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