Sunday, 17 June 2001 | Projects

This weekend I've given myself a little break from computers and focused on other projects. For one, I made a mixed tape for an old friend in Scotland, who just called to tell me he's a father, as of last week. I guess I could congratulate him here, but I'm not sure he'll read this. (When I told him the URL of my site, he asked me, "So 'dot' is spelled d-o-t?" Um…full-stop com, then. A good reminder that the Internet isn't an essential part of life…) I also began sewing a little something at my parents' house, but it so happens that I am not at all a talented seamstress, and I left my half-finished project in Buies Creek until I'm able to spend more time with it. (My mom was still wrestling with the machine when I left.)

Yesterday I bought myself a voyeuristic camera lens. It's a little mirrored attachment that fits on the end of the lens and shoots pictures at a 90-degree angle, which means I can discreetly take pictures of unsuspecting people to either side of me. I don't really know when I'll actually get to use it, or if it's really all that inconspicuous, but it was cheap and insane and it exists, so I bought it. If I take anything worth showing, I'll post it.