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I'll share more photos later, but I had to share this shot from yesterday because I LOVE IT and had to edit it immediately:

( Just one for now... )

I can totally see this being in an ad. All this commercial/lifestyle foo has been totally worth it, for shots like this. If I ever get it posted on iStock, I think it'll make me some good dolla' bills. Booyah!

There are a lot of others that I loved, too, and I went with natural light for the whole shoot, so it was totally trouble-free and relaxing. (yes, the mystery of the faulty transmitter continues, but I won't burden y'all any further with my complaints about that) She also brought in a makeup artist I hadn't worked with before, and said makeup artist is really new to the game, but she's been busting her hump, and is already doing lovely work after just a few months.

In other news: INDIANA JONES, y'all. I do believe we're going tonight! Or, if not tonight, then sometime tomorrow or over the weekend. The trailers have been pretty excellent, so I have high hopes...!

And speaking of movies, we got Lions for Lambs the other day, and the assertion at one point in the movie that people have changed, and (totally paraphrasing) are content to sit back and get wrapped up in their own trivialities made sense. Apathy is obviously widespread today, and activism is treated almost like a fad. It seems like there are those who will make a token effort at activism, for sake of being "cool" or appearing as though they care.

But, when those same people run across someone who's *really* committed to a cause, they'll act like it's crazy to be that committed. As though it's okay to care, but not *too* much. And, the lack of true commitment from the population at large kind of ruins it for those of us who may actually *want* to make change. When you feel like a tiny dot that has no real power to make lasting change alone, you really need the power of like-minded people alongside you to keep pushing onward... so what happens when you don't have that? Well... basically, nothing.

And, because you know I can't stay serious for very long: maybe I'm just crazy, but Tom Cruise? Looked disturbingly like John Edwards in that movie. MY GOD.

Crap.

So I met this dude at a networking event a couple of weeks ago, and he's been e-mailing me periodically to let me know about other networking events and such. If it's the person I'm guessing it is, he kept coming up and talking to me throughout the event, and I figured that he thought I was cute or something. I wouldn't have been particularly interested even if I were single, though, so I was just trying to be nice, since being an asshole does not win you new clients.

Of course, thanks to the fact that Google Talk is linked with your Gmail account, now he's chatting with me, and asking about coming to the Indiana Jones movie with me, and I'm slightly weirded out. I *think* he knows that Ben and I are more than just business partners, but I'm not sure he does, so I can't tell if he's asking for a date or what. DOES NOT WANT!

Worst part is, I'm not even sure if it's the same guy, or if it's one of the *other* people from the same networking thinger, because I heard so many new names that night that I only remember maybe two of them. XD

Help?

EDIT: I said I'd have to check with Ben about when we were going, and then he said TTYL and logged off. Crisis averted, haha!

These situations can be such a pain, with all this not being able to tell what people are really after. Can people just be completely, transparently *obvious* with me or something? Because you know, I'm pretty dense about this sort of thing.