Saturday, July 30, 2011

365: My first year as faculty

My glorious and divalicious friend Brandi is doing a 365 project documenting her daily life from age 29 to age 30. I commented on how cool that idea was and she suggested that I document our first year in Chico. As we had already been here for a week and I didn't want to start off on the wrong foot (e.g. starting late) I decided to take that idea on with a twist. I was going to document my first year as a faculty member at CSU-Chico by taking a picture a day starting August 16th (my official start date at school), that way I could mentally prepare for the task and give myself a little time trying out different iPhone apps so that I could take some jazzy photos using different effects in case a day's subject matter wasn't quite jazzy enough on its own. I decided in order to kill two birds with one stone I would publish my photos on the blog so that I would have fresh content every day! Some days it might be just the picture with only a small caption, but I'm guessing on many days there will be a full-fledged story to go with the picture. If I have other stories or musings I will post those too, but with this project I'll at least be giving you something new every day! It's a big undertaking to post every day but I feel like I take millions of photos every day anyway, so it's just an extra step to publish them here! Wish me luck on my endeavors and I hope to share the next year with you!

Here's a little taste to get you excited (or not):


Our local grocery store has an awesome bulk section. They even have LIVE bees producing honey! Ange and I thought this was the COOLEST.

5 comments:

Laurie said...

I think this is a great idea! I am looking forward to a new post each day. And I LOVE the picture for today!

Leslie Reed said...

100 days in a row was killer so we'll see!! Although just a picture isn't hard to do! Maybe I'll do a post for every day at school this year and get Emily to do it too!

Brandi said...

Yay!!!! One thing you might consider is also storing them on a website that also easily prints the books. My friend who is on his third round of this prints them at the end of each year and has a nice printed record of the years he did it. I'm planning on doing that.

Lindsay Briggs said...

Good idea Brandi! I was going to upload them via Flickr just because it is easy, but I'll have to see if they have a easy book making function!

PBJdreamer said...

it is cool!