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I am really looking forward to when school starts up again, It’ll be the Fall and I’ll be back in classes, reading and writing like mad with new ideas flying around and discussions to go to and professors to hear lecture. I really enjoy college and am sort of lost without it giving me something to drive toward on a regular basis. I don’t know how people can just go to their boring jobs they seem to mostly dislike and then come home and just do whatever it is they do in their spare time. I need to find a really appealing hobby, something to give me a direction, a very specific direction when I’m not in school or at work. Reading and listening to music are all well and good but I can only sit around alone doing that for so long before I get restless at not having accomplished something. All that happens when I finish a book is that I pick up the next one and start reading that, in school there’s an end, I’m working toward a paper or just toward being prepared for class the next day and having that sort of visible goal is very helpful. I’m not so good at working toward invisible abstraction.

In addition to wanting for class to start I am also looking forward to the fall and winter again. If it’s above 65 degrees it is far too hot out. If i don’t have to put on a jacket when I leave the house going outside isn’t as appealing. I should really just move somewhere colder, somewhere that doesn’t have hot, nasty humid, sweat soaked summers that make you feel like you live inside a thin coating of sweat twenty-four hours a day. Also, I just really like wearing jackets. I picked up a pretty nice long woll coat for wearing with suits for ten dollars in a thrift store around the corner. It’s in need of some tailoring work to fix some worn out lining and a good dry cleaning would do wonders for it also but I’m excited to get outside wearing it in December with a couple inches of snow kicking around under my shoes reflecting up yellow from the streetlights and with flurries dancing down through the cold air to land and swirl around me as I walk.

I’m going to take a walk down to Kenmore Square and try to drop off my camera to get fixed since It jammed up while I was in Ireland. It jammed up not just anywhere in Ireland but my favorite section of the country, Connemara National Park, more or less on the west coast of the country. We drove through a little town called Delphi that I swear it was pretty much an inn clustered around where the road and a small stream came closest. Hopefully my pictures from that fiasco turn out. I keep finding rolls of film that are apparently used, I have four rolls of film and I can only say for sure what’s on two of them, I’ll post the pictures up here when I get them developed, scanned, uploaded, named, and categorized on Flickr.

here’s some of my more recent pictures of Allston, from the beginning of the summer, early June I’d guess.
(Holy shit getting this fucking plugin to do what I want is a Huge fucking pain in the ass. I’ll have to come back and fiddle with it when I’m not really frustrated with getting it working. holy shit.)