Alex Lella's Blog

The Image and Other Things

Hello.

First of all, I'm looking back at my journal and I realize I may never have had the chance to thank the people who wished me well in my Costa Rica job hunt. The guy said that he thought I was a good match, but he won't confirm anything yet.

I have also made it to the last week of the contest where I must write a vampire story every week for eight weeks. Hopefully, I will finish the last story tomorrow and move on.

Also, today is the anniversary of the Tianaman Square massacre. I doubt anyone will be talking about that very much here in China, though. You know, I was in ninth grade when that happened. I remember the events leading up to it. My Social Studies teacher was one of those cockeyed optimists from the sixties that us Gen xers thought were kind of dumb. I remember how she said that the demonstration in Beijing was going to be a great event and how we would be telling our children about it. Then came the massacre. Sorry Ms. Stallone--Yes, that was really her name, but that's a story for another day--, but you were dead wrong on that one.

Anyway, the cool thing now is that the prompts are going to be images. This image clearly looks like a kitten, but why it looks so distorted is anyone's guess. My first thought is that it's a kitten looking at its own reflection in a stream or something like that. Then again, maybe it's something more bizarre like a kitten viewed by someone who's stoned. I don't know. I got nothing here.