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Here's the video of the incredimazing ball machine! Sorry if it's hard to follow - I was too A.D.D. to follow just one ball at a time, haha. Science Centre Ball Machine.wmv

Hi all! This is my first photo TR, so be nice Also, the pictures hardly do the place justice because my camera kept dying throughout the day whenever we encountered something exciting, so bear with me! For those of you who don't know, the Ontario Science Centre is a place that combines learning and fun for people of all ages (am I a salesperson or what?!) - but it's mostly just fun and amusing. It is also home to Ontario's only IMAX Dome theatre, which was playing four films: Journey to Mecca, Under the Sea, The Alps, and Star Trek (yeeeeeah). Unfortunately, I had to sit through Under the Sea with what felt like every summer camp on the planet (I can't handle children in large groups). It was a good film, though, and I'd recommend anyone who hasn't experienced an IMAX Dome to go and find one now! Anyways, I'll try to cut to the pictures, and if anybody really cares about what else there was to see that my camera failed bigtime on, the exhibits not pictured include: KidSpark (it was also inhabited by every summer camp in North America) Human Body (though I really did want to get some good fetus pictures) MindWorks The Science of Spying (which was pretty cool, but my camera didn't care) Sport Hall Science Arcade Now onto the pictures! And that's that! Until next time, Science Centre! There was a really odd looking playground. Unfortunately, it didn't keep the endless sea of summer campers away from me all day Art installation! There were a zillion escalators, but it was okay because we could bird watch while riding them! This is where the bubbles came from. Each little tube lit up at the bottom when it made a bubble. This was a pretty cool machine - it made portraits out of bubbles! I have no clue how it worked, but here's Marilyn Monroe. You could do stuff like make your own technology here... or your own shoes, as pictured above. Next up, the Innovation Station (as my sister breaks her neck?) This guy was large. I wanted to take it home. To the repitles, Batman! You often see random things like trees in walls at the Science Centre The main hall that the Lizards & Snakes, Innovation Station, and Science of Spying exhibits branched off from This area had three different exhibits I'll also upload a video of it, for those as easily amused as I am It reminded me of the Sesame Street "One, two, three" skit with the little red ball. Alright, so this was the absolute highlight of my day! It was this kinetic perpetual motion machine, and I would have just sat there and watched the balls rolling all day if my family didn't drag me away. This had something to do with comets... or something...? This is my ride There was a lot of space-themed art, and being one of those artsy kids, naturally, I wasted most of my camera's battery life on a bunch of pictures of them. I won't bore you with all of them though This year's flyer/map Now playing... We're here! That big silver dome is the IMAX Dome.

Here's some of my latest work (Now that I've finally got my hands on a DSLR and don't have to wait around until I can get into a darkroom!). Let me know what you all think! This was the result of my practicing my focus & composition skills My little brother at the beach (black & white makes everything look epic) I just liked how this random snapshot turned out Some cute flowers (and Buddha statue) in my back yard

I Am Not A Robot by Marina & the Diamonds

Oreos! I'll just sit and finish an entire box without noticing. It's terrible!

No, I usually make people notice me when I like them. Do you gamble?

Some more photo evidence that I exist: This one's for a model search thing I'm going to on Saturday. I've never done any kind of modelling thing before, so I didn't know what kind of picture to take! But I'm thinking this'll work, haha.

No, but I accidentally lit a firework into one's home (under a bridge) once. Have you ever read any of Graham Roumieu's Bigfoot books (they're hilarious)?

I just saw this same topic posted on Geekologie, under the title "Extreme Nutjob Skates Down Roller Coaster". They also have more pictures, and a video if you'd like another perspective on the stunt lol (it made me laugh) http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/extreme_nutjob_skates_down_rol.php

#6 made me laugh - girl in the pink trying not to notice is classic! However, I'm going to have to go with #8. It's disturbing, but it's like things have gone full circle haha.

^ A very good song!

I smell sex and candy here...

