so today's experience

involved me busting my face on the asphalt while taking too sharp of a turn on my bike.

face study - 2008?

the young - fearless and invincible Linh Tran almost lost faith in himself.
a group of people surrounded me and tried to help,
while some older lady gave me some clean tissue to stop the bleeding
another lady advised me to go to the er to get stitched and to put a positive spin on it she said:
"girls love scar'
I was like.... "sweet..."
haha

bristol mountain emergency room - Geneva NY, 2007

but no.  the er?  do you know how much i'm gonna be set back going to the er?

young Linh doesn't have that kind of luxury, come on. we're not in college anymore, u break it, you pay for it.

it is true sometimes you dont realize what you have until you loose it.
what a strange concept.
but again, it makes so much sense because positive is only defined by the negative.
you recognize the line between yes/no,black/white,positive/negative that outline these zones only when you crosses from one to another.

I no longer have health insurance - this doesn't mean much when you're all good and healthy,
but when shit happens..... shit happens.

also realized that my jobs require a lot more than dignity and hardwork

they require glasses - came to depend on it so much it might as well be an extension of myself.  You can't be a good server without being able to make eye contact w/ the customers or seeing if their water is empty.

they take... hands - magical things - hands do everything for you,
they clothe you, they feed you, they wash you, they make you the freaking money. - my hands wash dishes for a living

Hand study - 2009

they also prefer prettier hands - hands that serve food need to have their nails trim and preferably without random open wounds or some other crazy shit