lundi, septembre 17

ben folds pictures (one roll of almost three) are up. the rest will be up when a) i can afford to get them developed or b) can sneak my way into a color lab (we only have access to the black and white lab)...
11:51 PM  !

wow. i just got a call from BU's independent newspaper, the daily free press. i had signed up to work on photography at their meeting last week, and now they want me to go out and shoot a roll of film after class tomorrow. i just basically get to tool around boston and get some shots of whatever i want. my first assignment. the excitement!
11:17 PM  !

i met ben folds tonight. i gave him my 'beat it' pin. perhaps it was a drunken gesture, but i got a picture out of it, at least. (hopefully it isn't blurry--i forgot i had my manual focus on). tonight was fucking crazy. i was even told "you're crazy" by some kid. we ended up being about 5 heads back... and i went nuts. my camera was taken away from me at the door, but that was all right--it gave me an opportunity to dance. and he played kate! and jackson cannery! gah!($@*
2:17 AM  !

samedi, septembre 15

ben folds changed my life. front row, directly in front of him. 65 pictures were taken. religious experience. fuck.
10:32 PM  !

jeudi, septembre 13

forgive the recent lack of updates. things are slowly getting a bit more relaxed around here. it was a bit hectic yesterday in boston, as you can surely imagine. it turns out that what i heard was a bomb scare in the photonics building was actually a sulfuric acid spill. slightly comforting, but then again, thinking about having possibly walked the streets with the terrorists that were behind this is a bit unsettling. the way boston university has handled the matter is in no way appropriate, in my opinion; a gigantic part of the student population is from new york and its surrounding area, meaning that the amount of people affected by this ungaugeable. holding classes yesterday was questionable, but the kicker was that they held classes for the rest of tuesday. here's an except of an email that every member of the student body received:

The tragic and terrible events of this morning have shocked and saddened the entire Boston University community.

We are closely monitoring the situation as it develops, and we are in contact with the appropriate local, state and federal officials. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that there is any threat to any Boston University students, faculty, or staff, or to any Boston University facilities.

To the extent possible, we must try not to let those who resort to criminal violence set the agenda. The important business of teaching and learning should not be held hostage to terrorism. I urge all students and faculty to remain calm, and to continue to attend class. This is the most constructive response we can make to today's tragic events.

westling sucks.
7:05 PM  !

mardi, septembre 11

now there is a bomb scare in our photonics center, where they apparently make government weapons and such. i was riding home on my bike and saw many firemen and police cars. i feel like we're in a movie. for some reason none of it seems real. a girl on my floor and i were discussing the fact that we'll be able to tell our grandkids about this, and how our parents could always tell us exactly what they were doing when jfk got shot, or when the challenger exploded. i never thought anything i'd be alive during something as chaotic and disasterous as this..
6:30 PM  !

wow.
12:27 PM  !

dimanche, septembre 9

today in the overpriced brookline dunkin' donuts i heard a crusty old man say "if you're born in brookline, you're a saint... if you're from boston, who knows? no one in brookline steals; people in boston are a different story."
7:53 PM  !

vendredi, septembre 7

it's official; sam and i are complete and total roommate nerds. we both just checked the same person's ridiculous away message and yelled it out at the same time.
8:29 PM  !

a new breed of nazi?
5:19 PM  !

jeudi, septembre 6

analogdialogue: MICHAEL JACKSON
analogdialogue: IS ON THE MTV AWARDS
analogdialogue: HE DANCED WITH NSYNC.
analogdialogue: MOTHERFUCK.
sp1nk: WHAT!?!?!?
analogdialogue: IT WAS FREAKIN' CRAZY
sp1nk: gajhhhhhhh

damn this school for not having cable. at least it's being taped for me.
9:50 PM  !