2 more days

running around

Josh and I went around Chicago today taking pictures of the converse ads for Ian Toombs, his best friend, who designed the entire ad. We walked and rode the train and took a cab and ate Italian and it was goooood.

Parker went to Pitchfork

downtown roomies

Seeing Things Again

And then this happened in the hall.

self portrait project

that i will explain later.

sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleeeeeep.

Parker

Finally pulled the zoom out again. Back to shooting at f 4 is kind of lame, but keeping my distance is a nice feeling for now.

evening whatever writing.

The train is especially squeaky tonight, and I love it. I am jamming under my headphones and periodically drawing with my assorted sharpie collection to my right. there are four almost-empty water bottles on my desk, that I am periodically flipping over to rid them of condensation bubbles. But this is turning out to be a problem because it is making me have to pee.

My phone is on the right corner of my desk, pointed toward the window, for optimum service (one bar). I have two dollars to my left. One metal spoon, one plastic spoon, one camera bag, one iHome connected to one iPod, one bag of Chips Ahoy!, and two ID cards for various Columbia activities.

I am entering my third week up here, taking classes, and they are going pretty well. I dropped my improv class (it was fun, but it was too much), so now I have enough time to do my Fiction Writing homework.

Things I need to get up on: Homework for REAL school. That thing I have to do in, oh, less than a month.

.......crap.

I should get some sleep, my brain is crazy. Alright, let's root for lucid dreams tonight. Let's do that.

We went to Dave and Busters (I stayed for an hour). I think I gave her my card for playing games when I left..


For my final project in photography, I'm going to do a series of pictures of people on the train here in Chicago. I took this today on the way to the arcade, and I like it, it's a good first attempt.

Audrey

Dorm

Sometimes we are doing homework, and I guess other times we are looking fly in a Ricky Martin shirt and yellow sunglasses.

Walking

Jordon and his mom and Emily were in town today. We walked the magnificent mile and ate Italian food. I feel silly and crazy and lonely in a big city. I miss Hayley and Brittain and my dad and my brother and my Ruby and my Josh, and the feelings of familiarity. I love this city, though, the noise, the views, the energy, the way it makes me look at life differently, the way I am secretly exhilarated when I ride the train. I love my classes, being surrounded by creativity, my teachers exuberance, life's twisted and turns. It is beautiful. It is.

July 4

Life in Chicago

Breakfast at Ann Sathers: Eggs Benedict, French Toast Fantasy, 2 orders of bacon and a giant cinnamon roll.

Matt on State with his new orange Half Cabs.

Ben Baxley at North Side waitin on some tasty Buffalo Calamari.

Josh and hats and records.

Brave woman on crutches in Lincoln Park.

"Well then, that just means I am going to go home and put up..... this picture that I'm about to take right now!"

good day sunshine

Matt and Blane

My new friend Matt and I have imrov together on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and during break we took a little walk to the alley behind our building. Matt is really fun and smart and agreeable and I'm a fan of him.

Blane was sitting on those purple boxes during class today, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to burn the SHIT out of some edges. I do not know Blane so I do not have an opinion................

But Blane is, like, codename for dick.