating. And certainly I'm basking in the fact that I snapped a picture in the hallway.. of you know very well whom. If I'm lucky, I caught the back of his head. If I'm not.. then ah well. I can't bring myself to be too irritated or angry- today was a good day, and I'm basking quietly in the glory of it all.

I still have to take it back to school tomorrow and get the rest of the photos. Who knows-- maybe I'll get Natalie to give me a single photo; I'd like to introduce Rae to her namesake of sorts, after all.. though the two are nothing alike. (Natalie, after all, wasn't even sure whether there were molecules in soup, back in ninth grade..) And if I can, I'll get Tiffany too; the only other Pern-fan that I know of who lives in Mason. And maybe Conor and Caroline, if I can.. although I'll stay greatly away from Andrew Browning and Spenser Tepe. For all that they irritate me to pieces, and I want to show Rae what they look like.. I *hate* them. Hate them too much to take their pictures and hope even slightly that my grip won't shatter the camera.

Ah well.