I've made it back from the perils of Baltimore in one piece. I went shopping but it was way too hot to really enjoy it. So hot and humid; I hate that. Give me cold weather, a fluffy flannel blanket, and someone to talk to and I'm in my "natural environment". (Hehe, can't you just imagine a cheesy Animal Planet episode now - 'Crikey! It's in its natural environment!' [Sorry, after spending four hours in the car - up and back - in the heat, I'm a little loopy. Especially after my mother got us lost.]) Good news is I got the important shopping done. I found a good gift for one of my friends at the Discovery Channel store, but still no gift for Chinese Sam. I have no clue what to get him.
I ended up going into the hospital anyway. But, I made it out okay. It wasn't the same part of the hospital, but it still had that hospital feeling. Why is it that all hospitals look the same? I should design one so it looks less like a hospital and more like an expensive hotel. But, then patients would go through relapses when they go to the Ritz, and that might not be such a good thing.
But, seriously, I went through okay. In fact, I'm rather glad I went. It reminded me of a project I really want to get to work on, but I don't want to talk about it because I'm afraid of someone taking the idea. It's too good, and too easy to get started. I just need to go talk to some hospital directors at various locations to get it set up, then I might need to either hire a photographer or buy a nice camera so I can take the pictures myself. It's a great project, something actually that one of the nurses at Johns Hopkins helped me think of while I was waiting for my turn to go into the OR.
So maybe I'm cured. Not only did I make it through a hospital (*and* a fire drill, so getting out of the hospital I had to be crammed into a stairwell for a while as I descended to the main floor), but I also want to go back for a project. We shall see. :)
Oh! And I took lots of pictures at the Inner Harbor, as well as a few out of the car window as we drove away. I have six shots left to take then I'll go get the film developed. Hopefully they turned out alright. I even got a few photos of a big Danish ship that was in port for a festival in New York (I think. It might have been Boston. The cute little sailor man was kind of hard to understand cause he was so quiet. He smiled a lot, though.)
