Hello fellow DA'ers!

Well, it certainly has been some time since I updated. And for good reason. Since I am in my senior year, I am taking my seminar for my major, which requires I write a 25 page research paper. I'm working on uncovering the vice ring in Portland, Oregon during the 1940s and 50s, and I've been spending much of my time in the microfilm department of the library and plowing threw autobiographies of people involved and trying to get a hold of those still alive. It's been insane. I'm nearly done though, and as I should be, it's due Thursday. Meanwhile finals are this week - one Tuesday, one Wednesday. I spent the week of Thanksgiving in California, so I lost a week of research there, but I did get to go to Disneyland! Oh, and I got engaged! So I'm in the beginning stages of planning a wedding!

I did just take a break to decorate for Christmas, and my wonderful fiance (*squee*) captured the image I just posted. I hope that my winter break will be filled with pin-ups.

But now it's back to work! Wish me luck!

-Janey

Hello, All!

Well, life has certainly been a roller coaster lately. I'm drowning in my research paper, I've been to two concerts (The Koffin Kats and the Phenomenauts), saw "The Rat Pack is Back" two nights in a row, did the corn maze, picked pumpkins, had one mid-term, wrote an essay on Lewis & Clark, and tomorrow Patrick and I heading Portland, spending the day in Portland, seeing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, then heading back the same night, throwing a Halloween bash, having breakfast the next day with my Aunt and Uncle who are visiting from California, and I have to write a 5 page paper about the American west, followed by a mid-term on the same topic on Monday. *huff*

So...yup. Just checkin' in with all you fine folks! BBVD will be amazing - I saw them in LA on New Years Eve a couple years back, they put on a good show. I hope to get some awesome photos too.

I hope you all have a lovely and safe Halloween!
-Janey

Last week brought the first week of classes. I'm officially in my final year at college. This term brings my history seminar, where we write our 25 page research paper. Think of it as an undergrad thesis. My topic: Vice in Portland during the 1940s and 50s. The essay should be based mostly on primary documents, and this is causing me to spend a lot of time in the Special Collections of the library. All of the documents and books in SC cannot be removed from the library, which means I either have to remain in there, or spend 25 cents a page for them to photocopy items. This is also on top of other papers and other readings for other classes. *sigh*

So, what this gets down to...please pardon the possibilities of being MIA.

Thanks for all of the recent comments and s!
-Janey

I normally wouldn't do this here, since this my ART site, but I am trying to pull together all of my sources here.

In fall I am taking my seminar course where I write my 25 page research paper. The theme for my seminar is Oregon history, and I am leaning toward the idea of writing it about prostitution in Oregon. I have located a museum and archive in Astoria with information, as well as Pendleton which even has a tour of a brothel. But does anyone know of any others in Oregon?

Thanks!

P.S. Mysterious red dot keeps appearing in photos from the D90 - camera in for inspection.

GOOD NEWS! My boyfriend, and main photographer purchased a new camera, a Nikon D90! So, pin-ups will be back in full swing here shortly! As for the old D50, I'll be purchasing it as well as paying for its repair. But I'll at least have my very own awesome digital camera. Before meeting my boyfriend, I shot purely film with an old 1970s Minolta. I was basically dragged kicking and screaming into digital. But after one day at the racetrack with the D50, I was in love.

That's about it. Survived the heat wave from last week, in the process of refinishing a desk I bought off Craig's List, final week of summer term classes next week! There's a lot going on!

Thanks for the love and support!
-Janey