You Did Virginia Wrong, Mike Vick.

I am in Virginia with my family and my Mom’s boyfriend is watching a special on Animal Planet documenting Mike Vick’s dogfighting allegations. I can hardly hear none-the-less WATCH the video footage on dogfighting and listen to people’s accounts of such a cruel act. It angers me to know that he took such pleasure in participating in such a gruesome act. Not only his actions in the fighting circuit, but the fact that he heartlessly killed “unsatisfactory” Pits in malicious ways like hanging them or electrocution makes my heart race and my blood boil. The story alone is enough to make me an active member of PETA. As I sit here, flabbergasted at what these soulless people do for entertainment and money, I look down at my two little pups and could never imagine witnessing them suffer any amount of anguish or pain. I was so proud of our Vick when he whooped ass at Tech then headed out to the Falcons, he wasn’t just VT but Virginia’s shining star. Now after hearing a more in-depth story, I want nothing more then to see his ass in prison. Knowing there are people in the world that do such heartless, ruthless, gutless things kills me. You suck, Mike Vick. If I could, I would punch you in the face.

Long time fan.

I have always been drawn to the styling genius of Rachel Zoe, so you can imagine my excitement over her new show on Bravo!  Who cares if she is “to blame” for the epidemic that was Lindsay, Nicole and every other starlet supposedly taking veterinary prescriptions for weight loss (I believe it!).  She introduced the long, waving locks and huge glasses look that swept the nation…and have you SEEN the woman’s CLOSET?  She is brilliant, stylish, and incredibly knowledgeable.  The tabloids don’t give her enough credit (not that they give her any!) in my opinion. I am excited to tune in.    I may even have to check out her book….I am a book addict.

Who needs Tiffany when you have Juicy?

Lust list from the Juicy Couture Fall Trunk show. I am on a sole mission to own every piece of Juicy jewelry known to man….with a few more Tiffany pieces too, of course. These were some of my favs. It’s ALL so great though.

Did he realllllly win?

Who knows, but he will be keeping the medal, according to the appeal.  It was indeed close as heck, and I’m not sure I believe he won, but you can decide for yourself.  He’s still an amazing merman.

Free Radio.

The new show on VH1 looked anything but entertaining to me, but an episode happened to slide it’s way into my programming schedule (really I was so glued to portfolio that I didn’t even think to change the channel hours after Rock of Love–my guilty pleasure) and after a few glimpses, I was hooked. The show is actually pretty hilarious. I think I’m a fan. I had no idea! I am still patiently awaiting some good quality T.V. to return: The Riches & Big Love. Now THAT’S quality tubin’. Now that my portfolio is ordered, maybe I can actually sit down and watch some. Nahh. The weather here is wayyyy too good. I have been dying to pick up the bottle of bubbles Marshall bought me and my camera and go out into Alpha Mill’s mini lawn, snapping pictures. I don’t know how I could ever live without spring. yippie.

Holy Portfolio!

For the last, oh, I don’t know, say TWO WEEKS I have been nothing less than a slave to my portfolio(s). I have hardly eaten, most certainly hardly slept & have spent countless early morning hours screaming “why, why, whhhyyy?!?!?” at my Mac. The portfolio is done, rather rushed, yes, and not up to it’s fullest potential, but I am still rather pleased. It’s sexy. The problem other than never having enough time in a day to get my work done has been this: BLURB! When I originally used the program to create the book”With Love” for my mom for Christmas, I fell in love with it. I gave it a ten for user friendliness and speed of shipping. Importing photoshop & Indesign layouts into it was a piece of cake and considering I am the biggest procrastinator in the world, it was delivered to Marshall’s Mom’s in Appomattox days before expected. I was impressed.

Not so much this time. I’m sure it’s just that at the last minute, everything that can go wrong will, but I have spent sleepless nights rushing to get my portfolio pages just right to submit for print, with too many problems to handle. (Most of which could of been avoided by using another Mac, but I won’t get into THAT one). For some reason the BookSmart program on my computer is currently on crack, most likely because I desperately need it. It constantly crashes, so I rendered it useless. I opted for a borrowed PC and begin uploading my images onto the program from there. Well for some ungodly reason Blurb, the only printing press in the world I am sure, prints RGB, not CMYK. Are you for REAL? Who DOES that? So, my 40 gazillion huge file size pages needed to be reopened and converted to RGB (after what took hours for me to figure was my uploading glitch) on an already super slow by this point Mac.

So that’s done. When it comes to uploading it, it was a pain. I downloaded the program onto a 3rd computer, the one in my apartment’s club house. It was working great, I was up until 4 am laying out my pages for my ID & photography portfolios, was feelin’ great that everything was going smooth and BAM! “No internet connection” was the error I got. There is no way to contact Blurb via phone, so my only troubleshooting options were to email tech support and wait until the “next business day” for a response (that I just got, and helped none) or to search through the help forums. I found a discussion of people having the same problems, but with no solutions. So by this time I am really panicking. I have set my portfolio pages up especially for this book, so reformatting is not an option, but portfolio review is in a little over a week and they need time to print and ship! THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING A PERFECTIONIST I suppose. So I go back to Mariam’s to try to load it on her computer one more time, which appeared to be working, but kept freezing up 30 minutes into the load. Ohmygoodness shoot me now. By this point I was so over it, but not giving up. Here I am, at school, watching my baby load with the greatest of ease.

Thank you lord.

What a pain in the ass. Now let’s cross all of our fingers and hope hope hope it gets here (with hefty overnighting fees) by 4:30 on thursday. Deliver it to Byron’s if you must…I just need it.

So that’s the story of the treacherous portfolios. They will look great together…(the ID & photography) if delivery pulls through.

I have never been this stressed in my life. TWO DAYS LEFT & I AM A GRAD! No school again…ever! I can hardly take the time to enjoy it!