becoming very overwhelmed quickly. have been exhausted.

can't wake up anymore. sleeping through entire alarms.

setting multiples has yet to work. for some reason the sound doesn't stir me.

eel my body slowly shutting down. starting with my brain.

:/:/:/ i haven't gotten lower than a 'b+' this semester on anything.

in fact. i led the class in midterm grades for an art history course.

but. somehow things misalign for me. but of my own fault anyway.

even baldo is bored in class today.[ sacred sights/art of medieval pilgrimages...]

opted to take it because, truly, the material is interesting. in fact i love it.

but the professor is both the softest and the slowest speaker i have ever had.

business card mockup:::

albums of the day (all of which happen to contain my name in the title:])

uuhhhmmmmm....

more awesome places unlikely of travel:

Underwater Alexandria, Egypt: cleopatra's true palace was submerged under a ton of the landlubbers of Alexandria's feces and sewage and run off... i'm sort of a shakespeare nerd. this is the first thing to make me use the term "epic".  after my naive run in with 10ft waves at the wedge in newport beach,ca, i have had reoccurring dreams about falling into the ocean and becoming stuck after the break of multiple huge waves. which is terrible, since i love the ocean. i wake up swimming in bed sometimes.  apparently an underwater museum is being planned. if my plan of working in a museum pans out, maybe i can get a job there. 

museum:

kowloon wall city: it existed until early 1990s... it's a tiny area in taiwan that resisted the british's attempt at pillaging. since it was a tiny, surrounded, walled off area, when it boomed, they could only build skywards.  It created a strange mystery labyrinth and acted as a haven against police for drugs and debauchery.  anyway, it was destroyed. actually, a jackie chan movie was filmed in it... most of the explosions are real acts of building demolition. i think there's a park in its place. i wold probably be too worried about meandering ghosts to ever physically go in its existence, anyway. photos are from late 80s.

i'm going to daydream tonight. get out of midterm mode.

places i wish i could visit, but are impossible to do so....

 bhutan. one must petition for permission to enter this land locked area in the himalayas through their  government and the only way to travel is via tour caravan.  these treks include a pack mule/ass, tour guide, assistant and horseman, out of sight as, virtually, your assistants.  They run ahead of you and set up camp so as to have a hot cup of tea waiting for you in your dining tent upon arrival.  an indulgent trip to see buddhist monasteries? i would never be able to go and experience it purposefully.

the caves at lascaux, france.  so.... one of the most pristine examples of prehistoric art, virtually the appearance of art itself, housing huge caves of pigment coated walls. images included: reindeer, bulls, stags, horses, and even a strange unicorn looking creature. anyway. after its discovery, when tourism boomed, the pigments on the wall began to fade from over exposure to carbon dioxide from visitors breath. So now the caves harbor a bunch of mold that is growing on top of the images due to hot tourist breath. nowadays you can visit a huge, intricate cement replica  meh...

^^old cave^^

^^new cave^^

"A verdant landscape filled with beaufiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulous clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasently, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups."
- Martha Stewart on her idea of what happiness is

bellini ^
reliquaries: the left holding one of St John the Baptist's teeth,
the right, one of his fingers



i am reading 'the epic of gilgamesh'
though i have become more enamored with the ancient (Ishtar) poems about inanna.