Today. Journal. April 14, 2018.

Today I paid a LOT of money to the government in taxes. It feels like a lot. It was quite a bit over my monthly rent, so there was that. This is not the most fun part of my day. 

My phone is also having a major glitch, so I'm going to have to go to the local repair shop - which is always fun considering how many nudes are on my phone. I always think they must look through the photos...I don't see how you would not look. If I was working at a store like that, I definitely would look, which is probably unethical in some way but I suppose there are worse things you could do. Sometimes I think it'd be funny if they went and saved the photos thinking they found something super fancy, and dirty, and are proud of this treasure trove of nudie images. And then! They would see them all over the internet! And be very disappointed that it was not the veritable treasure trove they originally thought. Perhaps they'd feel duped. And then they could come and leave me a nasty note on tumblr about how they feel duped by this and their naivete has been erased and how dare I.

That's never going to happen.

I really dislike going to that part of town though because I always get lost. 

 I've recently been reintroduced to Netflix and have been binge-watching crime documentaries as well as this show called Mindhunter which is about a couple of detectives who catch serial killers by analyzing their psyches. I'm certain this show is preparing me to avoid serial killers (it's not, that's just pretend). In any case, as far as I know, there has not been a serial killer who targeted redheads - that category of people have all been religious nuts accusing us of being witches and burning redheads at the stake, drowning them, or doing any number of other horrible things.

Actually, I just googled that, and it's not true. There was a series of murders called the Redhead Murders that occurred from 1978-1992. To be fair though, they didn't ever prove those were committed by the same person.

I'm going to stop talking about serial killers though. It's a terrible, creepy morning conversation topic. In any case, I think the TV show I mentioned above is interesting. 

Today I'm going to also be scanning (right after I finish writing this) some instax I took of Masha a few months ago and uploading those to the $5 level as a special bonus set. I'll also be scanning in some of my paintings - which I can't decide if I should try to sell or not. And if I do, I do not know how to price them at all either. So I'll need to figure that out. Pricing your own work is a weird thing. I know a few photographers who do auctions, others price specific things at random depending on how much they like them, others just have a specific price point depending on size (this is generally the category I'm in. You always feel like you're assigning some real level of worth to your photos, and I sometimes feel like I price things a bit too cheap. Then again, I sell quite a few things that way so, I guess it works somewhat. 

I'm going to take my camera with me to take more photos of flowers while my phone gets fixed - I hope no one is irritated by the flower photos! The trees are beautiferous, and I love them! But I understand that can get a bit old for some people. 

In any case, I must make coffee and start scanning photos to post! I hope you all have a wonderful day!