ALRIGHT sooo i was on the catalogue and i found all the newspaper articles that i need for my paper and i went downstairs where it says the newspapers/microfilm (what the heck is THAT?!) are and i found SHELVES and SHELVES of these liiiiiitle tiny white boxes.. that im assuming must be the microfilms?? (still have no idea what they are at this point). so i find the particular little white box with the label of the first newspaper i needed, i opened it up and inside is this blue miniature movie film roll looking thing and im like... uhh coooooool? what do i do with this?! andd sooo im walking around the downstairs of the library (which is totally random btw no one ever goes down there and everything is just cluttered in random places) and im searching for a machine that looks like it will read this mini blue film roll and i finally come across the oldest looking machine i can find tucked back around this dark corner near the fire exit and lo and behold was the 'Cannon Microfilm Scanner 300 II'... once again.. coooooll??? I DONT KNOW HOW TO USE THIS!!! haha..
luckily there was a photo diagram of how to use it hidden behind the glorious machine and i thought.. "brilliant! this is exactly what i need! i can do this now!".... WRRROOONNNGGG!! i figured out how to turn it on.. and that was about the ONLY thing that went flawless.. the first time i loaded the film i didnt put it under the glass plate so when i pushed the device under the reader i jammed the film up in the reader.. round two i realized that the film had to go under the stinking little glass piece and i got it under the reader and i the picture was upside down and it jammed AGAIN cus i didnt have it running over the write gear... THIIRRDD time i realized that the image was upside down not because there was a button that i needed to push but because i really did infact load the film UPSIDE DOWN! haha and then i got it running over all the right gears and it was smoooth sailing from there :) .. needless to say 10 newspapers/film rolls later, i am a microfilm scanning EXPERT! :)
while i was shuffeling through articles i came across this poem that was submitted to the newspaper in the poetry section written by a prison inmate and im putting it in here then i am going back to work :)
Don't Quit
When things go wrong
as they sometimes will
When the road you are trudging
seems all uphill
When the funds are low
and the debts are high
And you want to smile
but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you
down a bit
Rest if you must,
but DO NOT QUIT
Life is queer
with its twists and turns
As everyone of us
sometimes learns
And many a failure
turns about
When he might have wont
had he stuck it out
Don't give up
though the pace seems slow
You might succeed
with another blow
Success is failure
turned inside out
The silver tint
of the clouds of doubt
And you can never tell
how close you are
It may be here
when it seems afar
So stick to the fight
when you are hardest hit
It's when things get worse
that you mustn't quit
RC Crosswell
Canningvale Prison, Western Australia
