Thursday, September 30, 2004

Damn

P.S. My surgery went well. I'm seeing 20/20. Thanks for all of your well-wishing comments.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Today me and some other grad students went to check out the crop circles near humbolt. What a great day for a road trip.



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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

So, Marc here again, plugging my new website. It's officially changed and I hope that it helps me sell my car. Please feel free to link to it from anywhere.



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Monday, September 27, 2004

Congratulations Marc


Congratulations on your Eye Surgery (no more glasses)

written by angela at 4:24 PM [+] |

Some of the pictures are posted from this weekend. You can go to my flickr account to check them out or my online photo album. I hope you like them as much as I do.



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We went to the farm this weekend. It was a very good trip. It is so beautiful up there this time of year. All of the difference colours of fall are just great and the weather was perfect for driving around the country and taking pictures. I have to go to school right now and then pick up Marc from his eye surgery (I wish him good luck with that), so after I get back I promise to post more photos from the weekend.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

I am addicted to photoshop now! (ps. the model isn't me)

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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

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I am on a break from my photography class right now. The image posted here is the image I made from the assignment. The assignment was to take a starting image and make it look exactly that same as a given end image. Well, I finished relatively early and had a lot of time to kill. So I took the final image and created this. I hope you all like it. It was fun to make.



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Today is a sick day. Well, that is my excuse. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and it hasn't gotten any better. I need someone to make me some homemade chicken soap, but, alas, I am the only one in my household that knows how to make it. I think it might defeat the purpose if I make if for myself. I guess I will have to settle for yesterdays chicken leftovers and lots of liquids. My photography class is tonight. I don't care how sick I am, I am not missing that. It will be the first real and complete class. I am definitely looking forward to it.

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Monday, September 20, 2004

We are back from Estevan. What a good, but tiring weekend. I was so exhausted last night when we got back into town that I could barely think straight. Next weekend I hope to go north and visit my grandparents. I would love to take some pictures of the autumn colors. The trees are turning yellow and red here in Saskatoon and I bet things are just as colorful on the farm. It is such a beautiful time of year. Last year I kept putting off the picture taking and before I knew it everything was grey and brown. This year I don't want to miss it. It is just so beautiful, but it is too bad that the colors only last for such a short time.

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Friday, September 17, 2004

I am off for the weekend. Off to Estevan to visit Marc's family. Have a good weekend everyone.

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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Children are so mean. I do not like the way children treat each other, especially girls. Boys may be just as bad, but being a girl myself, my experience lies with the girls. When I have children, I hope they are the ones that are picked on and not the ones picking on others. It is hard going through childhood when all the others are against you, but I think you grow up with more empathy for others and are less likely to so cruel in your adulthood. Generally I do not think that adults are as mean as children. If they are it is at least more subtle (which isn't really better). As you can tell, for the most part, when I grew up, I was picked on. Now I am watching my younger sisters get picked on and it seems to be even worse now then when I was a child. What is wrong with our children. They must be learning this behavior from someone. All I can say to the children that are victims of their peers is 'time is your friend and soon it will be over.' Isn't it horrible to want your childhood to be over, but it is true. In my opinion, being an adult is way cooler (is there something wrong with me). Seriously, yes you have more responsibilities, but with that comes freedoms and a great feeling of being able to control your future. You make your own choices good and bad. By university most people have grown out of their childhood disdain for others and the need to berate each other to make themselves feel good. I am sure there are adults out there that do this still (their children must learn it somewhere), but it is my experience that generally people try to be friends.

written by angela at 2:07 PM [+] |

[...] everything begins with a Question. WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION ???

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Sometimes this is how I feel.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

I haven't checked my Guestmap in a long time and... wow. There are so many new visitors that have signed it. They have been leaving some great comments as well. Thanks everyone. I was almost in tears when I read some of the comments. How encouraging. Here are some of the comments that touched me the most.

Having studied commercial photography and then worked for several years as an agricultural photographer (in other words - now jaded old man), it's nice to see the excitement and innocence in your images. A good eye! What more do I need to say. Stay with it. . . -Jeffie Boy

I'm a woman in Saskatoon who heard about your site from a man in Colorado...You get around! great site, better pictures! -solange

nice pictures - we want more!! :) -Rea

some make me think...others are just beautiful to look at. Thanks. -Ron

Your pictures make me homesick. Say hi to the river for me. -Elizabeth, in Calgary

and my favorite...

Great Site, Love the Photo's..... they inspire me to make the world better, as good as you have made it thru your lens. -Wes Belland

Okay... Enough tooting my own horn.

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Poor Marc, he is sick. I will make him homemade chicken noodle soup today. What a treat for him. I know he loves my homemade soup. Mmmm mmm good (maybe even better then campbell's).

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Last night was the first Digital imaging class. I was quite pumped to get started, but all the professor did was go over the class outline and let us go. Usually students love it when a prof does this. But, I was so pumped to get started that I was a little disappointed. Oh well, class will start full force next Tuesday and I will be ready. There is some assigned reading for next week that I will get started on today. I was looking at some of the class work done by past students. The prof says that by the end of this class we will all be able to do what is displayed in the class work. I can't wait. I was very impressed with the students work. I think the class will be difficult as the prof came off as kind of a dick (other then letting us go early). There is even two written assignments. I mean, come on, written assignments in an art class. Oh well, I am looking forward to all of it and the harder it is, the more I will learn. I am even looking forward to the written assignments. I am a geek or what?

