I have no idea what happened to August . . . just kind of came and went and no blogs. Went to a couple of weddings - saw lots of friends. I've been working hard (which means spending a lot of time online) and playing hard (which means spending as much time as possible OFFLINE) and basically having no energy to do things like blogging or otherwise keeping up with anything on my site. . . I guess it's healthy to take a break now and again. I do have lots of pictures to post - some new portraits, photos from Payam's wedding in Big D, photos from Sarah's wedding in Newport - both of which were incredibly fun. I will post these soon . . . hopefully.

One thing that might be contributing to my lack of online journal maintenance is that I have actually started keeping a more traditional, offline journal - something I haven't done in quite a while. There are just certain aesthetic things you can only do with an offline journal, and which you can not really replicate with an online blog. For instance, I've been doing a lot of clipping and pasting of things into my journal from places I've been, things I've done. There's something very raw and immediate about pasting materials into a journal - portions of a Mike's Bakery box that once contained two yummy cannolis, a napkin from a wedding. Sure I could scan these things and post them, but it just wouldn't be the same.

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