3/26/06 10:44pm

So i decided. the gilbert twins do in fact own my face. these girls are awesome and if you dont know them already you should highly consider giving them a try sometime.

I am so tired from doing all these little photo shoots with people and im ready to be done with this project but it is so much fun. i call it networking at its finest. for those of you reading this although i dont think there are many of you, i will have the image vs reality series up somewhere on the internet at some point later on in the week for all to see and enjoy.

this week is gonna be crazay and of course ive got severe senioritis and am completely incapable of doing anything im supposed to do. geez whats my problem.

thats all for now. will you go to prom with me and dance and dance and dance and dance and dance and dance?

3/25/06 1:16 am

Here's to another weekend during which i will try to be productive and probably fail miserably.

Spring break is a week away.

I cant believe this fact.

Now to clear up a few common misconceptions about yours truly, Angelodundee:

*So about the alcohol. A lot of people think im like the freakin president of the society of anti-acohol or something. i dont know why people associate this so much with me. i suppose it started when all my friends started drinking several years ago, i guess i overreacted, but contrary to popular belief, i find the whole thing to be no big deal now. it is so commonplace, and i have no problems with it, it is a personal choice whether or not you choose to partake in that kind of thing, and who i am to try to prevent you from doing so, and better yet, who are you for judging me for not doing so? this shouldnt be made a big deal and i feel like even writing about it now is making it into a bigger deal than it needs to be, but i just want people to realize how i feel and accept me as normal and not push me asside like they're trying to shelter me from the world or something.

Why do i choose not to drink? i have my reasons, but honestly do you really even care? my most pansy-assed reason is that it is seriously truthfully not in my best interest medically to do so. my blood is thinner than water as is, and i might as well call one of my free-time leisure activities bleeding, i do it so much, so further thinning my blood with alcohol prob wouldn't help this. secondly i just dont like putting junk in my body. i shy away from a lot of medicine because i just try not to become too dependent on unnatural things to stabilize myself, sounds weird i know but its true. finally, i just dont really want to. i reserve the right to change my mind at any give time, but i just dont really need anything else to make my life more complicated. lets be honest, if you know me, im retarded enough without the extra killing of brain cells. i can do that just fine on my own thank you very much.

*I swear i'm not a bitch: ok yes i get in spirited arguments/discussions sometimes. but you have to understand that girls are just that way; we live to blab each other's heads of with our own judgements and reasonings and opinions of other girls...its just how we operate. its a very unfortunate thing.

*Im trying not to be so stuck on myself, i promise: it has recently come to my attention that i am in fact a complete and total distgusting narsicist. i hate this about myself but i know its true. i cant have too much hubris or i might kill my mom and have sex with my dad (woah ok for those of you not in college english that was totally and edipus reference that has no valid or true pertinence to my actual life please dont freak out or send concerned emails). but seriously, pride is a dangerous thing, and no one likes someone whos stuck on herself. therefore i resolve to try to no longer be "that girl."

*I am not a kick-ass photographer: ok yes, compared to the average disposable camera snapshot in the poorly lit back section of a local restaurant my pictures look pretty good. but for the most part i am typically displeased with my work, it may look good to the average viewer, but i know i have a lot of work to do before i can even consider myself somewhat of a "photographer", geez if you can even call me that.

*I am not a model: geez people when you say stuff like this, you are only feeding the fire of my point number 3 (im stuck on myself). is that what you really want to do? is it really?cmon...until i grow about 7 inches taller, lose about 20 pounds, get some serious rhinoplasty and reconstructive surgery, i dont think ill be entering that lucrative field

*I apparently am intimidating...this is very false: once you get to know me youll see im transparent. im an open book. ill tell you everything you want to know and then about two stops past what you dont want to know. im ackward, flawed, spacey, and a little weird. i eat funny. i always get in and out of my bed on the right side. i cant dance. i have ocd and vertigo at times. i sleep with a teddy bear every night that has seasonal pajamas. i loveeeee cookie cake. the most exciting day of my life was when i got this computer. i take pictures of everything. i have a car named hans. i like whales. i mean cmon, you call that intimidating?

