blue and brown books

It is Monday, 4.21.08 and it is sunny and hot.

I wore shorts today and finished my 35mm roll by noon. I had it developed and they couldn’t print it, so for most of the evening I spent my time trying to figure out how to develop your own negatives with a scanner and GIMP. I think I’ll turn it in to a blog post. The Blue and Brown Books grows larger and more irrelevant and aim-less. After studying my 35’s I realize I’ve been shooting with the wrong bulb mode on. There is one 1/100 shutter speed and one ‘hold button down to stay open’ shutter speed. I’ve been shooting on the second mode and basically ruined most of my photos.

It should be okay, it’s all the magic of film. Being wrong, and living with it. It’s like built-in meticulousness.

I woke up and my jaw was swollen. It happened last year about this time. My wisdom teeth on the bottom are still coming in, and apparently it’s a blocked saliva-gland thing and it makes it swell up. I’ve got a wicked bad fever now, and I’m just trying to not feel like shit. I’ve got a bunch of movies saved up for when Jeannine comes, but I think this is a boredom emergency.

I had to cancel on Kozue for Karaoke night, something I’ve been looking forward to for a few weeks now. It just hasn’t been working out, and I feel awful that I couldn’t make it, but glad I didn’t go because it would have been awful. It was really great of her to mention she would help me to the doctor’s office if I needed to go and translate for me.

I’m going to crash out now. I’m feeling microwaved. Cold on the inside, boiling hot on the outside. I hope I don’t die!