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got into to work this morning .. and on the left hand corner of one of my monitors is a little shiny maple leaf sticker :)all the canadians in this dept got one :)i think its for solidarity as ironically we are a minority herelighting (my dept) is *FULL* of brits (a ton of them its whacky), 1 american, a couple of russians about 4 canadians and an israeli guy (named Guy :))compositing, our sister department, is literally completely american, like maybe 3 canadians topswonder who put the sticker there tho, whoever it was is staying quiet but its really sweet :)*proud*

im so off ...

im so off my game todaya good friend of mine got promoted to a lead*my* leadtoday we didnt get along ... which is rare .. i always get along with my leads .. *always*i also never argue with friends ... *ever*i guess 10 years of friendship made for a bit of a volitile mixie: no holding back and a little more edgy critisism i cant wait for today to end ..i wanna go home .. curl up with Ringo (my roomates cat) feed him treats and not deal with humans im tired .. grumpy as hell .. feeling not 100% healthy .. and worried about a friendshipnot a good dayblah ... almost done :)echo y | run end_rant.cmd

useless info about me

i *never* do these things .. i couldnt tell ya what inspired me toobut here ya go :)(stolen from n4rf)Have you ever ...(x) been drunk(x) kissed a member of the same sex( ) crashed a friend's car( ) been to Japan(x) ridden in a taxi(x) been in love(x) been dumped(x) shoplifted( ) been fired(x) been in a fist fight(x) snuck out(x) ever had a crush on someone of the same sex(x) ever dated someone of the same sex(x) had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back(x) been arrested(x) made out with a stranger(x) stole something from your job( ) celebrated New Years in Time Square(x) gone on a blind date(x) lied to a friend(x) had a crush on a teacher( ) celebrated mardi-gras in new Orleans(x) been to Europe(x) skipped school(x) slept with a co-worker( ) cut myself on purpose( ) been married( ) gotten divorced( ) had children(x) seen someone die (symbolically)( ) been to Africa(x) Slapped someone you love(x) Driven over 400 miles to attend a show/festival(x) Been to Canada (duh)( ) Been to Mexico(x) Been on a plane(x) Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show(x) Thrown up in a bar( ) Purposely set a part of myself on fire.(x) Eaten Sushi(x) Been snowboarding/skiing(x) Met someone in person from the internet(x) Been moshing at a concert(x) had real feelings for someone you knew only online(x) gone to college(x) graduated college( ) tried killing yourself(x) taken painkillers(x) intentionally burned oneself(x) love someone or miss someone right now( ) went to a prom( ) Bungee jumped( ) have been to a pop concert(x) have dated someone for a year or more.( ) sold naked pictures of yourself(x) been in a car accident(x) Slept in the nude(x) eaten cheesecake( ) had jury duty(x) hated someone without knowing them. (x) been to Maine(x) shot a real gun(x) had sex with someone within a week of meeting them(x) made out with someone within 5 days of meeting them(x) done ecstasy( ) gotten my ass kicked (fist fight = win or lose, always get your ass kicked.)(x) been caught smoking( ) milked a cow(x) got in a verbal fight(x) cheated on someone( ) lied one time in this survey(x) Threw a party at a friends house when they were gone( ) Done something w/ a friends bf/gf (I hope this isn't implying something...)( ) Done something with a bf/gf's sibling( ) Committed a major crime(x) Dated someone older than you are(x) Gotten in trouble w/ the cops(x) ran away(x) Ever given someone a hicky(x) Ever gotten a hicky(x) Ever got super drunk(x) Went skinny dipping(x) Lied about where you're going( ) Ever lied about your age( ) Ever been pantsed( ) Had mono(x) Beer bonged(x) Got into a physical fight w/ a parentlast kiss: i dont kiss and tell ;)last cigarette:god, like, on a drunken night out a month ago i think, regretted it instantly last good cry: monday nightlast movie seen in a theatre: Napolian Dynamitelast cuss word uttered: 'MotherFucker !!' as my animation file crashed 5 minutes agolast beverage drank: coffee, black, no sugarlast food consumed: thai red curry mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmlast phone call: this morning sometimelast tv show watched: some local morning show to check the weatherlast shoes worn: Addidas Gazelleslast cd played: David Bowie - Pin Upslast item bought: a bottle of vodka last thing downloaded: characters for this animation last annoyance: the guy beside me bumping his chair into mine ... grrrrrrrrrlast disappointment: heh ... long story .. involves a boy tholast soda drank: club last ice cream eaten: hrmmm .. some frozen yogourt-y thing my roomate boughtlast amused: laughing my ass off with Dave my roomate last night, over something *SO* stupid it would be hard to describe here, we laughed till tears tholast time hugged: monday nightlast shirt worn: my trucker girl tshirtlast time dancing: oooo saturday night :)what were you doing 1 minute ago : trying to remember what i was doing 1 minute ago1 hour ago: eating yummy thai food1 day ago : slaving away at work .. as USUAL1. What do you most like about your body? my boobs ... hands down .. they fine .. very fine :)2. And least? right now ... my belly :( ... back to the gym with me3. How many fillings do you have? pffft .. i got them all replaced with new porceline ones, now i dont remember4. Do you think you're good looking? at times5. Do other people tell you that you're good looking? yes FIRSTS:First job: delivering newspapers when i was 8First screen name: kika7 now and foreverFirst funeral: been to too many, first would be my grandfather when i was 10First pet: kitty !First piercing: none ... yet :) im concidering the less visible kindFirst Kiss: Liam .. my first childhood boyfriend .. grade uhhhh 4 or 5 i thinkFirst love: RichardFirst True Love: RichardFirst Heartbreak: a guy named Spike back in 1984 First car: still dont know how to drive :)First Home: moved every 3 years practically my entire life ... so i dunnoFirst Bike: my Big Wheels, 197-something

