Mood: Bored

I am. . .

Wow, way to totally nail me right on. Geek is the new chic, bitches.

On the topic of my pure geekiness, I just received the previous two issues of Star Wars Insider magazine in the mail, which don't really interest me and will probably be going in the recycle, but it also means that #86 will soon arrive on doorstep choc filled with Grievous goodies and will make me explode. *Excitement* *Geek barometer raises into the red zone and begins to squeal dangerously. People frantically evacuate.*

Okay, I know I've said in the past that I love St. Albert and don't particularly want to live anywhere else, but fuck that. Holy shit, I want to live HERE. Sure, I have a hundred million dollars to blow, why the hell not? (DIBS ON JAPAN!) They have another bunch of islands shaped like a freaking palm tree. It's nuts. I like just watching all the videos through out this site, it's like one of those crazy sci fi movies where they talk about creating utopia, complete with fancy background music (because obviously all perfect utopias come with inspirational background music.) PRETTYYYYY! XD

So I'm going to get totally PWNED on Friday night when we all play Magic. I'm going to go in there with my noobie green and white deck, and either Lance, Melissa, or Brock -- or all three of them in a riotous gang bang squad -- are going to ass rape me all up and down the street. :x I have to start getting good, fast. Or at the very least, moderately competent at understanding what the cards even say. It turns out Mandi hasn't played either, so she's going to bring her beginner deck to school sometime, and we can hone our newfound Magic skills together maybe. Ooh~ Melissa, maybe sometime you can come for lunch and teach us poor saps how to play~!

I'm so bored. . . Our Business class was cancelled so I've been trying to kill and hour and a half with blog postage and watching Escaflowne, because Chris returned my DVDs to me today so it is conveniently at hand. (I am watching anime at school, this feels like it's overstepping the bounds of my acceptable geekosity for a day. . .)

More quizzes! (Okay, I think I've done of these before, but god help me, it's Jackie freaking Chan.)

Who will you be stuck with at end of time? by chi_a_baidh
Your name is
Your sex is	Male Female Undecided
Your favorite color is	Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple Black White Other
You are stuck there because	you were dead, but then you weren't.. Look at that...
For _____ years	66
With
He/She will think you are	stupid
You will	run far, far away
Created with quill18's MemeGen 3.0!

What will be your HP life? by Doom_Song
Name
Job	Minister Of Magic
Partner	Harry Potter
Death	Too much sex
Created with quill18's MemeGen!

What Is Your HP Threesome? by elschan
Name
You Will Shag	Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger
Created with quill18's MemeGen!

No Snape lovings for me. . . *Minus ten points* Then again, no Hagrid or creepy Voldemort lovings either, so um, YAY. *Plus eleven points* (You know, unless it's Ralph Fiennes in that billowy cape thing, and then all bets are off.)

Mood: Full of turkey

Merry Christmas, all! I have to agree with other people that Christmas didn't really feel much like Christmas this year, but it was still a good day. I got a two-button, scrolly mouse; a 1GB USB stick; a pair of heavy duty winter gloves, Tigger socks (OMG CUTE *wiggles feet*), the new Sarah McLachlan remix album, and bunch of assorted gift certificates for West Ed, Chapters, and the movies; and also the three Lord of the Rings movies (unfortunately, they're not the extended editions. . .so I'm going to trade them all in at the store and get me the boxset, yay!) Then from 11:00 to 9:00 we trooped around to different family gatherings, which is always. . .you know. . .less than awesome fun. And then it all carries over to tomorrow when we go to another family gathering. Christmas isn't actually very relaxing for our family; it's more like a two-day mass extended-family orgy of boredom. =_= Oh well.

OMGOMG, during my last minute Christmas shopping I found out that they've released the first 26 episodes of Gargoyles season two! XD TOTALLY BUYING THIS WEEK!!!

YAY, Orochimaru's finally back in the Naruto manga! Prepare to witness my Orochimaru-fangirl-craze resume very strongly in the coming weeks. You have been warned.

Lance and I watched American Beauty on Friday, which was INSANE and also AWESOME at the same time. I totally called that the psycho father was going to think his son was all cute and gay and flip out!

We also had our Christmas dinner extravaganza on Thursday, although half of the group didn't show up which saddened me. . .so it was more like a half-extravaganza. But the restaurant was freaking tasty, and King Kong totally kick the ass out of three T-Rex's; and the writer with the dark hair and the hooked nose reminded me of Snape, except that he smiled far too much and didn't have nearly as much bitter angst.