Well, as you can see, in true angie style i spent this whole time talking about myself (see point number three), and the world is NOT a better place for my having done so. Oh well, a girl can only do so much at a time, especially when its almost 2 am. : )

for those who were wondering hot haigwood pics are here
http://www.haigwoodstudios.com
click on albums
click on portraits
click on test
(skip the first page i look absolutely horrid)
sorry theres not really and easier way to direct you the html doesnt work!

3/21/06 9:16pm

Angie's Secret to Having a Good Time and Meeting Cool New People You Will Love:

1. Pretend you're an amazing photographer
2. Get a myspace and sell yourself to the public
3. Come up with an idea for a crazy series to do
4. Request random people you kinda know to be models
5. Let the fun begin!

This project is a lot of work but it is so much fun! I've enjoyed getting to talk with all the people involved and in many cases going to their houses (and their bedrooms, haha). And i'm actually quite pleased with the results of most of the shoots, i can definitely see the progress being made as a result of my internship. yaya!

The picture of me above is what happens when you are a model for molly's ap portfolio, you get to look like a crackwhore and wear not a lot of clothing and have intimate moments with people you aren't actually intimate with. fun times. too bad im horrible at smoking cigarettes. i guess though if i had to pick a thing to be bad at thats a good one. i just hate that things such as that reinforce people's views of me as a total naive little girl. oh well, i should learn to embrace it.

Things I Thank God For Today:
1. Chocolate chip cookies
2. starting over with friends
3. the value of self advertising for getting a prom date (see: me tomorrow)
4. that i dont actually smoke
5. swim team bonds: when you've already seen pretty much the entire Angie Show, it makes provocative modeling a lot easier
6. Hellogoodbye's "Will You Go To Prom With Me?" that songs kinda messed up and it makes me very happy.

oh and b/c i am a true narcisist, copy and paste this link to see me trying to look cool.
http://www.haigwoodstudios.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?pagenum=2&action=viewphotos&size=thumbnails&thumbeventid=7307&categories=no&keywords2=no&groupid=0&bw=true&sep=true&ckw=false

3/19/06 7:31 pm

These people are pretty much the shit and thats all i have to say about that.

this weekend was one of those weekends that you look back on and think "nothing happened this weekend, in fact this weekend wasn't really good at all" but at the same time you can't help but say that it was essentially awesome. i guess for me it was a kinda productive weekend. i worked. i took pics. i sat down for a second. it was a pretty good time. i think im finally realizing how close spring break and thus the end of school and the end of all this is and while its scaring the hell out of me its a good feeling.
*Angie's List of Concerns!*
(growing daily)
+CE research paper i sure haven't written
+Image vs. Reality series and getting it done well
+My portfolio in general
+AP Econ
+My severe lack of realistic prom date
+Where am i going next year?

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I hear the secrets that u keep
when you're talking in ur sleep

3/15/06 10:01pm

I have in the past been one of those people who doesnt like wearing a lot of makeup b/c i hope that i have some kind of natural beauty that by some miracle overrides all the aid cosmetics can provide, but after today i may have changed my mind. Its pretty amazing what 10 pounds of foundation and 3 layers of mascara can do, especially when applied by an awesome gay guy named davy. today i had my test shoot with haigwood for the rhs senior pics. it was so much fun. i hope in my next life i get to be a supermodel, in fact im looking foward to it. its gonna be hot.

ok, and seriously, im not trying to be conceited or anything or brag or whatever this may sound like, but what happened to me? did i start wearing a sign that says "hey im legal" ? or did my face suddenly morph into something slightly appealing? im not sure but guys are basically randomly falling out of the sky these days...unfortunately most of them are at least 7 years older than me but i swear its kinda rediculous how many i've come across lately...if only i could find a freaking prom date. i dont eat scabs bitches.

3/12/06 10:09 pm
It is going so fast.


I'm freaking out.


Only 3 weeks until spring break.


And then its nothing.


Its going to be over like that.

Did I mention I'm freaking out?


Like today i went over to ash's house. it was her mom's bday this weekend. i can remember going to her mom's bday dinner and it pretty much seems like it was yesterday, definitely not a freaking year ago.

