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Well... I've accomplished nothing so far this weekend. Which should not be a big surprise. I really need to figure out what's making me so lazy and useless... it's rather depressing. I didn't get out of bed until one today, which is just pathetic. I should hire someone to smack me in the morning if I sleep past 11. I had totally intended to get downtown and work on my photo project, but it was all grey out, and while that's nice for not having to re-meter the light all the time, it's... boring. And dull. So I waffled on things for a while, until I realized the camera store wasn't open Sunday and had to go anyway. And unfortunately, I had to pass Tower Records. You see, I had every intention to getting the film and paper and then going over to Milennium Park to secretly photograph tourist and then to dress my camera and tripod up and let it take pictures of itself. But, in passing Tower, I noticed that CDs were now 30% off. And I couldn't resist the urge to go in. So I ended up with Haughty Melodic (which I've been meaning to pick up forever), He Poos Clouds (which I wasn't expecting to find), and Thunder, Lightning, Strike (which I bought on a whim). Would've ended up with more, too, had I not reigned in my horrific desire for more music... I need to spend much less money. And now I have to go downtown again tomorrow, because while I was playing around in Tower, it ended up getting dark out (what do you know?)
The moral of this story? Don't be in denial about wanting to spend more time downtown, you'll just end up finding the most random way to waste time so you have to go back again tomorrow. I don't know why I love going downtown so much this year. Probably because this is the first year I've made trips downtown alone... And it's so nice to be downtown alone. I don't know why... a lot of people I know hate it, for varying reasons. But it's... relaxing, I think, to be able to wander around near large groups of people all by your lonesome, knowing that a lot of them are doing the same, and that they don't really care who you are or what you're thinking or whether you're a hopeless pretentious awkward UofC student who's forever behind on her photo project and her NaNo. Also, people seem to have a good time guessing where you go to school, and I get Columbia College far more than I get UofC. Is that because Columbia is so close by where I tend to wander downtown, because the UofC is far away and full of shut-ins so people forget about it, or because I look/behave like an art student? (I'd like to pretend it's the third option, but we all know that's about the least likely, alas.)
The moral of this story? Don't be in denial about wanting to spend more time downtown, you'll just end up finding the most random way to waste time so you have to go back again tomorrow. I don't know why I love going downtown so much this year. Probably because this is the first year I've made trips downtown alone... And it's so nice to be downtown alone. I don't know why... a lot of people I know hate it, for varying reasons. But it's... relaxing, I think, to be able to wander around near large groups of people all by your lonesome, knowing that a lot of them are doing the same, and that they don't really care who you are or what you're thinking or whether you're a hopeless pretentious awkward UofC student who's forever behind on her photo project and her NaNo. Also, people seem to have a good time guessing where you go to school, and I get Columbia College far more than I get UofC. Is that because Columbia is so close by where I tend to wander downtown, because the UofC is far away and full of shut-ins so people forget about it, or because I look/behave like an art student? (I'd like to pretend it's the third option, but we all know that's about the least likely, alas.)