Mwa. . .I have to work at 9:15 tomorrow. T-T I book off Boxing Day every single year, and I never get it off. It fills me with a tiny, horrible rage. Maybe next year I'll try not booking it off, and then maybe I'll get it. We'll have to see.

Mood: Okay

I haven't had a spectacularly great time for the last seven days (with the obvious exception of the Harry Potter extravaganza, because it's Harry freaking Potter, but more on that later) with both my school work and personal life having been of the not-so-good. As far as the homework goes, I've been -- in the very literal sense -- arriving home and walking straight downstairs to the computer and working until usually 11 or 12:00, sometimes forgetting to eat dinner. Having these three huge projects all due during the same week raped my ass somewhat hardcore. I'm pretty happy with how most of them turned out, but it was a few too many things all at once, and I think my instructors all realized it since we got an extension on each project and even two extensions for one of them. T_T Here's my finished self portrait for Design class (I like my wings~!) and my two main characters for my eventual Flash animation.

Today, however, began with a string of good things, the first being that since my last big project was due this morning, I can actually start to have a life again. Secondly, I discovered that in December when I thought we had to do two projects for Illustrator, it's actually an either or thing, so I can choose which of the two I want to do. That fills me with happy, because I really wasn't looking forward to doing the first one of them. Thirdly, one of our instructors showed us Kingdom of Loathing, and I don't think I really need to explain why this game is awesome. World of Warcraft? Fuck World of Warcraft, man.

I did lose my water bottle again today though, and that fills me a tiny amount of horrible sadness. This is the third water bottle I've lost since the start of school. I think I need to start going to some sort of meeting.

Beelining back to the topic of Harry Potter, the GoF movie was awesome, in my opinion. Obviously not awesome on a general movie scale, but on a specifically Harry Potter movie scale, it totally topped the first three. Most important highlights included the subtle revamping of Alan Rickman's character; for the first time there was no overly-dramatic "genie moves" or corny handling of Snape, he was much more in character, just mean and bitter and full of rage which is how my Severus Snape should be. Overall, all the acting in the movie improved this time around. Second most important highlight, NO DOBBY! YAYAYAYAY! Ooh, and I like Voldemort's wooshy cloak thing. That's AWESOME.

Bad points of the movie (and despite it being the best of the four, there were lots of them) included the complete cut out of the introduction to Narcissa Malfoy, which saddened me. There were also the lame KKK-styled Death Eater hoods and skull masks; the fact that the the DE's didn't float the muggles above them, even though some of the movie posters and hype had them pictured; and all the important scenes they cut. I mean, I understand that they have to chop out a lot to fit the book into a two hour time frame, so the whole house elf story was fine to cut and stuff like that, but other scenes WERE IMPORTANT. Like the freaking end scene! They cut out the entire ending chapter with Fudge and the ministry not believing Voldy had returned, and Snape showing the DE mark, and Dumbledore sending Snape off to spy and Hagrid off to the giants, and PREPARING FOR WAR! Jeeze, the movie ended off with everyone like, "tra la la la, everything's all happy" and they're supposed to be gearing up for their version of the second wizarding world war for fuck's sake! I can't believe J.K. let that one slide. =_=

In the midst of my homework havoc this week, I managed to sneak out with my Mom to see Beauty and the Beast at the Arden. It was really good, especially considering it was put on by the children's theatre. It was huge production, and I can't believe they pulled off some of the stuff they did. The nine-year-old who played the footstool rocked unbelievable awesome.

I was on the bus on Tuesday and sitting across from his old lady who was knitting, and she was freaking insane. I have never seen anyone knit that freaking fast in my life, and she wasn't even looking at it, she was just staring around the bus. Amanda, you would have thought this woman was awesome. She had some mad knitting skillz~ (See, spelt with a "z". That makes her extreme.)

So my class has arranged a pub crawl for December 10th and we're allowed to bring people if we want, so if anyone's interested, let me know~ It'll cost about $20.00 and I think there's five bars or something. . . I'm not big on pub crawls, I'd rather just stay put at one place instead of moving around so much packed in a bus full of smelly drunk people, but I haven't gone dancing in freaking ages, and pretty much everyone else in our program is going, so. . .a dancing I shall go.

