Joachimesque

The awesome news is that I’ll be graduating in May!

Yay for May :)

I should be in South America at that time, slowly making my way to Alabama. I’m just sayin’.

Speaking of graduation and next semester, here’s the class line-up so far: French phonetics and linguistics, French literature (something 17th c.?), cultural anthropology + lab, Photo 418, and a one hour for-credit internship with Slash Pine Press. Slash Pine will publish a chapbook (handmade) in the spring, as well as organize a poetry festival.

Post-graduation plans? I’m trying to get back to France for the summer — for the Cannes Film Festival as an intern,

Mmmh, that could be tough to get, an internship at Cannes. My little brother had one because he knew people… I may have a lead, if you need ;)

but perhaps back to Paris thereafter. Maybe to get certified to teach French, maybe just for a quick visit and a little tooling around town to see friends. All still very much in the works, nothing solid yet. Hello couch-surfing and 99-centimes-baguettes!

It’s not a perhaps. Summer is nicer in Paris. And Summer begets Autumn, and Paris will be better in Autumn. Know why? ‘cause I’ll be back.

Then to New York? Question mark? If I can find full-time work I will jump on it, but based on what other grads have been experiencing, full-time work means waiting tables, which doesn’t much lead anywhere but waiting in the other sense. So I may apply for more/other internships to get more experience and shove my foot through some doors. I considered grad school, but waiting on all my transfer credit to come through from abroad meant I lost a lot of time. Then, you know…there’s that other bit about not knowing what I want to commit myself to just yet. The smorgasbord goes something like: MLIS, MFA in book arts, art/rare books conservation, museum studies, interdisciplinary art, linguistics. Oh, the future. What a mystery you are.

Indeed. (mischievous smile)

I’ve got a new gig redesigning a site and publishing exhibition catalogs/photography anthologies for a project here in town (more on that later). I’m taking on a book project of my own, as well; I’m assembling a portfolio of the photography I generated during the year I lived abroad, and have a small budget from one of the colleges here at UA. I’ll be printing with Blurb.com, a self-publishing service, and I’m anxious to see the results and print quality. Do any of you have experience with Blurb’s photo books?

I think my cousin used Blurb for a photo project. I’ll ask him.

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