today i went photographing. i went early in the morning and found that almost all of the things i wanted to photograph were behind trees, or in some place i could not reach. on the way home i saw an Ikea Sofa in a yard sale for 30$. only catch was it dident all fit in the car. i also had to run and get some money, so that i could get it before someone else who also wanted it. i managed to stuff some of it in the car, and said i will come back for the rest. by the time i had loaded it all up i was all done with shooting and i was hot, wet and sweating in the crazy humidity and not so great AC in our car. of course i took the GPS advice on how to get home from this far away town where i had planned to shoot, but it ended up being a super long way through traffic. it also started clouding up and a little drizzle when we were unloading the first load of sofa parts.
i drive right back and got the rest. as soon as i got in to the car the right got so hard i could not see where i was going. from that point on it only got harder and harder and thicker rain. puddles started forming on the road and in any case i could not see where i was going. i got to the place and waited a few more minuted for the rain to pass. this time i took the better way home, that i knew to be shorter, from waltham, through belmont, to cambridge then boston and home to JP. the rain was so hard the almost all the roads i drive through were either flooded, or the side of the road where poeple parked was swept away buy the water. the asphalt was torn and shredded all the way through belmont. some of the cars had sunk in to the where the ashpalt gave way. at cambridge, they have buses that run on electric wires like a trolley, and one of those lines had snapped and was lying across the street with fire fighters directing the traffic. around memorial drive the side street were all flooded, some of the card were half way in the water.
the sofa is the right color, and on its own looks real nice, but dosent entirely fit in our living room dining room. the futon has moved to the study and fits well. we still need to work on the sofa arrangement.
work work work concept made me think twice about how much i can work, and stressed me out a bit. then i realized that at the end of the day i am working towards something that one day when i have it and i can kick my feet up, i will say, i worked knee deep in shit and guts to get where i am. once i had 3 jobs and when to school. and maybe it will even be worth it.
yesterday i developed a film from the nikon 35ti, most of wich is for the daily frame project. at some point during using this film it had rewound in the camera and i shot over most of it double exposures. this is a disaster. it is the first time any daily frame material was lost in the 5 years i have been doing it. i am not sure why i am not so disturbed about it. maybe because i knew this had happened before developing the film, and i had a chance to fix this but dident and it was completely my fault, or because i i know there is nothing i can do about it, those images are lost forever and thats that. it still sucks and i wish i had them, some of those were really good pictures.
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