You will be missed.

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Reposted from Sean:

The definition of love.

My housemate works at a men's formal wear shop in downtown Vancouver. Yesterday, a customer by the name of Justin came into her shop with both his mother and girlfriend, wanting to rent a tuxedo. Justin is eight years old, his girlfriend is ten, and Justin decided that he wanted to rent a tuxedo for a party that was being thrown on behalf of his girlfriend, so he tried on some of the finest suits in the shop for the love of his young life, accessorized with his brightest smile.

Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Well, the party is being hosted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. You see, Justin's girlfriend has a brain tumor which recently started growing at an alarming rate - so quickly, in fact, that she's not expected to make it past this coming weekend. Justin's in love with a girl whose life is being measured in minutes, hours if she's lucky.

Justin got his rental for free.

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Jon Stewart deserves an award for this performance. Wow.

His smile crackles, a semi permanent halo. I watch him from the window as he jauntily walks to work, fizzing with the knowledge that I am lucky, so lucky, to have him in my life. As he turns to wave, vanishing behind a building, I smile back, and mock groom the fluffy ears of our shared white monster hat. I love him so much in this moment, as I am sure he loves me, and with that thought, he turns, pouncing from behind the corner with his hands up like paws, trying to surprise me, as if his backpack hadn't been poking past the bricks as he hid, the feet of a child who hasn't quite grasped the intricacies of being unseen.

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Hundreds of free animated films now available through National Film Board's new iPhone app.

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We're going to Montreal soon, for Michel's wedding to a very clever woman I'm not sure I've met and to visit with Lung and Christine and Dee. I've hit that place in my travel plans where the imminent departure date has begun to make me nervous. Do we know where we're staying? Where we're going? Does everyone know when we get there? Daft concerns, the sort of fretting that helps no one. If I don't know yet, I soon shall, so put a lid on it, will you brain? It's not a panic so much as a very low grade adrenaline hum, as my subcutaneous tissue tenses in anticipation, as if I'm about to run in a race, pounding the pavement to music playing slightly too loud but just under the edge of my hearing.

I recently got an iphone. there are many apps out there. many of them are crap. I am looking for suggestions.
I currently have:
facebook
redlaser (barcode scanner/price searcher)
remote
pandora
google
midomi
audiotools

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google called; they said that the executive hiring committee (or something to that effect) approved me, and that sometime around the end of next week they'll have a formal offer for me. They expect that, accounting for the delays with the visa paperwork, I'd start sometime around January 2010.

Yay, perhaps.

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(SCENE: our bedroom, this morning)
maradydd: Sweetie, it's time to get up. You've got a doctor's appointment this morning.
enochsmiles, not opening eyes: Can't the doctor come here?
maradydd, suppressing giggles: No, sweetie, he doesn't do that. It's time to drink a Red Bull.
enochsmiles, still not opening eyes: Can't the doctor drink a Red Bull?
maradydd: No, baby. C'mon, open your eyes...
enochsmiles: Will we play chess?
maradydd: While wearing cheese pants?
enochsmiles: You have cheese?
(at this point I picked him up bodily, and he woke up)

roll #16

roll #17

roll #18

Ok, the deal with any of these is this: It is a roll of film I shot in the recent past. Number 16 is the only one I have any definitive idea about, because it is the most recent one to come out of my camera. The other two? I’m pretty sure I bought the film sometime after returning from Burning Man, but I can’t make any promises. We’ll only know when it’s been developed. That’s where you come in. For $45, you help these be in the world. They’ll be developed, scanned, and put online. And, you’ll get a photograph that is a physical object - I will make an 11×14 print for you from your roll, using light and chemicals. Go to my etsy store and take your pick. I can’t wait to share these with you!

Mirrored from audrey penven.