June 17, 2005 - What, me? Busy?   Shot twice with Robert Kemery. The shoot in May, though we got some great shots, really opened my eyes to how out of shape I was and I resolved to fix that. By the time we shot again almost a month later I was feeling and looking a lot better, at least I think so. We'll see how it goes this month. For this latest shoot with Kemery we hired in the talents of Neil Roth, a body painter from Akron, who made me a bastard child of either the Simpsons or an Oompa Loompa, depending on how exactly I was lit. I hadn't been entirely painted like that before and it was better than I'd expected it to be. It added a new dynamic to what we were shooting and I'm proud to have had the opportunity. He and I are planning on shooting again soon as we work well together and turn out consistantly good shots, so look for another update soon. Possibly with more paint.   I also FINALLY got my disk of pictures from a shoot I did with Jeff Klaum in March of 2004. This is really not his normal operating schedule, but there's a huge long story that ends with "And now the pics are up" so I'll cut to the chase and show them off without the whole story. They're a year old but they're in the "Current Work" section anyway, I'm sure you'll forgive me.   April 19, 2005 - 2005's First Update   Put up some pics from my shoot with Medea and Raphael Class that took place in February, along with some newer things from an end of March shoot with David Vickers. As you may have noticed I completely lost my momentum to arrange the site to adjust for the crowdedness. Is anyone really surprised by this?   January 19th, 2005 - That's better.   I took a two hour nap and got up to try this again. I hate leaving things unfinished when I know it looks unprofessional. Turns out my main pic was pulling from my D drive instead of the server. That looks great, doesn't it? "Wow, that model's an idiot. Who let her run a website?" After some careful line by line evaluation of the sourcecode I noticed something with a .css that I'd never noticed before, and after opening up the mentioned spreadsheet file I realized what was going on. The girl who designed the site before me put in that .css as some sort of override. I've heard of spreadsheets but I had no idea what they were or how to use them. As it is I've adjusted the existing file to bring all the pages in line with what I want them to look like, and the scrollbar is fixed. I feel more than slightly like a monkey unconsciously typing Shakespeare as I have no idea what it is that I'm doing, only that if I replace all the 'Verdana's with 'Book Antiqua's and all the '8pt' with '10pt' and the '#003399' with '#FF0000' that it'll do what I want, and that's what I've done. Quite a learning experience and I'm grateful I had it.   So that's fixed, at least. The main pain in my ass. The secondary pain, while still annoying to design but easier to implement, is that the page looks dreadfully cluttered, especially the Archive sections. I'd wanted the Archive to look something like a scrapbook but the frame wasn't cooperating with my creative table structure. So the pages are stretched (at least by my 800x600 viewing) and the whole thing looks a mess. I chalk that up to the fact that I was working on no sleep and little caffeine with a self-imposed noon on 1/18 deadline. As it was I didn't get the fucked up version uploaded until about 7pm so I missed it anyway and I hope not too many people saw it the way it was. My plans for the rest of the week are to decide on and enact a more streamlined thumbnail system. Please accept my apologies for my inadequacies as a webmaster and try to enjoy the pictures for what they are until I get the site under control.   January 18th, 2005 - SITE OVERHAUL Suffice it to say that 2004 was a very, very bad year for me. But I intend to make 2005 a better one and to get this year started, I redesigned the site again. Out with the old, in with the new. I've been doing a little bit of runway work for Zombie Apparel out of Akron OH, which amuses me when I'm not sitting at home being a housefrau. Another new development is that I've signed non-exclusively with Elegant Images Modeling. This guarantees that I'll have fresh pics every month or so, though the agency pics are probably a little more glamour than the fetish fun we're used to. I'm not going to be able to shoot much more fetish-type stuff until I get some new clothes. I've been shooting with the same basic closet contents for about three years now. This is very distressing and makes for boring photo sets. I'm still shooting fairly regularly with Sean Sisler whose help and friendship have been invaluable.   I've been working on this site for three days now, anywhere from eight to sixteen hours a day. And now that it's done I don't like it at all. I did it in white Book Antiqua or Verdana font with red links. That's how it looks now while I type it, but once I upload it, it becomes navy blue bold something or other and I don't know why. I'm sick of looking at it. I was so excited to FINALLY be done and FINALLY see how it looked up and running and, yeah, it runs and I had far less errors with my filenames now that I've tried to convert to some sort of filing system, but... what the fuck is wrong with the code? It's almost as if it's embedded into the site itself. Some of the pages come out right and some don't. The index page has the red scrollbar I wanted but the others have either blue or the usual grey. It just looks, completely wrong. And when I download the messed up pages to see what the problem is with the code, when I open them, they're in perfect shape, just like I uplaoded them. So what gives?   Like I said, I've been working on this since about midnight last night, and it's almost 7:30 pm and I haven't slept. So if I've given you the address lately and you're here for the first time, please forgive the...disaster, I guess. "Mess" doesn't begin to cover it. I'm going to take a nap and see about getting some of my more savvy friends to poke at it, maybe they can see where the problem is. *yawn* Sorry.   July 12th, 2004 - Sigh. Times, they are a-changin'. In case you haven't noticed, I've had a slip of protocol and am now doing nude work. I know you're all terribly disappointed but it's not like nobody saw this coming. I still have two shoots I don't have disks for yet and I put two new ones up today, I hope to put the two new shoots up as soon as I have the disks which I hope to get sometime in the next two weeks, though the update will take place the next time I feel motivated to do so. Another reason for my reluctance is that I'm hoping one of my very dear friends in the UK will take on the vast project of overhauling the site to make it more current. Here's hoping. I must also inform you with no small amount of regret that The Mission Boutique is no longer having fashion shows, so my days as a runway model have been put on hold indefinitely until I can align myself with another group. *sniffle* Try to imagine my vast anguish. In the meantime, enjoy the new eye candy.   February 18, 2004 - Yeesh. So anyway, yeah. I had the site redesigned in October and haven't really touched it since because none of the colors I have match, nor any of the fonts, and it was basically me being a chicken. But I forced myself to at least try to update and it wasn't quite as hard as I'd originally thought. New pics are in for 2004, I've got two more shoots I don't have photos from yet as well as several shoots in the works. You may have noticed the slight change in content, namely the fact that I'm topless. These things happen. I have a love/hate relationship with my breasts and thought maybe if I saw them through the camera lens looking nice I'd like them better. So far it seems to be working. A lot of shots I have in mind seem to call for being topless, and an increasing number of those ideas involve my being bottomless as well. At this point in my life nothing I do surprises me, though your surprise levels may vary. Stay tuned.