left hand of darkness is an amazing book!

Yayy!!! Your nakeds are up!!!

From your major, is sounds like you will be on the TV News some day.

I try not to think about the past too much. The "shoulda woulda coulda" gets going.

I am all about nostalgia.

International media policy sounds very interesting. What got you pointed in that direction?

25 year old club status soon. Hope it's a great birthday, love the new set.

When I have trouble living in the present, it's usually because I'm living in the future. There is a draw to living in the past, but it just seems so futile. Particularly because my present is actually very nice, so any regrets that I have are kind of contradicted by the present result.

Like, I can look back in my past and think about all the times I was completely stupid and missed opportunities for romance, but if I'd taken those opportunities, I wouldn't be married to Andrea, and I really can't imagine anyone I'd prefer to her.

And if I'd stayed in Western Mass. instead of moving to California, I would have gotten more quality time with my parents while they were still well, which I regret now. But then I wouldn't have developed the career that's given me the leisure I have now to spend on living a meaningful life. And I didn't really have a good relationship with my parents when I moved anyway. The reason I'm able to connect with them now, and we can all enjoy it, is because of all the maturing I did during my 20s and 30s. In California, and later in Manhattan and later still in Arizona. I.e., not here in New England.

But the future... It's easy to live in the future. Like, won't it be nice when the house is built? Won't it be nice when I'm in retreat? Won't it be nice to be done with this project, or that project, and to be experiencing the results, instead of the hassle of creating the results?

This is of course deeply ironic, considering the common fate that the future holds for all of us. But who said human beings were rational? It's probably better that we're not.

Good luck with the lasering! Maybe you can read your books with a really big magnifying glass? Or are you just supposed to focus on long distances while your eyes are healing?

My gaming has been stuck in the past for over two years now. I find myself playing all my NES, SNES, Sega Genisis, or video game "collections" on my PS3 and 360. I'm not sure if it's because i enjoy the games so much or they remind me of happier times.

I think this is the first time I have heard what you are majoring in. That's fabulous, very interesting areas of study.

Getting your eyes lasered, I've thought about doing that for a long time, I really hate having to deal with glasses, but I've been hesitant because as a photographer, I'm constantly looking at the LCD and then looking up to the subject/model, and back down at the LCD, etc......and I need bifocals (which just about everyone needs at some point in their lives) to read and look at the LCD. I was told (supposedly by someone who knows, but I really should go check it out), that I can't fix both....so I'd still need bifocals or reading glasses, especially when I was shooting, to see the LCD. So that's been my dilemma.

p.s. I"m a big fan of your set, and of Lavonne's photogarphy (and yours too), and both of your modeling....so it was nice to see this set make the front page! Both of you need to be on the front page more often, both as models and photographers

My mind is getting all a head of me, living in the far or near future, while my body is sticking to the past.
International media study? Sweet. I look forward to your books and news conferences.

There's a super hot set up today! and it's yours... oh my!

And I've definitely been nostalgic lately. I'm moving away in 3 weeks and for some reason planning the future always gets me thinking about the past.

Congratulations on your new set, you look gorgeous, as always. I am shooting something this Monday too, but I gained some weight... anyway, why are you feeling nostalgia? I do feel so many times, mostly when I think of Spain... but now that I went back there this Summer I don't really feel it anymore... now I'm just damn excited about moving to portland, it's going to be great.

I thought of doing communication, just to get into the magazine/website side of writing, but I think I'm not really going to school to get a job. Literature and Film might not be practical in the real world, but it certainly is awesome in the present.

Looks like we share a birthday! Your set is just amazing.

I find that sometimes I have trouble living in the present, but only because I'm looking so far foreward- to when I'm out of school, have money, a job. I sometimes have to remind myself to be patient!

Happy early birthday, hope you get to enjoy multitudes of delicious vegan food.