my hair is driving me nuts and i’ve been too lazy to make an appt with nancy so i’m going to risk my head at supercuts tomorrow. and if i wake up with enough time, dye it black before the show. i really want to wear my too short london skirt to the show but with the wicked bruises on my leg…they just look so awful. blah.

i finished reading “ordinary people”, one of the “classics” i got on my bookmooch spree. it ended up being better than i thought it would be. you really get to hate the mom by the end of the book. and it’s a happy and unhappy ending wrapped up in one. i enjoyed it. i’m now reading the pentagon papers. time for some scholarly reading so my brain doesn’t go to mush.

other than that i’ve been feeling pretty crap. no, that’s not really the term. i’ve been thinking of a way to describe it and it’s a cross between ambivalence and unsatisfied. just alot of thinking about life, where i am, what i’ve done, who’s been there….just spurred on by certain dreams, and running head first into the past. and depressed that despite my professions of being happy about being alone at 27 i’m starting to think i’m not happy, and that this isn’t what i want. i hate to say that i “should” be dating/engaged at this age, it sits there in the back of my mind that there is something wrong with where my life has gone. that i should be somewhere other than this. that i should be finishing grad school, or be in some other more “worthwhile” career path.

there is nothing i’m willing to do with my career path because i have no interest in going back to school at this point. and i can’t quit my job because there is nothing else that will pay me what i get now as an entry level employee. the best i could hope for would be $10/hr at a phone bank or something. not interested. the only potential for a new job is wrapped up in a possible restoration related job. which i shouldn’t even get hopes up about since there is so much at stake with that, and absolutely no guarantees, and is a bit in the future if at all.

the alone thing…i don’t meet anyone worth my time. sounds mean but it’s true. i spend my days with degenerate gamblers. not interested. and i have this thing where if i don’t like someone “romantically”, i don’t like them, and spending more time with them is not going to make me suddenly realize i’m in love with them. that is what happened with tommy. i just didn’t like him enough. so then what’s the point. now Boy X at work is actually single, at the decision of the crazy baby mama, so it’s true and for real. and so he mentions hanging out. and i can only see things ending up 2 ways. me being used (most likely), or the above, not liking him enough for it to be worth it. pessimistic me can’t even begin to entertain the thought that things might work out. they just won’t. and because i already know that, what’s the point of trying.

not happy with my photography, and apparently it’s not interesting anyone else either. i’ve gotten no comments on any recent images posted to my deviantart account and i typically get quite a few from the people who “watch me”. but this is the least important of my recent thoughs.

even when i’m not actively thinking of any of this i’ve just felt like i’m in a weird place. music is not helping, i can’t find anything to listen to to satisfy. i tried going the quiet route with the “still” ep, and i tried going the loud angry route…nothing worked.

eh. whatever.
breeze still carries the sound
maybe i’ll disappear
tracks will fade in the snow
you won’t find me here

ice is starting to form
ending what had begun
i am locked in my head
with what i’ve done
i know you tried to rescue me
didn’t let anyone get in
left with a trace of all that was
and all that could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far away from me
i am
tainted
the two of us
were never meant to be
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me
gone fading everything
and all that could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far as you can see
i am
tainted
and happiness and peace of mind
were never meant for me
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me

and he answered, an hour later…i had tried to trump myself up, mentioning being on the CTRC board (since he was with me the first time i ever saw it) and the photographer thing etc…

“Yeah, I heard as much.

When I got back I assumed much of the work there at the terminal had been done by you or with you.

