I have been a bit concerned about my financial situation this summer. I’ve managed to have some freelance web design lined up because just maintaining sites isn’t gonna cut it. I’ve got some writing projects lined up. I think that’s amazing! Diasporavibe Gallery asked me to write up some promotional stuff on some of their artists and make slides of artists’ work. They also asked me to get them a proposal for a catalogue project where they’ll need images, text and layout work done. Nice work if you can get it.

My cousin’s daughter is in town for the American Black Film Festival. I only met her for the first time at my Uncle’s (her grandfather) funeral. She and I have similar interests so that’s really kewl. She has a graphic design degree and wants to study film/video at NYU. Anyway, I was talking to her while walking in South Beach to grab a bite to eat, that Miami New Times was interested in me freelancing some articles on art and culture but that I hadn’t heard from them in a couple months. Well, I got home, checked my email, and there was the email to give a call to the person that spoke to me about it. Sure enough, they wanted me to write something and it fit exactly one of my interests. I have two weeks or so to put something together. This will be nice. I haven’t written for a newspaper in a while but I’m excited.

Okay, now the bad news. The film in my camera jammed and I lost a roll. The counter kept advancing but the film wasn’t in the spool correctly. Oh well… I did get some of the cycling pics to come out okay. And, some of the flora images. The ones I want to examine more closely are those I took with a point-and-shoot underwater camera. I was just hoping for some blurred, out of focus, unbalanced color type stuff. Scanning begins tomorrow.

Oh! I forgot to mention my cooking adventure for today. I decided a few days ago to buy some fresh peaches and make a cobbler. And did I! Have mercy it is GOOOOOOOD! I took my time for everything letting it cool. I couldn’t wait. I scooped up some, put in a bowl with a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream and just about licked the bowl afterwards… :-Þ~~