umadoshi reminded me that September 5 - 10 is Suicide Prevention and Awareness week. She posted a link to a page that featured reasons why suicide attempt survivors decided to keep living. A lot of the comments said things about 'fighting', 'telling their story', and 'realizing life is more than pain' - all of which is great and more power to them - but ( Read more... )

The last long weekend of the summer is behind me. The boss gave me 4 days off which means that I've been extra aware of how slowly times passes when you're hot and bored.

Yesterday, however, I had sweet relief in the form of a daytrip with pals reynardin, faunalia and their pooch, Sukey. We drove to Kinmount (a little south of Minden) and had a picnic at the falls ( Read more... )

So, I'm off from work today (yay!) and, although I was rudely awakened at an uncivilized hour but what sounded like someone putting a series of live cats through a ban saw below my bedroom window, I had high hopes for my day. A little coffee, maybe some writing, a new book to start... then I open my email and got a message from MM. He wanted to ( Read more... )

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More manips for JRL:


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Under the cut are images that I'm making as part of JRL's new work project. He paints images from the 20s and 30s jazz era. These images get transferred onto overhead transperancies (so they have to be black & white to start) and he projects the images onto a canvases of broken records and paints them in high contrast colours and deep shadows. He ( Read more... )

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I've clearly been working too hard, as I only dream this crazy when I'm really, really tired.

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I slept late, got up, showered, moved to the living room and started working. That was 6 hours ago. The good news is that someones slide presentation looks prettier than it deserves to, but the bad news is that my Saturday's gone, just fucking gone. I realize that it's healthy for me to go to the office everyday - if I worked from home all of the ( Read more... )

Taken from miss_pinki:
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