Jessabelle

Jessabelle
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. of A.
Birthday
December 11
Bio
"The things we find words for are dead in our hearts. Thus, there is always a certain contempt in speaking." True for writing? Discuss.

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MAY 18, 2009 1:27PM

Jumping on the Candid Photo Bandwagon

Rate: 9 Flag

So apparently some people have been posting makeup-less pictures of themselves on here.  I'm not nearly daring enough to do the nudity part of it, though.  If OS blogs could only be seen by people on OS, fine, but since it's searchable and open to the public I don't want an inncoent daring thing to come back and bite me in the ass.

Yesterday was the most beautiful spring day so far this year.  My boyfriend and I went to the lake by our house to chill, and this is a picture he took of me.  I look tired because I'd stayed up until 2 AM grading my students' final exams and had been fielding "I know I didn't do any of the problem sets and I got straight C's on all of the midterms, but I've been, like, really stressed out, can I please have an A anyway??" emails for the past 48 hours.  (Word to the wise: the emails just described are not how you get TAs to be lenient with your grade.)

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I won't do nude pictures, but I'm happy to do bellydancing ones, which show tummy (ick).  I figure if it's my avatar, then showing the larger version won't hurt.  Here we go: 

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So there I am.

 

 

 

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Well, gawsh, thanks :)
Jessabelle
May 18, 2009 01:56 PM
Gack! Grading papers is no way to spend an evening. I was a TA once ... it nearly killed me. Luckily, this was in the Steam Age, and there was no such thing as e-mail.

Nice shots, too.

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Boanerges1
May 18, 2009 02:05 PM
Boanerges--You're lucky you didn't have email as a TA. My class had their final exam on Friday morning, and on Wednesday (during a week that wasn't exactly low-key for me, either!) I looked at my inbox and just started sobbing. This is the first year of my program, and they make you take 15 credits and TA 20 hours each semester. Needless to say, I've been an exhausted, acne-ridden, emotionally volatile bitch for the past nine months and I've never been more relieved at the end of a semester! Congrats on surviving your degree and TA-ship!
Jessabelle
May 18, 2009 02:11 PM
Oh, man. That sucks worse than what I did. I was TA thingie because I needed the dough. Interestingly, when I got back into the labour force, I actually worked with a couple of the numbskulls whose work I had graded. They didn't know who I was (and I didn't tell them) or that they were terrible.

I surely admire your stoicism.
Boanerges1
May 18, 2009 02:57 PM
You look lovely!
rapier
May 18, 2009 03:14 PM
You don't need make-up, Jessabelle! What a pretty face and beautiful body. Know wonder you're a belly dancer!
I Love Life
May 18, 2009 05:10 PM
You are lovely!! and i love the bellydancing pic b/c you look so happy
Ariana Paz
May 18, 2009 07:50 PM
Wow, thanks, everyone for your way-too-kind comments!
Boanerges--I worry about having to work with some of my whinier students sometimes (would LOVE to work with my awesome students, someday, though!). Now I'm thinking, "Shit, so that CAN happen." Oh well.
Patricia--thank you, I wish I weren't emotionally dependent on makeup though...my friends say they don't notice a difference, but I think I look about fifty times better with it on. Can't use foundation, b/c my face looks funny without freckles.
Ariana--bellydancing is indeed happiness-inducing! Thank you for your kind words!
Jessabelle
May 18, 2009 08:56 PM
You are a lovely young woman in her prime! You have the classic timeless beauty.

You are wise not to want to post nude pics, leaving something to the imagination is always a good thing.
BuffyW
May 22, 2009 10:05 PM