success!
s. and i letterpressed all day today, from 10 until 5, and after an hour of stress and fears of it not working, it started to go smoothly and now the invitations look more beautiful than i could have ever imagined! i'm really amazed at the level of embossing and how beautiful black ink can be against off-white paper. i could have letterpressed anything and just the gorgeous paper and the ink cleanly pushing into the paper is today what i live for.

but exhausting work, wow. those print-media people work hard. on my feet all day on a concrete floor, back and forth back and forth putting down paper, pushing a press, picking paper up, inking, inspecting, careful work. i've spent the night in that state of general dullness. when will this pass? it has hit me so suddenly, this feeling like i want to do absolutely nothing, i really have to believe it will leave as quickly.

now i want a roller press. i suddenly see my future.