What’s up with your photos of ice and stuff?
The random photos of ice that pop up in my photo feed are from my trip to Antarctica with my mom in 2002, my junior year of college – obviously not from Singapore. Let me explain…
During what they call “The Honeymoon Period”, I don’t have a ton of responsibility at school, since the classes I’ll be teaching won’t start until January. But I still show up at school every day at 7:30am and when I’m not helping out the video kids, I spend my days reading. I’m reviewing a lot of art history, but I’m also trying to wrap up some pesky projects… Like sorting and re-naming all 700 digital photos from the summer. (Hey, remember when we used to take photographs with film?)
In the spring while I was waiting for my visa, I was looking at some old photographs from my travels pre-2003. Some of the prints, especially the ones from Asia ten years ago, were pretty beat up, and I started to scan them in an effort to do some retouching work on the scratches. It’s pretty fun to look at these photos, as I plan my holiday trip to Bangkok, Laos, and Northern Vietnam… I haven’t done traveling like that in a long time. I forget what it’s like to take malaria pills and drink water with iodine and feel like I’m on a real adventure. The feeling of What is going to happen today?! I’m having trouble not day dreaming, reading books on the Vietnam war, and downloading movies like The Killing Fields, even though I’ve already seen it.
This is the year I promised myself I would stop saying “someday I want to” and just started DOING IT ALREADY.
Just DO IT ALREADY!
That was meant as encouragement of course, hence the smiley.