treasure/trash.

i recently discovered chris jordan, a photographer of waste. Interesting statements on american waste and mass consumption.

check it out.


Photo by: Chris Jordan. Cell Phones

big ship.

yesterday i watched the second half of titanic. as a girl who readily and uncontrollably becomes emotionally intertwined in movies, i put myself in there, on the fancy boat, holding my breath just as long as Jack and Rose.

i can't understand how all of those women left their husbands. i was thinking that i would rather just die in the arms of love than be separated. just as i thought this, a shot of an old man and his wife lying on their bed, tightly embraced, waiting for their final breath together came across the screen.

365.

i left for italy exactly one year ago.

cities and plans.

back in my last real semester of college, feeling incredibly nostalgic tonight. have you ever wanted to go back to a certain time and place and just soak in it for a while. i'm finding it very difficult to be in the present right now.

i took a theatre class my freshman year of college with an incredibly quirky professor who said that no one likes a perfect person. no one like someone who has never had a library fine or a parking ticket. i must be incredibly likable because all of these small imperfections are adding up to one large blah mood.

the good news: moods are fickle perspectives and i know that the minute i change my attitude, things will start looking up.

This year has SO many unknowns. maybe the excitement of these unknowns has left me feeling overwhelmed and without a starting place.

good thing i got a new planner yesterday: