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self-portrait II

it being the first blogging day of the month, its self-portrait time again. i'm realizing that if i plan to keep this monthly self-portrait thing up, i'm going to have to get pretty creative. a monthly shot of my scruffy mug could pretty quickly become monotonous, not to mention narcissistic, so perhaps i'll try to find ways to take interesting photographs that somehow include me in them. this month's is a poor example i guess, but at least its less of a mug shot than april's.

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i have many more photos from the weekend, with a special little something coming up for tomorrow. friday night we had a surprise birthday party for tommy galpin, something i couldn't mention on friday in my weekend plans. but it went off pretty well. we hosted it at our house, and had quite an eclectic turnout: anyone from mccallie profs to highschool seniors.

and saturday, well, i pretty much puttered around the house all day long, which was a surprisingly pleasant way to spend a day. wrote a few emails, cleaned a bit, but mostly just read, drank coffee, and sat on the porch. it's been a long time since i've done that, but with the weather turning so pleasant it may become more of a routine. oh, then saturday night i watched zoolander with a few friends and, even though i'm not much of a ben stiller fan, i have to admit it was quite funny.