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05/25/2002 entry: "My magical night at Kinko's."

So, tonight was kind of a bust. We were going to go to a restaurant, get something for me at Kinko's, and then watch bad animal horror movies on the sci fi channel. But no, it would not prove to be that simple.

We got to Kinko's at around 9pm or so. First, we had troubles printing my image the size I wanted it. It kept coming out square for some reason. Just when I was about to give up and go cry about how my art project wasn't going to happen the way I wanted it to, I had one more idea to try. That was at about 10:30. But someone else was using the computer. So Kevin and I decided to go eat and then come back, since the place is open 24 hours.

We got back at around midnight. After struggling with the printer for a while, and changing the size in photoshop, we finally got the picture to come out the right size. Then, the guy was going to mount it on foam-core. Well, the image I was printing was mostly black, so the ink was thick and still wet, so he smeared it, and said that he couldn't really mount it without messing it up a bit, besides that it would probably still be wet for 2-7 days. That was no good. So first we printed a new one. Then, he laminated it (I was very hesitant to do this, but I think it'll turn out fine). Then, he mounted it. And it looks nice just on its own, actually.

At that point, it was about 2am.

So I spent about 3 and a half hours total in Kinko's tonight. That's scary and so not cool. I paid $17 for the damn thing too.. Oh well. It's one of the neatest ideas I've had in a while, and I'm sure it'll be worth it. I haven't been so excited about an art project in a while. My computer image looks soooooo good too. Like I said earlier, it looks neat just on it's own on the foamcore. I'm going to have to remember that if I ever want to get one of my photos enlarged.. I can just go to Kinko's and get it blown up and stuff.... Yeah. OH! I know what photo I could do that with. Ohhhhh it's this one I took of a sunset in my rear view mirror. It's one of the coolest pictures I've ever taken. Yeah. But that's expensive, so maybe doing a smaller one would be a good idea. Or not getting it mounted, maybe not laminated, if the ink didn't take long to dry or something. Yeah.

Anyhow, I'm tired and I have to get up in 7 hours for work. Yay.