OK, OK, you've convinced me to not give up. Also, I'm not totally nuts, but maybe I'm a bit of a brat. No, you didn't say that, or even imply it, but I probably am. Rejection stings, and I know as a writer that there's more rejection than acceptance, but this was a bit of a different situation. Also, I went out and took a picture that I thought was what they were looking for, based on past winners. Oh, well.

This month's theme is 'toys,' and I have no idea what to do for this one. I took a couple shots of my robot and Tigger figures that I have here in my cubicle, but I didn't love them. I have some stuffed animals at home; maybe I can come up with something interesting with them. The point is to stretch oneself, right?

I'm a bit bummed that my pic didn't make the final 50 for the November boston.com RAW contest. The theme was silhouettes, and I was rather proud of the pic I took to enter:



Now take a look at the pix they chose for the final 50, and tell me that it's not just sour grapes. I really do think my pic is better than a lot of the ones they chose. Is it me? Am I just being a brat? Is my taste that different from theirs? They have a different judge each month, and they're all photo pros.

*sigh*

I think I'm giving up on entering this. It just hurts too much when they choose a pic taken in a car wash over my pretty tree.

Since all of my local friends were either sick or otherwise engaged, I went to the movies by myself. No biggie; I do that all the time if I really want to see something, and nobody is available to go with me. I had a pair of free passes given to me by a coworker, so now I can go see a second movie for free. There was a preview for an upcoming George Clooney movie that caught my eye...

The theatre complex was pretty busy, which surprised me. I had to park pretty far out in the lot. It's a nice Saturday afternoon, and who knows how many more of those we'll get this year? The theatre itself was about half full.

The movie was fun, quite enjoyable. I had a good time, and laughed a lot. It's funny but not stupid, and George, Ewan, and Jeff Bridges were all up to their usual level. I'm not really a fan of Kevin Spacey, but he played an unlikeable character, so that worked for me. There were some fun in-jokes (Ewan MacGregor's character didn't know what a Jedi was), and the flashbacks full of New Age hokeyness made me giggle quite a bit. I know people who believe all this stuff. I may be a Witch, but I have a healthy sense of skepticism. ;)

Plus, the goats were cute. Thumbs up for The Men Who Stare at Goats.

I saw another preview for a flick that I think is called Pirate Radio, and that looks to be fun as well. Also, Jack Davenport (Norrington from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is in it, and I think I have a crush on him. I don't know if it's his voice, the accent, or what, but my antennae go up whenever I see him in something. (Don't worry, George is still #1)

Lest you think I didn't get out and enjoy the nice weather today, let me assure you that I took a nice walk down to the library, where I got out ellen_datlow's Poe (which I plan to buy when I have actual spending money, someday), and Douglas Clegg's Isis, a supernatural novella set in Cornwall. Sounds spine-tingly. I took the long way home, enjoying the sunshine and nifty cloud formations. Ooh, and I was treated to a lovely sunset on the ride home from the theatre. Great, swirly cirrus clouds lit in pink and purple.

I'm hoping that we get a nice sunset tomorrow, too; this month's contest on boston.com's RAW is silhouettes, and the photo must be taken this month. I have a tree in mind that would make a nice silhouette against a sunset.

The October contest over at boston.com RAW is pink. The first photo of mine that came to my mind was this one from last November:



I like it because it shows something vibrant and alive surrounded by death, which suits the theme nicely (pink being the symbol of breast cancer awareness month). I hope the judge agrees. :)

I didn't enter last month, because I couldn't think of any of my photos that would fit, and I didn't get around to taking one (the theme was "labor"). Ah, well. My photo from August didn't make the final cut, which peeved me a bit because some of the ones that did seemed pretty pedestrian to me, but taste is subjective. None of the pix I voted for made the final three, either, which just goes to show that my taste differs from the majority of the people who are active on that site. Not sour grapes, just reality. ;)

Wish me luck!