So I'm not sure if we were expected to have a post this week. Sadly, even if I did have pictures I wouldn't have the software to put them here. I wanted to take pictures at Thanksgiving but there weren't many opportunities, I decided I'd rather join in the festivities than photograph them. But I decided Christmas will be better because it's at my house and whatnot. But Thanksgiving was good, New Jersey was good. I will be back at school Sunday so that's positive. I still have a horrible cough unfortunately but they said that can last up to two weeks after the sickness is gone. But yup. Hopefully everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and a good break. Sadly, even though my break was extended - it didn't feel like a break at all. My real break didn't even feel relaxing. But there are only 2 more weeks of classes, finals and then we have a month off. I can't believe Christmas is only a month away, wow. It's going by so quickly.

Sadly I do not have a post or picture this week. I am at home sick :( I am working on getting better though. It's going fairly well... ish. I still don't know when I'm coming back to school though. But I guess we will see. Hopefully everyone else is feeling healthy! :)

hi! so I am going to conference this weekend so that's exciting. but my blog post is going to be random this week. I am looking into a photographer for my paper, I've been looking. because since my adventures in sports I decided I wanted to write on a famous sports photographer. except that seems harder to find than I anticipated. there are some names I'm finding but it's hard to find more than one source on them. some of them shoot for sports illustrated but I don't know if that really makes them famous. I feel like it's harder to become famous as a sports photographer, it's a different kind of photography. most of them are males too, which I guess isn't a surprise. but if anyone has any suggestions? or I guess I will just keep looking. but next week I think I am going to shoot pictures at dance and at the basketball game. everyone really liked my dance pictures. I wish I had some to put up but I forgot to convert them to jpeg :( I feel like it's such a process to do that sometimes. but they all really liked them and they told me I should bring my camera more often and take pictures whenever I wanted and they'd put them in the slideshow too. yay! it's a step in the right direction I guess. but yup. we will see. so sunday will be core and monday will be the game. maybe with a few dance pictures at half time. that might work, haha.

So these are just some of my pictures from RAW Monday night. Sadly, I didn't bring my photo camera because I called ahead of time and they said cameras with detachable lens were not allowed. However, they didn't even check my bag when I went in so I totally could have brought it. I'm not sure it would have made a difference though, the lighting was really bad. It was very red for some reason and smoky because of the pyrotechnics. But I did have my regular camera and I got some good ones of John Cena :) These are just a few in general, I posted more on Facebook but it was a lot of fun. We talked about how that I could be taking official pictures someday because there was one guy with two cameras on his arm/neck and I was like whoa that would be so cool - he was right next to the ring and everything. But then I noticed that all of the staff around the ring - video, photography, etc, anything were all male. The only female staff I saw at all were the EMS people that took one of the wrestlers out on a stretcher. I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence - I doubt it. It's really upsetting though. And I was talking to people about it and they're like well females in the WWE are not valued as much as males. The Divas are objectified and whatnot. But I was also thinking that maybe it's for safety reasons? They do come out of the ring a lot and they wouldn't want weak women around them. I don't know. Either way it's upsetting because that would be so exciting. But we will see. I don't know what sports pictures I'm taking this week, it's hard because there's a gap between fall/winter sports and right now there's only the playoffs so we'll see. But RAW was definitely fun :) and YAY John Cena