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i've been walking along the street snapping a photo every two seconds to see what you get.

mostly, you get shit. (see photo 1, above).

but for every 75 or so pics, you get one that you will find interesting. for me, that's photo #2. it looks better on a non-white background. it's so hard to take photos of strangers on the street without a telephoto. you're basically in their face snapping a pic. if a child gets in the way of your lens, you're an instant pariah, at best. needless to say, keeping the camera in the palm of your hand and constantly snapping pics is easier than trying to stick your nose in amongst a group of people and snapping a photo - twice today, while i was aiming the camera at specific people, the flash decided that there wasn't enough light and i got busted - SO embarrassing. "whoops.. haha, went off by mistake" - did it ever.

and then, of course, you may come across an opportunity like photo 3, the self-foot-shot.


i helped an old lady find her house today. she had surgery to remove part of her brain and is now quite poor at remembering things. broke my heart. so i stole her wallet.

kidding.

but i did need to go into her wallet to find her address - and the crossing guard was giving me the dirtiest look, as though i was about to roll the old broad for her dough.

she didn't have a licence (yes, correct canadian spelling of a noun right there - license is a verb in canada, never a noun) anymore, because her son took her BMW to california. she lives in an old age home.

but we found her home. She was doing great, other than the memory thing. i felt like 9,000,000,000 dollars. at the end of the ordeal she thanked me, asked my name, and said that she was honoured to have been helped by such a man with a name as distinguished as mine. not wanting to tell her that First Wave was cancelled, i thanked her, slipped her the tongue, and left.

kidding (about the first wave part)

am i so tired that i find this funny and it's really just disgusting?

i just finished reading this book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , quite a good book that WAS apparantly quite popular but of which i've heard nary a thing.

before that I finished Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, which had some very interesting ideas in it, but was basically three chords repeated over and over, in different syncopations and such, like any power-pop band. great at first, but leaves you feeling like you could have picked up much of the ideas from a long article in the saturday edition of the new york times... oh wait, that IS what they based the book on. worth a read, but not a purchase (it's C$50). i got my copy from the library - i put it on hold in september. i was the 1405th person in the line. yeah, it's popular.

i also finished Angels and Demons, the book before the DaVinci Code. both were very good, but in my least humblest of opinions, Code is a better book. They're basically the same book, with different good guys and bad guys.

the process of picking ones next book is one of lifes greatest teases.

addendum: i have chosen "the crysalids". i read it once, in highschool. sadly, i have to return 'the name of the rose' to nick tonight. i never finished it.