Sunday, May 17, 2009

adieu to the east

Today, sigh, I fly back.
It may take a couple days --- (read: week) for me to sort through all of the fun photos I got, but I promise to post some here, or let people navigate through a Picasa album of the thousands.

While I am excited to see my friends, cat and familiar landscapes of home - this trip, my third consecutive trip out East, was amazing and I want to savor every last second of it. It doesn't help that today is a beautiful sunny but cool day. The kind that makes you want to walk around the city w/out having sweat drip down your face!

I wonder sometimes if I would be ok with being away from my family. I've heard both stories.... I've seen people do it, I just wonder if I could do it. Having to hear about my nieces and nephews instead of actually seeing them. And my grandparents, not being there for every single occasion. I know that my professional life needs some surgery - but I love my 'personal' life in sd. Despite the lack of eligible bachelors where I live. It's safe, cheap, fun - but it's not something I can put up with (my job) much longer. I know i'm there for the summer, and some of the fall - but then what?

stuff to think about on the flight home.
:)

if anyone wants to come to the airport - I land at 11:17 p.m.
mwha.




Monday, May 11, 2009

I love waking up somewhere new.
This time, it's a friends new apartment. The light hits everything and I just want to stay here all day and take portraits. I promised that the gushy-ness will wear off... you know - me thinking that everything is SO BEAUTIFUL SO WONDERFUL but I'm not sure it will. I love hearing commotion, sirens, people talking different languages.

M-hell is so drab. So very plain, boring, vanilla, safe and ugly in comparison. It feels like the world is in kodachrome after being in sepia :)

I needed a vacation so bad. I can tell now. The days leading up to it were very stressful and so now that I'm here I feel 20 lbs lighter. I don't have a lot planned this time - i'm just going to float around and see what I see - which is my favorite thing to do. I am very excited to see Jon in Virginia... another new place to wake up in!!

So far:
Great food, great friends

Today's agenda:
Explore till my legs give out or my camera battery dies... whichever comes first.

:) (there r - I blogged)

W.