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oh well i was glad to see how this one was solved out in the court; SuicideGirls vs LithimPicnic. i always had it sting my sense of right and wrong too, how they control about their models. i understand business, but this just seemed to overboard. their control of photographers work is similar. when photographer A shoots photos for girl B, and girl B submits photos to SG, SG puts stamps on the photos with "copyright SG". while model B has a contract with DG, the photographer does not (unless youre working for SG as well). and when there is no contract signed regarding the shift of copyrights, they automatically belong to the photographer. if SG is so obsessive about the rights, they oughta have the model sign a release of rights-contract with the photographer. i wonder how many photographers would be willing to do that? i would not. i have taken photos that have appeared in SG but im not interested in arguing over a fuckin "copyright" text in the corner of those, i know they are mine in the end and i guess were all happy?

btw thanks Melissa, whoever you are, for the www.cheapesttextbooks.com link. i seem to have posted a drunk-entry the other night, complaining how ive been looking for this Suicidology-book for yrs, having not found it cheap because its one of those school text books... ripping off students u know. cheapesttextbooks.com gave me similar prices as my prior searches (min. 53usd), amazon being the 2nd cheapest. add shipping costs to that and the result is as before = i cant fuckin afford that. cheapesttextbooks themselves wont ship internationally, which does not surprise me. ive noticed a correlation there, cheaper the object, the more unlikely the shipping. anyway, i know ive spent as much on clothes, so maybe one beautiful day i feel i can spend it on a book. as a best price finder i think cheapesttextbooks.com might turn out useful one day.

on saturday i wasnt in the best of moods at first, i got so overly stressed about the tight schedule as we hurried to the house warming party and then whatnot. i was reaaaally stressed over another party i was supposed to be at since 8... i finally turned up at 23:30 or so being sickeningly worried that everyone is upset with me, if anyones even there! well 4 of my classmates were still in the bar and only joyful about me turning up. so what a relief! id talked the house warming party-people with me so were joined forces of the groups and i really enjoyed myself. jägermaister-shots and strawberry margaritas helped. among other things. we left around 3 and that was that. all good.

we had to wake up at 11 to drive to F's goddaughters birthday (2yrs!). maybe it was the lack of sleep but i was tired and feeling blah... didnt really manage to pull up a smile and socialize like a normal person. but all things considered it went well. certain things made me happy. at home i finally got to sleep....and now im a happier camper again... i had a dream in which my house collapsed and my stuff was (in pretty good shape though) all over the yard. i was on the street and saw this happen so i was the first there to pick up my stuff, to save it before everyone (?) comes stealing it. i called F to come out to help me put stuff in boxes. i remember seeing my computer there, under my table, laying on its side and i said "oh baby, i doubt you made it". lol. i think the dream was inspired by the fire in Camden, not sure if anything else big was destroyed today, that made me think anyway. i was not very upset in the dream though, more like oh well, fine. i just wanted to get stuff saved that was worth money since i knew id need it if i wanted a new home or whatever. before coming home to see the building collapse i was on a trip somewhere abroad and it was lika a reality tv series type of thing... another team txt messaged us the answers to some questions or tasks along the way. i have no clue why. but this enabled us to not hurry so much and while we went to a shopping center to find a clue or whatever, i ended up going shopping. i think the others did too. oh it was a long dream with a lot of people and stuff... butb the house thing was interesting. i then woke up and was like "okay, i get it, i really should do backups more often and store them OUT-of-the-house".

oh f... i think i am just going back to bed. well, i did stay up a whole hour!