DEAR WORLD,

I may still update this sometimes, but I am trying out Blogspot.

http://thejourneychimerical.blogspot.com/

Much love from Sarajevo,

Christina

I look at the work of stunning photographers like Eugene Richards and I wonder what the hell I am doing.

Eugene Richards does not need to create art from the foreign. Eugene Richards reaches into the viscera of the close, and personal, and seemingly completely un-photographable (I do not care that it is not a word thank you) and pulls it out like he ( Read more... )

I have so many Valentine's Day roses!

There is this moment in La Dolce Vita when Sylvia is pressed by the paparazzi to admit her three favorite things in life, and they are as follows:

l'amore, l'amore, l'amore.

I am excited that spring is coming. I am listening to jazz songs and looking at Alexander McQueen's butterfly dresses. I am working on ( Read more... )

Melancholia was... beautiful. The weather has been quite pretty. I am now officially going to at least five new countries this year with: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. Will probably make my New Years goal of ten new countries with: Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Poland, Costa Rica. What does that number mean? ( Read more... )

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Oh, November, it looks like I missed you for Livejournal purposes. Whoops! Well, I guess it is almost Christmas!

So I sent in my graduate school applications (Harvard/GW/Gtown/Hopkins) about a week and a half ago, and today I am finishing up the first 30 pages of my thesis. This will be exhausting. However, I am also starting my free two weeks of ( Read more... )

Autumn Autumn Autumn.

I am getting a manual Nikon so I can learn darkrooms! My new selective focus lens (lensbaby!) is going to do SUCH COOL THINGS when affixed to it, too. I think I will shoot mostly black and white.

I am not going to law school. I am applying to four graduate schools. Only one isn't in DC and that one is in BOSTON. Once I am done ( Read more... )

I started this one business that grew human hearts in filthy, festering greenhouses.

It is comforting to remember that you can take yourself anywhere and still be you-only and not anyone’s bitch and just ALIVE.

So, Mathias Svalina has this beautiful little poetry book called I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur. I bought it from him last night. The ( Read more... )

September is full of possibility and excitement and vigor BUT ALSO full of logistics and stress and delicate balancing acts and possibly severe sleep deprivation but hey, who can say what is “deprived?” Certainly not me!

I have my GRE exam on this Saturday and my LSAT next Saturday… which, in retrospect, may have been poor planning. I suppose that ( Read more... )

The person next to me in this coffee shop has been making some pretty interesting web searches.

"How to feel good"

"Who is Yoko Ono?"

"Nice song lyrics"

My corner of the store is like an episode of National Geographic. This is because there are about twenty flies in this corner, and a spider has also cleverly established a web here, and so I can ( Read more... )