DAY 059

Laundry day: I did three loads. I was getting desperate, I was running out of underwear. I ended up putting too many clothes in the dryer at one time, so I took everything that was still damp and hung it around the room. The loft bed formed a canopy of laundry.

I liked how the light looked, coming into the room through my tshirts:

DAY 058

After taking an accidental 3-hour nap, I discovered that Gwen had also made maple cookies. SO MUCH BAKING IN THIS APARTMENT!

DAY 057

This is an action shot of Laraine kneading baguette dough:

Today was filled with all kinds of baking. Our apartment is famous for this. First of all, Gina made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Then Megan and Yoko came over and we made pineapple cupcakes from a mix. I told them about Laraine being an artisan breadmaker, so she brought out the loaf of cinnamon raisin bread that she made the night before and I toasted a slice for them. In the meantime, Laraine was shaping the dough for baguettes. I convinced her to make one shaped like a penis. After that, Christina Kim and her friend Ali (spelled the same way, also short for Alexandra!) came over just as the cupcakes were coming out of the oven, and they helped us eat them. Finally, Victor and Mary came over so Laraine could give Victor the loaf of banana bread that she had made him in return for his donation to her Dance Marathon fund. So many people and so many baked goods in one apartment!

DAY 056

Today's pictures of the day are from in the supermarket. (Again! What is my life coming to? All I think about is dinner.) Photo one is the extensive expensive juice aisle, and photo two is Laraine contemplating the toothpastes, both taken with the fisheye camera.

The juice aisle photo didn't come out, but here's Laraine with the toothpastes:

DAY 055

Today, Kim and I braved the rain and the traffic to make our way over to Cafe 50's, which offers a free* dinner to customers who come in wearing old-fashioned pajamas on the last Wednesday of the month! We felt ridiculous walking in the rain in our silky pajamas, but it was worth it. The cafe was adorable, and the milkshakes weren't bad either. (The shake menu did have some interesting flavors - PBJ, Key Lime Pie, and Chocolate Chip Cookie shakes...) I am definitely going back next month! This is a peek of what the cafe looked like:

Even older people come out in their pajamas! I snuck a shot:

A blurry, sexy shot of Kim sipping her shake:

And, finally, our food! A swiss cheese omelet for Kim, and a BLT for me, coleslaw on the side:

*Not totally free. You have to order a drink - not like that was a problem with the bomb milkshake menu!

DAY 054

Loosine and Gwen's ceiling has the remnants of a solar system (you might have to click the picture to see it better):

DAY 053

Today started out looking like it was going to be a boring Monday. I had a lot of impossible reading to do, which I ended up not doing:

It was also a normal day at the CEC office:

But after longboard club, I decided to finally climb on top of the elevator to take a picture of the view, and I found another one of those cool hidden places on campus! It's a small space, but you can tell that a lot of people have been up here. There are graffiti tags all over the walls and floor, mostly involving words that don't make sense. In the middle of this small rooftop space, there's also a ventilation unit with this taped to it:

It's like a secret communal space! So awesome. Just as we were about to leave, these three guys skated over and climbed up, smiling so much that it worried me a little bit. They pulled out some blunts and a laptop and proceeded to play music, asking us if we had heard such-and-such artist before switching the songs.

We asked them if they wanted to take a picture with us using the disposable camera, but they told us they had already taken tons. It was very magical. These moments are what I love so much about being in college - these coincidences that you can't plan but seem to happen so often here. When we asked the boys if they knew who had put the camera there, they said they didn't know. I love that there's now this connection between me and someone who I'll probably never meet, who now has a picture of my shoes...

DAY 052

Yet another photo with the $3 camera, sorry. Today's is of Robert in the chip aisle.

Just kidding, the photo did turn out! It was just on another roll...

DAY 051

Oh wow, there are a lot of possible pictures-of-the-day for today. I finished more than half a roll with my $3 camera! Possible choices: the fashion district with Jeff (I wanted to take pictures of the saints candles), Megan in the Pilsbury dough aisle, Hanna among the steaks, paper plates with steaks and biscuits, Daniel with tattooed tears at the Lil Wayne party... Now I just need to convince someone to take me to Costco to get the pictures developed!

