other things going on in my life:
i am planting a small organic vegetable garden in my backyard - suggestions/experiences welcome, as i am solely going on information from books and the internet.
i am in the process of planning a 2-4 week stay as a volunteer on an organic farm in wisconsin in the fall.
im thinking about moving to texas
i am purchasing a used canon 20d, which should be in my possession within the following month. yes, i know ive talked a lot of shit about digital. but the fact is, there are times and places where it makes more sense. the technology is there, i see no shame in taking advantage of it, provided i never abandon my dear 35mm. the 20d will never make my heart as happy as my elan, but it will hopefully help to pay my bills sometime in the near future.
i started taking yoga classes a few weeks ago, and really couldnt be happier about the decision. it is the highlight of my week; i only wish i had done this years ago
i am limiting television viewing to a preset list of programs (new episodes of house, a few nature shows, and cosmology programs) a few times a week, and am filling my time with books. i loved to read as a child, but somewhere in my early teenage years developed the obnoxious habit of typing all of the words on a typewriter in my head. this, combined with a nearly non-existent attention span, has made reading more than a few sentences painfully difficult over the years. i have recently decided that i am no longer making excuses, as i desperately want to be a literate person, and have wanted this for quite some time. i decided to try tactics other than furiously suppressing urges and tendencies. ive found it to be enormously easier to begin reading in a completely relaxed state of mind (with which the aforementioned yoga/meditation has been of great assistance). i am also trying to visualize the scene or the subject, as opposed to the words themselves. it would be nice to not have to do either, but ive accepted that this is simply the way my mind works, and its silly to try to fight it. perhaps most importantly, i am not beating myself up for having to go back and read a paragraph or page a second (or third or fourth) time. my frustration with myself seems to get me into the most trouble nowadays.
i dropped off a few mystery rolls of film today, and will be picking them up tomorrow (i am not able to develop my own prints for the next few months... i dont want to talk about it). maybe i will share some tomorrow, if there are any worth sharing.
ive got to go to bed
my condolences if you actually read that whole thing
live kindly and intelligently, perhaps ill be back in a few weeks
the following is a testament to the advancement of my social retardation, which has, unfortunately, progressed to the point that i am unable to speak intelligently and must instead write obscenely long posts in a web journal, above which you can very conveniently click on a box to see my tits.
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karma:
when can I get you to come visit me?
fatality:
No Boston trips in the near future?