Camera-y badness/goodness

Well, the gentleman at Ritz Camera says that I'd have to send it away for a week or two and it would cost me $150-200. For that price, I can get a slightly less compact digicam of comparable quality new. So unless he was lying in the hopes of garnering a commission, buying a new camera seems like the plan.

I'm obviously not at all impressed with the quality of my now-defunct Casio camera. I'm wondering what experiences y'all have had with various brands.

Ultimately, I'm looking for a camera with at least 3 MP and 3x optical zoom (since those were the two main specs on my existing camera). Oh, and it definitely needs to be able to take a memory card, hopefully the same kind that my old phone took.

I might not do anything about this anytime soon. As much as I'd like to have a camera, my finances aren't exactly fabulous right now. And then, of course, I have to ask myself, "Would I prefer to spend that money on a camera? An IPod? Other random merchandise?"

On another note it looks like I AM going to get paid for the Contract of Doom. At least, I received confirmation of receipt of my invoice, and I'm told the invoice has been forwarded to the accountant. We'll see what happens.

Tomorrow/today is a parent-teacher event at my school. Oh the joy! Since students received their interim reports over the weekend, I don't doubt at all that the parents will have a variety of questions to pose me. um, yay.

In honor of Breast Cancer Month, and my hair

So I chopped my hair off about mid-August (I know, I'm a bad bad girl).

And I found this wonderful leather worker, Sorodz, who lives in Oakland, is a member of Exiles, and will make my hair into a flogger FOR FREE if I donate money to the breast cancer charity of her choice.

I believe that this is incredibly generous of her, and such generosity deserves generosity. For that reason, I'd like to announce

A DONATION MATCHING DRIVE

For every dollar you donate to one of the charities listed below, I will donate a dollar, up to a total of $100 donated by myself. Please contact me to inform me when you have donated cash. Please donate either in my name, or in Sorodz' name, or in the name of a breast cancer survivor/victim you have known.

I'd also like to encourage you all to patronize this wonderful woman's leather working business. Her website can be found at:
http://www.sorodz.com/

Please feel free to post this elsewhere. Nothing would thrill me more than to see this wonderful woman getting the publicity she deserves (but did not seek) through this. Nothing would please me more than to see the charities listed below getting an explosion of donations because of this.

( The Charities )

x-posted to longhair, gaybay, bi_the_bay, and sfgoth

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