La La Bop

So yes, i am currently being overwhelmed by the amount of Russian Homework I have, and I am learning so much in the language, i just can't prove it. So i wish she would just reset and assign some new stuff.



ok.



I am currently anticipating my birthday and hope to get everything done before it happens. which might be impossible but i will try to die trying. My birthday, oh oh oh. You know my last birthday was so miserably depressing i can't wait for this one to happen. and since facebook exists, everyone will know! ah. i am making goody bags, i believe. Anyone that wishes me a happy birthday will get one. I will just have a back pack of them! Ah that is such a great idea. I am listening to ska music. Ben.



Im older than everyone and act like this. This is good. What else? I didn't get that photography job. Yes it turns out they had 15 kids applying and though my photo skills are "strong" they denied me. Which is ok, but it was in an email. Which is like breaking up in an email, though generally accepted, the turn down over the internet. YOU HAVE A NEW MESSAGE! YOU YOU YOU NO NO NO.



its ok, because i run down the halls and i fill up my water bottle every time and the lunch ladies smile when they see me.



I also want to say hello to all the readers in Russia! I am studying Russian, finally, and hopefully will be able to write some letters. I just hope i have time. In a month or two i could probably write something very grammatically correct.



Horns.

So for those who dont get actual physical goody bags, here are some.



Emma had a birthday. She is a very tall friend and in this photo, looks like the lady in Death to Smootchy.



I painted a bike for her. With little hearts.



Because that was the style in Germany and i thought it was amazing amazing. and We have this great old bike that we found. Emma Brendt and I. But it was old and black and ugly, so Brendt took it to the store and got air in the tires and a bell and aligned the chain. And i bought blue paint and red nail polish and was going to paint it ANYWAY, but i also got an adjustable screw for the seat, so now even Emma can change the height of the seat and ride it. Wonderful.



Aw.







Real photos.

I took this one at night too, experimenting with the shutter speed. Like a bike. Its the main campus area. the brochure frisbee field. by night.





This is where i have math. Fuck mathematics in a mathematical building. BORING. awe, thanks tree. Thank you for adding chaos to the order some man built.





A really cool band i saw a few weeks ago. Little Claw. This lady was, basically, incredible.





Another show before the first one. These guys are brothers and play in a band called....Joe Headband or something. I met some nice kids at this show.





I walk through this building everyday, as there is an arch through it. I want to take photos of this at different times of day and at different times of year. From the same angle. Like Monet, sorta.





Sun through the trees, blagh blagh.





AND here is something incredible. I wonder where they park it.







Thank you very much, everyone.



I think I'll go to sleep now and possibly have myself a great monday, full of work, full of productivity, full of rain and bike rides and my last teenage year is almost over.



I have almost completed my 19th year on earth, earning me the official title of 19, inspiring awe in little kids and making growing up even more real and even more of a thing to conquer and to fight.



But you know, as long as i can make people uncomfortable, i am doing something right. I believe.



HA!

strange.

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Tomorrow I am continuing my evaluative process at the Michigan Daily. I hope to get onto the photograph staff there. Staph. I want to so much. They know i am an amateur, but maybe they will be sympathetic. Somehow, the arrogance and general disinterest of the editors just made me want it more, and i think i have a chance, i want that chance and i want my name on paper that is touched by thousands of people everyday. Can you imagine?



Russian is giving me the most difficulty because of the work. But I think that is her strategy, to flood to force me to do something everyday and then a little more and i can already tell. And that is beautiful because i can see its working. Because my head was so tired today afterwards.



I wake up usually at 8 and go swimming for a half hour. Its enough. afterwards i walk back to the dorm and it feels so warm and the sun is rising and caressing and somehow reaching under my clothes and massaging something, something to give a warm squeeze of sweat. Ah i love it when legs feel like nothing and no one can exactly empathize at that exact moment because they dont know that I am going to the cafeteria to eat my eggs and starches and to have chocolate milk and apple juice after that. and it is so good that i could burst. and i do because its expansion.



Dave Eggers has been around for this month. I enjoy every opportunity. On wednesday i said, "awesome" under my breath after the political science lecture and meant it and then was surprised but for a second it made sense. HAHA! it does because with war nature comes with it and we become ourselves. with chaos laws disolve and we dont care because we may not even live long enough to be punished.



I have known all of you for years.





















It isn't lonely. Its so good.

Routine Comes Into the Play

So I am starting my second week of classes. I enjoy them very much, though they offere quite a challenging amount of work. I have been spacing everything out, however, and end up having my evenings pretty much free. This is very enjoyable, but involves a lot of going to the library... etc. I find that i like working an hour at a time and then taking a break and giving another hour. it works pretty well for me, anyway.

So here we are at school, on the Diagonal square right in the middle. All of the fraternities are advertising themselves. Eh.




This is the huge computer lab. Its called the Fishbowl and just has as many macs as you want. The dual G5 towers. wow.




Something.




This is the union and a lot of the buildings are made in a style that suggests art deco, but not so grandeous. But old and ganger movie-like, i find.




This is Baird, my room mate. From the Upper Peninsula, which means something up here in Michigan.




And a cool cool kid named Bill. Very honest eyes this kid has.




And some sad ones:








i love it here.

Welcome Week

Hello! I am at college, i am proud to say. I also have to tell you that is amazing. This week has just been a time of adjusting, fun, meeting new, wary friends, exploring surroundings, eating, staying up late, waking up late, feeling young, ignorant, small, clean, beardless, fresh, as they say.

I have just spent these mostly free, irresponsible days walking around, buying books, looking around, being with friends, everything nice like that. It doesn't make sense almost. that im here, you know. that this is really what it was all supposed to be. and i love it. i love it so much.

I am proud and happy that our school has buildings like this:



and huge lush campus trees, with long walkways and blankets of green grass for people of all walks of life to walk and lay on.



you know. its all here.



This is my bed and my half of the room. I really like my bed. The desk area also has my bookshelf that is full of books. So everyone can come look and start conversations. it works very well.



This is more of the campus. I dont know what this building is.



Some other dorms far away from mine.



My friend Emma, my roommate Baird, and I went to Meijer Madness. the university teamed up with Meijer, a supermarket, and brought a night of fun activities. It was sort of ridiculous. There was a welcoming crew:



Lots of people, traffic jams, chaos.





No telescopes. "telescopes"



there was also a lot of free stuff to try. sometimes one would have to do some crazy task to attain the treat. Here i am playing musical chairs for a cupcake. i won immediately.



More people, themed balloons.





Afterwards my roommate and i worked on rearranging our room. i love our room.



This is the courtyard of my dorm. I noticed yesterday that this tree is massive. I also walk through here a lot. My room look down into it from the second floor.



oh oh this is my friend Brendt. He lives in my dorm and is just a very enjoyable person. This is him playing his Theremin. I can't really explain this guy. Funny funny.



I found these balloons today. Powerful lifting forces.



Well, again i want to show you the beautiful campus that exists in Ann Arbor, Michigan



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This is my working area now. I love it.




So my classes start on tuesday. Wish me luck, i am sure they will be great great great.

because they will be.

Kostya.