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Day off and finally a big chunk of time to paint but found so hard to concentrate in the studio. bah. I'm going to have to move the laptop out of here. Myspace is like crack. why IS that? Less fulfilling/intimate but yet somehow still so addictive. Like chips...keeps you hungry and snacking...whereas LJ friends page is perhaps sometimes too big/filling a meal to even start eating? hmmm interessssting.

Note: Long hot showers in winter are lush. And putting on clothes that are warm from the dryer..mmmmmmmm:)

Did I mention that a little SHREW lives in the wall of my studio? He is the cutest thing ever. I call him Shrupi. Pokes out every once in a while when i'm quiet, sniffs around...detects me...then runs back in. Once I watched him walk all around...funny little blindish waddle. He'd better watch out because I'm so pet-deprived I'm falling madly in love. My heart skips a beat whenever I hear his little rustling...and I hold my breath, hoping to see him.
Drawing little ferris wheels on pink squares that mean Everything at once. HOw did it get so late...goodnight my loves.

Ugh. Interesting/Disturbing slant on the Phillipine Mudslides

According to New York Times cover story the "The mudslide, which struck without warning Friday morning" is not entirely true... : commercial logging had stripped the mountainside for decades, leaving its topsoil vulnerable. Villagers replanted some of the slopes with coconut trees, which provide food but have only shallow roots. So landslides of one kind or another have become a regular feature of the rainy season, which begins in October. But about a month ago, villagers began to notice something unusual: gashes of brown dirt like cracks in the mountain's face. Nobody considered them serious enough, apparently, to report to the authorities.

"We knew that that part of the mountain had become unstable, but nobody did anything about it," said Marcos Malubay, an official of Atuyon, a village next to Guinsaugon that narrowly avoided the avalanche.
Rev. Francis Vega, of the local Saint Bernard parish, said the mudslide was tragically unsurprising. "There have been warnings about the dangerous degradation of the environment in this province," he said, "warnings that were not heeded by government officials."
read the article: In Philippines, Hope for Survivors Fades