Update

Life’s pretty good right now. Turns out I don’t have to have surgery. I got wonderful family and friends. Life’s pretty good.

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Volatile Flowing Future

The future seems especially volatile at the moment. In the past week my plans for next semester have shifted so that I will most likely be spending my time in hong kong. I’m currently planning trips to budapest as well as turkey. In addition to this I find out tomorrow whether my pec is partially torn or ripped and whether or not it will require surgery. This surgery could throw the other travel plans into disarray. In other words my future at the moment seems to be all variables and nothing definitive. Of course life almost always feels like this. You feel as though being thrashed about without any real knowledge of what is happening or where you are going. But as I move back its easier to see direction and purpose. Its as though traveling through life is like travelling on river. You’re tossed and turned as you wind back and forth in the moment, but the river continues to flow and progress towards its goal. Maybe that’s a bad analogy, or maybe its just late, but that’s how I feel at the moment. Goodnight.

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Music & Video Chat

So there is a thing called chat roulette that is basically a service that sets you up to video chat anonymously with strangers. In other words a place you want to avoid because it is mostly people showing their ugly parts. Anyways sometimes people will go on there and do some interesting things. People such as “Merton” who plays piano improv to strangers. As seen here

Who seems suspiciously like Ben Folds, who when recently performing, paid tribute to “Merton.”

Anyways I hope this inspires you to do something quirky and fun and unexpected. If you do let me know what it is.

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TV Quotes

Homer Simpson once said “Television- teacher, mother, secret lover” in that vein I give you the following quotes.

“I hope I get multiple personalities. I get lonely in long showers.” -Troy

“I’m not a hipster. Would a hipster be wearing $300 jeans?” – Jeff Winger

“The only thing I hate more than hippie neo-liberal fascists and anarchists are the hypocrite fat-cat suits they eventually grow up to become.” – Major Casey

“What about that are you not getting?” “Well, Obviously the core concept.”

Slater: We need to talk.
Jeff: Are you breaking up with me?
Slater: Oh, good. Guess we don’t need to talk.

Abed: I hate when they finish each other’s…
Troy:… pies.

“It’s like a black Barbie doll in Arizona! Nobody’s buying it!”- Tracy

“Passing out and cursing on St. Patrick’s Day. Is nothing sacred anymore?” -Jack Donaghy

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Going to Sleep

Sometimes I just go to sleep hoping I will be someone new in the morning. This doesn’t concern me. What does concern me is that I may go to sleep one day not hoping to be a better person.

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Old Books

The hotel lobby is crowded with AT&T service technicians. They’re trading stories of the worst neighborhoods and dangerous encounters they have experienced. I’m in the corner looking through hundreds of images. As I stare at image after image of the pages of old books. I realize that the service technicians and I have a lot in common. No, not a shared affinity for fried foods. I realized that we are in the same field of work. They’re job is to insure that the lines of communication stay open. So that phone calls, websites, and televisions can continue to constantly transmit an ever flowing stream of information. I’m currently working to keep a different line of communication open. While they are working to allow for the present to communicate with itself at increasing speeds, I am working to insure that the lines of communication to the past stay open. I am currently working with a team to photograph ancient Biblical manuscripts. The goal of these photographs is to digitally preserve their contents and to make this information available to anyone who would like to access it (if the library, monastery, or institution gives us permission to post our photographs). This also protects these ancient books by allowing their contents to be seen without handling the manuscript and thus protecting it from further wear and tear. For more information on the type of work I’m doing visit here http://www.csntm.org/Home/Showroom or to look at some of the manuscripts that have been photographed check here http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/. I love the idea that I am a part of keeping a line of communication open to what scribes wrote and recorded hundreds of years ago.

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Busy As A Signal

Sorry I haven’t updated lately. Sometimes my life rushes past me in a hurry and it takes me a while to catch back up with it. Now happens to be one of those times. I’m in Chicago working and trying to catch up with old friends while wondering how I ended up here or what I am doing. Considering how much my life consists of strange turns or foreign places you would think that I would be used to it right now. While it has established itself as the status quo, I still occasionally find myself shocked at the places where I end up and the things I get to do. Today I was photographing a book that was 800 years old. I also found evidence of real bookworms. Anyways to make up for my lack of posts recently, and the lameness of this one, I am updating my old post about our rodent problem with links to pictures. This is also in response to John P’s request, since he is this blog’s number 1 biggest fan.

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Want

I wish I wanted what I want to want instead of what I want.

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Progress

Just because time is progressing, doesn’t mean that I’m progressing as  a person. I need to make sure I use my time wisely to make sure that  it does not continue to progress without me.

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