Well, I lost my job this weekend, which honestly wouldn't be rant-worthy if I deserved to lose my job, or even if they had fired me by legal means. But I didn't deserve it, and what they did was completely illegal. In many ways. Allow me to explain. First of all, you can't just fire a person. It's really not that easy. You have to do it in three steps. First, a verbal talk about a legitimate issue in the person's work. Second, a written account of the same issue if it has happened again since the first warning. Then, another verbal/written that has to be on the very same issue as the first two warnings, should it pop up yet again. And there has to be meetings and recorded observations of the employee's work in between each of those warnings. None of this was done in my case. Mostly because I didn't actually do anything wrong. I'll tell you why I was fired. Because my boss is a cheap f@*$#er (if I'm allowed to say that). He thinks he can save money by getting rid of me for a single petty mistake (a mistake which, by the way, every other employee in that place has made more than once as well). He's not the smartest cheap person, however, because he hasn't taken into account the fact that somebody will still have to cover my hours, and I was the employee who was making the least in hourly wages. So while he's now signing less paychecks, he's actually handing out more money. What a tool. Not to mention that the other receptionist who will probably be taking over my shifts is an idiot. He's going to lose more money in customers that he'll lose because of her behaviour. She speaks to customers in condescending ways (eg. on Friday, I heard to greet somebody who showed up late because they didn't receive an email regarding a change in times by saying - not hello, but "Oh great, more people who don't check their emails!"... Yeah, nothing says "customer service" quite like that!). Now as if all that wasn't quite bad enough, let's move on to the way I was treated before being fired. Let's start with the harassment issue. For a while I was kind of seeing a member (I worked at a sports club), and when I realized he was crazy (legitimately - anger issues, drug issues, etc.) I broke it off. I then became literally afraid to be around him because of his anger and because of the things he said. Now, obviously I told my boss exactly what happened and why I felt unsafe around this guy, and I made it clear that I would make every effort to continue to be civil and professional whenever this guy came into the facility when I was working, but that I couldn't be sure that he would be quite as mature. What did my boss then do? He hired the guy. Wtf is that about?? So of course the guy has since taken to harassing me every time I work with him. The whole situation is just not right. Who hires somebody after their employee explains that they fear the person? If that's not enough, let's talk about the discrimination I faced. Part of the exuse to fire me was that it seemed like "my head wasn't in the game" and "it seemed to them that I didn't really want to be there". Really? Because there's another office staff member whose head wasn't "in the game" for a long, long time while she was planning her wedding. But nobody tried to get her in trouble for that, did they? Nope, and I'll tell you why, it's because the place is just like high school - she's part of the "in" clique, and she hangs out with my boss outside of work hours, so he ignores all the crap that she does. I was looking for a file she was supposed to create the other day, and when I looked in her folder on the computer, it had absolutely nothing in it to do with work. Care to guess what it was filled with? Wedding documents. Is that what she's being paid to do - plan her wedding? Because I was under the impression that she was hired to do work. And she somehow earned more hours than me by doing absolutely nothing. So yes, I feel that I was discriminated against because I wasn't "buddy-buddy" with the boss outside of work. I don't remember that being in my job description. On top of that, they broke the law in regards to my work on more than one occasion. They've dangled my pay over my head as a threat, they've not trained me in WHMIS or any workplace safety training at all, even though I often use chemicals at work, and they leave me alone supervising children even though I'm underage and not trained to do so. I've put up with a lot of bull with these people, but now that they've fired me without just cause or notice, I'm going to go ahead and see what the Ministry of Labour thinks of it all.

Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground

I graduated! And I have photographic proof! Of course before grad, my parents had to get a zillion and three pictures of me in my dress that was covered by the Harry Potter gown the whole night haha Me graduating from high school (yay!)

Blonde on Blonde by Nada Surf

^^ Agreed. That's never fun.

Being picked up by good looking guys at the beach is always fun.

Nwahulwana by Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Mocambique/Wazimbo

From what I've heard from staff, it has to be a certain time of year AND a certain temperature. I'm not sure when they start the jets for the year, but rest assured that if it is clearly too cold, they won't have them on.

I signed up to help you out. Good luck!

Haha, thanks guys! And yeah, prom was a lot of fun! Good to hear that I looked nice, haha

My prom was this past Friday and afterprom was also this weeknd. I won't scare you guys with any crazy afterprom photos, haha, but here are some prom pics! I love getting dressed up Back of the dress!

It's so obviously for McDonald's! The only question is which one!

Hahaha! How did you get so funny? "Wheelie crowded", I actually laughed really hard at that one. How sad is that? Great TR though lol.