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This is the first post of the rest of my life (or the four months of summer vacation which I shall have it back for.)
Free as a bird~But for the mean time, school is officially over! YAYAYAYAYAY! *Hand flail* This excites me to no end, you have no possible idea. In light of the sudden total absence of school as of late, I probably should have posted earlier, but I've been too busy lounging around doing dick all, so you know, what are you gonna do. I also don't really have anything spectacularly exciting to report either, but I'll try to think of something, or at least make some stuff up.
I'm psyched for Saturday, in which we're all gathering together in a giant orgy mass for LaserQuest. I plan to rain some hellish LaserQuest doom on at least a couple people who have never played before and thus are worse than me; and if all else fails, I have a plan B which basically involves locking on the first random child I see roaming about the maze and following him around and shooting him for the entire game, so I can score some respectable point-age so I can avoid looking like a complete noob.
We've also begun planning a camping trip to the cabin for the Canada Day weekend in June/July, which is equally exciting. Hopefully the water won't be green and algae-covered. >_o
OMGZ they're opening a Marble Slab in St. Albert! XD It's probably not going to be the most healthy or money-saving thing that's happened to me, especially since it's right by the bus station so I could, in theory, buy five dollar ice cream every day after school. ¬__¬
So I've been seriously considering the option of buying a new car. My poor little Cavalier needs so many repairs and is so rust-eaten thanks to my years of horrible car-neglect, it's almost more worth my money to just bite the bullet and buy something new that my dad won't have to fix something on every couple of weeks. The only reason I haven't already is because I really don't want to take out student loans next year for school. . . >_< WHY IS MY PROGRAM SO HIDEOUSLY EXPENSIVE?! *Cries*
I was tagged by my sister to do this a long time ago, but I kept forgetting to post it. Hopefully everyone I know are lesser slackers than I. Anyhoo, the first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule.
1. Buying chocolate cake/cookies/brownies/anything and sneaking it upstairs to hide in my room so I don't have to share it with anyone.
2. Reading my favorite chapters of fan fiction over again instead of doing homework.
3. Tuning into the last five minutes of Trading Spaces just to see the before and after versions of the renovated rooms.
4. Watching the "Next Time On (Insert show title here)" and/or movie trailer previews. Also, spoilers. Books, movies, shows, whatever. I want to know absolutely everything before it happens! XD
5. Wearing dressy shoes, not for how they look or match my outfit, but because I like the clik-claky sound they make on the floor.
Aaaaaand. . .I tag Lancalot, Melissa, Seanathan, and anyone else who actually updates their blog. Gooooo. . .NOW.
It's official, this girl is my god. Grievous & the Peeps.
Also, improveverywhere.com for anyone who has some time to kill (lots of reading, but really funny.)
IT IS ON.
For once not doing homework!So even after reading all the horrible movie reviews for it in the newspapers, Lance and I went to see Ultraviolet last night. The tempting lure of the very sight and concept of Matrix-like space ninjas from the previews made it simply impossible to resist, because really, how can you possibly go wrong with ninjas? Much less, space ninjas? And so we went in to the theatre optimistic, or at the very least, figuring it would be one of those movies that would be so bad that it was actually awesome; you know, like the Godzilla movies. . .or Star Wars. *Fanboys pelt her to death with Boba Fett bobbleheads* In that respect, Ultraviolet managed to EXCEED ALL OF OUR HORRIBLE, WORDLY EXPECTATIONS.
Examples of the running commentary which ensued:
"Why do the ninjas shatter like they're made of glass?! Why are her clothes and hair changing color?! How is she defying gravity, and what does it have to do with the miniature exploding sun on her belt?! (Better yet, Lance, WHY DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT?!) WTF, the virus makes you a fucking vampire?! Why does everyone have fangs except her until the last five minutes of the movie?! OMGZ, random Japanese yakuza! Holy shit, where did they get the flaming swords?! "You got Hemophage blood on me. It is on."
We laughed the entire way through. It was two free movie tickets well spent.
Now for something else funny. VG Cats #188. So horribly, horribly, gruesomely funny. . . =D
I'm starting to hone my newfound Magic skillz. (You know, for a big noob anyway. So that is to say I still suck. But at least I understand what my cards mean.) YAY, MAGIC!
I'd just like to express how much I love how the creators of Penny Arcade, who have been long-devoted PC users, are now literally joygasming in their pants about how much they love their new iMacs. It just goes to show, we can eventually convert anyone. We're like the Borg. "Resistance is futile." *Shoots herself in the head for making a Star Trek joke.*
Speaking of which:
Which PA character are you?
