Light-filled rooms

Gave T&S and AL&CC the tour. They seemed approving. The Angry Lemming agreed to set up my wireless thingamabob - score! Then T&S gave us lunch, which was most sweet of them. CC had brought me some boxes, so they dropped me home.

Thanks, everybody!

Then I did the chore I've been putting off: paper sorting. I tossed pay stubs dating back to the early '90s and a whole lot of Christmas cards. Three bagsful of paper went down the chute. Found amid the mass: an address for cousin Cynthia and a letter from her mother acknowleging that chair is rightfully mine. Now I just need to write C and ask for it.


Today's earrings: suns, cameras

Bedtime reading: The Ruins of Earth, Thomas M. Disch, ed.

Let's Go To The Mall

Yet another group of good-hearted people humored me while I stared at the windows of an apartment I don't live in. Then we had dim sum, and they lent me a camera. (Thank you, good-hearted people!) At the mall, they bought clothes, I bought a magazine.


Today's earrings: turtles, cameras

Bedtime reading: The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, John D. MacDonald

Big Brother

Today's earrings: eyes, cameras

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

Camera

16c., in Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), from L. camera "vaulted room," from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." Contrasted with camera lucida (L., "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce an image on paper beneath the instrument, which can be traced. Shortened to camera when modern photography began, 1840 (extended to television filming devices 1928).
Camera-shy is from 1922.
- - Etymonline.com

Today's earrings: eyes, cameras

Bedtime reading: Reflex, Dick Francis