This post is getting far too lengthy. . .and I really should be paying attention to this class. . . *sweatdrop*

Mood: Tired of homeworking. . .

I'm packing away the homework early tonight because I've been working on it practically non stop this weekend and I JUST DON'T CARE ANYMORE TONIGHT, DAMNIT. *Twitch spasm twitch* I wish for an entire day to watch catch up on my anime. . . *Sob* I can't wait until Christmas break.

On the upside, I finally finished my 3D watch of DOOM. Actually, I'm rather proud of it, despite it almost destroying me in the three weeks it took me to make it. (Do not be impressed by the lighting and shadows, the program pretty much does it all for you after you enter some values, and a guy in my class pretty much entered all those values for me. . .*sweatdrop*) I'm much happier to finally have that project out of the way though. (You know, so I can have more time to do MORE homework. . . =_=) On Thursday we had our Programming midterm and it was evil. . . It was a practical test, so he basically gave us three things we had to make by the end of class and they were worth fifteen marks each. I know I aced the first one, and I just barely got the third one done, but the second one ate my soul for stupid, ridiculous reasons that fill me with rage even now just thinking about it. It was all drag and drop menus and the like, stuff we've done since the beginning of the year, I KNOW IT. . .but IT WOULDN'T WORK FOR ME. So after a minor melt down trying to figure out what the hell could be wrong with it and having to hand it in without it being finished, I went up to my instructor and was like, "Okay, WTF?" And the stupid part is that it ended up being a stupidly minor mistake of my own with my freaking frames that cost me almost a third of my mark. *Flames erupt in eyes* SO. MUCH. RAGE.

I bought the first volume of the Samurai Champloo manga the other day. It's not as good as the anime (Jin's personality is completely off, but I'm not sure whether that's due to the author or the translators) but still enjoyable, and I particularly enjoy the chapter with the incompetent ninjas. They happy me to great extents. And obviously I always love Mugen. Who doesn't love Mugen?

YAY! Harry Potter Extravaganza on Saturday!

YAY! We had Swiss Chalet tonight and I have chocolate cake that I can either A) eat now, or B) eat tomorrow for lunch! WHAT SHALL I DO?! *Torn* TO BED NOW I GO! (With or without a detour to eat cake, yet to be determined.)

Mood: Bored

I wish the world at large to know that I have Luci and Cissa on my desktop at the moment. They are TEH KYUTENESS~ ♥

This whole waking up at 6:15 thing every day is eating my soul. I have a problem with my alarm going off at any time when the sun has not fully risen. 6:15 is not morning, 6:15 is some ungodly void between the hours of late evening and early morning when no human being should ever be awake. MY BRAIN CANNOT FUNCTION AT 6 FREAKING 15. *Styles her hair with fresh mint toothpaste*

So it's second period and I'm in my Web Design class, which is boring, especially when it immediately follows my first period Photoshop class, which is equally of the boring, since very obviously I already know HTML and I already know Photoshop. Together, this equals a very bad combination of classes to have first thing in the early morning when I'm still not really even awake. I am fully aware and understanding of the fact that in order to bring everyone in the class up to same level they have to cover all the basics. . .but can't they let the people who this is like pointing to a monkey and saying "Yo, this here is a monkey," sleep in an extra couple of hours? :x Because seriously, this morning when they showed us the color picker, "Now if you put your curser over this red color, the little box turns red, did you see that? Did you? Does anyone need me to show that again? Watch closely now, red. Reeeeeed." I think I was just about ready to hang myself with my mouse cord. I can't wait until we finish all of this fundamental crap and move on to the advanced stuff. I've already read through all of Angel Moxie and half of Penny Arcade. I'm running out of things to do.

While we're on the topic of ranting, I'm going to segway here into one of the newest idiot aspects I've recently discovered of the PC. Image link borders are automatically blue? THE HELL? 1990s web design, much? What fucking retard wants their image borders to always be BLUE? Now, call us Macintosh hicks crazy, but we've had full control over our image border color since like, ever, because we have this crazy system where when we code our links to be specific colors it can do it for not just text links, but, you know, ALL OF THE LINKS. But god, no, not for the PC. THAT WOULD BE TOO FREAKING EASY. To change the link color for an image you have to use freaking javascript or CSS, half of which I've found on the internet that don't even WORK. Oh, and while we're in the thick of it, why the hell do the PC browsers format a break twice the size it needs to be? What if someone doesn't want a space that freaking big? If I wanted a space that big I would just use two freaking spaces! Jeezes. I bet you kill kittens in your spare time. Fuckers.

