I Am so Busy

But most of the stuff I'm doing is fun.  I'm going to the Seattle Art Museum with my best friend today.  Than doing more job searching.  And meeting another friend for dinner tonight.  Then Saturday and Sunday is the U District street fair.  It should be fun, though a bit bittersweet, since last year I went on my first date there and then the guy moved to California a week later.  Oh, and I need to contact the people I'll be renting from and figure out some stuff there.  This is the second day of sunshine! And It's supposed to last until tomorrow.  Then, rain just in time for the street fair.  Whatever, I'll go anyway.

Oh yeah, the world's supposed to be ending too, in case you haven't heard.  May 21st to be exact.  It must be true.  This guy named Harold Camping predicted it.  Sure, he was wrong about the world ending in 1994, but he wouldn't dare to make that mistake twice, right? Yeah, I don't believe it either.  After all, everyone knows that the world is ending in 2012.

That Really Just Happened

I was just sitting on my bed wasting time with online riddles when I should be filling out a job application.  I'd like to emphasize that I was not eating anything.  And then my tooth just randomly got chipped.  I just happened to rub my tongue against it and a piece fell off of the top.  It's about one-third of the width of the tooth gone right out of the middle of the top.  It's not a whole lot, but that is so bizarre.  And now my tongue is going to be all raw since I can't stop running it over that spot.  It's not like my tooth was rotten or anything disgusting like that.  I brush my teeth at least twice a day and I've never had a cavity.  I just don't understand how this would happen.

Stuff I Like

This post will mainly consist of me geeking out.  This is basically a list of things I want and things that I think are good ideas.  So without any further ado.

I pretty much adore Alice in Wonderland.

Remember this necklace? I still want it.

How cool is this ice cube tray?

I can't even begin to tell you how badly I want this!

Its'a me, Mario.  Oh, and Toad too, but I want the Mario one more.

This might be a sign that a play too much Mario Kart. Blue shell!

Tauntaun sleeping bag!

I've wanted a Goomba plushie for quite a while.

My newest pet peeve is when people think that they're a gamer because they play Angry Birds.  And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get a job now.  A little over-confidence never hurt anyone.  Actually, it probably has, especially when it's a guy being overconfident about his ability to hit on women who have big strong boyfriends.

Photo Retouching

I applied for a job as a photo retoucher.  I have the skills to do a good job of it, but I am not of fan of making people look fake.  In my opinion, Photoshop is great for correcting bad lighting and stuff like that, but I can't stand in when people use it to supposedly "improve skin" and they end up completely removing all of their skin texture.  Seriously, in real life people's skin has texture.  I can't stand all these Internet tutorials that are basically about how to make someone look like some sort of creepy android trying to pass for a human.  Here's a pretty extreme example of what I'm talking about.

 There is really nothing wrong with this photo, but the retoucher is thinking,

"Oh noes! Freckles! Quick, to the unreality maker!"



And then this nonsense happens.  I don't know who in their right mind would think

that this looks better.  They basically just blurred her entire face and removed all of

the texture from everything except her hat.

Unfortunately, there is quite a large job market for people to make other people look fake, or supposedly "perfect".  And the other big problem I have with most photo retouchers is that they constantly make people's skin lighter.  Like they'll take a perfectly fine picture of a woman who has darker skin, remove all the texture from it, and then lighten her skin until she looks Caucasian.  And then she's pretty, according to them.  Newsflash people, there are plenty of beautiful women of all nationalities.  It's not like you can't be pretty unless your skin is white.  That is just not true and incredibly racist.  Haven't you seen Megan Fox?  I'm a straight female and even I can say that she is smokin' hot.  Yet, some photo retouchers feel the need to lighten her skin too.  I just don't understand what is wrong with people.

Anyway, without any further ado, here are two photos I retouched.

I did not make this girl's skin lighter.  I just corrected the lighting of the entire photo,

so this is her actual skin color.  The other thing I did was make her eyes look

more lively by adding a little reflected light to them.

I diminished the appearance of this guy's scar.  Mostly just because people don't like their own scars.  I didn't remove any of his skin texture.  I actually sharpened it a bit.  And I removed the dark circles under his eyes a little bit, while still keeping the photo looking realistic.