2008.09.19 -- To the new FOB and back

We were told we'd be to the new FOB (Forward Operating Base) for five days, then back to Tallil Air Base to refit, then another rotation to the new FOB. I should have packed extra underwear. The platoon was out there for significantly longer than five days. Conditions at the new FOB are rough. Think of going out camping, at a commercial public campground. You sleep in a tent, and have a common...

it feels like i got so old last night, in ohio

school starts in a little more than two weeks. the only question i have right now is, what the fuck happened to summer? i can still feel the stress from last years school year in the back of my brain like its an open wound from not too long ago. i still feel like i havn't slept enough, or caught up on the amount of sleep i lost from those last two weeks of school with finals, work, projects, and ...

the isle of coney

Waiting for attention___________ i'm not Cut it to the __left___ my mother invited us to go out to lunch and thereby tricked us into going to a craft fair. we eventually got over it. long story short- i saw this photographer there who was doing collections of images from shore towns, and they were really well done. interesting and different, with lots of really attaractive ...

I've gotten myself a long weekend. I think i should stop skipping school cos each time i do, i will most likely REALLY fall sick. So yes, im down with FOOD POISONING. I diarrhoea-ed abt a hundred million times. I think its the amt of chilli i've been taking, but i thought that by now, my body would've been immuned. But i love chilli! Like lots and lots of chilli, so if i have to suffer for ...

... you should just die now because you never really believedthat you could live without this before and now you’re sure of it. You’re standing on the precipice and he’s asking you to jump. Yet you’vealready jumped, already braved the rocky ledge. Then, some part of you hadtrusted that you wouldn’t fall, but you had, hitting every bump, crack, andjagged edge on the way down. Now, as you face the ...

I've Been Published!

Soooo. I've officially been published. How rad is that? Builder Design Center Magazine published my photos with full credit. And the editor liked me so much she decided to make me their California photographer. I've already done a 2nd shoot for them in San Diego. Sweet! Here's some photos from the first issue.

The Virgo Woman

She had never quite forgotten that if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, soon or later. Sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes. Do you visualize the Virgo girl as a gentle, virginal maiden, pure as the driven snow? You may be about to get some illusions shattered. She is no White Rock nymph in a gauzy ...