Photo Wall

6 comments (closed), posted on february 20, 2005, tags: me

This weekend, Katia and I finally got around to starting our apartment decoration project. For the longest time we've been wanting to decorate our living room with all the photos I've taken over the past year. We were trying to come up with a way to hang lots of pictures without having to frame each one and the real goal was to have a system that allowed for easy and frequent swapping. We found it. We bought a bunch of magnet strips and screwed them to the walls.

It looks great and it's an easy way to hang lots of photos at once. We plan to add more of these strips (another row above the current two) around the room. You can see pictures of the photo wall on Flickr.

Oh, and I hinted in one of my 24in48 photo descriptions that I was leaving my current job and it's true. I was offered a position at a web development company in Union Square and I accepted it. I'll post more details here once I get started at the new place on February 28. This move will be good. I'm anxious to get back to doing more web work.

24in48

no comments (closed), posted on february 18, 2005, tags: photos

I'm participating in the second round of the 24in48 project. It started today at midnight at it goes until 11:59PM Saturday night. During these 48 hours, 24 participants take and upload photos from their camera phones. What you get is a "group moblog event, sharing the lives of 24 people over 48 hours in New York City."

You can view the moblog at 24in48.org and you can see my pictures at 24in48.org/people/garrett/. Feel free to follow my life for two days!

The Gates

2 comments (closed), posted on february 14, 2005, tags: photos

Today Shawn, Katia and I went to Central Park and took tons of photos of The Gates art installation. Aside from the fact that the A/C/E trains are still completely screwed (so it took us about forever to get there on a crowded train we had to wait a very long time for), it was a great day. Nice blue sky and thousands of orange gates.

You can see my photos of The Gates on Flickr. You should check out Shawn's photos on Flickr as well. Oh, and if that isn't enough for you, I recently created a Flickr group called Central Park, which is now chock full of great Gates photos as well as other nice photos of the park. Photos everywhere!

Life With Garrett

11 comments (closed), posted on february 7, 2005, tags: guest entries

This is a 5th grade-style essay about living with Garrett. Garrett is my boyfriend. We have been living together for 2 years on February 1st. There are good things and bad things about living with Garrett.

In the morning, I have to wake Garrett up so he can go to work. It takes about 25 minutes. I have to tell him to get up at five minute intervals. I try to be gentle. I say, "Wake up, Sugar-Face." Or, "Time take a shower, Love Bunny." He responds with, "Five more minutes," and more than a few times, "five more minutes, Mom!"

During the day, I call Garrett on the phone from my office. About 10-15 times. Sometimes I call to say "Hi" and then I don't have anything interesting to say. Then, Garrett gets mad. Sometimes, I call to ask a computer question. Then, Garrett gets mad. Sometimes, I call Garrett to try to make plans for upcoming weekends, weeknights, et cetera. Then, Garrett gets mad. You get the idea.

At the end of the day, I call Garrett one last time to ask him what he'd like to have for dinner. Without fail, he says that he doesn't know. In the two and a half years we've dated, he has never known what he'd like to have for dinner. After some arguing, we agree to see each other at home.

Garrett gets home before I do and proceeds into his computer room to spend some much needed alone-time with his computer. When I come home—about 30 minutes after him—he has accomplished quite a lot. If clicking on websites and reading dumb links put hot food on the table, then I'd have a feast waiting for me every night. But I don't.

Then, we have dinner. One of us will cook it because our kitchen is small and Garrett is big and has a hard time sharing a small space. I don't because I'm small, but most of the time we cook separately. After dinner, I do the dishes. Garrett never does the dishes because he is allergic to dish soap. It's a crippling disability that causes him much hardship, but I try to be supportive.

For the rest of the night we sit around petting our cats, watching TV and enjoying each other's company. Then, I go to sleep and leave Garrett to have some alone time so that he can eat all the cookies in the house, shoot zombies and watch episodes of The Family Guy (which he has repeatedly promised NOT to watch without me).

In conclusion, Garrett is the best roommate I've ever had. He always cleans the bathroom, never snores or asks me to watch masculine-type sporting events. As a boyfriend he's not too shabby either. He likes cats, occasionally watches romantic comedies (Rom-Coms) and tells me I'm pretty, on cue.

The End.