This is mostly about weather, sorry

Hi! The first week of the new semester is over and the snow has arrived in Toronto. I forgot how sparkly snow can be. Queen's Park is now white, and everything glitters as you walk through. From the second floor of Pratt library I'm distracted by the Christmas-card images out the window. The old stone Burwash buildings adorned with crisp white play host to twinkling icicles while flurries of snowflakes dance in the wind. Spindly tree branches stand out like black text on a white page. Everything is untouched and silent and perfect.
....On the other hand, God seems to have spewed a huge dirt-flavored slushie all over the streets and sidewalks. I guess city winter has its ups and downs. Invisible rivers of wind tear like frozen hell between towering buildings. It's ridiculous.
To get my mind off of the cold, I'll post some warm-weather Hawaii photos. These were taken with my new Diana Mini camera on expired Costco film I found at Goodwill.













That was nice.
On Tuesday I'm trekking out to Ikea with Bachan to buy cooking things so that I can finally be able to cook things. I am very excited. The other night I got really really hungry before bed and everything was closed (except Rabba, the hobo-y all-night grocery store, but bad things happen when I go there) and the only food I had was candy from going to see Tron. I ended up eating some Kit Kats and going to bed but it didn't exactly fill me up. I'm sure that once I become a master chef I won't have these kinds of problems anymore. Literally the only things in my fridge right now are vodka and film.
I was just looking over concert listings and apparently Randy Newman is going to be playing at Con Hall, the Mean Girls building where I have physics and anthro, in March! Hahahaha, what the hell?
Ok I am going to go chill at the library for a while. Baaiiiii!

Oh hi holga I missed you

Do you guys know who "Drake" is? I didn't know, but apparently he's a rapper and he lives in the building across from my building! I bet he has a lot of places though so he's probably not there all the time. I would be more excited if I knew who he was so I could recognize him if I ever saw him on the street. Then I could yell out his name and point and cause a big commotion, and I'm always looking for opportunities to cause a commotion.

Anyway, here are some holga photos that I never got around to posting or putting on flickr until now. I'm pretty happy with how they came out though. This film is called Portra 160VC and it's one of my favorites now. In this one I was testing out my macro lens thing, it's harder than it looks cause the viewfinder on the Holga is not actually a viewfinder and it has to be the exact right distance from the lens to be in focus:


This is from hanging out in the meadow with Claire when it was still summer and not freezing cold. The camera is my 60's Anscoset that I got in a weird "trading post" store somewhere in Nova Scotia.


The rest are from the Corvallis fair when I went there with Claire. That was like a triple rhyme. I win.


















I posted the entire roll of film in this post. They aren't all that great but it's rare to have a roll that is even 50% good enough to show people so I'm happy!
It's supposed to snow tonight. It probably won't but I hope it does. I'm trying to convert myself to thinking in degrees Celsius, so far it's going pretty well. I don't know when American Thanksgiving is and I'm too lazy to look it up, so if it's today then happy Thanksgiving! If not then I take it back.