if i could tell the story in words, i wouldn't need to lug around a camera

elojo @ 2005-07-05T10:07:00

2005-07-05T14:13:44Z

last night was so much like the seventh grade

i haven't had fun like that so long

keith is going to sleep over some time

oh summer, you have this way of bringing us back

elojo @ 2005-06-29T11:03:00

2005-06-29T15:07:47Z

today - 4-9 pm

friday- 8-4 pm

sunday- 7-3pm

somebody come and visit me at the dining car, okay?

elojo @ 2005-06-27T13:18:00

2005-06-27T17:35:12Z

what can i say?

elojo @ 2005-06-22T11:34:00

2005-06-22T15:47:56Z

first day of work today. i'm kind of nervous/excited.

tomorrow is kambo day! (kyle + sam day)

friday work again and then i think i'm taking the train downtown with keith to get john a present

hopefully everything goes according to plan...

stay frothy,

sam

elojo @ 2005-06-20T09:34:00

2005-06-20T14:29:34Z

Recap. i'll keep this short.

wednesday- went out with annemarie and tess. the rest of my pictures from that day came out really blurry and dark, and no matter how much i try to fix them, in the end they come out grainy and distorted. oh well, there'll be other nights i'm sure.

yesterday- went to a family outing at the bocce club. spent most of the time outside with my brother climbing trees and fencing with branches.

what happened to thursday, friday, and saturday? you will never know. or understand.

why do pictures look different on everyone's computer? my pictures look a lot darker on my computer than everyone else's, which is really frustrating because what i see is not what everyone else sees.

and why is everyone down the shore? or away period?

i wrote some stuff that i might post later. maybe.

elojo @ 2005-06-15T17:35:00

2005-06-15T21:44:50Z

one of the few bruises on my left leg

i need to get out places. nature it beautiful and i do love taking pictures of it, but it gets old.

i'm relieved. a little hurt, sure, but more open and less anxious than i've been. i guess things are lookin' up.

elojo @ 2005-06-10T14:51:00

2005-06-10T19:04:21Z

there's a pool outside my basement door

i honestly have nothing to say. the weather sucks.

elojo @ 2005-06-09T18:28:00

2005-06-09T22:32:28Z

i'm not having a good day.

elojo @ 2005-06-07T20:56:00

2005-06-08T01:11:55Z

my dad offered to take me up to cora. we only stayed for no more than half an hour because it was getting late and we were getting eaten alive by mosquitos. i don't care if i go alone up there anymore. i need to go back up there. it's amazingly beautiful. i can't wait to spend a longer time up there to get better pictures

elojo @ 2005-06-06T22:16:00

2005-06-07T16:31:57Z

so, some storm. i wanted to get a picure of the sky for photo contest, but i wasn't putting my life on the line with all that lightening flashin' about. the best i could get were some crappy shots from the car in eckerd's parking lot-

yeah. but i was really scared while i sitting in the car. my mom parked near all of the trees at the far end of the parking lot and all the lightening was flashing all around the car. plus, she took forever because everyone decided that eckerd's was the best place to be during a thunderstorm.

i should start that body part collage. i have random body parts scattered in my files.

i have a lot of other ideas too.. i just need to sit down and write them down

i'm going to change this.

elojo @ 2005-06-06T09:27:00

2005-06-06T14:40:20Z

this weekend was a good one. quick recap-

friday- i stayed in. the best part of my night was coming across that box of old letters that i find every now and again from 7th and 8th grade. notes like "sam- the boys are in trouble because someone said tim peed on the bathroom floor" from mandy humored me and made me feel a little nostalgic. i found this quote that kind of stuck to me in one of the letters,

"That which does not kill you only makes you stranger."

saturday- saw the non sequitor adventures of jack and dave at dougherty, went to joseph's pizza afterwards and ate some yucky onion rings

sunday- spent most of my day at john's, then went to a birthday dinner at ruhling's for my grandmom

sadly, i did not get to go to cora this weekend. i need someone to go with me because i don't want to go alone. hopefully, i'll get up there this week

i'm done school on wednesday and we should party. you all know who you are.

what else? hm.. i won 2nd place for that photocontest thing. this week's theme is "sky," and next week's is "my transportation." i'll be brainstorming

here's some pictures i played with that i took a couple of weeks ago i think, since i didn't get to take any new ones this week

i actually did take that one this weekend when i had to go to graduation at nazareth. there's a little graveyard between our school and holy family college for all the nuns that died. it just amazed me/creeped me out that all the graves looked exactly the same. i still want to change the color or something, but i do like it as a color charcoal

i really don't like taking pictures of myself. it's just that i have no one else to take pictures of. that's why i can't wait until summer so i can take the train or bus somewhere and get to see new people and places. sometimes i think i could watch people all day.

elojo @ 2005-06-02T21:17:00

2005-06-03T01:41:23Z

feeling a bit better today.

and my show is on tonight, yay.

today i found a bird nest that must have fallen out of my tree out front

i plan on doing better things with that bird nest. as for now it's on my fiber-optic tree in my room..

i like this picture like this -

and this picture amuses me, the person said they took it on south street-

haha.

anyway, i want to go to the woods near cora this weekend. even if i have to go alone.

starting tomorrow i _________.

