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I just got back from visiting my dad in Inuvik for the Great Northern Arts Festival. I discovered a couple of artists that I really like, who I'll talk about in a later post, and experienced 24-hour sunlight for the first time... and I've decided that I prefer having a regular sunset. Not that I want to experience 24 hours of darkness, either. I just realized that I need that balance between

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Some time ago, I wrote a post entitled My First Muse about Marc Chagall. So naturally, when I logged onto the internet today and saw my Google homepage had images from Chagall's works I had to click. Which is how I happen to know that today is Chagall's birthday. I was particularly pleased by the timing because I recently updated my Artist Statement to include the following: "I regard film as

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Apologies to my handful of regular readers for the sparseness of my posts of late. As you can see by the content of my last few posts, it's been a challenging few months. But I wanted to let everyone know that my short film, "Coda in G Minor," will be screening at the Fear No Film Festival! (Isn't that a great title for a film festival?!) Read more on my Coda blog.

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I finally have Ripley back, my beautiful '95 Honda Civic! But it was a battle royal. The insurance company wanted to write her off. Said that to make her pristine would cost over 80% of her value. My outside voice response was "she was in very good condition before she was stolen, but certainly not pristine." My inside voice response was "value according to whom?!" Because I Ripley is my baby. So

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My horoscope for May 10, the day of my grandmother's funeral: "You face a new challenge today -- one that may demand more of you than recent events have. It's a good time to enlist support from outside or to work on developing new coping skills."

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No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë (This is the last poem that by Emily Brontë ever wrote.) No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. O God within my breast, Almighty, ever-present Deity! Life, that in me has rest, As I, undying Life, have power in Thee! Vain are the thousand creeds

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I'm about to post about something I can barely bring myself to think about, but I believe it needs to be discussed. There's this "artist" that was brought to my attention through Facebook. I had so hoped would turn out to be another Facebook hoax, but I have yet to be able to debunk it: In 2007, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, a so called artist, took an abandoned dog from the streets, tied him to a

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Well, my car Ripley has been found. She is currently being inspected to make sure that her damage isn't greater than her value (as determined by the insurance company, obviously, because her value to me is unquestionable). I am fully covered this time, unlike with Newt. But I now understand, in a visceral rather than intellectual way, why people say they feel violated when they see the state of

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Well, I never got around to writing the retrospective post about buying a car to replace poor Newt who got smashed last summer. But I did end up finding a beautiful '95 red Honda Civic SI coupe with tinted windows and a flowmaster exhaust (which I thought I was going to replace but I've actually learned to love it). I called her Ripley because--being a bigger, faster Civic--I kind of thought of

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Just wanted to remind everyone that my short film "Coda in G Minor" screens at the $100 Film Festival this Friday, March 14. The festival runs from March 13-15 at the Plaza Theatre, starting at 7pm each night. Advance tickets are available at the CSIF or Casablanca Video, but tickets will also be available at the door. For more information about the $100 Film Festival, go to the official festival

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More Tories than ever? Are you fracking kidding me? "Voter turnout Monday hit a new record low" (The Canadian Press) No sh!t, Sherlock. The conspiracy theorist in me starts to look at the fact that they moved a whole slew of polling stations but didn't bother to send that information out to many of us nor did they publish that information in any of the newspapers (something that used to be

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I went by the CSIF yesterday to drop off the film print of "Coda in G Minor" for the $100 Film Festival (Did I mention that it got accepted?! It's screening on Friday, March 14 at 7pm at the Plaza!) and I ended up picking up passes to see "Cidade dos Homens (City of Men)." The IMDb plot outline: "Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers'

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I'm having a crappy day and the few people that I actually talk to about my problems are either the cause of them, trying to head shrink me or watching the $#@%! academy awards. You might be expecting me to be watching it, too. And I was looking forward to it, albeit only because Jon Stewart is hosting. But I'm in no mood to gain enjoyment from it now, so why make myself feel worse by watching

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Those of you who know my peacenik tendencies may be surprised to learn that I've been following The Discovery Channel's Jetstream, a show about fighter pilot training. But I started watching the show because my screenwriting instructor's sister-in-law is one of the pilots on it (and she's very cool). I've continued to watch the show because it's well made and I'm curious to watch Riel's progress

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I was trying to find out if today is a civic holiday in Manitoba (because I'm trying to reach Winnipeg's Globe Theatre to find out whether they're screening "Walk All Over Me" on February 22nd or February 29th, so that I can update the WAOM MySpace site) and today is that weird little civic holiday in Alberta on the third Monday of February called Family Day. I discovered that Saskatchewan and

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I would like to start this post addressed to any US Democrats that happen to stumble across my blog by saying that you have two excellent political candidates in the running for the Presidential election this year. However (and call me a conspiracy theorist if you like), I think it is fair to say that the Republicans WANT Obama to win your nomination at the Democratic convention this summer

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Watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles... John Connor and his Terminator bodyguard Cameron getting into Sarah's car after school: JOHN: I call shotgun. CAMERON: I call 9mm.

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Once again, I am late in posting birthday wishes to my laconic, erudite, guitar playing friend Brian. (My sister gave me a perpetual calendar to keep track of birthdays; a great idea! But it only works if you remember to actually look at it... go figure.) But I finally figured out the problem in my slightly warped brain: I'm bad with birthdays to start with and only really remember those of my

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If Miss America was really intent on updating their image and crowning an "It Girl," why did Miss Alaska not make the semi-finals? And why did they still crown a Barbie?

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"This season a mother will become a warrior, a son will become a hero, and their only ally will be a friend from the future." I've started watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I may have been dissatisfied by the TV adaptation of Painkiller Jane, I may have been disappointed by the remake of The Bionic Woman, but I finally have my "women who kick ass" show! (Just to be clear, the

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Sorry for my delinquent posting of late. It's partly because I'm still kind of recovering from the sleep restriction therapy and the ensuing week long migraine. Then, to top it off, I got a migraine on the day of my doctor's appointment so that's been rescheduled for February. (Which is maybe just as well, since I can't really try this approach again until after my math students finish final

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Well, my sleep restriction therapy went by the wayside on day three of my migraine (that Christmas day headache was, in fact, the migraine coming back and setting up camp for the rest of the week). I have an appointment with my sleep doc on Wednesday, so I'm just going to wait and talk to him before I try anything further. As my last post of the year, I had been planning to post a 2007 "Hot vs.

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All I want for Christmas is a good night's sleep. Haven't managed to duplicate my success yet. Slept for 5.5 hours each of the last two nights, but not straight through. Migrained yesterday, but think that was chinook not sleep restriction. Still headachy today, though.

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I slept for 5.5 hours straight last night! I hope this is actually the sleep restriction starting to work and not just a fluke. I guess we'll see tonight.

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So much for bone-deep-exhaustion theory. Felt so much like Lupus fatigue that I expected it to act same way and not go away until I slept. Not so much. I guess pendulum can still swing back from bone deep exhaustion to overtired and wired. Total hours slept: 5 out of 6. According to book doc suggested (read in overtired state in wee hours of the morning), if I can maintain 85% sleep efficiency

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