I don't know what to dress up as for Halloween, and I've been warned that I'm not going to be allowed inside if I show up to Brock's without a costume. *Sends daggers of doom to everyone who voted costumes mandatory for party* I've also been told that I can't come wearing a name tag saying, "Hi, my name is God." Or Jesus. Maybe Alanis Morissette. (What's the difference?) What a rip. I dun wanna dress up!

Ah, lunch time. HUZZUH! I ♥ lunch.

Mood: Basking in vacationy goodness (and gorging on Peak Freens~!)

Well, not true, more like eleven hours I guess, because Chelle enjoys her highway driving to a copious extent and tends to speed just a wee bit *cough cough 140* so we shaved some signigicant time. Anyhoo, so despite the apparent forfoding visions of me crashing and dieing on the TransCanada Highway that three different coworkers of mine warned me of, I successfully arrived in B.C. yesterday with little error or apocolyptic outbreaks -- well, actually, not true. . .forty minutes after we'd gotten on the road we realized we'd forgotten our passports so we had to backtrack the entire way to get them thus putting us from being pleasantly ahead of schedule to being terribly behind schedule. . .but not being able to go shopping in Seattle while we're here would be rather apocolyptic, so it was a small price to pay. (Actually, I have no idea if Seattle is where we're going. For all I know it may in fact be Arkensaw resting directly under B.C. I have absolutely no handle on American geography. Coincidentally, I also have asbolutely no handle on how to spell them either, and since I don't have spell check on this idiot-box PC program, I can't guarentee the spelling in the rest of this post either.)

So what have I been up to so far in the first forty-eight hours of my vacation? Well, at the moment I have an enormous, somewhat arrogant cat laying on my arm as I'm trying to type, but she's also extreamly snuggly so I'm going to let her rude behavior slide. *Cuddles kitty to death, ♥ MWA~!* Yesterday I slept in entirely too late, then we drove through the terrifying B.C. traffic to Vancouver where I got to run amok in the insanely awesome Asian malls and stores that take up more than half of the city (Amanda, they have Sakura Media here! AND they have FRESH sushi, none of Alberta's silly stuff. Your head would have exploded with joy.) I didn't find any cute metal pencil cases like I wanted, but I did manage to score an almost as awesome fabric one. It has Pengu on it~! Lookitthekyutepenguins!!! We also went to Allivans, which were under the impression was a Harry Potter store, but it turns out it was just a costume store that carried Allivans merchandise, so it wasn't nearly as cool. (I couldn't get your scarf, Amanda -- they were all out of Hufflepuff ones and they were also disgustingly more expensive than they were on the website. I think you'll be better off to order in online. Gomen. . . -_-) Then we spent the evening yesterday at the Asian Night Market in Richmond. That was awesome and I bought a pretty shirt and some sunglasses, and had chicken kabobs~ Mmmmmm. . .tasty~

Ooh, and driving home last night -- after getting lost, sooooo very lost, Seanathan had to pull out the map, HA HA HA HA! FEEL SHAME! -- we drove along 0 Ave near the border and I got to see where the drug smugglers dug that tunnel from one abandoned house on the Canadian side, under the border, to another abandoned house on the American side, then were caught during their first use of it. That amused me.

ARRAAGGHH, we forgot to bring Ninja Burger and Zombies! We were going to make Sean and Liz play them and fall in love with them, and now I'll have to most likely play Settlers of Catan, the obviously inferior game of EVIIIIIIIIIIIL. "NUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

And ARRAAGGHH, and they have monstrously large and evil spiders here! There was this one on the ceiling of the garage and it was the fucking size of a. . .well, something. . .terribly large! *At a complete loss of something to compare it to* Like. . .Eiffel Tower big! Well, a bit smaller. . .maybe. . . In any case, EVIIIIL, and I'm checking the floors and the walls everywhere I go now.

I think I had other stuff to ramble about but I don't remember what it was now. The fat cat on my arm finally moved, but now the other cat whome we will refer to as LUFICER, SATAN KITTY OF DOOM is staring at me from the door and I've been told not to get in his way when his eyes go black like that because he's very likely to eat me.