February 2011
21 posts
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Feb 1st
January 2011
53 posts
Bluffton Breeze Arts - Bluffton South Carolina →
the link to my article in the bluffton breeze! 
Jan 27th
i just finished the craziest/most depressing/funniest book ever.  it’s called “the glass castle” by jeannette walls, and you should read it.  it will make you feel like you have the most sane and normal family ever…even if that’s totally not the case.  makes you thankful for what you have!!
Jan 27th
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january 25, 2011.  kaila’s tiara from new year’s. january 26, 2010.  gpoyw/pod combo.  the only mirror in our room.  i just like the colors.
Jan 26th
“dudes are crazy thats all i know”
– the one and only, laura knapp
Jan 26th
my neck/shoulder is sending shoots of pain down my right arm.  and i slept like two hours last night before i had to work at 6:30 am.  so now i’m laying in bed looking at wedding blogs.  not really sure how i got started on that, but i love looking at the pictures.  also i decided that i’d really love to have a wedding.  i don’t want to get married (in the near future) but i just...
Jan 25th
Jan 25th
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day one…the collection of coffee cups in our room.
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
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"your first 10,000 photos are your worst."
henri cartier-bresson, aka my hero of street photography, is attributed to saying this.  well, i’ve done a few mental calculations, and i figure that between all my cameras, throughout my entire life, i’m at about 7,500 photos.  i’ve got about 2,500 to go.  in an effort to push myself to take more and more and more, i’m excited to announce that i’m starting the...
Jan 24th
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things i love today:
1.  grits for breakfast in utah.  (with cream cheese in them like joel and erin reid!  ya’ll should try it.) 2.  my “me” playlist of my favorite uplifting songs. 3.  going home in six days!!! 4.  packing all my jank up and sending it back to s.c. 5.  not working breakfast on a monday.  i think this is my first one since i’ve been here. 6.  talking to blair in spain,...
Jan 24th
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The Baby-sitters Club: Where Are They Now? | The... →
bahahahaha i DARE any 20-something girl to tell me you never read these books.
Jan 24th
this is calling my name. uh ohhh. →
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
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A Short Short Story
It wasn’t until she got the message that she was finally able to cry. Not tears of anger, or tears of hurt, but ones of sadness. And she finally felt a peace about this boy who had come into her life in a storm, leaving nothing but devastation in his place. But this time was different. Which made her sadness multiply. This boy, who had hurt her so many times in the past, was admitting that there...
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Jan 19th
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“There’s no ‘exception clause’ in any of the New Testament’s teaching about...”
– Greg Boyd (‘Can Christians Serve in the Military?’)
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
i’m done. i have to be. even though i really, really, really don’t want to be.  i have to.  until i can get something just once in a while.  until i am treated like a person and not a game.  i have to be done.
Jan 19th
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thanks to k.g., this is mine until APRIL!  a real hasselblad!  this, combined with my n55, d40, spotmatic, and holga, will make me a photo pro!  thanks, kage!
Jan 18th
omelette cook: ¡buenos dias, jordan!
me: buenos dias, ¿como estas?
omelette cook: muy bien, ¿y tu?
me: muy bien.
omelette cook: ¿te gustas bailar, jordan?
me: si, mucho.
omelette cook: ¿la salsa?
me: nunca bailaba la salsa.
omelette cook: ¿quieres aprender?
me: ¿cuando?
omelette cook: mañana. necesito una pareja.
me: .....lemme check my schedule.....
Jan 18th
figured it was time for a desktop change: i think i’m in loveeeee.
Jan 18th
Freelance Whales Announce Tour with Foals |... →
whyyyyy aren’t you coming close to me?  maybe i’ll just have to go to nyc….bummer dude.
Jan 18th
from “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann
Jan 18th
Jan 17th
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i was looking at analytics today and found two HILARIOUS google searches that led people to my blog.  ready?   long toe tumblr and  long wallpaper bicycles hahahaha.  i laughed out loud.   in other news, i skied for almost three hours this morning.  it was almost raining it’s so warm.  i got soaked to the skin and couldn’t see five feet in front of me, but it was fun.  also, i...
Jan 16th
Jan 16th
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i’m starting to think my life is going to end up like wuthering heights.  
Jan 15th
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1qo8e/Iwrotethisbo... →
i.  love.  this.  
Jan 15th
Jan 15th
WatchWatch
i can’t stop watching this!
Jan 15th
i have a friend who lives his life by the phrase “contempt prior to investigation.”  rather, he lives his live combatting that phrase.  basically it means that you don’t like something before you try it.  while there are certain things i will absolutely never like (hard drugs, living in cookie cutter suburbia, computer programming), i try to live my life based on this too.   i...
Jan 14th
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via vneckandacardigan) what an awesome book.
Jan 14th
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wow guys…i’m overwhelmed. over 2,000 visits in just six months.  and from 33 states!  (although that one in the upper left-hand corner is killing me.)  i’m not sure why…but you keep coming back.  and i love it.  
Jan 14th
so.  i’m trying to get a photography job/internship on the island.  and just beef up my portfolio.  and start a website.   and i’m also trying to find a paying job.  so i can beef up my photo equipment.  so i can eventually do what i really want to.  which is travel and take photos.   on a related note…does anyone on the island have any interest in modeling for me so i can...
Jan 13th
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only seventeen more days.  only seventeen more days.  only seventeen more days.  only seventeen more days.  only it feels like an eternity.
Jan 13th
Jan 12th
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because i have blogger’s block… What are three things you did today?  worked, applied for jobs, finished a book Are all of your friends virgins?  ummm i’d say about half and half?  the number of virgins is dwindling as the number of married is increasing. Do you break things when you are mad?  only relationships.  but usually i fix them.  i sort of have a temper.   Where...
Jan 12th
http://www.alexandrapacula.com/transportation.html →
this lady is rad.  
Jan 12th
Jan 12th
my new goal for the next five years is to visit every single u.s. state.  i’m at twenty six so far.  next up on my radar?  oregon and maine.
Jan 10th
i’m in a mood.  a good one.  an increasingly rare one where everything is filled with promise and potential.  the kind of mood that i sometimes make fun of when i’m feeling jaded.  the kind of mood where i’m writing and reading and listening to deb talan and her perfect words that are always appropriate and also drinking coffee.   i’m surrounded by people:  the homeless...
Jan 8th
would you believe it if i told you i read the great gatsby for the FIRST TIME this week?  how did i last almost 23 years without doing that?  also, i’m in the middle of reading the elegance of the hedgehog by muriel barbery and it’s the best book i’ve read in a long time.  a long time being since i read let the great world spin in september.  oh so good.  
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
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“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
– J.G. Ballard (via sympathyfortheartgallery)
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th