batskeets | The rest of the weekend

Friday: It wound up being busier than I thought, and I probably stayed out later than I should have, but eh, I survived. :) The regular Friday outing with office folk turned out to be hitting up the Ems game, so I was all up for that. The Ems somehow pulled down 6 runs in the first inning, which is pretty crazy. The visiting team slowly crept back up on them, but the Ems finally shut it down 6-5.

I got a call late in the game telling me that Jeremy got a teaching job out in BFE--Ontario, OR. to be more precise--and would be heading out of Eugene on Monday to find a place to live out there! So, I met up with them at Jameson's after the game, to help give him a proper sendoff. I stupidly left my cash in my other pants, though, so I couldn't buy him a drink, but he's hoping that he'll be able to come back and visit periodically, so I'll get him back eventually.

Sunday: Super-fun! We hit up the city and somehow managed to find this cool location that we'd seen the last time we were up there. It was this weathered section of brick wall that looked like it was once part of a building, and it had window frames with rusted window shutters on the outside... very cool. Portland is so neat in some areas.

Our first model met up with us there, and she was a fun chick. We had her laying all over metal beams in horribly uncomfortable ways, but she was a trooper through all of it. She even recommended that I get in touch with a photographer she shot with recently and really liked. I think that I got some really good shots, too, so I can't wait to start editing those!

On the down side, our second model couldn't make it... she had to rush to the vet hospital because, apparently, her roommate sat on her dog and dislocated its shoulder. Gah!

Anyhoo, after we got done with our shoot, we toddled off to my funky Bruce Lee movie poster shoot, and that wound up being pretty fun. The photographer used his apartment as a studio, and he had some fancy-schmancy professional flashes to light the room, so I'm hoping for some good results! He seemed to like what I did with the various martial arts poses and stances, too. He'd tried the shoot before with a model who had no martial arts training, and I guess it didn't turn out as well as he'd liked, so hopefully he'll be happier with this one. :) He also commented at one point that my horse stance was really low, and I just had to laugh, because Phil probably would've said it wasn't low enough. ::rotfl::

We did dinner at one of the 80 hojillion McMenamins around town, and then headed back to Eugene, and wound up going for a long, long walk out towards Fern Ridge. Between standing around all day on Saturday, and then all the walking last night, I am effin' TIRED and my back hurts and I am so not going to the gym today. ;p I trained really hard last week, so it won't kill me to take a day off.

Today: I am doing NOTHING, and that is beautiful. Well, at least, that's how it stands at this moment. I'll probably be editing photos and working on stuff at home. A new roommate is moving into the house today, and she seems like an okay chick so far... I didn't get a chance to meet her beforehand, but eh, I'm hard to piss off, so I'm sure it'll be fine. :) Abbey, a.k.a. the dog we're watching, is possibly the quietest dog I've ever met. I don't think I've heard her bark even once. She was whining a little this morning, but in general, she's been a total sweetheart. She doesn't seem to like being picked up and held like Gizmo does, though.

Anyway, that's enough babbling for one day. I'm off.