2005-06-01T17:10:00Z

today i woke up and i felt like-

and things haven't really improved since then. i just feel lousy. and repulsive. today's weather has a 80% chance of lethargy with scattered mania in the early evening.

the good news is that exams are over.

jen, this next picture is not for your eyes

saw it on the way home and nearly got hit by a car while trying to take the picture.

i can change and will as you watch.

old war stories

2005-06-01T01:31:22Z

well, i'm proud to say that i did get some studying done.

here's the vietnam pictures i mentioned earlier. these were in a deteriorating scrapbook i found in the deep dark depths of my upstairs closet. from looking at some of these pictures, i really wonder what i would do if i were one of these men, you know?

obviously, i didn't take any of these pictures. i didn't edit any of them either. i like them just the way they are and wouldn't want to destroy their old quality.okay, i'll stop talking and just post them-

my dad is on the left

doesn't the kid behind my dad look so young?

i could have been half phillipino?

she's really pretty

and now my personal favorite-

amazing.

elojo @ 2005-05-31T15:49:00

2005-05-31T19:55:36Z

still haven't tackled those exams yet. i'm trying to convince myself right now that i'm just on "break."

but here! instead i did a picture for photocontest. the theme of the week is "toaster"

i found all these really old vietnam pictures of my dad that i might post. they're pretty cool. my dad used to look good with a mustache. and hair in general.

collage?

2005-05-31T13:28:25Z

i have to study for exams all day, which will prevent me from doing just about everything. why did i wait for the last possible day to study for bio? i'm screewwedd

that aside, i'm thinking about doing a college of body parts. i'm still playing with these-

i wish my eyes had color. anyway, it'd be great to get some other people's eyes, lips, hands, etc. for variety's sake. my family is tired of me attacking them with the camera and forcing them to pose when it's only convenient for me. hm.. maybe i could do a family collage sometime.but back to the point- here's your chance to be a hand model! do it do it do it..

the ones mother gives you won't do anything at all

2005-05-31T03:02:56Z

did these yesterday-

me and my mom went to this place to go get flowers and they had a lot of weird lookin' gnomes. i was quite overwhelmed.

gooodnight.

velocet

2005-05-31T02:54:09Z

just experimenting with these. i'm waiting to take some more pictures of john and keith

here's a watercolor-

(left= keith, right=john)

and here's the same picture, believe it or not. i did it as a kalidescope-

oh and http://www.purevolume.com/velocet, for those of you who maybe don't know. if this is you, click.. now!

the five hour train

2005-05-31T02:26:35Z

may 26th and 27th- the two weirdest days of my life by far. being that this is a public journal, i'll leave it at that. i think you get the idea.

anyway, the actual story behind the five hour train is this- me and annemarie were in anne stasson's back yard. we were jumping on her trampoline for a long time and annemarie got off of it and went inside while i layed there for a while. the sky was white static and it looked like little white gnats were falling all around me like snow. yeaaah. anyway, anne's backyard is behind a really busy street so it's really noisy. it sounded like one long, continuous train. then i had this weird dream, i was inside the train and i imagined all the passengers and had conversations with some of them, including a crazy old man with wiry blue hair and a gold pocket watch. eventually i snapped out of it came back in and annemarie said something like "man, you were sitting out there for like five hours." and so, the five hour train was born.

that night, i wrote a lot. i'd post the most decipherable of scribbles i found on my floor the next day, but it's kind of embarassing. but that's what pictures are for, right? so, here's some pictures from the 26th-

miscellaneous

2005-05-31T01:45:40Z

okay, it's getting kind of late and i'm getting kind of tired. therefore, i'll post these pictures as miscellaneous. they don't really have a theme anyway. some are old, some are kind of new. enjoi.

here's some ones of my brother

^this one is old

child's play

2005-05-31T00:42:25Z

these are also fairly old, but much newer than the previous post. one day i was picking flowers in my back yard and found my old samantha doll in a rose bush. at first i was sad with how beaten up it had become, then i saw it as a great photo prop. to this day i still haven't cleaned it. it now sits on my shelf with its painted red lips and a small golden chalice in its hand.

there's something about that picture done in finger painting that appeals to me

okay, not the same doll. but that doll means a lot to me, considering who gave it to me.

elojo @ 2005-05-30T18:36:00

2005-05-30T23:29:14Z

these are old old pictures. some i'm sort of satisfied with and some should be edited. for the most part, i've given up on these but i feel bad deleting them. that's

become a bad habit of mine.

i actually kind of like that one of me and my dad

fuckin' want to bomb that building. damn you cora for selling out!

my dead daises. i still have them and refuse to throw them out. i like the way dead flowers look

and for the finale...

naked sam baby!!

ah, that's better. now i can delete these old ones from my computer without the guilt. that's all for now i suppose. i'll be updating soon... like tonight. so yeah. keep posted.