Today was a beautiful day. It rained the whole morning, so when the sun came out and it hit 70 degrees, everything had that nice, clean spring smell. And the campus groundskeepers were working, so there was the smell of mulch and grass clippings and I was just ecstatic to be outside.

I presented my thesis today, which means I am officially done. No more. The presentation went amazingly well. I managed to speak for a little over an hour, and answered half an hour of questions. And I was told that it really sounded like I owned the information, like I knew it well. And my advisor complimented me on my use of powerpoint, which I was very proud of. I hate when people make powerpoint presentations and then proceed to just read through all of the slides for the entire presentation. It's mind numbing.

Now for the picture of the car. A good friend of mine just bought this brand new Buick, and he's very proud of it. He's been asking me to take some pictures of it so he can show it off on his MySpace. But every time he has been here it's been dark out, so we couldn't do it. Today he actually came over early, and I left the library before dark in celebration of finishing my thesis. So we went up to the park and took some pictures. I think a lot of them came out very nice. Needless to say, they're definitely not great. But they're nice. And they're practice. Which I desperately need.

I did a little bit of editing in Picasa, mostly cropping and playing with the effects that Picasa has. That was fun. I even got brave and took out my tripod. Why is that brave? I'm scared to attract attention while I'm taking pictures. These were done in a public park, so that was big for me.

On this last one, we obviously had to take a corny picture of him getting into the car. And he wanted his "beefy arm" to be in the picture too! So that's why he look so uncomfortable and awkward. But he had fun with it. I love the film grain effect in Picasa. I don't know why. We pay so much money so we can have cameras that take nice, smooth pictures and then I go to the trouble to make some look like crap on purpose. Some things I will never understand.

I am so sick. Couldn't even make dinner tonight. I'm coming down with a chest cold, and I can feel my sinuses flaring up and getting angry. I hope this doesn't last through my thesis presentation. I would hate to be sniffly and stuffed up while trying to make an hour long presentation that amounts to my entire college career.