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Just saw not-so-unknown writer rant on Twitter that…

… if people want him to write something ‘not overly commercialized’, they should buy at least 2 or 3 copies of his ‘commercialized’ work so he’d have time for something else.

 ‘Buy more of my #### now and I pinky swear I’ll write something good’

Should it really be that way?

almost May

Despite it being almost May, some kind of a virus is rampaging in our city: I constantly hear from people who'd fallen sick like me. Our symptoms match (mostly), like in any respiratory virus outbreak...

I couldn't sleep today because of severe discomfort in my sore throat... and medicine helps only for a short while. Hope it will pass soon, because it's tiring and annoying.

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"George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two"

I hope you guessed what book I'm re-reading now :)

Ladies' room sign in one of the Kyiv restaurants

Mildly offensive or humorous?

old and new - old "commercial" district of Kyiv

To the left - building of the high end and modern business center, right in front of you - remnants of "old" city of Kyiv.

abandoned kindergarten building in Kyiv

This abandoned building stands in one of the central districts of Kyiv.

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Why do you usually come down with flu precisely on weekends?
Why not, say, Monday morning instead, you wake up, feel terrible and stay home?

Seaside (pastels painting) - unfinished

Here's something that's been sitting on my desk (or rather on my pastels folder) for some time, waiting for inspiration and idea to be finished.

I haven't decided what to do to the sky here. When I'm positive I know what I want, I'll do it and this piece would be complete.
Before that, folder life.

Another year has passed

Well, I'm officially one year older.

It's not that it's my BD or something. no. I've had my BD some time ago, just had the time to reflect upon it.

What did the past year bring?

What will the new one bring?

Accomplishments of the past year aren't that great by any standards, but I guess even surviving counts nowadays :)

Of course, I've learned something new, that counts too. I've learned a lot of new things, actually. But my accomplishments always seem minuscule if compared to quite a lot of people I know. Then again, money isn't the only things that matters in this world.

Or so I'm inclined to think :)

Then again, money come and go, and come easily if you're lucky. While I could never call myself lucky.

Rather, my latest adventures prove that small troubles seem to be attracted to me, or at least there're times in my life when they just can't pass me by and find someone else to bother.

That didn't change even as I grew older.

Eh...

after fur (painting)

some time ago I mentioned a picture my cat decided to re-factor by sleeping on it.
here is the finished version of the same picture - with some re-factoring done by me.

my pastels don't look quite the same when I make photos of them, and this one had to be cropped because the photo wasn't well aligned. but I guess the main idea is clear.

April and its 1st day

we've made it to April, somehow.

and thankfully the 1st of April is over. yeah, I simply hate this day. young (and not so young) children think that it's a day when they can do whatever they want and won't get punished for it.
a horrible mindset.