Yesturday, I reasoned it out to my benefit.

And bought myself an external hard-drive and a new camera. The new camera is far more fancy-fangled than my last one, although about the same as the one I borrowed last summer during fishing (by borrowed, I mean stole from a person I was working with who never used the damn thing). My reasoning behind this outlandish purchasing is that art begets art and if there's enough reason to be photo'ing, then there's more reason to be writing. Since I'm both excited and nervous about getting back into the groove with my now-1.5-months here in Chicago--during which I really need to finish the writing for my thesis project, which means a lot of new writing and a lot of revising--I figured I'd add a new muse, Melete, to my other digital muses (Calliope the iPod and Polyhymnia the computer).

So, you'll be seeing a lot of photos hopefully now that I have this influence, and imagine me in the background trolling my imagination for the forward writing-mo that I see my Muses and my happiness (because I am happy, I should mention) creating. I thought i'd start with more photos of the porch haven flowers: