epic haiku

peaking out of shells

I've been reading so many blogs lately that I thought I would contribute to my own. Tori's latest album came out Tuesday. I don't have the money to get it yet, but I am sure this will be remedied by Spring Break. I have almost three hundred songs on my iTunes accredited to her. Many are her live covers. Most are the actual albums. I also have all the b-sides (enough for several extra albums) most of the remixes (some bore me) and rare pre-Little Earthquakes stuff. I am organizing my songs tonight because that's what I do when I am stressed and need to unwind -I organize stuff.

I have been spending gobs of time lately at Valhalla (aka The Tower Room). With impending graduation it's like slowly letting go every time I go up there. It's a good think they are as clingy as I am! Linnea's rant about graduation being death makes me worry about my own graduation, but since that's never going to happen it should be just fine. Actually, it will because I am far to determined and pissed off to not let it happen. I was extremely sick for two weeks. I have had to drop a class, definitely am going to have to spend an extra semester here, and am generally working on feelings of defeat. I am not defeated. I am doing well at what is before me, I am just tired and want to be treated well by those I interact with. I miss the dark room. I took pictures the other day after spending my morning painting and my afternoon sculpting and it was like "hello, THIS is what you do." My camera, myself.

I am also having tons of fun being Thorn editor. Submissions are coming in and it's fun to get to see how creative people I already know well and people I have never met can be. I don't know what I myself will put in. Everything seems so personal from the past year, even my photographs.