Jackpot day. This first picture is of a sign Jeff and I saw in the parking garage on our way to explore the fashion district. Something about the way it's been written makes me wonder about the type of liquid involved in making the floor wet:

A view of the fashion district from above. If you look closely, you can see a small child sprinting though the intersection:

So very Loosine:

I hope Megan doesn't kill me for posting this picture online:

And, finally, preparing the feast that left me comatose but seemed to be only a snack for Megan and Hanna:

DAY 050

FIFTY DAYS! This is a milestone - I don't think I've ever stuck with a New Years Resolution this long.

Anyway, today's photo-of-the-day was taken with the $3 camera and is of some nachos that somebody left in a bathroom stall.

DAY 049

I think today's photo-of-the-day is of Hanna karate-chopping a string in half. I think that was the only photo I took today and I think I missed the actual moment of chopping.

(Yep, it was and I did.)

DAY 048

I was feeling uninspired for today's photo-of-the-day but after I came home, cut up a salad, made iced tea, ate some frozen grapes, and sat on the couch, I saw this:

(Beautiful! The light falls through the window. Some of it gets caught in the vase, scatters on the floor in rainbow patterns. The rest streams through, cutting squares on the floor, lights up the foot of a couch. The roses glow. I drink my tea.)

DAY 047

I used the $3 camera to take a picture of Nousha and one of the actors (gosh, I keep forgetting his name) who came for the screening of HBO's How to Make It in America. She was so excited! I hope this picture comes out well, for her sake.

I think it did. :)

DAY 046

DAY 045

Today's photo is of the delicious brunch I had with the wonderful Cristina Cabiles at Omelette House. Bacon, tomato, and avocado! But all hidden between the tortilla-shaped egg patty - it was a weird-looking omelet.

Also, maybe, if I feel like it, today's other photo is of pink flowers and green moss in front of my house. (Ok, so I felt like posting it and I did.)

DAY 044

Didn't bring my camera connector cord with me, sorry. Photos to be updated upon my return to LA! Today's photo is of the Rodin sculptures at Stanford.

Also, I forgot to link to the updated posts with photos from the roll of 110 film that I just got developed! Here you go: DAY 004, DAY 020, DAY 031, DAY 032.

DAY 043

Oh, man. So I was super excited about getting some film developed at Costco (CHEAP!) this weekend, then I pulled the roll out of the camera and realized it was slide film. Eff. Not only does it take longer to get developed (most places have to send it out to other companies to do it), but it doesn't come back as prints unless you go to a special camera shop that will make prints for you. It's a time-consuming process and it costs more than I'd care to pay just for some prints. That being said, slides can be really cool, if you have a projector (which I do! thanks, Dad!) and a screen or just a wall to project onto. It's a really neat way to experience the images. I don't know how to explain it, but it's really mesmerizing to look at photographs when they're just made up of light. It's like watching a movie but without sound or movement, with only the hum and vibration of the projector.

Anyway, today's picture is of my English buddies, with their adorable faces all squished up together, Kerckhoff possibly squeezing into the background.

I must have had the shutter on the wrong speed because this picture is really washed out. It's still cute, though - I want to redo this photo.

Also, just because I feel like it and I really like them and I want to show them off, I'm posting three other pictures from the 110 roll that I just got developed! The first two are from an adventure last school year with the fearless Jacquelynn. The last is of a dead squirrel that I found while walking back from class. Someone had taken three purple blossoms and laid them on the corpse.

DAY 042

Day 42: I think this counts as a milestone (42 is the answer). Unfortunately, today's picture is not quite as exciting. I've recently gotten sick (it's the first time so far this quarter - this is a victory for me!) and last night I finally got up to get some NyQuil so I could fall asleep without coughing myself awake. Somehow, after filling the cup, I suddenly dropped both the cup and the bottle and my ipod, managing to leave half our bathroom covered in sticky green liquid. Nice. This is what the floor looked like:

Also, I just picked up my package of prints from my roll of 110 film this year! I've scanned all the pictures already and will hopefully post them soon.

