The Journey is nigh!

I am hitting the road again in a few days and I am getting really anxious about it. I get obsessive about it, to the point of panic attacks and nightmares. I have these weird dreams and nightmares, I call them night terrors. I am always worried that I will forget something, or that I will die, well because you never know. And when I go on the road, I never know what I will run into.

This time I hope to take more pictures. Last few trips were uneventful and full of beer, sadness and anxiety.

Days Ten, Eleven and Twelve: Even pretty girls smell bad

I am at American University this week, I shot the ACW and CW over the past two days and I am shooting the FSS tomorrow. Its been ok, I was stressed about the parking situation but its worked out ok. Everybody is really nice here and friendly, its definatly not the midwest. People are nice in the midwest but you figure people wouldn't be being in a big city. Its very diverse also, I usually don't think about it because in sororities everyone is usually white, blonde and perfect. Its very rare you get a little person in a sorority or a handicap person or even someone who is non-white. The sororities here are very international and its cool, and right very IDK natural I guess. I would come back here, I liked working here.

But what you always see is boobs, T & A all day. Frustrating...I know most people, guys mainly think it would be cool, but its not, even pretty girls small bad.



I miss soup...

Day nine: University Of Philadelphia

Today it rained and rained and rained, I photographed at the University of Philadelphia. The BSN program was the group I did. It was an easy day, i didn't have to do any paper work or collect money. It made the day go so smooth, but the rain didn't help my subjects any.

I realized today that i am getting old, I mean I knew it but i stood in the rain outside of a venue wanting to go inside and see a couple of bands that that I have been wanting to see nd i decided to leave rather than go inside. The thought of not geting out till after 11 or 12 didn't seem right, at that moment I wanted to go to bed. Maybe it was because I was alone, I mean is going to a show to see bands really much fun by myself, IDK. I wanted my Soup there, to hang out with and make fun of the people around us.

We should go to the show in Dekalb on the 3rd.

Day Eight: Sunday, day off, stomach flu still

Today was a disappointing day, it was a beautiful day out and I had plans but was side tracked by stomach problems and Homework all day. I wanted to go to the movies and relax but I just sat in my room and read and did homework. Blah....

Day Seven: Saturday, alone with not much to do.

Today I had a short drive from Scranton to the Philly area, I stopped in a town called Willow Grove. I got to my room around 3pm, and settled in, found a place to eat and got some wine.
Ok lets back up here, i went to a bunch of stores looking for a bottle of wine or a six pack but unknown to me is that in PA, liquour is sold and regulated by the Goverment. it took an hour to find a store, I drove all over, luckly I did that before I ordered dinner. Unfortunatly by the time I finished dinner i realized that I had the stomach flu or food poisoning. From where or what i do not know but it was aweful, so aweful I dare not speak of it again.
So i didn't drink my wine and have been miserable ever since. I hope that i feel better by monday.
I do not know what tomorrow will bring for today being a day off it sure sucked.

Day six: St. Josephs day@ St. Josephs; End of the day, long day...over.

Got up early today, work early maybe bed early but I doubt it. After work I spent a long time looking to find a post office to mail off my jobs. I drove to Scranton, PA which suprised me the area seems nice. There is a ski area over on the horizon and snow still on the ground.

Work was good today, I almost didn't want it to end because I knew once I left the school and the nice people I was with I would be alone. Its nice to know that people appreciate my hard work and these people did, I usually don't feel appreciated.

So now I am alone, I just ate dinner (which was good but not good for me) and finished my posts for my class. Oh and I just polished off that bottle of wine I was talking about yesterday, which was very nice a Robert Mondavi 2007 Pinot Noir.

I think its time for bed... Goodnight.

Day Five: Finally some work

Its Thursday, and i had a shoot I was dreading it, but it turned out to be one of the nicest groups I have ever photographed. The reason i was dreading it was the computer on the original day of photography crashed and all the images were lost. They were very understanding and it went so smooth and there were very little complaints. In fact i heard more praise and compliments that their pictures were better than the last time, so that made me feel good.
Really nice people, I would come back here again, it made the day go by very quickly and it turned out to be a good day.

When i got back to my room I found a restaraunt bar, went there had a beer and ordered dinner to go. Reuban sandwich and Onion rings, I also stopped and picked up a bottle of wine. I was going to get wasted but decided I would save that for the weekend. I think I am coping with my depression with alcohol. I am depressed when I leave home and I only drink really heavily when I travel. They are starting to go hand in hand these days, I gots to keep this in check.