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Jen came in today to give a talk to a class that I am not even part of. My teacher just happened to mention to me that she needed someone to come in and talk about comics and cartoons, and I mentioned Jen to her. The talk went so well, and I was ever helpful to help Jen out, that the teacher wants the two of us to come back and act as guest speakers in a different class of hers. As the picture shows, Jen was calm and cool as a cucumber while giving the lesson.

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I think I'm part of the loud, annoying group in my Wednesday night class, which is something considering we're neither loud nor terribly annoying. We're just 4 of the youngest people in the class who all sit in a line near the back-ish of the class. That said, we may have argued a few times with some of the people in class, and given them nicknames than only we understand.

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This picture was very much like the dinner I made. The dinner was good, but it was a little too spicy. This picture was also good, but a little too fuzzy. I still liked the look of it, so instead I just ran it through photoshop to see what it could turn it into. I like the effect.
That said, I'll have to start working on more pictures that are actually good on their own. With having just gotten over being sick (I'm still very tired a lot), working sometimes, doing school during the day and doing school during the night... it makes things a little busy.

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I really don't mind the 8 in the morning Monday class. What I mind are all the people in the class who whine about it being an 8 in the morning Monday class. I suppose they have more classes over the course of the day, where I get to show up for class, do my 2 hours, then I am a free agent for the rest of the day. Of course I ended up working in the afternoon, but still I make my point. Even the buses are pretty quiet at this hour... sometimes.

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Blarg. Very tired. Crappy picture. Also up late.

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The tournament in Montreal was very exciting! Mostly because of the trip down, we got stuck in downtown Montreal and got directions from someone we dubbed Senior Nub. We're lost, asking for directions to get back onto the highway and how to find out exit, and he's trying to show up Montreal's bus system.

But the showing was really good, especially for a first time. 30 some people raised about 500 some dollars for prostate cancer research. Not bad for a Saturday. Even better was the fact that a friend, Mark Armitage, won the event. Woo Hoo!

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Today is my last day mixing two images together. I know technically I have one more day I should be mixing them, but I am going to Montreal for the day tomorrow. I'd much rather take a picture of the nerds there unadulterated there mixing some. Plus, this week felt more like playing in photoshop than it did taking pictures. I got some neat effects out of it, but I think I am done.

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A bit of a fail on the picture today. In theory it was supposed to look like the sky is and the water on one. I kinda got it? Kinda didn't. Not terribly happy. It's something I might try again at a later date.

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With today we now only have 100 days left in 2010! Wow, the year has gone by fast. I figured I would be able to keep up with this blog as long as I made it to picture 100. Now, here I am with only 100 pictures left to take. It's made me start to wonder what I am going to do once I am done this year. Am I going to keep up with the blog? Am I going to take a picture every single day? Maybe I'll only take a couple a week? Who knows. I have 100 days to decide.

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Not doing so well. Got rather sick, wasn't able to really keep up with anything. Hopefully this will straighten itself out. The next couple of days were all posted late because I wasn't able to focus or really function. Went to class, came home, slept. That was pretty much my schedule. Of course the week I decided to try something new and different ended up being the week where I got sick.

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Today the two pictures I decided to mix together were joined by a theme. First, a purposely out of focus picture of Algonquin College students going into the college. I'm a big fan of out of focus pictures were everything just seem to be circles. Then a shot of the sign outside of the college. I'm not too happy with the outcome, but I like the neat mix of colours the students give the sign.

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I am going to be playing this week with mixing layers of different pictures together to make something entirely different. I can't promise it's going to come out very well, but that's something I want to play with more. We'll see how this all works out in the end. Regardless, I should get a better idea how to use that option. I figured it was either this or black and white pictures, but I'll save that for when I have more time.

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A quiet day so far. I can't believe how tired I was yesterday! Slept in till well beyond what I normally sleep. But that's okay. I'll be sure to stay out extra late, you know, just to balance things out. It works that way, right?

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Today we went to the horticulture program at Algonquin College for my Math and Sciences for Young Children class. The idea was to just explore the area, think about what we enjoyed and what attracts us there. The idea being the activity being there is a lot of science there, and stuff we can learn first hand without the teacher coming with us and saying "okay, now we're going to talk about fish and squirrels and bees and trees and cats". So, here are the things that caught my eye today.

