photographs & wanderlust.

russia, but the sentiment is there.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:44:00 -0500

russia, but the sentiment is there.

Photo

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:43:53 -0500

home

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:39:47 -0500

north carolina tomorrow in the morning, and no matter how painfully the bones in my feet feel stretched and no matter how dry my cheeks are from the windy cold and no matter how sadly cliche i am, i love this place, i love it i love it i love it.

Photo

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:49:13 -0500

I don’t want to leave. But there are too many people I...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:23:42 -0500

I don’t want to leave. But there are too many people I love back at home to think about giving up on college and Carolina right now. Someday, though.

new yawk

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:24:41 -0500

Tomorrow I’m going to a city I promised myself I would live in at one point in my life. I made this pact with the romanticized, literary, beautiful version of a city I see as a haven for the lonely and the alone and the artists without a medium, and maybe me, with a lot of energy and love, a rebellious little Southern brat with more than one could ever ask for in her life, maybe the city is where all of my coiled focus will find a release. And maybe not. It’s funny how much weight in my life I’ve given a city I’ve never been do, but out of every logical, intelligent, normal thing I’ve mapped out my life to become, this is where I deviate. This is where I stand and say, I will have my own adventure.

light light light lighttt

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:25:41 -0500

light light light lighttt

College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less in Job Market

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:17:37 -0500

College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less in Job Market:

Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore.

The problem isn’t just a soft job market — it’s an oversupply of graduates. In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had risen to nearly 70%. For many Americans today, a trip through college is considered as much of a birthright as a driver’s license.

Marty Nemko, a career and education expert who has taught at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, contends that the overflow in degree holders is the result of many weaker students attending colleges when other options may have served them better. “There is tremendous pressure to push kids through,” he says, adding that as a result, too many students who aren’t skilled become degree holders, promoting a perception among employers that higher education doesn’t work. “That piece of paper no longer means very much, and employers know that,” says Nemko. “Everybody’s got it, so it’s watered down.”

» via Time

I want this sweater like it's my job to want this sweater.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:40:00 -0500

I want this sweater like it's my job to want this sweater.:

In yellow, of course.

Incredible.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:31:20 -0500

Incredible.

Eating Animals.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:38:00 -0500

My favorite author, Jonathan Safran Foer, wrote a nonfiction book about the ethics of eating meat — Eating Animals. I’m willing, ready, and excited to read anything by Foer because I’m devastatingly in love with his prose. He makes me want to build a brick wall and figure out the beauty of existence and love and happiness while it’s falling on top of me. That’s the kind of power I feel in his writing. I’m curious to see how he treats the topic. If it’s going to be angry, unforgiving activism or coherent arguing on the side of science and morality.

Got them straight As.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:12:29 -0500

Got them straight As.

I love this song. Goodnight.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:36:35 -0500

I love this song. Goodnight.

Some films change the cinematic world for a reason, right? Not...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:06:00 -0500

Some films change the cinematic world for a reason, right? Not just because those film scholars say so, but because they are good enough to feel like real life, even when we are required to stretch our imaginations. I think when you suspend your disbelief and then forget you’re doing so, that marks a very clever film — it makes a statement about how the human mind operates.

Doesn’t hurt if you watch good films in good company, but that’s another story entirely.

I want to watch every Woody Allen film ever, but I’ve only have these down so far:

Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Scoop
Match Point
Melinda and Melinda

So many to accomplish. Not that mind. I’m the type of person that likes to conquer the entire catalog of an artist or I am unhappy. I let myself lapse on a couple of contemporary authors — I have 4 books to catch up on for one — and I find that upsetting, even though I don’t really love the guy. My next literary conquer will be Truman Capote, though, and I’m reading all of his work in backwards chronology. We’ll see how that goes.

"Christmas makes me feel like I don’t know anyone."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:24:46 -0500

“Christmas makes me feel like I don’t know anyone.”

- Woman in Father & Sons, Raleigh.

Hey Jessieeee.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:25:36 -0500

Hey Jessieeee.

There is no other way.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:04:56 -0500

There is no other way.

Christmas in Apex.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:03:31 -0500

Christmas in Apex.

Semester 3 of college: complete. Time to readreadread and sleep.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:43:08 -0500

Semester 3 of college: complete. Time to readreadread and sleep.

Oh, how I wish I had taken this photo.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:33 -0500

Oh, how I wish I had taken this photo.