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Family, School, and Thanksgiving…

20/11/2007 Johnnyboy



So it is the beginning of the ‘Holidays’ around here. The men are up in the woods, carrying guns and out for blood. It is raining now, but it sleeted and snowed overnight. This gives the day a monochromatic pallor and begs the blogger to go back to bed and hibernate. Bears are smart…Who’d want to be out in this crap? This Thanksgiving is looking to be a good one, though, and has all the earmarks of a classic. Originally it was just my sister, BiL, mom, and me, then unexpectedly my other sister announced that she and my niece would be coming down for a couple of days. This is great news. It will be a wonderful thing to have a house full of people and a real test of ‘one day at a time’ for me. I can project all I want to, bu the reality is that this will be fun and interesting for all and it’s not about me.

School is going…I have contacted my Historiography prof and asked if I could hand in the paper after Thanksgiving. In all truthfulness it was I who told him it would be done by the 22nd, not some contract that he wished fulfilled. So I’ll hand it in by the end of next week and have my final ‘meeting’ with him on December 6th. Now that I have 8 additional credits to work on, I have to budget my time a little better, and this week is all but a wash…I do have a meeting with my mentor this afternoon in The Capital which I am prepared for, so that’s no problem.

To the left and right are some pictures of telephone booths from the photo project I did last week for my Documentary Photography workshop…

Johnnyboy

Documentary photography…and Mom!

11/11/2007 Johnnyboy

The ‘Mom’ news first…

All is well. She is sticking to the 1 oz. drink as prescribed, and that’s how I put it to her. It is like a doctor’s prescription. Anyway, all is well.

My Documentary Photography course in The Big City is very cool. There are about ten other students, from different points of view and differing ideas about what the class and subject means to them. It’s all valid, IMHO. Our first project, due next Saturday, is to take pictures of a subject in everyday life and write a small paper to accompany it. I have chosen ‘pay telephones’ as my focus and spent a lot of the day driving around trying to find the damn things. I am restricting my search to Anywhere County and have covered much of the southern half.

Slim pickin’s.

I blame the cellular phone for this dearth of public telephones. Oh, btw, I am only shooting pics of the outdoor variety…If they have been moved indoor, they are out of play. I’ll post a few pictures when I have the time, but for now let me say that it has revived my tired-of-my-home-turf-jaded eye and has allowed me to see afresh in my area.

So, by the end of this week I have a paper to finish on Woodrow Wilson, two essays for Credit By Evaluation, and this piece, plus reading, reading, reading…

Johnnyboy

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