Take a lighter | 19 March 2009

One month — this has probably been the longest stretch of not reading books-for-pleasure since I don’t know when. The moratorium on extracurricular cerebral pleasures will end some time in April, after exams. More consumerist pleasures have taken the forefront, mostly because such things involve much less effort (and doesn’t always lead to actual spending, although we are doing our part In This Economy). Canada Post has redeemed itself by delivering all my online orders so far in a timely fashion: fancy soaps, sachets of dried lavender, chunky-knit winter accessories, clothing of mysterious origin, Kevin Fanning’s The Location Scout*. Today, Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions by Jill Heydt-Stevenson (oh yes I did; the libraries around here don’t carry it and I need it for my latest paper) and the little plastic lens with which I took the photo above.

A Holga lens for the Nikon D80. I had wanted to buy a Holga back when I was still trying to be all photographically alternative with my pinholes and homemade cameras, but then the guy selling the kind of Holga I wanted went offline for months, and in the end I thought I’d just try the lens*. On a proper body, the lens seems to lose some of that supposed charm, but maybe I’ll take a lighter or some clear nail polish to it.

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