| Greetings Anemone Ra!
Well.....a long list of events unfolded in my life within the last three days, but first I must thankyou for the darkroom instructions because I finally got pictures to turn out! I of course was too impatient to use the test strip method, but I've decided I'll start, I can see it working to the better methinks. I read about "Enlarger Timers" or something like that, is this true, are there actually timers to do this so I wouldn't have to count "One one-thousand, two one-thousand" in some kind of neolithic timing fashion that makes my friends and I laugh and potentially screw up pictures?
Anyways.... I had an interesting experience this weekend that I'm going to write about, you may not find it interesting or funny, and I imagine it's going to be long and quite possibly boring, so I'm giving you a warning....... Event 1: THE ROADTRIP- My two best friends and I have been planning this roadtrip to (some place in Canada) BC for about a week. It was a kind of a reunion because the three of us are really close and I was living in Quebec for a month and a half in some shitty appartment with two wierd roomates, Lee (The elder of us by one year) was travelling around BC and the states working with some program for around two months, and Yann...well Yann stayed home and did nothing with his life except hang out with his long time girlfriend Simone and smoke pot. So we leave, I've been driving for around 6 months, but this was the first time ever in a large city (The city of (some place in Canada) being some 450KM away) and had wrecked nerves due to bad drivers, honking, scary testoterone pumped guys glaring at me from red lights and the such.... Event 2: (some place in Canada)- Well (some place in Canada) was fun except the highly stressful city driving and lack of directive knowledge. I bought two new Cd's: One acid jazz called "The Sanfransisco Sessions" this time it was a different compilation, not done by Mark Farina but still good, and one by Mixmaster Mike, it's kinda wierd, but cool....if you like techno. A cute girl with bright red hair (I'm obsessed with bright red hair) smiled and, said "Hi" and waved, then was whispering to her friend and staring at me, it made me blush..... Event 3: The Trip Home (And the most amusing part)- So In (some place in Canada) I noticed my dashboard lights going a little funny, and about halfway home, things got really bad, and about 6 KM outside of this little two-bit town called "Greenwood" the car breaks down at the top of a hill.... I leave my two friends with the car and I hitchhike back to town.... Event 4: Ride Guy- The guy that picked me up asked me "What the hell I was doing in the middle of nowhere" and I explained our situation...and for reasons I'll never understand he became very angry at my car and started yelling for me or something? (I'm one of those people that never gets mad) so he was just screaming the entire trip back to town about things like "How bad the food is where he worked" and stuff? needless to say I was a little freaked... Event 5: The Mechanic- The mechanic was nice. He came out and got the car "running" just so we could get it back to his shop in town, whereupon he told us that the part wouldn't come in until afternoon the next day, and that we'd have to wait, what was I to do.... Event 6: Supper and Lodging- It was 9 o'clock and dark. We were hungry as ever (I hadn't eaten since 6 in the morning) and we saw a waitress flipping the open sign over in the window of the sole restraunt in this village, so we run for a block and burst inside and ask if we could eat? They reluctantly said okay, and after an hour of waiting I ate the most disgusting meal of my life.... LODGING: At 10 we leave the restraunt. Alll motels are on the otherside of town, closest being 1KM. So we trudge down the highway with these huge packs on and I run into the motel and ask for a room. We get everything straightened out, and as I go to tpay with Interact the manager says "Uh, didn't you read the sign!?! I only take Visa< Mastercard, And american express!"
"Um, do you accept cash??" I ask of him politely,
Upon closer inspection, in big bold writing, the caption read: So I asked where the next motel down the road was, he replied with a grin on his face "One and a half miles down the road." Mouth drops open.... So we walk for a mile and a half, and I inquire about another room...none left! Ahhhhh! I ask agin, "Is there another motel in this town?!?!" "Yeah, it's down the road a bit..." So we continue our delightful little romp down the road, and I see the last kindled lght that would be the motel. I ask with a look of desperation strewn across my face for a room, sure there is...for $67.00. Okay I'll take it.... My Sleep: The room had 3 beds, one for each of us. Big place. I decide considering I paid for this ghetto room, I'm entitled to the double bed with the TV beside it, and Lee and Yann can fuss over the twin beds in the other room, what with their snoring and the likes. Turns out they had a delightful sleep, while I listened to the enchanting PURRRRRRRRRR!!!!! of semi trucks downshifting on the highway.....every .45 minutes! So no sleep for me! Event ?, I can't even remember....- So the next day we leave, and lay around hungry in a park (We're broke now) for 4 hours waiting for my car. At 2:30 we trudge 3 KM back to the mech. shop and it turns out my car cost $271.00 to get fixed. Phonecall.
"Dad, I um need $300.00 bucks to get home.." so we wait, get the money in a bank machine, pay and go home. Total cost of the road trip for me: around $400.00. great eh? Anyways, I apologize Anemone Ra, for writing for so long, but I love to write and yeah, well, thanks again for giving me techniques, and sorry for the novel of an email. It took me .45 min. to write. now I have to phone Melissa as she was worried about me driving in the city and I promised I'd phone her AS SOON as I got home, so,
Ciao, |