new places, new life, new year

Well, as quickly as I move in, I'm already looking for a way out. I'm still trying to mull over exactly where, and how much I want to spend. But I'm trying to decide quickly, so that it might be done very, very soon. I need windows! I need structure! I need comfort again! it's just not working...
I have an interview on Tuesday with Sasquatch Books, which I hope will be successful(!) They are looking for a food photographer for a winery appetizer/entree book...right up my alley - I just hope my style is what they are looking for. I have no price in mind when it comes to this job...I would do it for free as far as I'm concerned. I just want to shoot a job, and start professionally.
Seattle Magazine is also looking for an intern, which I think would be an amazing opportunity! It's unpaid, and would probably be thankless work, but the chance to get my name in that industry would be fantastic!...I don't know, it's all becoming a little scary at the moment - knowing that soon I'm going to have to support myself with my photography, or with anything really...I just don't want to stray too far from what I have been working so hard to do.
And then there's the whole "issue" of wanting Paris under my feet ASAP! How do people do it? Where do they find the money, how does debt work exactly? I'm in a little, but not to the extent that you can be...I know I don't want to be...but it's intriguing when it comes to traveling the world - almost worth it really.
oh, and I turn 24 tomorrow.
How did that happen!?

Pride Parade 2007

more on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/charitylynne/

downtown pt.2

Last night was the final showing of the slide show David made for our class. We (being, myself, Annelise, Bethany, Garrick, Travis, Kevin, and Marcellina) met at Nijo's to eat sushi, drink cocktails, and bask in the glory of ourselves and our year - this time in public. It actually wasn't as awkward as I once imagined...maybe it was the two lychee martinis or maybe it was just being around good friends - however, it was a nice viewing. (a small turn out, obviously, but just right really.)
After Nijo's we all decided to move the party along to Smith (on our way there, Kevin happened upon Lindsay and made her join our debauchery). Smith is a new bar on 15th, actually right behind my place, owned by Linda's Tavern (which was obvious, given the mass amount of plaque'd game on the wall). Clayton was there playing dj for the evening, and we took some time out again to take in a few more drinks...before deciding that we should really go out to karaoke before the bars closed for the night. So we all packed into the limited cars available and made it our mission to invade the Busch Gardens for some drunken tunes. Best Idea EVER!
Annelise chose to sing Ace of Base, and although I can't vouch for her singing (not a dis, because I would have been WAY worse!) she TOOK the stage and won over the crowd (granted, the crowd was mainly friends, but she charmed the socks off an old woman coming back from the bathroom). Bethany sang also, and was just as kick ass, with her excitement into the mike. And Garrick was the surprise talent of the night (well to everyone aside from Bethany of course) that man can sing!
We then migrated to Annelise's AWESOME apartment, and finished up our night giggling about Annelise's bed situation, scaling buildings to get on the roof, and watching Annelise sing and dance to music like Missy Elliot (I had no idea...).
It was a good night.

downtown pt.1

walked down to Nijo's last night for our class slideshow-showing. the sky was ridiculous with these two buildings...i was just glad to have my tiny little camera, and a little scared i was going to get mugged because there were a lot of hecklers around me on 2nd and Pine at 9:45pm.

june 17, 2006; father's day

i didn't walk down the isle, but it was good to be there. i wasn't aware that it would have been a good thing for me to do, until i was sitting there, waiting for my classmates to come out. i had sudden urges to tell the people sitting next to me "see there - that's my name in the program. i'm graduating too." "why am i not in a gown? why didn't i walk?"...'oh i don't know...i didn't think i was done. i didn't want to wear blue again. i didn't want to bother my family with another event. because the portfolio show was graduation enough.' yet somehow it wasn't enough, but being there was...almost overwhelmingly so. accomplishment. finishing something. moving forward. acceptance.
it felt scary. but it was good to have friends nearby to share it with.

music i want to purchase and partake:

architecture in helsinki
old decemberists
bloc party
interpol
boards of canada

okay, alright...since it is the beginning of a new era and all...

let's try to make this interesting shall we?
blogs are all around me, with photos, ideas, articles...what I'm going to do I'm not sure. Maybe a little here, a little there.
Graduation week is winding to a close, and a new life is ready and available to document at will. A way to keep in touch, when we are too far away to touch each other.
yeah well, I was burned by the sun for the first time this summer. Meandering around the sculpture park...but lets just call it a park. Because honestly, the sculptures were few and far between, and really not all that monumental. I did however like the Taste bistro and their tiered grass patio, good spot for a fashion shoot. Made me think of April. Whom, by the way, I spent some time with yesterday as well! Had coffee (aka hot chocolate) at Crave with her and a few of her friends, before she hitched a ride to the airport to embark on her new life/adventure. I'm going to miss her, and will have to make a point to visit her once she is settled in. She is going to take LA/Santa Barbara by storm, they will never let her come back.
I also had a chance to catch up a bit with my dear friend Mark Weeks. Who is in town this month for a few photo shoots. Lovely, amazing man! I wish he still lived in the area, but am glad that I know someone who lives in London! It was good to see him doing so well, and meeting some his fantastic friends and past classmates (third years to our class) over drinks at the Rosebud was highly enjoyable. It was a full day yesterday. Makes up for today, which has involved me; in bed; uploading images on flickr; kicking myself for not getting the important stuff done (aka getting images out to the Abbey Garden, investigating photographers/internships and sending out resumes and promos). There's always tomorrow I guess...perhaps tonight.