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posted by tim caynes » Wednesday July 09, 2008 » Permalink
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waking up on the bathroom floor with a mouthful of lynx would disorient the hardiest of travellers so as I'm not that I have no idea what I'm doing and shoot upright thinking I must be late for a meeting when in fact only 30 minutes have passed and crack my head on the underside of the sink and swallow half the toothbrush which is still in my mouth which induced a rather unpleasant reaction which sends me 6 inches over to the toilet which has a hand towel folded into the shape of a heron or something on top of it at which point my body does some kind of closedown to prevent me doing something I might not entirely be pleased with myself for.
it's only 12:30. what day is it? the same day? oh. I crawl out of the bathroom and stumble around the half-light of the bedroom/living room/office/tv room/bar looking for something to focus on that might bring me back to some kind of ready state. there's my laptop already set up and wired in although I have no recollection of doing that. there's the tv which has at least 17 channels of weather and some rather splendid n64 games to play (yes, n64). there's a bed. there's another bed. and there's the window. right, let's look out the window.
naturally, I can't look out of a window with a camera so for the next half an hour I'll try every manual setting available on my camera to determine the precise exposure time that gets the light from the car park to shine properly even though I have to balance the camera on the window ledge on the 9th floor because there's nowhere to attach a gorillapod and its a bit too late to drag the desk across the floor and I have to shoot through a wire mesh that would otherwise prevent me throwing bananas into the swimming pool but might just be out of focus enough to disappear when it's actually touching the lens but in the end it won't so I give up and with all the lights turned out try and remember why I'm in Colorado and then remember I've got meetings tomorrow and I look like leatherface so it's probably a good time to actually choose a bed to go to sleep in which takes far longer than you might imagine but not before I have to go back to the bathroom and repeat the previous hour but without the falling asleep on the floor thing and hanging out the window thing.
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