Very shortly I’ll be taking off for a day-long conference on campus. It’s being organized by friends and will feature mostly people from my department, so I’m anticipating much friendliness and catching-up during the breaks. I’m also just interested to see what others have been working on during those long months when I haven’t seen them.
I am reluctant to go, however, because my productivity has been far from stellar, and I would love to stay home and get in some more reading. Alas! On our rounds yesterday, though, Sydney and I stopped by the grocery store to ensure that our unproductivity could go on without hindrance of food shortage. While there I developed some film I’ve had sitting around in my camera for awhile. Awhile indeed–the film held pictures of the beautiful park we visited during our anniversary trip last August! It also held very funny pictures of Sydney sitting in the hammock in his shorts, looking down at a rabbit–who suddenly realized he had hopped into dangerous territory.
Now that we’re moving into digital-camera land, I don’t anticipate many more such pleasant surprises in our future filming. Now Sydney loads the pictures directly to our computer, I load them to a photo website, and we get them in the mail a few days later! Although handy, it does kind of take the fun out of it, never knowing what you’ll have stored in that little black canister!
Erin
Alan Schmierer