Right on. Well. . .except for the pie part. . .
So I finally received my #86 Insider magazine in the mail with the Grievous articles in it that I've been nearly killing furry kittens in excitement to read. They were sadly disappointing. I think I pretty much saw the big let down coming when the article started out with: "Once upon a time. . ." =_= No new pictures, just redrawn versions of the promotional images -- not even a glimpse of an unmasked Kaleesh. No Kaleesh cultural or species information. Nothing in-depth about Grievous' family.
Worst of all, it was written like a bad fan fiction. They went so low as to give Grievous a female Mary Sue warrior comrade who died tragically years ago, like all Mary Sue's do, in which Qymaen mourns for forever and a day and renames himself "Grievous" because he is destined to "grieve forever" over the loss of her. OMG. Gag me. They turned him from such a incredibly interesting, three-dimensional character with so much potential to give a good story to; and made him your boring, run-of-the-mill, angsty brute. All of the official SW writers must take lessons from George Lucas himself or something. I think a little part of my soul was just raped and left to die. What a way to completely ruin a good character. For the first time in my fangirly life, I'm choosing to flat out ignore the canon material and stick with Heimchen's version. (Speaking of which, whenthehellisshegoingtoupdateOMG.)
That was my rant. I'm done now. Moving on. . .
Hmm. Actually, I can't think of anything else interesting to note. Ooh, except that my birthday is in one month and we're going to go to Yuk Yuks again and I'm going to book the entire weekend off and YAY! *Deep breath*
Shit, and my archives are still not fucking updating. I actually went through the trouble of adding them manually to the list, and now they've disappeared again. WTF. Anyone out there have any idea what the hell is going on?
Links and quizes and related hoo ha.
BoredI am. . .
17% Nerd, 73% Geek, 21% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek.
It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don't really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some interests that aren't quite mainstream. Perhaps it's anime, perhaps it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps, perhaps it's all of those and more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't quite consider yourself "of that crowd." Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.
Which, you are.
Congratulations! You're the one on the RIGHT!
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.)
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.)
School has sprung, January must be here. . .
Content~I meant to write all these posts during Christmas break to satisfy my poor blog, and it just never happened. I was kind of preoccupied during the holiday with work and spending lots of splendid time with my Aryan Ninja. :3 Things are going really well, and that fills me with happy~ Last night we saw Brokeback Mountain and it was good. (A little less hot cowboy love than I was hoping for, but still very good. But their love was so VIOLENT! :x)
Unfortunately, yesterday school started all up again, so now I'm going to go back to having very little time for anything except bloody homework which I'm sure they're just waiting to pile on us in the next couple of days. *Cries* I miss my free time already! Good news though, I got my marks back from first semester, and I finished with 90s in almost everything, except 3D and video, but I was expecting as much so it's no real letdown there. I was really surprised that I ended up with a 79% on my flash animation, since I handed it in far from finished. That blew me away. Maybe he just mixed my mark up with someone else's. . . I'm not saying anything though. ¬__¬
Let's see, what else since I last posted. We went to The Globe the other night to celebrate Vance's birthday. None of my dancing dancing buddies were there though, so it was a lot of sitting and trying to shout conversations over the noise. New Years was awesome, however! I actually finished an entire cooler in the course of the night, so it didn't end up getting me drunk, but it's a record for me in any event. (I'm such a lightweight, ho ho. . . *sweatdrop*) It was nice just hanging with a bunch of people all night, even though some didn't come or couldn't make it. I'm not seeing everyone as much as I used to, and that's making me a little depressed. It's hard to get everyone together anymore.
I bought the first volume of the Gargoyles second season, and it rocks my face off as only one of the best parts of my childhood possibly can. I also ordered Hot Gimmick 10 off the Chapters website, because I have all of this pretty Chapters money from Christmas just begging to be used up, and this way I get the thrill of having something arrive in the mail for me that isn't a bill.
OOH! And while on my periodic Grievous web-surfing excursions, I discovered that they're coming out with a Grievous short story in the next issue of Star Wars Insider, which obviously thrills me to death on many different fangirly levels. They're also doing a companion piece to it that's going up on the starwars.com, but you have to be a freaking Hyperspace member to see it. Which I am not. . . And membership for Canada costs $50.00. Which I do not want to spend. . . It fills me with terrible rage. *Twitch* Terrible. Rage.
