This was the first real photo that I've taken as a part of my daily photo journal. This isn't exactly the best start, since my life is pretty mundane. But I after desaturating the photo a little, I really liked the way this came out.

My desk at work gets messier and messier. For a good 2 months I really made an effort to clean it off every night before I went home. Its funny the things that you stop doing once you get under deadline pressure. I'm certainly not going to take 5 minutes to tidy up my workspace when I'm already staying an hour and a half late at work. The irony is, I'd probably be a little more productive if I maintained a clean work environment.

At work, there's a antique coke-bottle machine, from which these bottles came. It takes 10 cents to buy an 8oz bottle (yes, we have subsidized caffeine at work, we're not barbarians you know). However, I didn't realize this the first time I tried to buy a bottle. Everything else in the building is 25 cents. So I stuck in my quarter and forced the lever down. The machine didn't give me a soda, and I was too embarrassed to find out why. A few days later I noticed a "Dimes Only!!" sign pasted to the front. Now that I've figured that out, I've been enjoying the occasional glass-bottled coke. I find it to be just about the perfect size, and none of that funny metal aftertaste.