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I just got back from a week long holiday in my boyfriend's hometown up north. There was lots of fishing, boating, campfires and intoxication. Also, did you know there is a Poutine Palace in Sudbury? I shit you not. Exotic Sudbury, all the beauty of a down-on-it's-luck mining town plus the artery clogging goodness of fried potatoes. I ate so badly last week. Jokes aside, his cottage was back in the woods on a very pretty small lake, we got to go swimming and bum around and read in the sun. I was so relaxed...until I got back to work...and cleaning the house, and looking after two cats and cooking every day right before I have to run out of t

So it appears I haven't written or submitted anything since March. I guess that makes me a bad person. On the other hand, doubtlessly nobody noticed. I'm thinking of starting a food blog (complete with well executed food photography of course), mostly to fill up my time as I seem to be utterly unemployable. No Julie and Julia bullshit though, this isn't going to make me a better person or anything, I already enjoy cooking and I like to make complex recipes on a regular basis. Besides, I'm more of an Anthony Bourdain person anyway. I wanted to get back into the habit of writing and I got a lot of good feedback on my professional blog so maybe

Between my ridiculous workload and my incompetent professor I don't have all that much time to be on DA all that often. I've illustrated a 60 page book, I'd like to be able to post some samples but I need to make jpgs of the InDesign files, I made some pretty nifty packaging for a spice shaker (again with the file management), we're doing a beer bottle label and a corporate identity project for a tower-clock maker, my god my schedule is pretty bogged down. I'll be moving again soon, me and the significant other will have our own place in May, which I couldn't possibly be happier about. I can't wait to be living quietly in my own space, not