The book, the page, the line, the word, the letter.

A photo from my "Sleep" series.

One of my best photographs to date.

My relatively new hair.

"Stormy weather

The kids are making a racket

In the wilderness

The wild lives are so mild

And I get caught up in the moonlight

Reaching out for a rotten egg

I don't want to beg

It's crystal clear

Your time is almost gone."

-Beck, Mutations (1998)

10 Things I Like, Have Done, or Enjoyed these past months:

1. Trip to Michigan for Festivus; Saw the whole fam and shot my final for Digital Imaging. It was wonderful and all I did was guzzle Busch beer for four days and make leftover bowls and they all love me anyways.

2. Got the free iPod I somehow accquired up and running; It's only 4 gigs, but that's okay because it's blue, free, and in working order.

3. Treated myself to some records today because I finished one of the hardest courses I have ever taken: Bed on the Floor (Woody Guthrie, 1965), Gone Gone Gone (Everly Brothers, 1965), The Father of Bluegrass: Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys (1974). And, I absconded with a slew of 33s and 45s from my grandma's attic including Harvest (Neil Young, 1972) and Tapestry (Carole King, 1971).

4. Kodak Professional Black and White 400 CN film. Oh god

5. Reverend Horton Heat, Legendary Shack Shakers, and Split Lip Rayfield at the Exit/In in November. J.D. Wilkes is one of the most extraordinary front men I have ever seen.

6. Went to Little Rock for the weekend to celebrate my roommate Heidi's birthday. There, we: went to the CIRCUS, drank coffee, I rode her sister's hornery Walker, shot a really strange photoshoot, ate Chinese food with her grandma, and became mentally recharged in time for finals week.

7. Cut my bangs real short and kind of found my hairstyle stride.

8. Pall Mall Blues, though these are kind of a constant.

9. Netflix television binges and Saturday Night Live catch-up marathons.

10. New mustard convertible gloves, purple knit hat, red ear warmer band thing, and an olive anorak coat with plaid quilted lining and a furry collar with snap buttons.

Currently listening to: Muffled Vanilla Ice from our upstairs neighbors.

Currently drinking: Ugly Mug coffee (Memphis, represent!)

Currently thinking: Blogging is better than printing at school, school ends in a week, and DAMN, it's cold in here.