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Monday, September 13, 2004

Weddings, weddings, weddings... I can't stop thinking about weddings. Today a friend of mine asked me to be his wedding photographer. It isn't until next July. Should I do it? It was so much work and this one will be even more work. It is out of town and there are children in the wedding party. Plus, I don't know his fiance or anything about her. I am so proud of the photos I did for Mike and Sarah and I have more confidence now. But, not that much more confidence. I won't be able to go visit the location ahead of time and the people might not be as easy going. Being Mike and Sarah's wedding photographer was a great experience, but I would be oh so lucky to get such as easy going group as them again. So much can go wrong, but he is offering me more money... and money is good, right? Sometimes I look back and think that the stress and hassle of being a wedding photographer is worth a lot more money then anyone can offer.

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Friday, September 10, 2004

I'm in the process of creating my own blog. It's going to serve one purpose, and hopefully it will help. To have a look at it, click here.

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Thursday, September 09, 2004

Sorry to do this to y'all. I know I don't talk about science that often, but here it goes. Yesterday I diffracted a crystal I grew with x-rays and I got a beautiful diffraction patterm (please note the image on the left). Then after a few minutes I got a diffraction patter that was lacking in information (please note the image on the right). I could've cried. If I collect a data set like the image on the left, I could finish my master's degree and finally graduate. That is all it will take. But, if you look at the second image... well... the crystal has exploded. The white mess around the center is the metal previously in my crystal coating the detector. Yes..... It exploded. That happens so rarely in real life, infact few of the professors I talked to even knew what happened, and much less had ever seen it before. Yet, it has happened to me several times now. Why... why me? I may just be an expert on exploding crystals by the time I graduate... If I ever graduate. It is so depressing that all I can do is laugh. I think I am going crazy.

written by angela at 2:59 PM [+] |

I am just trying out some cool html tricks from Mandarin Design. Here is a polaroid picture and some magazine style text.



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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

We just made apple pie. Mmmm mmm good! I haven't tasted it yet, but it looks great. You can visit my online photo album to see more scrumptious pictures.

Hey, and thanks Brennan for setting up our wireless connection. It works great.

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"I happen to think that a belief in God is all that is necessary for the acceptance of death, since you know that death, like life, is part of God's pattern." Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

I don't usually get religious on my website, but I came across this quote and it intrigued me. I happen to disagree very much with what Eleanor Roosevelt says above. Sometimes a belief in God makes death harder to deal with because, if you believe in God (at least a Christian God), then you also believe in hell. Does this not make people nervous and scared of all the things they have done in their lives. Technically we all probably deserve to go to hell. I prefer to believe in no hell and that death is just that. The end. It does not hurt, because I will no longer know, or miss, or feel. It is just the end. That way I don't have to fear my decisions when I make the wrong ones as I am sure I will continue to do. I can just enjoy the time I have and the friends and family that touch my life along the way. After all, it is the journey that is the destination.

written by angela at 3:14 PM [+] |

I was watching a Tampax commercial a few days ago with Becky when a thought came into my head and I thought I would share it. Well, we were almost crying from laughing so hard, so I thought I would share it on my website. Now, I want to warn you... It is a statement that is truly only meant for ladies to understand, but, here it goes anyways.

"Ya know what I hate? When you're on your period and you sneeze."

hahahahahaha...Well, at least we thought it was funny.

written by angela at 3:03 PM [+] |

On the weekend I saw Vanity Fair with her. It was a nice escape from a rather boring afternoon, but overall I didn't' think the movie was that great. The whole movie was about reaching for the top as far as class and status in society goes. The main character, Becky, was a very witty, clever and beautiful young women. Someone we can relate too....Right??? Sure???

The rest of the weekend was good. Kind of an emotional rollercoaster for me and I am quite embarrassed. I didn't realize how much hormones can effect me, but... they definitely do. I become an emotional wreck about this time of the month and I would much prefer to just avoid myself. Generally I think I am quite normal, but as soon as something goes wrong I just don't have the capacity to deal with it rationally. It all started after I realized I was crying over a broken oven.

I am all for being a woman... but... would it be possible to check the hormones at the door?

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Friday, September 03, 2004

So far I have spent most of the day in waiting rooms at the University hospital with my mother and grandmother. The mood was quite somber as is fitting for the occasion. Despite the circumstances it is always nice to spend time with my family, whom I don't see nearly as much as I should.

written by angela at 5:00 PM [+] |

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." Mae West (1892-1980)

written by angela at 11:19 AM [+] |

AAAcckkk... Somebody found my website looking for "angela nude" and someone else found me by looking for "vomiting women pictures." This is very disturbing.

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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Here are a couple of before and after photos of the whole house decorating and renovating process, but Becky has posted many more. Please feel free to check them out.

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We actually have internet hooked up now. Thank goodness for Sasktel. The funniest part of today was watching Becky watch George W. Bush speak at the Republican National Convention. When she watches John Kerry speak she shakes her head in agreement at almost everything he says, but with ol' Georgie boy... wow... what a different picture. She disagrees with everything he says. I think there would've been some cursing going on if my grandma wasn't in the same room. Hahahaha, I only tease. You know I love you.

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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

I am finally back. We are finally moved into the new place and everything got painted in time thanks to our many helpers. It looks great but we still have some unpacking to do. We won't be getting internet hooked up until tomorrow so don't expect any pictures until then. I will definitely be doing some before and after photos. Right now I am at school for the first time since before last week. I was so busy with the house and moving that I am afraid school got put on the back burner again. Now it is time to move it up to front burner and get some work done. I would like to actually graduate and if I keep putting off the school work, that will never happen.

written by angela at 11:18 AM [+] |

Yep, it's Marc again. I just got back from the optometrist office this morning. It took a lot longer than I expected. On the plus side, it turns out that I'm a great candidate for laser eye surgery. The laser place will call me soon and book an appointment for me to come in and get cut. I can't wait. I know there are a lot of naysayers out there in regards to this procedure, but I've heard nothing but good things from people who have had the experience done.

20/20 here I come!

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