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this is mental .. and way way cool the graphic cosmic chart of your LJ affiliations .. i *love* charts like this .. its the geek in me ok .. bah. (link to get your very own at the bottom of the post :))crazy sheeit get your lj-web at doktoryellow lj-web page

finally coming up for air ..

whew ..a little break in all the craziness of the last couple of weeks ..one of the characters in my animation isnt working, so they shelved it for now and as a result i have about half a day of nothin to do !!so what do you do on a precious half day of blissful nothing-ness ? you take yourself out for the lunch special bento box at 'I Love Sushi' on Queen Street and then go and buy a brand new bicycleand tool around the streets of Toronto for awhile on it *thats* what you do :)(FYI i dont go and buy a new bike every lunch hour ... i rode my old one right down .. his name was Syd .. R.I.P Syd *sigh*)and im telling you, good japanese food, bicycles and the beautiful spring sunshine put you in an awesome mood its the simple stuff aint it the week is flying by thank god..gettin me that much closer to this weekend .. my roomates are throwing a party at a pub nearby which is going to be DJ'd by one roomate James (all soul and all old school .. for some reason his cut off date for music is 1978 .. hes kind of a freak like that .. but a lovable freek none the less :))and my other roomate Dave's band is playing called 'The Rolling Machine' they have 2 drummers that they put up in the front of the stage and Dave (vocals and guitar) plays behind them ive heard them, but i havent seen them play yet (they formed when i was livin in NYC and since ive been back have only played a party somewhere outside the city .. pah .. i dunno even know where .. i dont venture out of downtown much .. im such a snob that way :))i was just talking to someone whos seen them before and are described as 'uhhhhh yeah .. they are .. uhmm interesting'expect a show review on monday :) man .. i can feel the good times coming and they be a rockinso on that note peace out me pretties

8.2 quake...

8.2 quake off Sumatra; tsunami warningNOAA advises evacuation of coasts within 600 milesBREAKING NEWSMSNBC staff and news service reportsUpdated: 12:25 p.m. ET March 28, 2005A large earthquake was registered Monday off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, news that prompted an immediate tsunami warning by another U.S. agency.The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.2, "has the potential to generate a widely destructive tsunami in the ocean or seas near the earthquake," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned. It advised "immediate action" including "evacuation of coasts within a thousand kilometers (600 miles) of the epicenter and close monitoring to determine the need for evacuation further away."Thai officials were among the first to issue a tsunami warning for the Andaman Sea, an area that saw widespread devastation from a tsunami on Dec. 26, caused by a 9.0 earthquake in the region.No reports of injury or damage had been received from the region.Monday's quake epicenter was just off the northern Sumatra coast and between two smaller islands, and located 18.6 miles underground. It occurred at around 11 p.m. local time.The Dec. 26 quake was also off the coast of Sumatra and just north of Monday's quake.

