Well let's just say that I had quite a difficult time attempting to come up with something to do for this. I think Champaign is an incredibly bland city and there isn't much to see here, so I wanted to go ahead and use photos from my last summer. Unfortunately, I realized I took no photos, my friend Adam had taken all of them, as he's somewhat of a professional photographer and I figured he could take better pictures. So that choice was out. Then I thought "well how about my daily routine, going from my apartment to class?" Again, Champaign being a bland city gave me stop. That, and I just am not awake enough in the morning, nor do I really want to be taking a bunch of random photos of places while people are walking by. So that was another strike out. Then, as I was surfing facebook, I thought I struck gold. I noticed that in several of my pictures, I was wearing the same, white with black stripes button down shirt. I figured I could make it a ‘journey of the shirt’ and take pictures from each place that that shirt had been and put them up in a cool “Well that shirts been all over the world” sort of thing. But, unfortunately as I continued to look through my pictures, it dawned on me that not only do I not take a lot of pictures, but I didn’t wear that shirt in more than 10. Damn. So then things started to get more difficult, with me attempting to come up with various things that I could do, not wanting to do anything that would actually come from Champaign limited me. Unfortunately, I ended up going with pictures that at one point had been used as profile pictures, and the majority of them had been taken right here in my very favorite city. Now, the pictures don’t exactly tell a story, but they do show the 4 year journey that I’ve had since Freshman year. Not that it’s been a particularly long or hard journey, but a journey never the less. I found it interesting the different styling of clothes and hair that I’ve gone through in the last four years, and I wonder where I’ll end up in another four. Will I have extremely short hair? Long hair, yet again? Will I continue to buy clothes from stores like Express and wear only those? Or will I have evolved into something more sophisticated, wearing only suits? Or, is it possible that I will have become bored with looking this damn good (kidding) and just start bumming around in hoodies and sweaters, or some incredibly over-sized t-shirts? Only time will tell, and I think that adding to this in a few years will be an incredibly interesting thing to do and then subsequently view.
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