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nice.

so i finally got sick and tired of not getting comments on my photographs, succumbed to peer pressure, and started an account at flickr.

if so inclined, you can find it at flickr.com/photos/ivanlo or flickr.ivanlo.com.

my photographs will continue to be posted on this site but i thought i’d take a shot at broadening my audience by giving in to the mob. i just hope they’ll bite.

looking out my window earlier today, i thought i saw something strange coming out of the sky toward me. it ended up being a glare from my oddly angled lamp but for a brief moment i thought something exciting was about to happen.

i felt a little sad right afterward. then even sadder for feeling sad in the first place. why was i craving excitement? my life is by no means boring and i have plenty of things to be excited about right now. so, why? why was i still longing for more when i already have so much?

i hope it’s nothing more than man’s primeval hunger for bigger and better things.

holy crap, a gnat just tried to fly up my nose.

i have two term papers due tomorrow morning and now, a few mere minutes from midnight, i’m done! hoo-rah!

i think i did really well in resisting the urge to procrastinate this time around. the old me would have probably just started both papers and not slept. instead, i’ve got two neat little essays sitting in a folder ready to be submitted and the whole night ahead of me to try and get some good rest in.

what a wonderful feeling.

exactly five years ago, november 25th, 2001 at 5:38pm, i put up my first post on this weblog. it was a dull, awkwardly written entry about what i had done the past week: hockey, taking poorly lit and haphazardly composed photographs in Chinatown with my buddy JR, my first time actually eating turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, etc…

now, five years later, it’s weird to see how things have and haven’t changed. i haven’t played hockey in a while but it’s still the only sport i love, we celebrated JR’s birthday last weekend, and i’ve recently consumed an unholy amount of food which included a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken which is disgusting in concept but delicious in nature.

photography is still my passion and i’ve since taken an overwhelming multitude of poorly lit and haphazardly composed photographs in over 17 major cities across seven different nations including two Third World countries, a disaster area, and a former warzone. and even after all that, my appetite for photography has exploded and i’m taking steps toward devoting the rest of my life to it.

well, here’s to the next five.

i think there may be a chance that i’ve been suffering from sleep apnea. for those of you like me whose entire knowledge of medicine was gleaned from watching Scrubs, sleep apnea is characterized by regular pauses in breathing. this in turn results in the sufferer not getting enough rest during sleep and can be responsible for turning him into a hypersensitive psychopath who snaps at little old ladies on the bus because i could’ve walked to my destination in the time it took them to get their stupid discounted fare cards out of their comically oversized pocketbooks and through the bloody machine!

anyway, i’ve been told that i stop breathing when i sleep and i assume that that’s the reason i tend to wake myself up a lot throughout the night. i rarely wake up feeling rested and i’m always feeling tired during the day.

any medical-types out there have any tips?

i know i’m not nearly as thankful as i should be.

sorry :(

sup, foos.

my photolog is finally up and running again so please catch up, comment, and comment. did i mention that you guys should comment more?

the template i’ve used will be there until i can replace it with something more refined so don’t give me flak about the design just yet. i’ve been pretty busy lately so i don’t have a whole lot of time to muck about but i promise all that will change come mid december.

now go comment!