Gabriel

we have some crazy talent in my family ..everyones a musician or writer or performer or artistand some pretty successful toomy uncle Tim is a published writerhe wrote this after my grandmothers memorial .. the morning of Gabriels funeral he was asked last minute .. cause well all of it was so last minutei think he did a pretty damn good job ...A REFLECTION ON GABRIEL (1982-2005)By Tim Wynne-JonesMarch 12, 2005Phil and Liz named their boys after two horn players. Two really good horn players. Joshua who brought down the walls of Jericho (and quite a few night club walls around North America.) And the Archangel Gabriel who plays first trumpet in God’s heavenly house band. Neither of the Wynne-Jones boys ended up actually playing a wind instrument, but there was one horn Gabe never tired of blowing. He never tired of blowing the horn for his big brother Joshua. A little while back, when JW (Joshua) took a Maple Blues Award, it was Gabe who was kind and considerate enough to alert Doc and Woody at “Chez 106.” This is Gabe the promoter we’re talking about, and when it came to promoting the JW Jones Band, he was tireless. So he passed on to Doc and Woody the name of the hotel and the room number in Toronto where Josh could be reached so that they could give him a call – pass on their congratulations -- early the morning after the Awards Ceremony. Really early. Josh, needless to say, was glad of the media attention and more than happy to do a radio interview in the dark of predawn! Professional that he is, I’m sure he’d gotten to bed good and early the night before.(ha !) The Angel Gabriel, apart from blowing first trumpet in the heavenly house band, is a messenger, the bringer of good news. And he is famous also, as a comforter. The Bible isn’t clear on this point but you’ve got to think Mary must have been pretty confused when this big winged guy appears in the house and tells her she’s going to bear the Savior of Mankind. I mean this kind of thing didn’t happen all that often. Gabe probably had to talk her through it. She must have been frightened. Gabe would have had to reassure her, listen to her and be there totally for her. That’s what our Gabe would have done, anyway. His famous namesake was the angel who came to Jesus in his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was a comforter, a shoulder to cry on, someone who could cheer you up. Sounds like Gabe, all right. I’m going to stretch this heavenly comparison one more notch. The angel Gabriel along with his sidekick Michael have the reputation of being the heavenly bouncers. They’re the ones who stand at the doors of a church to check your ID bracelet and make sure you’re not the Devil incarnate. Well, Gabe, clearly, was no bouncer. He wasn’t into conflict or confrontation -- didn’t have a mean bone in his body. But he was a guardian, nonetheless. He worked security at Blue Skies, the summer music festival up the road apiece, where he and Josh have been going since they were babies. Gabe got involved in Blue Skies in a big way and joined the security team because, when you care about something, when you enjoy something, you want to make sure everyone gets a chance to enjoy it. That’s the kind of person Gabe was. A behind the scenes kind of guy, making sure everyone was happy and things were running smoothly. Obviously, if you’re in security – even at Blue Skies – issues are going to crop up now and then, but Gabe never, never lost his cool. Alison, the head of security, was telling me the other day that Gabe could get along with anyone. His biggest weapon was his smile. Maybe he was so good at the job because, as it says in his obituary notice, Gabe saw the goodness in everybody. Yesterday I read the eulogy at my mum’s memorial service. Gabe’s Nanny Sheila. It was a sad occasion, to be sure, but more of a celebration, really, of a life well lived. Afterwards, the family came back to the house and there was a wonderful party with much laughter and remembering. All of Gabe’s Wynne-Jones aunts and uncles were there and most of his many cousins. It was a good time, except, when you remembered. With your eyes closed you could hear whose laughter was not there. Nobody wanted the party to end because when it did, there was nothing to do but cry. Where, God help me, are we to find any joy in this ceremony today? Let’s face it -- none of us really wants to be here. And yet there is nowhere else in the world we want to be. Nanny Sheila was 88 years old; Gabe was exactly a quarter her age. But I said “well lived” when I was talking about Nanny Sheila’s life and that has nothing to do with time, really, does it. It’s about what you do with what time you’ve got. It’s about how much you put into the moment. It’s about the giving and the taking of happiness; it about smiling. Gabriel’s life was not near long enough but, man, did he get good smileage out of it. And if there is no joy we can get out of the actual ceremony, let us get as much joy as we can out of this gathering. We loved Gabe and were fortunate enough to have been loved by him. I hope it turns out that Lennon and McCartney were right when they said all you need is love. But for the next little while it’s going to be hard to believe.

yep ..

