pre-race, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Shot the Summit League Cross Country Championships today. Went better than I expected mostly because I forgot my charger and spare battery at the Womens Soccer game yesterday and I was freaking out thinking all I had was a half dead battery to shoot with for the entire day. Don't know how I keep losing that thing. Anywho, picked it up this morning in the office. A grip for the 20D would be nice but I'm abuot $200 short. Plus I just got a 430EX flash off Ebay so that'll set me back about $230.

Before the races began, had to go to Walmart to buy another 2 GB card becasue my other one had Womens Soccer from the day before and I had nowhere to dump. Waking up at 7am wasn't too fun either but didn't do much the night before so whatever.

Anyways, it was rough having to shoot all the teams instead of just Western but I did the best I could. Ran back and forth across the field a few times and was winded after that.

Had to do some interviews after the race with Western runners since the Courier has me doing the article. I'll probably type it up tommorow. 400 words.

Also got some portraits with the men's and women's teams after the race. Tried to get some variety. They turned out okay.

I think I spent about 2, maybe 3 hours burning CD's to clear my card and get the pics to the Summit League Rep.

Well it's 7pm on a Saturday Night. 'Bout time to get out of this Library...

adios

Miller

Miller, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Trying to make different layouts. Just picked a pic from this mock hip-hop trial we had. I guess it was about whether hip was guilty or not of being a negative influence or something.

Since then, been busy as usual. Football team lost big to UNI this weekend. They (UNI) are the #1 AA team in the nation but a win would've been awesome for pics.

I got XC to shoot this weekend. My first "major" job. Making a lot more than the $15 or $7.50 an hour I usually make. I got 5GB to work with and with the amount the Summit Leauge is paying me, I plan on using every byte. Just hope I give em something nice. It'll probably be more general stuff and not too creative but it'll be of EVERY school so I'll be busy.

We got the photo meeting tommorow at 6 like every other Tuesday but I think I might stop off at the writers meeting to see if I can write something. Since I am journalism now, I need to get comfortable with it.

MOCK ELECTION

Aparently, it's thje biggest in the nation on a college campus. Since most people around here don't seem to care much about politics, don't know how big it'll be. They got the freshman forced to come so should be a few people at least. I need to email some other guy about getting my press pass as a photographer. Starts tommorow...goes for a week or so.

Indiana State

_MG_2902, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Trip was good. Had a good time with the media people. Pictures were weak becasue they pretty much ran the ball every time. Before the game, the media people and I ate at TGI Fridays. I got this stain on my shirt so I ended up buying this clearance shirt when we were walking around the mall.

For the Youngstown game in Ohio, found out I'm not going. Bummed about that. Next travel will probably be when conference rolls around for the fall sports.

Womens Soccer is kicking butt. They beat Iowa State last weekend. Probably head up to Michigan for the conference games. Mens team has been struggling.

I LOST MY BATTERY CHARGER!! FRIG. I left it on the power strip at the soccer game so someone with the TV channel has it. Now I just have to find it. REALLY need it becasue one of my batteries is already dead. Just hope nothing major happens. Guess I might get a new charger at CameraLand if it doesn't show up in a few days.

I got a Geography quiz to take. So sick of these gen-eds. Guess thats what I get for going through 4 majors. Loving Journalism though and that's all that really matters. Just hope I can get a job one day. Oh yeah, need to get those internship apps filled out soon.

im out

I need to write more in this thing. I guess I'm a writer for the paper now. Only every now and then. It's fun. Still mostly take the pics.

Heading over to Indiana tomorrow, gotta get packing. Should be cool getting football pics somwhere besides Western. First time traveling in a long time. Looking forward to it. Probably post some mobile pics on facebook.

I got journalism hw to finish up. Im out.

Oh yeah, typed my first article. It's 300 something words. Rough but its a start.

my hamster is dying as i write this on my pda. other one seems fine. i think its been 2 years since i got them at the pet shop. this sucks.

well she struggled to take her last few breaths and it was over. just by looking in her eyes, could tell shes gone. i know its probably insignificant but never really lost anything close. i raised these hamsters. its wierd i guess. gonna be different with one.