10.20.02 – Grand Rapids, MI

this hotel smells curiously like rice pudding. it’s odd, really, but not necessarily a bad thing – there are far worse things for a hotel to smell like. like the one in Joliet last week that smelled of dead, rotten fish. adam commented on the stench to me while we were standing at the front desk. “i know,” the girl at the desk said carelessly. “i called the guy whose room it’s coming from, but no one answered.” adam and i looked at one another in horror. i spent the rest of the night in my room (thankfully on a different floor) with the door locked, convinced that there was a dead body in the smelly room downstairs. suffice to say i did not enjoy my stay in Joliet.

and finally! a hotel room with incandescent light in the bathroom! i mean, what is it with hotels that insist on putting flickering, humming, stroby fluorescent lights in the bathroom all the time? do they actually want to make guests feel bad about their appearance all the time? cause it’s not like anyone is beautiful under the flicker of fluorescent light. i can’t think of a harder way to get up early in the morning than to roll out of bed and into a shower under a eye-searing, brain-numbing fluorescent panel.

photoshop 6.0 (at kinko’s) isn’t playing nicely with photoshop 5.0 LE (on my laptop), so there will be a continued delay in getting tour photos posted up here. in the mean time i will subject you to the pictures of my cat that my dad sends: