Diana Rajchel » photography http://blog.dianarajchel.com a sense of humor,a sense of honor,a sense of the absurd,a sense of the Divine Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:47:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SQUEE! http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/04/29/squee/ http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/04/29/squee/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:32:03 +0000 di http://blog.dianarajchel.com/?p=581 I am now the proud owner of a Canon Powershot S90. I know it’s a point and shoot, but dammit, it’s my point and shoot!

SQUEE!

]]> http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/04/29/squee/feed/ 0 Happy St. Patrick’s Day http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/ http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:47 +0000 di http://blog.dianarajchel.com/?p=471 Silhouette in the Gurthrie Window

Thought I’d post this fun shot from when Mike and I went to the Guthrie in January.

Today is the best – or worst – day to live in Minneapolis/Saint Paul, because if there’s a bar, people are at it, 11 am guaranteed. Thankfully a beer company makes mass transit free in this city this one day of the year, and another one does us the same favor on New Year’s Eve. To be honest, I don’t care for it.

I enjoy a good libation myself, but when the only point is excess consumption, it’s a huge turnoff. If you can’t do the crazy fun stuff without the liquor, there’s something wrong with you. Period.

]]> http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/feed/ 0 Hey! A photo of mine is in Metblogs! http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/02/21/hey-a-photo-of-mine-is-in-metblogs/ http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/02/21/hey-a-photo-of-mine-is-in-metblogs/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:28:18 +0000 di http://blog.dianarajchel.com/?p=413 Yes, that very photo is on my flickr stream. Yes, I did give them permission to use it – and they actually did! This comes right when I needed a little bit of a morale boost. I had some mildly frustrating feedback from yesterday’s Doctor Who meetup.1

I have no idea whether Minneapolis Metblogs has a huge following or not, but this kind of made my day.

  1. If you don’t join us on our side of the bar after showing up an hour after the roll begins, we can’t really know you’re there for the meetup, and explain that yes, you can share tables with others at the meetup.
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]]> http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2009/09/17/visual-meditation-stop-cauldron-and-rose-petals/feed/ 0 My “magical blog life” http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2009/09/15/my-magical-blog-life/ http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2009/09/15/my-magical-blog-life/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:00:51 +0000 di http://blog.dianarajchel.com/?p=298 self portraitI get asked how I find time for all these blogs, and it’s often assumed I get up every morning and typity-type a fresh blog.

Not exactly true, but it’s cute that so many people think that.

Here’s what really happens:

About one weekend a month, I go nuts writing blog posts. I troll down my blog feeds. I pull from a little cigar box where I dumb post-its with blog post ideas. I surf my own flickr stream and flickr creative commons for blogging ideas. I grab from stacks of magazines flagged with blogging ideas, clothing for Fat Chic, interesting tidibits on perfume and cooking for Magickal Realism, spiritually relevant stuff for here. I blog until I can’t stand blogging anymore.

And then, too often, I still fall behind.

What I’m trying these days is a simple schedule: I get up as early as I can for myself to, do my morning pages per the Artist’s Way program I’m on, write a page of the book I’m writing at the moment and then write one blog post each for the four blogs I write for. It’s a bit excessive, but there is a payoff in the end albeit a very small one. And if I could consolidate down to two blogs, I probably would, but I’m just not seeing the possibility right now.

I’ve become a compulsive photographer in the last year, too, and much of that is blog fodder as well.

Since I’m trying to have two micro-careers at once, one as a writer and one as a perfumer, I’m doing a juggling act by taking very, very small bites off of my many projects, masticating those bits as thoroughly as I can, and then moving on to the next steps. Things don’t get done quickly, but they do get done as thoroughly as I’m able to do them.

So there you have it: I find time for all that blogging in lost weekends and small chunks.

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This is in part being used to experiment with my new blog format. But also – pretty blossoms!

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Snapped this last night when my sweetie and I were greeted by a cat at a neighbor’s window. My night photography…is a skill mastery still in progress.

I’m absolutely a dog person and not a cat person – however, I know there are folks out there who aren’t just cat people, they’re LOLCat people. I’ve licensed this photo on flickr Creative Commons Share Alike – so have at!

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