By Emily on May 21, 2013
Yesterday, I was uploading and tagging some photos on Flickr when all of a sudden the site reloaded, and POOF! There was a message on the top telling me to smile, which I always find a little creepy, and the site looked so unfamiliar that I thought it was a virus of some kind. Cue [...]
Posted in photography, rants | Tagged acquisition, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Marissa Mayer, photographer, photography, redesign, social media, SXSW, Tumblr, Yahoo!
By Emily on May 16, 2013
Six years ago, as I was preparing to move back to Spain, I wanted a means of communicating with people at home, of sharing photos, something beyond group emails. And so I decided, hesitantly, to start a blog. Six years later, that blog has become this space. This blog has taken me from Montana to [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blog, fiesta, photography, writing | Tagged a space to call my own, another year older and deeper in debt, blog anniversary, blogiversary?, six years
By Emily on May 12, 2013
After quite a few months of internship applications, and reconsidering whether or not I wanted to just spend the summer sizzling in Austin, and waiting, waiting, waiting to hear back, I finally got word a few weeks ago that I’ll be spending June and July interning at the Smithsonian in D.C.! This week, I finally [...]
Posted in seasons, things that make me smile, travel, working | Tagged internship, Smithsonian, summer, Washington D.C.
By Emily on May 5, 2013
The semester’s end is a moving goalpost: as soon as I think I can reach it, it slides juuuust out of reach. In the meantime, I am ticking away boxes on my ever-growing academic and otherwise to do list before shifting to my summer to do lists: the mostly fun kind, and the kind involving [...]
Posted in photography, seasons, things that make me smile, travel | Tagged Ann Hamilton, art installation, Houston, Paul Octavious, summer
By Emily on April 26, 2013
It’s that time of year again. Last year, I spent my tax refund on the Adobe Creative Suite. This year, after a whole lot of research, I finally decided to bite the bullet and use my tax refund to make another photo-centric purchase – a macro lens! Something I’ve been wanting for years. It was [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, Austin, photography | Tagged macro, photography, spring, Tamron 60mm macro, upclose
By Emily on March 23, 2013
+ Pete Goldlust’s Carved Crayons series. + My Brita water bottle. I own about twenty water bottles. This one is not especially attractive. I sort of wish it wasn’t a squeeze bottle. But I’m drinking way more water than normal (why is that the hardest resolution?) and it’s because water from every tap tastes great. [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, books, colors | Tagged Craigslist, Crayola, gridview, John Green, Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, My So-Called Life, Pete Goldlust, Ted talk, The Fault in Our Stars
By Emily on March 20, 2013
III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while [...]
Posted in poetry, seasons, things that make me smile | Tagged e.e. cummings, first day of spring, rebirth
By Emily on March 17, 2013
Whoops, sorry. Got a day behind. Too busy watching Season 2 of The Killing on Netflix. Detective Sarah Linden is a total (redheaded) badass. If you haven’t seen it, do. (photo from here. warning: Season 1 spoilers.)
Posted in a few of my favorite things | Tagged ginger, Netflix, Redhead, Sarah Linden, The Killing
By Emily on March 16, 2013
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to sneak in some SXSW music (and have been mildly successful), which has led me to download some new music and add some new bands on Spotify for the first time in a while. More on that in an upcoming post. But in the meantime, it got [...]
Posted in blogs I read and like, things that make me smile, what I'm listening to now | Tagged Garth Brooks, gingers, Hairpin, red head back in bed before the morning, songs about redheads
By Emily on March 14, 2013
Note to every dentist I’ve ever had: “The reason we studied redheads in the beginning, it was essentially an urban legend in the anesthesia community saying redheads were difficult to anesthetize,” Dr. Sessler said. “This was so intriguing we went ahead and studied it. Redheads really do require more anesthesia, and by a clinically important [...]
Posted in rants | Tagged anesthesia, fun facts, ginger, novocaine, Redhead
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
