Anxious

I have been slaving over web building today. Not only have I been trying to get this site in running condition, but I decided I was over the headache that is Wordpress, and switched my commercial work to a Wix site as well. Beautiful, yes! But most things would hope to be after approximately 12 hours alternating between the stool at the counter and the couch. My eyes are tired and my brain feels like mush. Did I mention I have three papers to write that are due tomorrow? Today, my craft won. My art school should be applauding me for procrastinating in the case of obsessing over my profession- I digress.

I've had this problem the last few days where I always want to do a million things, but it's always in the middle of a class. While I have fulfilled one of those urges by fixing up my web pages, the only other thing I can think about is the project I will be taking on this summer. I've been anxious to find interesting areas in the midwest that I'll be able to make trips to in a matter of months, and using them as the stage for my photographic work. Below I will list some of the places I have researched and found right in Michigan:

• The Sleeping Bear Dunes
• Mackinac Island
• Traverse City
• Holland
• Silver Lake Sand Dunes
• Sunrise Coast
• Big Rapids

These are all pretty well known areas. I'd like to visit them all but I'm actually more interested in the hidden gems; towns we don't hear about in the back woods that have sunlight seeping through the trees into the fields just right. Even writing about it makes me miss home. Maybe this will be more of a blind adventure; Scary? Intriguing? Maybe both. If anyone is interested in funding my insanity, feel free. At this rate of income I might be walking instead of driving. All in the name of passion, eh?

Goodnight all, though I shall probably continue to let my mind wander to the places my heart is longing for. They will be captured soon, though it is never soon enough.