return from iowa

so freggin' cold. so cold. i think it brought the cold west with me, because it was apparently around 65 the day before i landed. outside temp for my arrival? around 20. i'm a zombie now, but i wanted to post tonight before i begin an intense study of my inner eyelids.

i didn't knit at all while i was there. (WHAT????) tired hands for some reason.
thoughts....

maybe it was the cold.
maybe it was the corn.
maybe it was the pork on my plate at dinner last night that i had to gently avoid.

however, two nights before i left i set up the daylab jr and practiced printing a few slides i took a few years ago. i totally figured out what i had been doing wrong before! duh. i am re-energized now and am looking forward to trying new things! i went to cvs and bought a ton of candies to photograph....dropped off the film the night before i left but it still isn't back. when i handed the film to the kid at cvs he didn't understand why i didn't want prints.

"wait you don't want any prints?" asks he.
"it's slide film," says i.
"but you don't want prints?" repeated he.
"no. it's slide film. you don't make prints. you make slides," responded i.
"uh ok," mumbled he.

dude, just put it in the box. you don't take care of it anyway.