It's a birthday party. It's your birthday party.

I have been sick since Labor Day. I am not going to lie, I'm terrible at being sick. I hate laying in bed, I whine like a 2 year old, and I never get anything I need done because I watch excessive amounts of Rugrats and Californication. So, I'm going to write for a bit.

I went out with my parents and my cousin Amber and her husband to Alfred's for my mom's 55th birthday. She is now able to get senior citizen discounts in many different places and she is going out dancing downtown in her pink jumpsuit and silver lace-up platforms. My mother is one of a kind, and I love it. And yes, I am jealous that she is 55 and still looks like she's 17.




I had a lot of fun images to share on this evening, but apparently no website supports camera raw images, which really pisses me off. So, my mother in pink is all I have. My apologies.

I was talking to my friend from Bethel, Sean, today and he's working at the university. This got me thinking, maybe I could get a job at Bethel after graduation. Maybe I could start a photo class and teach? Or maybe I could get a job with the Bethel magazine and take pictures for Renaissance? I could travel and be a photographer. I mean, this could be a really good opportunity for me. I have a lot connections through the school anyways, might as well use them. For some reason the actual aspect of a job is giving me tangible motivation to get out of school and be a real life adult.
Thoughts like these make me wonder what my future is going to be. Who am I going to know? Who will I be close to? What will I believe in? Will I make a family or will I make the other people in the world my family? Will art dictate my actions? Will I finally know what art is at that point? So many ideas to think about, and the thinking is the funnest part. I'm young and I know what I believe in and I know what and who I love. I guess I'm just tired of waiting for this life to turn on. If I had to give a piece of advice to a younger generation (as if any younger generation is ever willing to take advice when they know everything already) my advice would be, "Look, I know in this society, in this world we are supposed to go to college to get a degree to make a better life, but in my experience, think before you decide. Maybe college isn't the answer. Sometimes college is what people do when they have no idea what to do. You don't always need a degree, I know I probably didn't."

But hey, I'll always be a kid.