ok, realized that i forgot to turn off mobile view when i made this. did that last night. it looks better this way. and involves less individual tapping to get to posts. just a stream of the most recent ones

also lots of spelling errors. i catch what i can. but don't really go back unless they're that glaring

rode ~18mi out to sheldon lake st. park to birdwatch. at the actual park i only saw three different species. was starting to feel like i wasted the effort but when heading home i stopped by the boat launch/fishing spot and saw another seven. which put me at ten for the day. one was a lifer, the rest i'd seen before. made sure to log them on ebird, since that's something i forget to do. app says i saw twenty-four different birds last year, which is wrong. was definitely more than that

i finished shooting the roll i had in my olympus. gonna get through some test rolls hopefully tomorrow morning before work. develop while on the clock. i stopped by the record store. i have had short conversations over ig dms with this girl that works there. figured i would say hi. i think i saw her when i walked in, but wanted to do my browsing first. by the time i hd picked out a few 7in singles and was making my way to the register, she wasn't there anymore. considered posting a story to kindof fish for a reply, to which i would say 'yeah was there earlier etc.' but figured... i don't need to do that. gonna mail one of the records to my friend in new york. she gave me her address but refrained from telling her what's on it. need to do that soon cause i tend to forget

yesterday i went to the camera exchange in search of a specific battery for a minox 35gt i recently came into posession of. the guy told me they don't make it anymore, and said something about a mickey-mouse battery at a batteries-plus store. not sure if he meant literal mickey mouse or said that in the way that, like, in soccer they'll call trophies/competitions that don't matter (gold cup, community shield etc) a mickey mouse cup. i had seen one on amazon, but my whole point of going there was to avoid that. ultimately, caved and ordered lr44s on amazon cause i got more and paid less than if i went to the battery store. ppl online say i can just stack four of those and tape them together and it will work

i also got a redscale 110 film cart for nine dollars. i figured i may as well get something more experimental since i probably won't shoot 110 again. gotta make it worth it. the camera i got is a minolta weathermatic, so i should shoot it in the rain or the beach or the shower. idk. but just some setting to make it all worth it

heard back from the employer and once again was rejected. i suppose it makes sense but still makes me want to retreat into myself for a while. maybe the weather has something to do with that as well. back to the drawing board

i'm gonna draft up a list for books to look out for when i go to the used bookstore later. plan on dropping off some books and hoping the credit i get for them is significant enough. i want a barry hannah book but i dont want to pay thirty-plus dollars ! anyway people on the forum i frequent have been droppping lists so i'll skim through those again for anything they say stood out to them etc.

not entirele happy with the name of this blog, but i can't think of anyhting better to change it to rn

the other day this girl i was ringing up was like "the fabrics were 4$/yard right?" i said "yeah but i did you them for 2" which she then went and got another roll. which like, i hope she didn't read that as flirting. i mean i guess it wouldn't matter, but like i give ppl discounts often. really just depends on how likable they are. and how annoying they are not. there was also this customer that called ten minutes before closing asking if we close at six. i said yea and then she said "do ya'll actually close at six or is that just a time [other thing i cant rememebr]?" like cmon why else would that be the time. anyway im too nice and i stayed til thirty after so she could get paint and prismacolors or whatever. she tipped me 8$ which was odd but i took those and bought a vegan breakfast taco the next day. she obv didn't get a discount

edit: i picked up a copy of mary robison's "one doa one on the way" and chester himes' "the end of a primitive". paid ten after trading in "catch 22" and "beloved". he gave me none for the other two books i brought. turns out both of these were available within the library system. knew i shoudl've gotten the barry hannah book. anyways. will read hopefully by the end of the month

i was forty minutes late to work today. woudln't be an issue if i hadn't agreed to take my coworkers shift, on a day that he's by himself. don't know how many people tried to go in during that time, do know two donated stuff, but it wasn't even a donation day so i didn't feel bad for them

the neighbor who works at one of the prominent theatres in the city toild me he got fired back in april. i guess they were tyring to hire someone w/ a history of sexual harrasment, and he brought it up to management. they then fired him for essesntially made up reasons. he took the time since to both file a lawsuit and learnd 3d graphics? which is funny. i agreed to demo his vr theatre concept sometime this week. well, he mentioned tomorrow, firday, but idk. i have my interview tomorrow, so i may not feel like doing that afterwards. possibly on sunday.

right, interview tomorrow. i need a job that pays me in exchange for nothing. we all do. gonna brush up on some stuff before then. i hope, i hope i land it. i don't want to have to keep looking. i just want to be done with the search and have some level of comfort for the forseeable future. thinking, if i land it, i may book a trip to nyc at the end of the month. i suppose i could book for anywhere, but, honestly, getting ahead of myself. should focus on not looking disheveled tomorrow, both physcially and mentally

today i spent time figuring out this idea that my friend alyssa gave me. i presented this basic webpage that i worked on and she said the main functionality of the site reminded her of those plastic letters commonly seen on fridges. or once commonly seen on fridges. so i spent today figuring out how to switch the page over to something more interactive. before it was a static page with links. now it has an input box and you can type whatever you want and it will display it in that style of text. which i think is more fun. i did some work in the morning. then had a phone interview with a company that i was cleary a little lost on.had to switch the sim to the iphone to make sure the mic/speaker weren't an issue. like they asked about ecommerce and i was more focused on small business while the company is def a lot bigger than that. either way, i dont think it went bad. may have 'shot myself in the foot' by giving solid numbers when asked about my expected compensation. doesnt matter tho. anyways in it i was asked what kind of priojects i'd been working on and i mentioned the letters. glad they didn't ask for a link. its on my github so i'm sure they can find it. it wasn't working then. at least not how i wanted it to. was gonna give up for the day but i gave it another stab a few hours ago and it seems to have paid off. it's working now. and while i didn't start from comeplete scratch, i did have to fully dissect everything that was happening to get it as clean and functional as it is now. so that feels like a good place to be after months of not working on any real projects

apart from that i didn't do much today. i want to finish the book i started ewither tomorrow or by the fifth. that would keep me on track. i also want to finish a few rolls of film and get that out, but these kinds of things take time ! and people are still popping fireworks outside ! and one of my lightbulbs is about to go out !

inaugural post on this blog. plan to use it more consistently as a place to jot down what would otherwise be tempting to put on more 'social' websites. don't think i'll aim to post daily, like i have in the past.