Seeing Things

3:25 a.m. I am so tired that I am starting to see things... I swear I saw a spider on the coffee table by my feet like 3 minutes ago. I'm freaking out! I have been staying up pretty late the last few nights working on a couple of small design jobs on the side. Work Work Work... boring.

The other day I went to take some pics for work. I was walking around campus when I saw a large black cloud coming from the CTC. For those of you who are clueless as to what the CTC is, it is the technology building where my dept. is. The place I spend ridiculous amounts of time... from time to time.

I was excited. I thought that Wolfpack Auto was on fire. I didn't think of the consequences, I just had to go and see. I was really hoping that it would be really really on fire and I could take a picture of it... ah the dawn of my photo journalistic career was about to break. (Random narrative that ran in my head at the time.) I was psyched. I took a couple shots of the smoke pouring from the back of the building. I could smell that it was maybe some sort of rubber... maybe attached to a flaming car in the form of tires... or so I hoped.

I rounded the corner to peek into the courtyard. The firemen were lined up against the wall, looking bored. I peered further around the corner of the wall and saw that it was not the roaring blaze of my dreams, but merely a smoldering tire. That's it.

Sometime in August—most likely the weekend of the 17th, I am going home to Salem. I'm so excited! I am planning to visit Natalie in Portland and go to a show at the Doug Fir Lounge on Friday night. Pela is playing. I've never been to the Dough Fir and need a good enough excuse to go. It'll be an extension of my birthday bash... woo! I hate having a summer birthday. Those with summer birthdays get forgotten. We don't get presents from our friends—at least not in college—because everyone is at home, far far away. Ah. Who needs presents. I'm pretty sure I have everything I could ever want right now in my life. Except a macbook pro... and none of my friends/family are buying that for me... so my life is complete. If I could get anything, it would probably not be a thing. I would just like to spend time with my friends, do something fun, eat some good food... I guess this is what you want when you get too old to get presents. I like it.