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February 28, 2007

dumpster diving

this weekend, our new roommate moved in, a hungarian girl named maria. last night, we took her dumpster diving for the first time.

the first place we stopped was accidental. we were looking for the food lion dumpster, but instead found one at a bakery. martin and moshe jumped in while maria and i stood outside to take what they handed us and put it in the car. the three of us roared with laughter and excitement as they extracted loaves of bread, rolls, biscuits, cakes, pies, tarts, muffins, and a fudge brownie cheesecake. maria, however, was baffled.

"but why? why is it in the dumpster? what is wrong?"
"nothing. capitalism."
"but why do they throw it out?"
"because they can't make a profit off of it. and they're not going to give it away, or people would stop paying for it. so they throw it out."

she stood there, shaking her head. i picked up the still-wrapped loaves of sliced french bread that martin had just tossed on the ground and grinned. "welcome to america."

the next stop was trader joe's, where the dumpster gods were smiling on us. under a couple bags of actual garbage, i unearthed a trash bag full of cheese, spinach dip, couscous salad, and hummus. martin, on the other side, called out, "bananas! a whole bag!" they were barely ripe, complete with "organic!" stickers. a few minutes later he found the bottle of balsamic vinegar, with a small dent in the cap. then the jar of pitted kalamata olives. i hopped from foot to foot, giggling, when he pulled out the rosemary & salt focaccias. moshe took the ezekiel bread, vegan pad thai, and eco-friendly laundry detergent. maria wanted the frozen edamame.

after twenty minutes, we had to turn away while there was still perfectly good food in the dumpster, because there was no room left in the car. maria still didn't understand why so much perfectly good food would be thrown away. we just shrugged and said, "neither do we. but we do our part to make sure it doesn't go to waste."

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February 26, 2007

smena 8m

i found a roll of film in my smena, already exposed, and then shot another. so here is some from november, and some from last week.

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kitchen labels

yesterday attila decided to label everything in the kitchen. after we finished, we still had some labels left, and started making things up. see if you can guess which ones are real and which ones aren't actually there!

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February 22, 2007

chicks and dreads

our baby chicks came yesterday. they're so cute.

mary and... i think she named this one "babette".

moshe being terrifying. don't worry, he's vegan.

then he asked me to dread his hair.

he was happy with the result.

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February 7, 2007

life in this house

i've decided that i'm really tired of digital photography. looking over my work, my favorite ones are almost always on film. it has so much more character. which isn't to say i'm going to stop shooting digital, but i need to get back to my roots. i've been neglecting my dear film cameras.

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