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Name: Em
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Birthday: 4/1/1970
Gender: Female
Interests: aimee mann, anne tyler, art, artichokes, baltimore, ben schonzeit, beth orton, blue chalcedony, books, bracelets, cape cod, clouds, coffee, dvds, ebay, email, glassware, harpers, jazz, jeff buckley, john cusack, joni mitchell, lucy kaplansky, macs, margaret atwood, movies, new yorker, painting, poetry, rain, reading, richard shindell, rings, salon, san francisco, shane nicholson, shoes, silver, sue grafton, sunday mornings, thunderstorms, tori amos, when harry met sally, wine, xm radio.
Expertise: realistic painting
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
7/29/2004
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| Nostalga time!
So when I was somewhere in the age range of, say, 6 - 10 or so, I was addicted to dial in radio contests. The kind of contest where the DJ would say "Caller 10 will get this [insert record/ tickets/ other misc. prize here]!!" So I'd race to the phone and dial the radio station number about a zillion times in a row. These were the quaint times before redial (which would have helped) and adding an extra 3 digits to even local calls (which would have slowed me down).
At any rate, here's a short list of some of the things I won, at least the ones I remember:
1) Movie tickets to The Fog (which was, I think, rated R so the movie tickets went to my sister).
2) A George Harrison album.
3) A KISS album.
4) A Snow White prize package, complete with Snow White movie tickets and a commemorative Snow White plate. I think there was a T shirt in there too, if I remember right.
5) Tickets to a Rick Springfield concert. I went to this with my father. I might have been a little older for this one, but not by much. I think it was at the Baltimore civic center. Everyone held up their lighters and screamed a lot. I was thrilled! | | |
| I'm back to selling paintings on eBay.
This is sort of good. And sort of not good. The good part is when they sell for a decent amount. Then I am happy. The bad part is the middle of the auction, when they just drift there, unloved, unsearched, unnoticed.
I have a site statistic subscription thing that tells me all kinds of information -- way more than I need to know -- about when people look at my auctions, what state they're from, what city. Whether they look at an auction more than once. As I said, more information than I probably need.
When a painting gets a bid, I have my computer set up to ding a little ding sound. A shame I can't have customized dings to the enormity of the bid! It will ding the same ding for a measly $1 increment as it will for meeting a reserve. (If only I could have a triumphant, celebratory un-ordinary sound for meeting a reserve!) The joyous clanging of cathedral bells, for example!)
Ah, well, while I might sound a little gloomy, I am writing this in the middle of the auction cycle - approx the 5th day in the midst of 10 day auctions. In other words, all should improve. Maybe. Meanwhile I'll continue to work on my commission and try to not pay any attention to my computer's silence. | | |
| Sigh. It's been a long time -- a really, really long time. However, I'm back!
It's been an awful few weeks -- a sudden death in the family (my mother-in-law) and some other major stresses. However, some of the stresses are slowly climbing out of major stress status to minor stress status. And, hey, I went to traffic court yesterday for my speeding ticket and has a $300+ ticket reduced to $57! Woohoo! Plus, weird me, I love going to court. For anything. (I was positively ecstatic a few years ago when I had jury duty for a week!) It's just fascinating -- all of the little stories, the formality of it, the suits, the robes!
Anyway, I'm back -- now off to read my subscriptions! | | |
| I'm back, whee!
Ha! Such cheer! Coming back at first was highly depressing. The contrast between a place where the sand is soft and warm water swirls around one's ankles and the air smells of pine and salt water to a place where the streets are clogged with cars and lined with the flat glassy faces of strip malls was, well, not good. However, I'm adjusting.
And I have pictures! A marsh:
And this weird double sun effect in the sky (picture taken of the view of the sky over the roof of the house where we were staying on the last day we were there.) I'd just finshed reading Oryx and Crake (which I'll babble on more about at some point, I think) so the two sun effect had a kind of apocalyptic feel to it.
Anyway, more soon!
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