Now what?

I came to my blog today because I habitually have to do the 30-Day Challenge, but I guess I'm done now...

I need to keep using this blog. I like it. I like writing...

Hopefully inspiration strikes me sooner rather than later...

While you wait, here's one of my favourite pictures from Ad Liberation's show at Jurassic Park last week.

The 30-Day Challenge: Day Thirty

So, I've tossed around the idea of playing along with this facebook trend for some time. But I've never really enjoyed following trends. However, my apparent narcissism keeps bringing me back to it.

That being said, I'm going to participate, but I'm going to do it here, instead of on facebook. (The goal is to satisfy my narcissism, as well as motivate me to start using my blog again.) Enjoy!

Day Thirty - A picture of someone you miss.

If I were to write this blog in a year, I could probably put a picture of just about anyone. For now, however, the people I miss most are the friends I made during my semester abroad. It was such a phenomenal time, and I grew so close with the friends I made that semester in such a short amount of time.

This photo was taken in Greenwich, England, at the Prime Meridian. I'm at the top, then Andy, Alissa and Jenna. We took a trip out there so Alissa could stand in both hemispheres at the same time while she was in London visiting (Andy, Jenna and I had gone out there once before already). It was such a great afternoon. Andy and I also had another conquest climbing trees in the park there. We had such a blast together all semester, and in particular that week Alissa was in town. She and I also spent a ton of quality time together while Jenna and Andy were at rehearsals, and I knew from the get-go that we were meant to be together, because she bought MGMT's album the day she arrived.

As a bonus photo, below is the tree Andy and I climbed...

The 30-Day Challenge: Day Twenty-Nine

So, I've tossed around the idea of playing along with this facebook trend for some time. But I've never really enjoyed following trends. However, my apparent narcissism keeps bringing me back to it.

That being said, I'm going to participate, but I'm going to do it here, instead of on facebook. (The goal is to satisfy my narcissism, as well as motivate me to start using my blog again.) Enjoy!

Day Twenty-Nine - A picture that can always make you smile.

Here's another prompt that I feel I've addressed already. To be fair, this could be just because I always associate smiling and laughing. Although, quite a few of the photos I've chosen during this challenge-process could be used today make me laugh and smile, probably because I always take photos that make me laugh. (For those of you too lazy to follow links, consider that paragraph a montage of this 30-Day Challenge; all it needed was some music).

The photo above was taken Easter Sunday, 2009--which happened to fall the first weekend of my spring break studying abroad. I attended Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square, with the Pope presiding. In an effort to make my life as full-circle as possible, I thought it was the best picture given today (and I wore that shirt this morning). It was a wonderful experience to get an opportunity to go the Vatican and see everything, but to do it on such a day, and get to see the Mass in all it's grandeur was really something.

Also (shameless self-promotion warning), I did write a song about my Sunday that year.

The 30-Day Challenge: Day Twenty-Eight

So, I've tossed around the idea of playing along with this facebook trend for some time. But I've never really enjoyed following trends. However, my apparent narcissism keeps bringing me back to it.

That being said, I'm going to participate, but I'm going to do it here, instead of on facebook. (The goal is to satisfy my narcissism, as well as motivate me to start using my blog again.) Enjoy!

Day Twenty-Eight - A picture of something which you are afraid.

I've always had an irrational fear of heights. I always have; I assume I always will. If you cannot, this is what it looks like if you look straight down from the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was an incredible sight to see. Although, I didn't get a look quite like this; I had to reach my hand far outside the net and point my camera downward to get this view. I will say, even looking at this gives me a bit of a chill.

I try not to let the fear slow me down. There are things I want to do, regardless of this fear. I love riding roller coasters, but man do they scare the life out of me. When I visited Paris, I went with someone else who claimed to be afraid of heights. They refused to climb the tower. I thought that was an unfortunate life decision. I can't imagine turning down an opportunity of such momentous proportions for anything.

Sure, I was afraid, but it was a rush. I was scared to look down, but it was incredible...

UPDATE: Meigan wins a prize, because she realised I rewrote today's prompt so it would not end with a preposition. If you noticed, too, you should have said something.

The 30-Day Challenge: Day Twenty-Seven

So, I've tossed around the idea of playing along with this facebook trend for some time. But I've never really enjoyed following trends. However, my apparent narcissism keeps bringing me back to it.

That being said, I'm going to participate, but I'm going to do it here, instead of on facebook. (The goal is to satisfy my narcissism, as well as motivate me to start using my blog again.) Enjoy!

Day Twenty-Eight - A picture of yourself and a family member

Well, here's another prompt that I feel like I've explored already once before (maybe twice, honestly). I say that because I don't really have any digital photos with my parents. I don't know if that says something awful about me. In my head, it's only because I don't usually have my digital camera and want to use it at the same locations I'm with my parents--and they get really snooty with me about taking photos of them.

So here again is a photo of my brother, Phil and I; this time we are modeling the greatest in winter-wear accessories. This was from Christmas a couple years ago. The three of us went shopping at the University Park Mall the weekend before Christmas, and it was a madhouse. While trolling around JC Penny's, we found these obnoxious hats, and decided they needed to be documented.

Phil and my brother are my closest family. Like mentioned in previous posts, they've been with me, and the closest to me for the longest. When I do end up leaving for the Peace Corps, they're going to be who I miss the most of all...