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October 24th, 2006:

bored in Indiana

So it looks like I’ll be in Indiana again next week. I’m beginning to feel a bit like Josh, though. It’s one part glamorous, one part business-man feeling, and one part utterly annoying. This should be the last one, though.

Being here without my own car is starting to get very old very quickly. I don’t mind hanging out with my boss. He’s actually a great guy and we get along great. But, it’s 8:40pm now, he’s in his room, and I’m itching to get out of mine. Walking isn’t really an option. Being in Indianapolis itself, I might be able to swing it. But here, North of the city, it’d be a 5 mile walk – maybe more – just to find the nearest retail/food establishment.

So, I implore you – my fine friends of the Intarweb – entertain me. Suggest things in and around a typical hotel room that I can try to photograph in the most artistic way possible with the equipment I have. You have until midnight tonight (Indiana time) to make your suggestions. The best suggestion wins…. something. I’m not sure what yet.

GO!

corn field in fall colors

We were a corn field dressed in fall colors;
Each beautiful, vivid, trembling leaf
a glorious indication of the cold end.

We burned our safe green hues at one another.
One last display of Yellow, and Red
and deep, deep, Orange.
All of our secrets clearly visible in the veins
that held our various colors together.
And our eyes never closed
for fear of missing anything.
We gave everything we had
knowing we’d have nothing left to give.

Burnt up, our exteriors became stiff and brittle
as quickly as our now darkened leaves once burned
from innocent green to the hottest of yellows.

The winds blew and we fell
down, down, down to lay
cold on the the earthen floor of winter.