AGONY: Trying to upload photos to Flickr on my dial-up connection. I really really wish I could afford high-speed, but it's just not in the budget.

ECSTACY: Making peace with slide film. I finally got to take a good look at the roll of Fuji Velvia 100 slides I shot back in May. (First I had to find my little slide viewer, then I had to find fresh batteries for the light thingie.) It is quite possibly the most consistent roll of film I've ever shot. Definitely my best roll of slides. Now if I can just scan them. Also, I just got back my roll of Agfa Scala (black-and-white slide film). O-M-G! This is my new favorite black-and-white film! I'll be curious to see how it scans (not sure my film scanner has a setting for b/w slides).

Between those and the roll of Tech-Pan I shot in the Holga (perfectly vignetted and, being Tech-Pan, not the least bit grainy), they made up for the E-Dupe roll, which was a total bust. (E-Dupe is slide film that you use to make duplicate slides...but since I didn't have any slides I wanted to dupe, I just shot the roll. Unfortunately, it has no ISO rating, so shooting it was rather like negotiating a mine field blindfolded. KA-BOOOOOMMMM!!!)

Digital photography is dandy, but I have yet to have an image download to my hard drive that excited me as much as reviewing these boxes of slide film and the contact sheet from the Tech-Pan.

AGONY: Not having the money to replace the hard drive in my iMac yet...so no Tiger. So I need to suck it up and load the drivers for my film scanner onto my iBook. And with school starting up this week (tomorrow, actually), money AND time will be in short supply.