Very small photo update:

Self portraits are updated through the 15th and in the spring digital section I have photos up from some wanderings around St. Petersburg before the Moscow trip....

But I have some unfortunate news.

Well, not really. Nothing tragic happened. I didn't lose any photos, but it looks like I was an idiot (or just really distracted, I was doing all this during the insane two days after getting back from Moscow and before mom & dad arrived when I was trying to get the pictures all done for Bard) and after I sorted through and straightened and rotated and edited all of the photos from Moscow, I forgot to save about half of them (375 or so) into my final Moscow pictures folder. No, this does not mean I do not have photos from that portion of the Moscow trip -- they are all still there in my back up folders where I just copy all the photos straight from my camera -- it just means that I have to go back through and sort and straighten and rotate and edit them all over again before I can upload the Moscow photos. Either I forgot to save them or my external hard drive is some how getting fucked up when I use it at school and such, but either way, it means I have more work than I thought before I can upload the photos.

And so here is what I have decided....

After feeling really dejected and frustrated about this, behind on all of my photos, barely with time and the means to upload them at all, let alone go back and re-do work I already did, and now with even more and more pictures being taken every day and not having taken those off my memory cards and editing and sorting and rotating and straightening them too..... I've decided that my "travel period" starts NOW.

I'm sorry if you're all disappointed, but I don't want to spend my last three weeks here before Meri and I embark on our journey, sitting at Smolny on the computer uploading photos or borrowing Lauren or Louis's computer late at night to edit and sort photos for hours and not sleeping. I want to just enjoy my time here, take a lot of pictures, accumulate a huge fucking collection of them, and then when I am back at home in August, sitting around, exhausted, kind of dejected, I can go through and sort them all with enthusiasm, reliving all that shit when it will be fun for me to do it instead of an exhausting, overwhelming chore like it is right now.

So, basically, this is the end of photo updates until I am home in August. The only thing I am going to keep up on (or at least try to) will be my self portrait project as I am still hoping to do the second part of my 365 DAYS SHOW during the end of the week before Meri arrives (June 8th). But that's only one photo a day. That's not too bad. And maybe every now and then if I have a second I'll pull a couple of my key favorites from a photo-ing session on here to go with an entry.

Otherwise, suck it up and let me enjoy my last little bit of time here without stress or guilt.

Feel free to email comments, complaints, questions, concerns to my gmail.