On the way to class in the morning, I took a gigantic detour and dropped off my roll of film at Walgreens with a free developing coupon I found. They told me it would be ready at 1:30. I guess the "one-hour developing" is simply what they call their "four-hour developing" service. I walked from there to Soda hall.

At soda, I listened to the lecture a little, submitted my 186 project online, and then went and turned in my 170 homework in the homework boxes underground.

From there, I went upstairs to the 7th floor and studied there with Hammy until 6pm. At 6, I walked back over to Walgreens, stopping for dinner on the way. When I picked up my prints and CD, I discovered that most of the pictures were horribly grainy and dark. I guess that's why you shouldn't shoot with film that expired three years ago. After seeing what happened with this film, I'm not sure anythings going to show up with the 20 year old film we gave Longs a few days ago.

I updated the past two entries with some of the bearable photos that were developed from the 2005 Kodak roll I had processed for free: impact helping and korean market.

After picking up the film, I walked over to the library and studied some more. While I was sitting there, I was lamenting to myself over how little I know and how unprepared I am for the upcoming midterm next tuesday. I was also thinking how the worst thing that could possibly happen at that point would be for one of my computer science professors to assign a new project.

I quickly checked the course website for 188. Lo and behold, there it was: Homework 6: Neural Networks has been posted due 4/15 at 11:59pm. 4/15 is when my first upcoming midterm is. That's in less than a week.

The perfect storm.

In other news, Joseph has fallen ill, and upchucked earlier today at work. He might hate me now and call me a jacker if he reads this, but mark my words: 40 years later, he'll thank me for documenting this minute detail of his life.

I just finished a 24 exposure roll today that also expired in 2005. It was the second of the two rolls we found hidden in our fridge a few days ago. After seeing what happened with the first roll, I shot the second half of this roll overexposed by telling my camera it was 50-200 speed film. I forgot about the "normal" overexposing you can do with the dial. Oh well.

I don't even feel like getting this roll developed. Maybe I'll leave it in the fridge until another free developing offer pops up somewhere.

Oh, another thing: With the 36 roll of expired film I had developed, the first two or three photographs turned out decently well. The first picture I took on the roll, a photo of sean and perry, seemed fine. My guess is that on expired rolls of film, the frames closest to the center of the roll degrade slower than the frames closer to the outside. My cheap canon rebel shoots the frames in reverse, so the earlier shots get wound into the roll first, preserving most of the exposed film in case the back suddenly opens up and ruins all the unexposed film.

If my camera didn't shoot the frames in reverse, I think my last couple pictures would have been the ones that turned out okay, while the shot of sean and perry would have been the worst of the roll.