I've had a bunch of RE shoots, and while only one of them has been in the boonies, I live in a state that is 95% boonies. So Derek and I drive through these long stretches of nothing and nowhere on our way to and from shoots. Poor Derek has to go with me so I don't get murdered. Or at least so if I get murdered, I don't get murdered alone. I am not trying to be a Dateline story, as my bestie says.
There are a LOT of antique stores...barns?...along these stretches of road. When we have time, we stop and check them out. We had an extra hour on Friday, so we stopped at an antique place in who the fuck knows where. It used to be a storage unit facility, and now all of the units are different stalls of expired junk. There was also a big ol' barn next to it that had even more junk in it, except the barn is where they kept the good junk. The junk that makes you go, "oooh, that's some nice junk!" There were a number of things in the good junk barn that I would have bought for myself if it weren't overpriced.
Derek and I have a game we play when we go into antique/thrift stores. The game is called, "How Long Until We Find Something Racist?" We introduced this game to Laurel, and the winning find was always hotly contested when we played in New Orleans. I'm usually cruising these kinds of places for things for the studio, and sometimes I forget to play until Derek reminds me. While we definitely played on Friday,, and found no shortage of racist paraphernalia, I am very excited by what we bought. Derek found a big trunk full of old Kodachromes, from various places around the world, circa the late 50s. As is our wont, we did as much research into who this family was with the information we had available.
We are the proud owners of the slightly grody, less than slightly racist photo memories of Dr. Eudra Brunner and friends. We've been very slowly organizing the photos by location when we can, and transfer them onto a digital medium. The photos, however culturally insensitive and classist they may be, are quite lovely when it's just the landscapes. One of the boxes is of the Saharan desert, and I'm very excited to see those photos. I'm hoping to post my favorites when they're all transferred over, but the next two months are going to be fucking INTENSE, so no idea if I'll even have the time in the foreseeable future.
We head up to STL for several days of working with models. I've got shoots for literally 12+ hours the 17th through the 20th. I'm exhausted just thinking about it, but I'm always grateful to spread my concept wings instead of just doing mermaid shoots or boudoir.
I'm still waiting to hear back about if I can transfer to the counseling psych grad program. This semester has been such a slog, I've spent more time crying this semester because I've been so stressed and not understanding why. And it dawned on me after a few zoom meetings with my professors and advisor..I just do not care about this career path. I care about it...conceptually. But I am far from invested in it. And having to break my ass and flood my brain for something I have no interest in is exhausting.
Derek and I have to finish making the wings by Friday. That is going to be a slog for real. The next few days are going to be so much. So fucking much. But Rhyann gets here in a little over a month, and then it's barely a week until we leave for Ithaca!! And then Chicago!! I'm so excited for this trip. I'm taking a break from grad school, so no classes this summer for me. And I am so excited for the break.
There is definitely a lot going on in the next few months, but for the most part, I am truly looking forward to all of it.
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