tonatiuh's Diaries
Print Story 3 months unemployed
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 05:52:40 AM EST) (all tags)
Today I celebrate a quarter in unemployment!
  • New things I have done.
  • Tennis.
  • Knife crime in the UK.
  • Meridian line.

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Print Story Still jet lagged.
Travel
By Tonatiuh (Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 10:05:19 PM EST) (all tags)
One of the most important functions of a job is to help you to adjust to the normal time zone after a long trip.

Lacking one, I am still jet lagged after 4 days.

  • Vancouver (whales, aquarium, triathlon, etc).
  • Quilchena.
  • Revelstoke.
  • Banff.
  • Calgary.

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Print Story I should be packing. Oh yeah, almost 2 months unemployed.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu May 29, 2008 at 05:12:29 PM EST) (all tags)
Movies: Persepolis, Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of nonsense, Stromboli.

Canada: they love Mexicans.

New camera, I even got a monopod.

Salaries. Should I sign in the job centre?


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Print Story Got all my money.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Sat May 10, 2008 at 04:06:02 AM EST) (all tags)
Finally my redundancy payment arrived.

Race results, flight from Edinburgh.

Be an spy.

Drinking in the tube.

Burma.

Long diaries....


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Print Story On the dole: the first month.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu May 01, 2008 at 04:49:03 PM EST) (all tags)
Lanzarote.

Starting your own business.

Those outsourced jobs.

Edinburgh.


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Print Story Spend,spend,spend.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 08:15:35 PM EST) (all tags)
London Marathon (now for real).

Spending money I shouldn't.

Movie: The orphanage.

The PROMS.


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Print Story Life in the dole: week 1.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 08:33:27 PM EST) (all tags)
Applying for new jobs.

Learned how to negotiate a job offer (yeah, right).

London Marathon.

Opera.

The Chilean exiles in London.


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Diary
By Tonatiuh (Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 04:19:10 PM EST) (all tags)
How I saved the world on Thursday.

Photography.

Watched Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Impressed.

Opera.

Cat.

And did no work at all today.


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Print Story No raise, bad bonus..... no job.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 05:35:31 AM EST) (all tags)
I have been told my job is in "danger of redundancy". I was told to keep it secret. Thus I share it here, but don't tell anybody: ssssh!

Barenboim.

Opera.

Running.

Blond maidens.


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Print Story Is everybody angry south of the Thames?
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 12:22:46 PM EST) (all tags)
Some notes about music.

Gaming.

Movies.

Class warfare.


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Print Story 9 years 11 months exactly.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:17:58 AM EST) (all tags)
The time it took for me to be racially abused for the first time in the UK.

All the juicy details inside.


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Print Story Cold weather in Mexico City.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Mon Dec 24, 2007 at 05:00:24 AM EST) (all tags)

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Print Story Travelling is over for this year.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Sat Dec 08, 2007 at 11:05:20 PM EST) (all tags)
So lets look back in wonderment.

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Sport
By Tonatiuh (Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 12:07:52 PM EST) (all tags)
I want to let the world know that I am ruling myself out as England manager.

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Print Story Where I finally reveal my real name.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 10:08:13 PM EST) (all tags)
You can find it here.

So that would be Barcelona's weekend then.

After that there were more movies, one Italian (entertaining), one Spanish (antiquated), one Mexican (outstanding) and one German-Turkish(worthwhile effort).


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Print Story London Film festival: one good one bad and one ugly
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 07:48:16 PM EST) (all tags)
The good: "Silent Light" (Mexico).
The bad: "La influencia" (Mexico-Spain).
The ugly: Asia Argento in "The last mistress" (France)

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Print Story London film festival: Mexico, UK, Nigeria
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 08:52:41 PM EST) (all tags)
I indulged myself watching an old Mexican classic last Saturday (Enamorada), went to the latest Richard Attenborough (celeb spotted!) film ("Closing the ring") and amused myself with the Nigerian offering ( "Irapada" or "Redemption").

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Print Story London film festival: Europe.
Diary
By Tonatiuh (Fri Oct 19, 2007 at 10:25:22 PM EST) (all tags)
Today was the turn for the Romanians (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) and the Hungarians, Danes, Norwegians, Germans, Liechtensteinians, Andorrans and who knows what else (Opium: Diary of a mad woman).

No celebrity spotted today, well, not strictly speaking.


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