Accomplishment

This will be me (well, this really is me) in one month. Finished. Reached my goal. Kaput. And I guess you could say, hypothetically speaking, I will have reached the "summit." For those of you scratching your heads and wondering "Melissa Barrick has really climbed a mountain?!" Yes, my dear blog stalkers, I have.

Regardless, one month from today I will be driving home from my LAST final exam of my undergraduate studies. And only 12 weeks after that, I will have received that flimsy little 8.5x11 piece of ecru cardstock with a pretty little stamp on it that only cost my loving Dad (and my company) over $50 G's. The four-and-a-half most painful years of my existence will cease on that day. I'm just kidding... it hasn't been THAT bad. I've just got "senioritis." I've got it bad.

Maybe on that day will I actually climb a mountain to embrace the symbolism of this blog post and the picture referenced herein. Oh, the symbolism... take my back to my freshman year in college when I was walking to my FIRST college literature class when to my horror, my book bag broke and my 3905 books spewed all over kingdom come... why did I have to take myself back to that place?

Accomplishment, people, is what I stand for. Procrastination? Never.

Now go have a chuckle because we all know that's not true.

Two Words

I only have two words for you people... MID TERMS.

Enough said. I want to crawl in a hole of pity, coddle my big, fat Caramel Macchiato, and make a really long, long, long blog post instead. Or it makes me want to stick my head through a fence, like my poor kitty here, Killian. However, I can't because all of my professors ganged up on me and are requiring about 2495395 different things to be due this week.

Do you feel sorry for me? Ok, good.

But just in case I get lost in the bottomless abyss that is my academic career right now and can't make any useless posts, I have started my new "preliminary" photo blog!!! You can access it on the side bar right under my profile. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Go and be thankful that you are not me this week. Amen.

Engaged! Josh and Kelly

I have no patience.

This evening, I had the pleasure of taking my first official photography session with my friend Kelly from work and her fiancee, Josh! Let me just tell you... it was SO fun. I got home and just couldn't wait to take a look at the pictures! Here is a snapshot of how the evening went, which, by the way, was GORGEOUS. I don't think we've had a prettier day all season! Josh and Kelly, you guys are a beautiful couple and very photogenic! Congrats on the engagement and thanks for your patience with me today while I figured everything out!

Waiting for the Great Pumpkin

Happy Halloween!

Wishing you a fun, safe and "spooktastic" Halloween this weekend!

Movin' on Up

I have my FIRST "unofficial" photography session this weekend!

One of my friends from work just got engaged (congrats K!) and I convinced her to let me take her engagement photos! Although I am FAR from a professional, I am still learning in hopes of one day actually becoming an amateur "professional" photographer (does that even make sense?)!!

I know, I know. I also promised you another website devoted specifically to my photography, but that hasn't happened yet. You see, I like to procrastinate occasionally on my primary obligations (statistics, laundry, playing with the cat, twiddling my thumbs, etc) and therefore wind up with absolutely hardly any time to do things I actually enjoy. Although after last post, I'm sure I totally just contradicted myself.

I digress... so I have a challenge for you, my web-savvy readers. You can help me decide on the color scheme for my new website (which will be coming AFTER December once I finally get the heck finished with this Bachelor's Degree!). I've put a voting tool at the top of the page for you to make your decisions.

so... VOTE AWAY. It will give me something to do when I'm supposed to be writing my 5-page case analysis that's due before midnight tonight. Which I haven't even started. Must have forgot about that one!