I was bopping around town this morning and bumped into these recruitment
posters for St. Lawrence College. I shot the portraits, Utopia Communications
did the concept/design. These are now appearing on a bus shelter near you.

Then I filled my car up with gas, went in to the thingy to pay. There, in the
magazine rack, was a copy of MORE magazine. “Hey”, I said to myself, “I’ve
got a shot in that”. So I whipped out the trusty point and shoot, then and there,
and took a picture of the page with my shot on it.

That made me think: “Okay, today I’ll blog about making a living, not about shooting
crack addicts”. After all, it’s the whole “making a living” aspect of my days that affords
me the opportunity to pursue my personal work.

some shots from federal gov’t recruitment campaign

So I came home and started writing this. Then, taking a break, I went into my
backyard and found this bird.

It totally looked like a goner. Made me think (as if I need any encouragement): “What’s
the point? We’re all gonna end up like this”.

It still had a pulse, though, and was moving around a little bit. So I put it into a box, put
that box onto my woodpile. Thought when next I went to check on it, well, it’ll be dead.

Okay.

I just went out to look and, what’d you know, the sucker has revived and taken flight to
fight another day.

I feel better.