I should be taking a nap

I hate photographing total strangers.\nSo, of course, that is exactly what I am doing on a nice Monday afternoon when I should be inside taking a nap. I cannot believe I am missing a nap for this.\nNaps are an integral part of my life. Even more so than getting into embarrassing situations and having to sit there while my face turns incredibly red because it is a horrible, horrible part of my body and has a vendetta against me.\nThis has happened so many times, it's not even funny.\nActually, it is funny. Like that time I told the entire student body in a column that I sleep with a stuffed animal. Boy, that was humiliating. Wait, I wrote that in a different school's paper. And now, I have just told about 20,000 new people I sleep with a cotton-filled bear.\nCrap.\nWhy? Why? Why?\nJust kidding. Hahaha. Crap.\nAnyway, back to taking snapshots of people I've never met before in my life.\nThis was not my idea. This was the idea of my visual communications professor who I would say terrible things about except for the fact that I'm still in her class; so I'll leave it at she's a very nice lady.\nWith bad taste in assignments.\nThe worst part of taking pictures of strangers is that they're strangers. Thus, they don't know who I am. Thus, when I take a photo of them, they think I'm a complete psycho who quite possibly sleeps with a stuffed animal.\nIt was getting to the point where I would hold the camera by my hip and take a shot while passing by the subject.\nI felt just like a spy. Or a complete coward. One of those two.\nThe best part of taking pictures of strangers is that I can make anybody completely stop what they're doing just by pointing a camera at them. This is a kind of power I should not have.\nMy mother is about to tell a horrible story involving me, poison ivy and places where you absolutely do not want to have poison ivy. I point the camera.\nMyles Brand is about to raise tuition…again. I point the camera.\nSomebody is about to hire Louie Anderson to host a game show. I point the camera.\nI think you get the point.\nNeedless to say, this kind of power should be in the hands of a professional, not a humor columnist.\nHowever, I still had to take a few more pictures. Unfortunately, the sun was starting to set and I only had a few minutes to finish the assignment. So, I decide to use the famous photographing technique known as the "I Just Don't Care Anymore, So I'm Going To Take a Photo of Anybody Who Moves."\nThis style of photography was developed by Mark Cuban, the former IU student and current owner of the Dallas Mavericks who, when asked about the development of this technique said, "I hate referees and sometimes burn black and white striped shirts just for fun."\nAfter six random shots, I deemed the assignment done and with a little silent thank you to Mark Cuban, I took the roll of film out of the camera. I never have to take photos of strangers again.\nHowever, I do have to live with the fact that I've just told the entire IU campus I sleep with a stuffed animal and that's just as bad.\nCrap.