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A cold, wet and rainy day. And means a lot coming from me who loves cold, wet and rainy days. A good day though. Started a new night class, worked the community outreach playgroup thing in the morning, worked in the kindergarten room in the afternoon, picked up about 2 weeks worth of shifts for November/December at the daycare. A productive day, despite the cold and wet and rainy.

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First night class of the semester! I'm with a lot of people I know, which I suppose is only expected when you take classes for about 2 years. Gives me a nice balance compared to the day program where I know no one. The teacher also gave us candy, which is an excellent start.

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I know, you're probably getting sick of pictures of flowers. Well, flower season is almost done. It's getting colder (slowly) and soon we'll be craving some colour other than grey and white and black. I've barely seen any bugs, sort of surprised to see these bees still kicking around.

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Felt rather sick all day. I don't know what it was, but just.. tired and sick. I didn't really notice how sick I sounded till I tried to talk in class. All I could think was "Holy Cow, is that what I sound like?". After an afternoon of sleeping things were better.

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I got hit by a cold today. Not as bad as I've had them before, but still enough to knock me down for a little while. I am happy to say though that this is the first time I've been sick a good long while! Normally I'm like the canary in the coal mines.

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The day started off big and promising. Went to see the Rideau Falls, saw a ton of Canadian geese behind old city hall, went to buy some new shoes (my old ones were making breathing sounds when I walked around), went out to dinner with friends, blah blah blah. Started to get sick near the end, so no Orpheus stuff for last night. Sadly the sick feeling followed me into the next day.

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Finished my first week of being a day student. Maybe it's because all the people I've been doing classes with the past couple of years are older, but man do these people talk a lot. Like, all the time. Even when the teacher is talking. You'd think they'd know that means you shush up and listen. I mean common people, this isn't high school.

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A very busy day. Worked outreach in the morning, go home for a half an hour then off to the daycare to do a shift! It was surprisingly fast though. The day I mean. It didn't seem to drag on, in fact it went by very very quickly. Won't be able to do that again for a while, next Wednesday I start my night classes. I do the playgroup outreach thing again next Thursday. Set up, watch it go, and tear it down!

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Today we finally had temperature like I like it! Cold and dark and rainy. Hey, it's what I like. Don't knock it. Worked at the daycare today, picked up an extra shift tomorrow afternoon which is paired with me working community outreach tomorrow morning. Going to be a busy day, but I'm really looking forward to the outreach thing.

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250 days into the year 2010 and I have my first day time class in a long time. It's very different being back on campus when the Sun is turned on. As long as I can get used to sharing a classroom with a bunch of girls just out of highschool then I should be fine.

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Tomorrow I have my first day class in a very long time. I will admit, I am more than a little nervous. And tired. Very much tired. And without a car (it seems to have broken again). At least I will have Orpheus to keep me company on the bus tomorrow! Seems every Fall I get the urge to play Orpheus, and this fall is no exception.

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So now I know why I've been getting headaches the past couple of days. That would be the change in weather and pressure. I really like how it was the past two days, but that's gonna change. Now I have a couple weeks to get a working L5R deck together, we'll see how that goes.

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I now bet we'll have people complaining about the sudden drop in temperature compared to how hot it's been. Mostly a lazy, cold sort of day. The kind of day where you think about imaginary ghosts, go out with friends and then go see a movie about a very angry Mexican.

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Today was my last day working at the daycare for the summer. I had a blast, and I'm really glad I did it. Now it's back to regular supply work, and I think I'll be good for it. Today alone I got 3 requests to supply by three different people, sadly all on he same day... and a day I wasn't even available to supply anyways. Follow the last day of work with dinner at Joey's place (which is fantastic), and the day was awesome. Also, f--k you, Santa's real.

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You know that feeling you get when it's really humid and you feel like you're swimming as you're walking? Yeah, I really don't like that. Apparently we're going to have an incredibly warm fall, which is disapointing. I love a cold, cool, and crisp fall. Hopefully they're getting it wrong, but the longer we stay with the summer time weather (even though the sun is down by 8ish) the more I think they might be onto something.

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I've decided that today isn't actually September 1st. It was much too hot to be. After all, I went swimming today. Who does swimming in September? No one, that's who.