but that gives me 3 days prior and 3 days post wedding to see folks :D - anyways, drop me a line if you're free to hangzorz in there somewhere :D
 

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Laura

My friend Christina wanted to go bowling for her birthday. Her husband works all evenings pretty much. So we were waiting for him to get home around 11pm. He arrives 10:30. she's still getting ready. 11:30... still getting ready... 12:30... still getting ready. FINALLY at 1am I go down and I'm like "okay hun, stop cleaning your apartment. we have to go"

Luckily we found this place that's all "We're open until 4am on friday nights". So we hop on the bus and get on the subway up to FINCH (end of the subway line) to go bowling.

The good thing (I say good sarcastically here) Is that the last 2 subway stops are apparantly under construction, so we have to transfer onto a bus at this point. This bus takes FOREVER. and winds and weaves so much that I start to feel a little motion sick.  FINALLY we get to Finch station. where we have now missed our connecting bus by 2 minutes. literally 2 minutes.

Just sitting in the Library looking online for something to keep me entertained for the next 5 minutes. I figured an LJ post about how I'm prepping my portfolio for art school was a cool place to start. I need between 15-25 drawings, showing a variety of material.

I'm honestly finding myself most comfortable with pencil, so I think that's what I will stick with. Conte makes me angry and Charcoal (which I LOVE) is too smudge-y to send in the mail in an application. Though i COULD get a high quality copy made... this is true.

Anyways, it's for an illustration/drawing program, so I figure pencil is best anyways, as that's the primay medium in which i'd be working in.

Don't have a scanner currently, but I will when I go home for Christmas, adn I'll show y'all the stuffs I'm handing in :D

Any idea on where to get subject matter from though? I can't obviously hire someone to sit for me, so I've been using modelling books, Fashion Magazines, ect... for the figure poses.  Don't have the internet free on hand, but any books anyone could reccommend that I could pick up would be hot! :D

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More news soon!

Laura

these people are big on short notice viewings ><

I emailed this lady about http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/apa/762741985.html, and she wrote back this morning

"Hi Laura,

If your friend would like to view, I am available today (Monday) in the evening anytime after 6:30.  Let me know if that works for him/her.

Thanks,
Amy"

Sooo I will write her to say "Hi Amy, I'll talk to him today and get back to you about when he can come by"

So you let me know when works good for you and I will write her and let 'er know! :)

This is what I'm using to make everyone the same volume in Vent, and it's working very nicely:

Go to Setup
- Enable Direct Sound ( check-box above 'output device')
- Select the SFX Button
- Select Compressor and click Add.
- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings
- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 7)
- Attack = 0.01
- Release = Around 500
- Threshold = Around -30
- Ratio = 100
- Pre delay = 4.0


and people should be on equal volumes! huzzah!