"Mathematical equations are the devil's sentences!"

Hey, I'm still looking for photography equipment tips, if anyone's got them.

The weekend is looking busy but fun. I have a demo on Saturday--the last one before the big one at Asian Celebration, oh noes!--and I have a sort of "make fun of Valentine's Day" party to go to later that evening. On Sunday, bookid's friend that is also one of our WoW guildies is coming to town, so we're probably going to do lunch while she's here. Yay!

There's talk of seeing 42nd Street at the Hult Center, too, but upon closer inspection, I *really* don't think I can afford it at ~$30 a head. Yes, it's that bad. x_x Grah. I think I will be okay this month, but I need to squeeze out the last of my cafeteria plan from last year, and file my taxes for Great Justice and Phatty Refunds. Can I just never ever get sick again? Please?

I'm still trying to figure out where I can go to compete this year, aside from Berkeley. If I can't pay $30 to see a play, then I'm sure as hell too broke to go to Irvine this month, so that's right out. I'm also not really prepared enough with my form, anyway, so it's not so terrible.

I have some new options in mind to pick from, but I'm waffling, so help me decide where to go! I know y'all don't have much knowledge of wushu tourneys, so it's all about the location! So, if you have a reason or three for why I should go to a particular place, state it. :)

( Where should I go? )

I think I'm having a good week, on the whole. Yesterday, I had lunch with my fellow design people at Oregano's, which I hadn't been to before, but their steak with red pepper sauce was really yummy. I'll definitely have to go back there, heh. :) I trained my ass off at practice and lifted afterwards, so that's going pretty swimmingly. I squeezed in some PvP and got an AB win, and laughed my ass off at the Colbert Report. (I missed PR again because I was at the gym, sigh)

I've been taking valerian root all week to help with the whole sleeping thing, and I have apparently been sleeping like a log and not sleepwalking at all. Sooo happy! Sleep is beautiful.

That's all! Staff practice + Survivor tonight. Oh yeeeeah!

"I want to see your skills of an artist."

I checked my e-mail a moment ago, and surprise (!), I got a request to use one of the photos in my portfolio. I'm always caught a little off-guard when people are actually interested in my photography, because I'm soooo sporadic and amateur about it at times, but it always cheers me up a little.

This one is unusually cool, because they want to use it for a promotional poster. They're an academic non-profit, so they have no money to offer, but to have my photography used for something that's not just Random Guy #3's Personal Blog or whatever? That's really neat. :D Also, it's this picture, which I did in my B&W Photography class, and I always really liked that photo.

I'm going to e-mail them back later, and see if I can get a copy of the poster mailed to me or something. That's hellacool. Whee!

Also, to ensure that this post is not *entirely* self-congratulatory: Firefly fanpeople need to look at this! It's amusing.