Monthly Archives: January 2008

I just finished with a good two and a half hours of listing the shots of the Heinz Chapel Project in my online shop http://dianaclarion.etsy.com/, then making the interconnections with the gallery at my web site http://www.fnordnet.net/~dclarion/. So, after about seven weeks, it’s finally real. I guess you could say that I take a little pride in the finished work; whether or not that pride is deserved is another story. I’ll keep the project up as my screensaver, anyway.

I’ve got the first six HCP shots formatted for presentation; twenty-three more to go.  I’ve given up hope of ever selling a print.  The Etsy moos spent all their money freezing embryos in order to have six kids each, and don’t have enough going on to appreciate this stuff, anyway.  So, I’ve formatted the shots for use as “desktop wallpaper”; perhaps somebody will want one at $2 a crack.

Between shots, there’s enough to do.  I was bitched out of the closet, then I was bitched out of the bed.  No matter what I do, I’m a target; even if I do nothing, I’m a target.  Perhaps, I can arrange the living room as an apartment within an apartment and keep to myself as much as possible.  I wish I could afford a small desk; moving this one through narrow doorways and around tight corners is not going to be fun.

I wish I could manage a small house, maybe a RealDoll.  I could pretend I had a decent life, I could pretend that I was loved.  There’s not enough time for any of it, Chertoff and his RealID have seen to that.  I don’t see any success in repealing the ill-gotten legislation, so I don’t see much of a chance of living past May.  I want only a little comfort and peace between now and then.

So, I’ll get back to formatting, maybe another six before retiring.  I’ll unveil the whole thing at once; Drama “R” Us.  I just wish it was worth something.  I just wish something, anything, I did had worth.

Shooting is done; I called it finished last week.  Now to the GIMP work.  Resize, crop, fight back the tears.  Rotate, resize, fight back more tears.  I just love the moos at the Etsy shop:  “Your pictures are so great!  I can’t wait to see more (so I can look to my heart’s content on your dime)!”  Perhaps you morons would like to foot my bill?  $350 and counting.  That’s my breakfast money, you twats.

Why do I even bother?

I could tell from the sound of the small-calibre weapons’ fire.  Why am I alive in this new year?  Why?