Day 10 (Thurs., June 9)

Today was wayyyy slow. Because I had worked too much in the last week, I was only allowed to work three hours to fulfill my 40-hour week. I wanted to keep on going, though. I don't like taking the time to relax. I'll sleep and relax when I am dead. For now, I want to work hard and go full speed. Today I only drove around town for a while and looked for people maintaining their yards. I didn't find too many people, but I did find the above scene and I thought it was very cool. After that, my shift was over and I went home. Before leaving the office, photo editor Lakeith Kennedy praised my work by saying I had an "impressive first week". I just did what I love to do, go out and shoot my next great photo. I have a thing that I say when people ask me what my best photo is. I usually say "the next one".

After work I decided to go home and catch up on my sleep. I have been going to sleep late and waking up fairly early. So, today was going to be catch-up-on-sleep day. However, I only slept for 20 minutes and I found myself bored. By now you should know that when Who? Leo! gets bored, crazy things are bound to happen. And they did! I cut my hair!

I decided that the mohawk would allow me to settle in at this small town. Haha. Yeah right. I ended up shaving my head completely. I figured it's getting too hot and having gel and stuff on my hair gets pretty annoying. So, for now I will go with the baldie look. Besides, most womyn like the baldie look. At least in the big city. Not sure what they like around here. Oh well, we're about to find out.

How many times have I mentioned that I am arrogant? Not enough, apparently. I usually get asked if I really look like my photo on my Photographer's Bio page. I guess some people think it's not me. Well, since the question has been coming up a lot lately, here's another of those "model type" photos that I get to shoot of my favorite model when I am bored. I love the lighting and the composition. I guess this goes back to Bigelow's three criteria for a good photo. Light (got it), composition (got it), moment (hmm. spending time w/ me is always a good moment, I guess. haha).

Yeah, I'm conceited and arrogant. Sue me!

I wasn't crazy all day, though. After cleaning off all the hair on my bathroom I decided to go to the pool. I hung out there for a few hours. It gave me time to finally dig into the "Sunburn", the mock publication that we put together at the end of the spring semester to remember the staff. In the publication you can read about the "cat people", "Sal's insane managing methods", "my nap antics" and a lot of other funny and un-real stories that shows exactly how much fun we had this past semester. In reading Sunburn, I got sad. I miss my friends and my former co-workers. I am sure if I didn't get lucky and landed this last-minute internship, I would probably be doing the Summer Sundial with the very few people that have a little bit more time at CSUN before graduating. I really bonded with all my friends at the paper. It was a hard semester as I was hit with the fact that I had to adjust myself from taking a semester off to overloading myself with school and work. It was a tough time because I was not all complete emotionally. I went through emitional depression most of the semester. These guys took care of me. Whether it was by a picnic and baseball game to a night of midnight bowling to just having fun with interesting conversations regarding dating and man/womyn femenism issues and relationships. These group of people became my family. Here's what we ran on the front page of the newspaper our last week during our "best of" edition.

. This is my Sundial family. I miss you guys!
(can u spot me? hint: MAGNUM, as in Zoolander)

Speaking of front page covers, tonight I had a pleasant phone conversation with a very special person from my past. I was talking to Ana, the girl that made me a man. I must say that it is very cool to have this person in my life as a friend. After our sour end to a 4-year, 9-month relationship, I didn't see a point and need to have this person as part of my life. This semester we grew as friends. We had not talked in such a long time and that gave us enough time to think about what's really important = friendship. I must say that I am very happy for her as she's doing really well. She has a good job, a badass car (pictured below -- we used it for our cover of the Graduation Edition of the Sundial), an exceptional boyfriend and a future that I am sure will involve a great marriage and awesome children. I am so proud of her. When I met her, she was sort of lost as most young ladies are. She found herself and she's all grown up. I taught her a lot about life and that's why I am proud. We let the childish stuff behind and we are now mature enough to have a friendship, inspite what people say regarding the fact that they believe you can't have friendship w/ an ex. We have a true, clean and honest friendship now. I am pleased to be your friend Ana.

Wow, I guess today was really a time to think. I had little to do and lots to think about. I thought about everything in life today. I thought about how lonely I am. But I rather be lonely and assertive, than wonder "what if?". That's an awful thing in my life. As you probably know, I like to take risks. I never regret anything because I always take a risk and I learned from it. So, with me feeling and thinking "what if?", I become weak. Anyways, I am getting all sentimental here so it's time to go to bed. Good nite.

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