yesterday around like four a.m. a friend of mine called me on the phone. i had gone to bed somewhat early the night before, so i was able to wake up when the phone rang. i answered and they asked me whether they should drive to the beach to see the sunset. i was going to ask a follow up question before giving my input but they told me yes or no. i said yes. i also told them it was a sunrise not sunset. they called back a while later and theyre at the beach. i want to say they showed me the ocean, at least what was visible at that twilight hour, before hanging up. called again briefly to say they lost thier car keys. i, remembering a similar story my friend j had told me, suggested they check their pockets. they found them and hung up. got a final call around sunrise. they showed me the waves crashing around them, while on a stone jetty. it was pretty

i thought about it more at work. honeslty felt like a dream. like, to wake up to phone calls and a view of the sunrise at the beach. unexpected

i got a coffee on the house today at the bagel place i go to. i stopped on my way to work, since i was nearby picking up a book from the library. i finally checked out leonard cohen's 'a book of longing'. had it in my amazon cart since late 2016 when he died and i figured i should read his work. forgot about it til someone i follow on ig posted a poem by him. was gonna ask if they've read 'a book of longing' and am glad i didn't cause the poem was from it and i would've had to be like "yeah no i havent read it myself actually" or whatever. anyway, i put it on hold and picked it up today. at the bagel place i ordered a bagel for me and each of my coworkers. when it prompted for the tip i said no tip, since i was gonna leave cash. the cahsier said thank you and turned around. don't think she saw me leave the tip, though. which is why when i was offered the free coffee i figured it was cause there was some leftover and they were closing soon. but i feel they wouldn;t have done that if i hadnt tipped at all? so maybe someone did see... anyways i tried to drive to work with a coffee in one hand but, being on a motorbike, it did not work well. made it two blocks before i had to pull over and drink about half and then toss the rest. got stains on the left side of my shirt. and on my left sock. pants too, but they're black so it didn't matter

got my super eight cartridge in the mail today. looking forward to shooting it in a week's time. also, remembered that there was a reason for me to go back to the camera repair shop yesterday... i was supposed to pick up film from there. i don't know if they still have it. should've sent a dm. i can try tomorrow, but i'll be rushing to get to work in time to open by one p.m. won't really matter if i'm a few minutes late, but i try not to be since i'm the only on there on sundays

why did a significant nukber of the people at moontower have 'i work in marketing' energy? like, i guess i know why. because the place has sold out. but it felt especially worse. possibly cause of the new bar+arcade that opened down the street. which, i know the patrons of it are from the suburbs (anything outside of the loop) cause they were real slow with parking and navigating the street. annoyed me

since the morning the lower left side of my jaw, like the back molars, have been hurting. not a sharp pain. more of a, like, pulsating wave of pain. i'm sure it has something to do with the wisdom tooth that i can't currently afford to get removed. i'm positive theres a cavity in it at this point, and i'd bet thats the source of the pain. it wasn;t there yesterday. took a few advils to help me ignore it, but it's back now, at the forefront of my attention, as i'm typing here... running out the clock before my two a.m. bedtime. i wake up at nine a.m. seven hours. not bad. forgot to apply mostiourizer this morning. just remembered that. did take my vitamins. (which i now pronounce in that english 'vee-tuh-mins' way). forgot those yesterday

i bought a ps5 from diego wednesday night. i was finally able to play 'persona five royal' after almost a year of having that game and nothing to play it on. it felt weird though. like, since i had delayed it for so long, it felt almost wrong to actually play. delayed gratification until i just no longer cared for it. i've logged ~seven hours on it now. this week went by slow

can't seem to get in the right mood to shoot the tlr camera i got. i have enough film for it now. i think it comes down to me wanting a good reason to, and not having that. if anyone wants a portrait let me know

i think i'm gonna leave my slr(s) at home for my trip to nyc. everytime i go out with it i never really take pictures. unless i go out with thte intent to, and even that's shoddy, i don't take it out and shoot as much as i want to. so if that is gonna be an issue in ny, i may as well leave it home and just take my point-n-shoots. i have two, and they both work fine. one looks better but the other is more functional, save for the smaller, less convinient battery. coudl take both, idk

i feel like the forum is slowly dying. i say that cause i have noticed it isn't mopving as fast as it was a month ago, but that's fine. i still enjoy checking it. especially more so than other sites. just wish it didn't track my days visited cause i get self concious about how much time i've spent on there. still, though, better than spending it on, say, twitter. or instagram

the canon i have now has a light leak. it wasnt there when i shot the test roll b+w roll. and it wasn't there when i shot the prefvious fuji roll. but it showed up now. maybe a change in temperatures caused the light seal to contract and break? either way, it's something i have to fix now. i think my olympus has one too. i did a temporary fix on that using electrical tape. but that's a hassle to get on and off. and i suspect it removed a chiop of paint from the backing. can't confirm though

this customer named javier buys a lot of our camera stuff. the other day he bought this minolta lens that i donated. he left it for this girl with blue hair. so when she came up to purchase her stuff, i told her that he left her that lens. but, i'm trying to remember if i called him javier or jonathan. last night when i recounted the experience in my head, my mind went for jonathan. which is wrong. but if that's the first one that came to mind, does that mean it's likely what i said to the girl? she didn't correct me or say his name (i would remember that). if i did confuse his name, i would feel bad cause he remembers mine. but more so, there's a chance that she told him i said the wrong one. which doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things...

ok, after my trip to new york at the end of tyhis month i'm gouing to find a second job. i said this at the beginnign of the year, but i put in on pause in case i wanted to do something vacation-adjacent with anyone. but seeing as nothing will happen, apart from my trip to nyc, i might as well put an end to that wait and just start saving money. i don't want another job. i like my four day wekeends. i feel that it's in my best interest to, though. hate this world

been spending the past couple months frequenting a small online forum. it's based around memes but i like that it branches out into basically any other subject, which is why i check it about every day. up to this point in time, i've enjoyed using it more than twitter or instagram. i like that it feels like i've gotten to know people somewhat, but without the commitment needed of other socials. or even knowing what they look like. or maybe it's that there is an end to the scrolling. since there's no feed, once i get to the bottom of a thread, that's it. time to get off the site

i've pirated a bunch of fonts too thanks to it lol