I developed two rolls of film in class today, but didn't do the prints because there wasn't enough time. I scanned and flipped one strip of the negatives in Photoshop though, and that's what you see up there. The left photo was taken inside of the UP Press, a cavernous and dusty, bookpile-filled place--glorious and sneeze-inducing.

I finished The Great Gatsby around a week ago. Just wanted to say that I wish I could write the way Nick Caraway thinks. And that I accidentally spoiled myself about the death while reading something related on Wikipedia (Why does this keep happening to me. Oh Ned Stark.) Right now, I've started two more: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya--a translation of the Japanese light novel. My Jap prof lent me the latter (thank you, sir!) when I asked for anime recommendations, coolness.

One night, last week, when I foolishly tested my sleeping-late limits (cue friends laughing in face) I decided to watch my freshly-downloaded copy of Midnight in Paris. It was recommended to me thrice and wow, Hemingway made the viewing experience totally worth it. Rachel McAdams was deliciously irritating, and I seriously have to pick up Mean Girls for more of that(nope, haven't seen it). Also, I did not recognize Carla Bruni. Shame on me. I would like to visit Paris in the 20s, though. Or maybe Greece in the 19th century, to see Lord Byron in action.

Anime-wise, I'm not sure that I've found something I want to watch. I tried two episodes of Mawaru Penguindrum, but things got a little strange for me (the faux-incest, not the penguins), but at least one of the characters appeals to me, so...might give it another try in the near future. I switched to Seirei no Moribito, which is something I'm a little more used to. It's quite good, but a tad too serious where it stands at the moment (episode three). Might drop it unless they meet fun-filled characters on their journey.

An alternative would be to (finally) watch Darker Than Black, but i'll leave that on my to-do list for now.