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Jets to Brazil : Perfecting Loneliness

My world is shattering again.

I'm a long list with no time. Sunset panic on the street, sugar and lightbulbs, the milk of kindness is behind us now. With all those stones in your coat, did you think I wouldn't know? The tea leaves of trashed streets, dirty needlesand sweets. Zero to heaven in seven, a lifetime, a nanosecond. All the sand in your glass is going by so fast. The radio is playing our tune. I love it, could you turn it down? The thought of you crying in my room. I miss you, could you come around sometime? When the nigh comes down, the world becomes a room under the microscope with a labcoat and glue. I'm fixing this hole with everything I knew. The music is making my head split. I love it, could you turn it off? The thought of you is tearing me in two. I miss you, could you come around sometime? Sometime? This list is what went right; your name is written twice. We live like astronauts and our missions never cross. The stakes are high, we're standing by. There used to be a hundred ways to put my arms around you; every one seemed new, natural, and true. Perfecting loneliness 'till nothing's holding us. Consider Earth: we could be the first.

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So many unexpected things have come from this summer. I never expected to throw away feelings and respect for someone who had a hold over me for so long. I never expected to realize who are my real friends and who are just conveniences. I especially never expected to fall in love. A long distance relationship was something I told myself I was never going to have, now I'm finding myself trying to figure out how to make one work.

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If things go as smoothly as they have been, I will be extending my stay in Cincinnati until the first weekend in September. Michael and I will be apart for a month and a half starting in two weeks and I'd like some time in between his tour and my leaving for school to decide if we can both do this. I think we have a good thing going and I'm not going to let distance ruin it for me. I only have class Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday so we can trade off visiting on the weekends as long as we're not working. I think a visit once or twice a month will suffice considering we are both busy people.

On the other hand, I cannot wait to start this semester. I'm taking two shooting classes one being twice a week and the other being once a week. Studio will be extremely helpful for me and hopefully enhance my lighting skills and knowledge. I am not really looking forward to my digital class but it is required. I suppose it would be a disadvantage to my education to not try to get everything out of the class that I can considering that most clients will want digital. Sometimes I wish instant gratification didn't exist in the photo world except for instant film. I am also looking forward to my Theories of Personality class. It should be really interesting and maybe I can better understand some of the people who have hurt me and helped me.

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Things are going well and I don't want any of it to stop. I wake up every morning to someone who would give the world to me if he could. I wake up smiling.

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Cincinnati has been treating me pretty well lately. I expected the worst scenarios possible and although some of those have become realized, they haven't affected me in the way I thought that they would. I'm growing up more than I ever thought I would here.

Jerry Westerkamp ; Lexington, KY.

Jerry Westerkamp & Kelsey Iker ; Crucial Fun Fest 5 ; Lexington, KY.

Amanda Angelo ; Lexington, KY.

Amanda Angelo ; Lexington, KY.

Kelsey Iker & Amanda Angelo ; Lexington, KY.

Mike Tackett & Amanda Angelo ; Tolly-Ho. Lexington, KY.

Jerry Westerkamp, Evan Wolf, Kelsey Iker, Amanda Angelo ; Crucial Fun Fest 5 ; Lexington, KY.

Kelsey Iker ; Lexington, KY.

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