The traveling came from peace corps mostly, then I worked in Japan right after that for a year or so. My girlfriend and I just checked out our respective schools for next year. I’ll be looking to get a PhD this next year.
Right now I’m working at praxair and am living in East Buffalo near the galleria”

i invited him to the terminal saturday during the car show. i’ll drop dead if he shows up.

dream

i had a dream that some really famous artist liked my photography and became my biggest champion. he had a gallery in toronto and gave me my own show. it was all super exciting. strange though because this artist, i hadn’t actually met. everyone i dealt with regarding the gallery and show were employees. the artist decided to host this big fancy dinner in my honor to introduce me formally to the art world. before the dinner he called me and was asking me all these questions about my work and how i do such and such to get things to look a certain way. and i felt retarded because i don’t know anything about photography, i just take pictures of stuff i like. so i was making things up and i think he realized i was a hack. i got real nervous that meeting him in person was going to go horribly wrong, and everyone was going to know i didn’t know what i was doing and it was going to be so embarrassing.

also dreamed it was the apocalypse and i was roaming with some people i knew to try to survive in the burned out world. it was much like The Road i just finished reading, except it was in the beginning of the post apocalyptic world, and not further along, so we still had food and what not.

he actually answered me….

“Well Well Well indeed,

Back at you. Africa, Japan, thailand, etc were well. I lived, at least.

And how is Sara Etten? Dealing among indians still?”

urbex injuries

my injured arm is about 7 different colors. every color of the rainbow is represented on my arm. if i could take a photo i would but it’d in a weird spot, and it’d be very difficult hah. you’ll just have to take my word for it.

Chinese cardboard buns – add another reason to the long list of why i don’t eat chinese food.

i’m dying for some falafel. and i seriously miss the true belgian waffles from street vendors in the “low countries”. *drool*

urbex

ha this has to be a joke. NHL schedule for next season…one… ONE…home game on thurdsays. WTF! 11 on wednesdays that I could go to, 14 on fridays that Phill could go to…but ONE FUCKING GAME ON A THURSDAY that both of us could go to. *shakes head* don’t they know?!?! haha

had a nice day exploring with ian/dagr despite scraping/brusing my arm to hell exiting the first location. i guess that’s what happens when dropping off a roof forward instead of backward like normal people. i can’t help it, i need to do things face first! i would have scraped my face the other way!! haha got dinner at the freedom fries diner then headed to transfig. no go. more fencing, boards. difficult way still there, but we decided to climb cargill instead. good idea, great lighting. sat on the roof for a long time before heading back down. i had laughed in the morning because when i woke up it was raining, and it seems every time we make plans to explore it rains. luckily all the rain came in the morning and it turned into a really nice day. 75 maybe instead of 95. lots of photos to go through. hopefully good ones.

also. i’m glad that i don’t weigh that much, and my friends are all stronger than me. because this is the 2nd time in recent explorations where someone has lifted me onto a roof hahah.

*sigh* adr2 and i had been working on the Art is Resistance show as some of you know. we had planned for it to “open” july 28th. we’ve cancelled/postponed it because a group of fucking idiots think it’s cool to sacrifice animals – specifically a cat and iguana – inside the REA building where we were going to have the show…sick fucks. i was sorta excited to show my work again…

good things tho…brussels2 bootleg and berlin1 dvd available to download.

and apparently the sabres got the “outdoor” game, to be held at ralph wilson stadium on new years day. so cool. will be SO cold. must go!

supposed to explore with dagr tomorrow, but i don’t know what time. he had stuff to do in the morning and haven’t heard an ETA…and i desperately need to do laundry. but hopefully, the place we intend to go to, the cops don’t show up with guns drawn…

haaaa

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dotmusic/20070706/ten-metallica-terrorist-threat-31c8aba.html Metallica: Terrorist threat?

Metallica singer James Hetfield was investigated by UK airport officials who believed he was a terrorist this week, it has been claimed. The star was barred entry to Luton airport on Thursday and questioned by staff who were concerned about his appearance. Fears that Hetfield might be involved in terrorism were apparently founded on his “Taliban-like beard”, according to The Times. He was allowed to leave the airport after a brief interrogation, when he persuaded officials that he was a rock star. Metallica play Live Earth at Wembley Stadium in London tomorrow, before headlining the venue for their own show on Sunday evening.
hahhahahahaaa