So, my ballooning photos have been stymied by the realization that BOTH the film developing labs in my neighborhood have closed in the past year. Is this due to the rise of digital cameras? Argh. I'd like to be a luddite and stick with my "real" camera for as long as I can...but if that means bowing to the subpar service of RiteAid or CVS, I might change my mind. The times I've used CVS they've lost rolls of film, overexposed, or corrupted the surface of the negative.
In cheerier news, Arthur Delaney--whose work I mentioned a few posts back--just won an award for his profiles of homeless people living in the DC area. Congrats Art!
Am I the only one who walks to work each morning, passes coffeeshops after coffeeshop, looks in at the people on their laptops, reading the paper, drafting on notepads, and thinks...who ARE you people? What would I have to do in order to spend my days doing that? Surely they're not ALL students. Or Guggenheim fellows.
I'm one of those people right now; if you look hard enough, you'll see the black walking cast swollen round my right foot like a boil.
ReplyDeleteso break your foot! that's the answer to time off work, time to write.
personally my 'how do people do that' is attending full time school as a working adult. i'm 33 and eeking out a degree as best i can with kids, job, working on my book, etc.
I would probably wonder myself if I had time....
ReplyDeleteYou can send them to a developer via snail mail. Search your local area for photography processing labs that aren't part of drug store chains...
ReplyDeleteI totally wonder that too. On my days off, I always get curious about what other people's jobs are, since I seem corralled into my office every day.
ReplyDeleteSandra, thanks for the shoutout!
ReplyDeleteHmmm...I'd rather not break my foot. But I do have to say, I may just be missing the rhythms of school/teaching life. Even during my MFA I was working full time and didn't get to really enjoy the (theoretical) downtime on a morning before classes.
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