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.

here is some more fun with pictures

Here are more pictures that i have manually taken, painstakingly conscious of light conditions, angle, timing, emotion. Yes. I also combine with photoshop, and feel very good indeed.

Some babes on the couch. They're sisters too!



Here is a picture of my friends at school in Germany.



If you didn't notice the cool, coincidental combination of jackets' colors.



Sun against hotels.



Dandelions fertilized in a dog poop field.



Lots of symbols in this one.



The cathedral in Cologne ascending forever.



My first photo with the camera.



Dont they look like an explosion?



Country backyard rock. Cowboy boots and a man with a scowl. do the bump.



A couch outside. It looks very dark in this picture, for some reason.



Josh and Zak. Someone else took this one.



A very good picture of darien looking like a toddler.



Kayak on the lake.



Damn ben... poor bernie.

One half of my August

Here are digital pictures again. this is just basically how i hung out with Nora the entire month of August. That is a good thing though. I have pictures of my other friends, but they are on real film, so once i scan those, i will get them up here. this is fun again.



kostya.