Meanwhile, im running around like crazy working on this image vs. reality thing, and unfortunately due to my lack of photography skills, most of the shots are leaving a lot to be desired. : (

I am also wondering who the heck is crazy enough that i can convince them to go to prom with me. its sad that i have to scrape around roswell high scrumaging for some desperate soul who wants to go to prom so badly he'll go with anyone...it mistakingly got overconfident and thought i was better than that. guess i was wrong.

no worries, i dont eat scabs bitches : )

last night i went to a wedding for internship and it was a lot of fun. makes you wanna get married just to have the really beautiful wedding. the groom and several of the groomsmen were marines...oh geez men in uniforms.

of course by the end of the night, despite the fact that im supposed to be working, i get hit on/asked to dance by the 30-something random guy from chicago that suddenly is aware im only in high school and at the mention of that fact quickly finds himself another predator.

highlight of the night: grandpa. this man was so old and could barely walk, but anytime a pretty lady walked by, you can bet he'd be out of his seat faster than adam sandler on speed and he'd follow her around smoozin it up.

oh weddings sure do bring out the best in everyone.

i think i'll pencil our next wedding at the studio in on my calendar and consider it a new recreational hobby of mine.

[some pix for those of you who have missed out on my life since the last time i wrote]

3/11/06 12:54 am
things have been crazaaayyy...ayl, internship, school, college english research paper that is alluding me constantly, this huuuuuge image vs. reality photography series...its all making me feel like i'm living out of my car these days, and if you saw my car, you'd probably agree...currently you can find a straw hat, hedging shears, a bottle of sobe, a metro atlanta map, a roll of packing tape, and at least 3 textbooks inside, oh the insanity.

i sadly and reluctantly decided wednesday to not sign up for pottery classes for the next session b/c of the reasons mentioned in the previous paragraph. i'm still interested in and love it, definitely, but i have no energy left for it and its hard right now to devote the kind of time such a hobby deserves to it. its so weird b/c i have constantly taken for almost 5 years now...its just another thing thats over and wont come back to me or ever be the same again...another step toward the end if you will.

so tonight, i received cat calls while streaking across school property, burned my entire torso-length of skin off after using too much bengay, had a really really steamy shower (complete w/ eggs and questionable noises), got in an argument with a girl scout, played hockey in kroger, all the while alluding the police and not dying. just another friday night in roswell.

i bought a prom dress with my mom today. she says i should go even if i dont have a date. its true i do have a few options, but if you rule out people ive never actually talked to in person and guys who have children of their own, that pretty much rules out most of my options. oh well the dress is gorgeous. ill work on the date thing.

well goodnight all faithful readers. here's to drinking your own pee and being ok with it. im gonna go try to get the bengay taste out of my mouth, how it got there in the first place, im not quite sure.

3/2/06 10:05 pm

i played hookey today. it was fairly awesome. theres something about not going to school when you're supposed to that is simply gratifying. i promise i was productive though...i spent several hours taking a shot for my image vs. reality series im about to start (about which i am verrrry excited) and setting up stuff on my new laptop!!! I love this thing, unfortunately i am still very unfamiliar with how to work it as it is a mac and ive previously been a pc girl. i feel now as a mac owner, ipod lover, gap shopper, and jetta driver, if i could just get a job at starbucks and some seven jeans id be a modern-day yuppie. w00t.

tonight kelley and i burned her bathing suits and other stuff we were ready to literally and symbolically say goodbye to. Unfortunately i smell like crap and kelley came very close to burning her face off and i got massive dog crap on my shoe in the worst kind of way, but we feel better for it. the weather has been warmer lately which makes me think of spring and how time is moving fast and all the positive changes that occur as a result of the passage of time. i feel like in the past week or so a huge weight has been lifted off of me...im no longer in the waiting line, i dont feel like im waiting on anyone anymore except myself...im no longer mentally tied to anyone anymore. it feels good. i feel free to be myself.

i hope this weekend goes well. its ayl and the topic has something to do with relationships. i feel like we could all use a little help and guidance in this area right now, i just hope it doesnt bring up harsh feelings in the group...there seems to be a lot of that floating around these days.

as far as im concerned, not much is going on in the male relations department...i wish. but you know thses things come when you least expect it, like in the coffee shop in borders...haha kelley you always make me laugh.

some say that kelley may not be the best friend to me, but i dont really know what a best friend is. i mean if we really think about it no one can be a BEST friend all the time...all i know is kelley and i can pretty much read each other without speaking and we know what makes each other tick and we know each other so well that it just works. period. silence all the critics. you're just being bitchy.