.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } look no further... Things are a little dull today... probably because I'm not doing anything exciting. This feeling of ennui caused by unexciting technological cleanup and laundry makes me wonder... what is the origin of bored out of my tree?I can't think...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } swept aside Now for some boring computer talk... This morning I woke up with computers on the brain. When I purchased my laptop I sacrificed hard drive space for a super screen. At the time a superior display was more affordable than...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } human science... About two weeks ago I was here... however, I am currently in a town thriving on oil money. This morning I am keeping my eyes open for any stray H2s that might feel the need to frighten pedestrians. It is...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place... While in Edmonton I acquired some new music from the beau. I've been slowly going through the songs, some which I've heard before... some which I have not. Tonight I was rather...

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Twice now I've nearly been run over by an H2... the same one. I've been a block away from school, waiting to cross at the lights... and when the light turned green I turned to make sure that no vehicles were going to try to sneak past me and turn right. Just as I stepped from the curb to cross the street this...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } autumnal attitude It's a Thursday that feels like a Friday and I have a headache. Today is a day for throwing caution to the wind and being a little crazy. But my imagination escapes me this morning and I can't think of...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sunset sidewalk listening to Lhasa's "Anywhere on this road"You've travelled this longYou just have to go onDon't even look back to seeHow far you've comeThough your body is bendingUnder the loadThere is nowhere to stopAnywhere on this roadTwo years ago I was...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } runner at rest... It was an activity filled day at work today. I spent much of it outside as the school participated in Earth Day (a bit late) and the classes that I work with had their P.E. sessions outside. I walked...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } stave off infection I had an odd dream last night where I was in some museum in Vancouver, but it was more like a military compound and I was trying to escape. I climbed up some odd shelf and ended up on...

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building with no name I have an addiction to photography. It's become quite obvious to me. I have this desire to take my camera with me everywhere... and perhaps if I had someplace to put it during the day at work that was more secure I might... just so I could have my camera handy while I walked to and from work.Last summer...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ...wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go... April really is disappearing at a rate faster than I could have anticipated. I find that all very comforting as I am looking forward to the end of June immensely.I have...

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It was inevitable that April would be rainy. I'm a little disappointed by the gloom because it just makes it harder to be here. My Easter break in Edmonton was fantastic. A. had the entire time off so we ended up spending more time together than we did over the entirety of my Spring Break visit.My trip went a little like this...I arrived...

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Here's my visited countries map...I've visited 5 countries (Canada, United States, Trinidad & Tobago (which you can't seem to see on this map), Germany (Frankfurt airport), and Italy) which equals a whopping 2% of the world.create your own visited countries map ...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the well read traveller Today while cleaning my room I came across a collection of notebooks that contained some random musings from the past few years. One such notebook (with Tintin and Snowy on the cover no less) featured a page of...

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Guess who has big hair today! ...

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I'm really pushing for the weather to improve. It was just a wee bit chilly this morning, but I decided that it was time for the short pants to come out of the closet. But now I look at the weather forecast and it says to expect precipitation (snow and or rain) on Wednesday and Thursday. However, inside I'm laughing because I will...

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aye... I've been trying to sort out something for the past couple months and I keep on facing one setback after another. It's become very frustrating and I'm starting to think that I've been cursed. Maybe due to some freak run in with a fortune teller, my life is forever destined to be boring in most respects except for the health related sagas...

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It's amazing how much time one can spend just idly looking at interesting things on the internet (by which of course I mean flickr and other photography related things). I'm off to the city for the weekend, and I really looking forward for a chance to have new locations to shoot. Sure there are plenty of places around this area to take photographs...

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oh how embarassing and frustrating it can be to be incapable of communicating with my relatives. My aunt from Italy just called... and I could understand just bits and pieces of what she was saying, but I couldn't even construct anything remotely resembling a sentence. My mind was trying to translate from English to French and then to Italian. I realized this once...

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This morning I finally managed to widen the body of my blog so that it can accomodate the medium size from Flickr. This is good news for me, because there are times when my photos from flickr cross over to my blog posts... and with certain photographs, the larger size really is better. ...

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There's something about "novelty" cameras that really appeals to me. I only own one film camera these days (my tiny Olympus point and shoot which I never use) and I shoot entirely digital. Sometimes, when I'm playing around in Photoshop I'll try to mimic the effects of these toy cameras, just to add something a little extra to my photos.However, I think I'd...

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in review Originally uploaded by *raffaella. From time to time I receive a random email through flickr from someone who has seen my stream and has liked it enough to feel inspired by the small body of work that I have posted there. It really is such a marvelous feeling to hear that... because so much of what I've been doing has been...

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I'm not really that interested in living in a box, but let's just say that the laws suddenly changed so that you were only allowed to live in boxy shaped homes that were pre-fabricated. If that were the case then I might consider living in one of these. I'm sure that they could be made to look a little less minimalist. I'm not...

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I've never been one to actually come up with any good April Fool's jokes. I lack creativity in such pranks perhaps. Or pranks on a designated day... I like to keep people on their toes. However this morning I was moderately amused to find that everyone one of my photos included in the interestingness stream had suddenly moved to the number one position.Ha,...

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for visions come not to polluted eyes... Originally uploaded by *raffaella. Friday afternoon I was reminded why I do not plan on pursuing a teaching career... it's exhausting. I subbed in a notoriously rowdy and boisterous class in the afternoon, and despite them being well behaved I was absolutely pooped by the end of the day. How some teachers manage I'll never know....

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