Bacardi 151 Congratulations! You're 137 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (116), and liquor (113). All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so highthat you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure,you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips tothe bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which ismost efficient. My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:You scored higher than 71% on proofYou scored higher than 97% on beer indexYou scored higher than 91% on wine indexYou scored higher than 97% on liquor index Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

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everytime i post here im hoping it wont be about work ..well this one isnt ..last week could only be explained as painfultoom friday off to attend my grandmothers funeral, my family and i were leaving on thursday evening to take the drive up to Perth (just outside of Ottawa) i called my mother to find out what time they were coming to pick me up .. only to find out my cousin was killed last tuesday in a car accident he was driving home from his girlfriends house down highway 7, which is a renownedly dangerous stretch of roadhe tried to pass a car and when head on into a semi, he was dead instantly he was only 22its so sad so tragic and such a loss of a beautiful soulhe was vivacious and generous had a beautiful smile and big blue eyeshe was a peacemaker, and a moderator between his brother and thier fatherthe family he came from was less than perfect and it was really just him and his brother against all of it .. the 2 were incredably closeGabriels funeral was on saturday, the day after my grandmothersas my grandmothers memorial was a celebration of her life, one really well lived and full of love Gabriels was the opposite .. it shone light on how cruel and inexplicable and sudden this all can be life is so precious you have to truly make the best of ityou just never know when it will be gone... i cant write anymore ...

In...

In My Life Lennon/McCartney----------------------------------------There are places I’ll rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some remainAll these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I still can recallSome are dead and some are livingIn my life I’ve loved them allBut of all these friends and loversThere is no one compares with youAnd these memories lose their meaningWhen I think of love as something newThough I know I’ll never lose affectionFor people and things that went beforeI know I’ll often stop and think about themIn my life I love you moreThough I know I’ll never lose affectionFor people and things that went beforeI know I’ll often stop and think about themIn my life I love you more

back at ya

yeah ... i love my country :)Axworthy fires back at Bush, RiceLast Updated Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:26:21 ESTCBC NewsWINNIPEG - Former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy launched an attack on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, defending Canada's decision not to participate in the anti-missile defence system."I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were rigged to show results," Axworthy writes in a column published in the Winnipeg Free Press last week.Former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy. (file photo)"But, gosh, we folks above the 49th parallel are somewhat cautious types who can't quite see laying down billions of dollars in a three-dud poker game."Axworthy, the current president of the University of Winnipeg, begins the open letter with "Dear Condi."He said he wrote the column to defend Prime Minister Paul Martin, who he believes has unfairly come under attack in the media for his decision on missile defence.In the column, Axworthy criticizes Bush's handling of the missile defence issue and for not addressing the House of Commons during his recent visit to Canada."Such control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington," Axworthy writes. "But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire."In contrast, Axworthy boasts of Canada's parliamentary system, "where those in the executive are held accountable by an opposition for their actions."Axworthy goes on to laud the ability of the governing party's caucus members "to tell their leader that their constituents don't want to follow the ideological, perhaps teleological, fantasies of Canada's continental co-inhabitant."Axworthy also swipes at the fiscal state of the U.S., referring to the "gargantuan, multibillion-dollar deficits that your government blithely runs up fighting a 'liberation war in Iraq.'"He blasts the Bush administration for its policies on weapons expenditures, and tax breaks, while cutting food programs for poor children."Just chalk that up to a different sense of priorities about what a national government's role should be when there isn't a prevailing mood of manifest destiny," he writesBut Axworthy appears to temper his remarks by the end of the column, saying Rice should "accept that, as a friend on your border, we will offer a different, independent point of view. And that there are times when truth must speak to power."Axworthy said he is receiving more than 100 e-mail messages each day since writing the column and is receiving interview requests from around the globe."What I found was that there was this theme in the commentary along the lines of, 'Oh my gosh, what will George Bush think?'" Axworthy told the Winnipeg Free Press. "That wasn't the point. The point was that Canada finally made a decision. And that enabled Canada to have a reasonable, distinctive foreign policy. That's not a bad thing."

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