The Wormlips Scrapbook

Once again I’m spending too much time on the Internet as a result of what began as a work assignment. Click on “My Answers” at the bottom of this box to see the questions I’ve … you know … answered.

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Though a new camera is the last thing I can afford after my trip, I just replaced the one that I drowned in the Rio Claro on the Oso Peninsula in Costa Rica and the one that split in two when I threw it into the lancha at Lago de Atitlán in Guatemala.

Would you like to see what I got? I broke with conventional wisdom (Nikon or Canon for a DSLR, and Lumix or Sony for point-and-shoot). Instead, on the advice of Wired Magazine, I got an Olympus (which was my dad’s favorite breed, and it’s water-resistant) and a Casio, of all things. Both of them were massively on sale.

This means you’ll start to see pictures here again soon, if anything interests me.

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When I awoke to big rain and wind this morning, the first thing I thought was, “Ooooh, I wonder what that looks like online!” It looks like this.

When I read an e-mail from an East Coast friend who asked about the storm, I knew it was a pretty big one. I hope the power doesn’t go out, or I won’t know what to think.

I decided to stay grey rather than brave the traffic across the bridge to my hairmistress’s place. When we spoke on the phone, she — normally quite brilliant — said:

My ignorance about things I don’t know about really scares me.

That’s the worst kind of ignorance, I think.

I’m trying to get off the Internet to get some work done, but a pop-up ad with an animation of a woman aging has me mesmerized and terrified. As I watch her go from smooth to withered, I keep wondering where I am in the continuum. Look.

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