DAY 041

Today I knocked off one item on my UCLA bucket list: to go to a UCLA planetarium show. I convinced my friend Rachel to go with me, so we met up outside of the math sciences building and walked up. The show started off with a short lecture about life in the universe, then the lights were turned off and the Star Wars theme song came on and the domed ceiling lit up with stars. The grad student in charge pointed out constellations and told us the myths behind them, telling us the names of key stars along the way. I love how the universe is this vast thing and how the stars are so far away that we can't ever actually touch them or see them (the "stars" that we see are really just light that is millions of years old) but we still name them. And with such great names, too! Betelgeuse, Sirius, Polaris...

DAY 040

Today's photo is no reflection (haha) of the awesome events that happened. More and more, I find myself wishing I had my camera on me at all times. Before I started this project, if I was going somewhere exciting, I would purposely leave my camera behind so that I could be totally immersed in the moment and not worry about capturing it. Now I'm beginning to regret not taking my camera with me. I went to see St. Vincent in concert tonight and I wished a million times that I could have taken a picture! I know that none of the shots would have been as awesome as having been there, but they still would have been a nice reminder of how sublime the night was. Instead, I offer a decidedly less epic picture of the mirror and windows of the first floor bathroom in Haines Hall:

DAY 039

So many balls:

DAY 038

So, I didn't end up taking my camera with me to the Pasadena flea market and it ended up being a big mistake. There was (what would have been) a great shot of a large arrangement of yellow glassware on a table. The light came through the cut glass bowls and goblets and it was kind of mesmerizing, even if you didn't look at it through a viewfinder. Dammit! Anyway, here's a picture of our shower door and the bathroom window. I like this shot, but a picture from the flea market would have been way more interesting!

DAY 037

Finally, I got to visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology! It's an amazing, weird, creepy, and fascinating museum. Needless to say, I went photo-crazy. There was a cool exhibit on mobile homes, as well as a room with large portraits of the seven dogs that the Russians sent into space! I was in love. There was also a dice exhibit that I liked:

And one on cat's cradle:

Even the ceiling lights were awesome!

The cat's cradle exhibit was actually really creepy...

But the complimentary tea afterwards more than made up for it. :)

DAY 036

Today I used my three-dollar camera to take two photos. (Sorry for so many film pictures lately! I'm trying to finish up some rolls so I can get them developed for cheap at Costco when I go home next weekend.)

Photo one is of neon pink flowers sitting in puddles.

Photo two is of Daniel Soto wearing a fake moustache.

DAY 035

Well, I thought it was funny:

DAY 034

Even though it's a little awkward, I kind of love this photo of Sarah and Michelle:

DAY 033

I've been waiting a while to take a picture of this.

Today's photo was taken at one of my top 10 favorite parts of the UCLA campus: the farthest right stall in the women's bathroom on the A-level floor of Bunche. And what's so great about it? Well, on that wall, a bathroom wall like any other, with grout between the tiles, tiles like any other kind of tiles, grout like any other kind of grout, someone has written all over the wall with puns on the word grout. Amazing! Someone obviously put a lot of work into this. I tried to think of my own pun to add to the wall, but it seemed like all of them were taken. Some of my favorites: twist and grout, the Groutful Dead, grout balls of fire!, all creatures grout and small, three strikes and you're grout, I'm a groutuate student - grout a life!, and my personal favorite, Groutcho Marx.

DAY 032

Not to be purposely anti-climactic, but today's photo-of-the-day hasn't been developed yet. I used the Ikimono again. (I'm trying to finish up this roll so I can hurry up and get it developed - so impatient!) While returning a book to the library, I noticed a water-stained book on the ground and I took a picture of its damaged pistachio-green cover. Apparently, someone missed the book drop that was approximately three feet away.

Saddest of all days! NONE OF MY SHOTS FROM THIS DAY CAME OUT!! Instead, I'm posting some of the other shots on this roll, even though I took them last quarter, before this challenge even started.