here 48 hours ago I have pretty much lost touch with what is going on in the world. No checking news sites, tv has been mostly off. The only topic of discussion that’s really been going on with anyone is photography. Eat, sleep, breathe photography. I can see how that could become a truth, especially once classes start. Three days to explore the river, the gnarly skatepark down the road, the narrow dirt running paths in the woods up on the hills, and the giant sized rec center with climbing wall. Somehow I don’t think there will be aI’m in Athens, Ohio. It’s beautiful here but here is out there. There have hardly been any photos for awhile now, just seeing friends before I left for this place. The median age in my graduate program is 31. My roommate and I, at 23, are the babies of the program I guess. My advisor is a Pulitzer winning photographer. Since I moved shortage of things to do….any my apartment is two stories. Usually I don’t put a photo of myself but my new roommate, Marcus Yam, who spent the summer working for the Associated Press in Malaysia, snapped one of myself being lazy and reading something my friend Robyn sent me. Robyn is too nice. I start school soon again. I’m so tired and wired and my head hasn’t settled yet. And here is a view from my window of trees and my dad driving around today after they visited my new temporary home. I’m rusty already with photo making, and with a new full time class schedule the pictures might come rather sporadically these days…. it’s all part of the process. A light break can always be a good thing I suppose, step back and see, no, feel, the world in a different way.