Oh, and the last frame in VG Cats comic 184 made me laugh my ass off today in Design class. That is gold.
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Stability results were moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.
Orderliness results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.
Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.
trait snapshot:
introverted, irritable, feels invisible, observer, depressed, does not enjoy leadership, reveals little about self, dislikes large parties, feels undesirable, does not like to stand out, submissive, suspicious, emotionally sensitive, not a thrill seeker, solitude loving, likes silence, fragile, second guesses self, negative, unadventurous, fearful, weird, focuses on people's hidden motives, paranoid, phobic, dependent, cautious, avoidant, semi intellectual
These are terrible results because half of them are true, and the other half of them are just horrible! :x
I have my life back! :D
Much better!My Christmas break officially starts NOW. And it feels WONDERFUL.
December has been a month of bad, as far as school goes. That whole bit of school stress I had last month with accumulating projects? Yeah, that was totally NOTHING compared to what December was. Thankfully, yesterday the last of it was due, and even though I didn't manage to get my Flash project done, all I care about is that it's handed in now and finally done with. YAYAYAYAYAY! Today is my first complete day off from both school and work in over four months. I am sitting in my pajamas, my hair isn't done, I'm finished my housework, and I simply don't know what I'm going to do with myself for the rest of the day. It is a splendid feeling.
So apparently I have Raynaud's Phenomenon. Or more specifically, my fingers have Raynaud's Phenomenon. It turns out that whether or not I frostbit my fingers back when I was a courtesy clerk has nothing to do with my infamous finger problem I've been nursing for the last three years, and it's really just been the blood vessels in my fingers being spaztastic. So the doctor gave me drugs that I take before I go out into the cold, and now they don't turn white and start throbbing like they've been hit with a sledge-hammer anymore, HUZZUH!
I totally received an email from Garner Andrews, the DJ from Sonic 102.9~! I was listening to Sonic while driving to the bus one day, and he was talking about how everywhere you look, you see inflatable snowmen or inflatable Santa decorations on people's lawns; so he was suggesting making the first-ever inflatable Jesus, and I guess when he said that he began receiving lots of angry flaming emails from disgruntled Christians. I thought it was fucking hilarious though, and I sent him off an email saying so, and also told him about my idea for chocolate Jesus' for Easter (sell 'em in packs of two so you eat one on Friday to commemorate the crucifixion, and then just resurrect out a new one the next day!) He sent me an email back saying my chocolate Jesus idea was awesome. Garner Andrews is the bomb.
Now for interesting media that has been piling up on my desktop as of late:
"Do you need help, little man? AHHHHHHH!"
Fainting goats. (In the literal sense.)
Everyone find and download the song "The Cat Carol" by Meryn Cadell. It is very possibly the most horrible song ever made. It's so sad, I burst into tears when I heard it, and my dad thought something was terribly wrong with me. T-T It will beat and rape every ounce of Christmas spirit in your body.
Tomorrow night is our big Christmas dinner with friends, and then afterwards we're going to go see King Kong. Three-on-one T-Rex/giant ape battle royale! I'M STOKED. Then on Friday, Lance and I are having a movie night and watching American Beauty, which I've never seen. (I've also posted the link to Lancedolf's new blog, so I can stop twitching in rage whenever I click on the link and it takes me to the wrong place. *Twitch*) La la la, Christmas break is good so far~
Oh, and a quiz that I think I've already done once before a year or so ago, but here it is again because I'm too lazy to check.
The Sonnet
Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLDf)
Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed?
Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.
Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so.
You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls.
ALWAYS AVOID: The 5-Night Stand, The False Messiah, The Hornivore, The Last Man on Earth
CONSIDER: The Loverboy
Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating.
My profile name: beans-etc
Most of it's pretty dead on, though I have more guy friends than I do girls. Girls never seem to want to stay close friends with me for extended periods of time. . . (So why the hell don't I have a boyfriend yet? :x)
I’M GOING TO SCHOOL!
Happy!Come September I shall be matriculating with NAIT's Interactive and Media Design graduating class of 2007. *Excited* I went to my interview yesterday and it went awesome. Superhero awesome! To start off with, I walked into the professor's office (think tiny cubicle. . .) and it was covered with anime, Reboot, and Stikfas. It was awesome, and I told him so, and he turned around and was like, "I should let you in automatically for just knowing what Stikfas are!" So yeah, we had some serious Stikfa bonding. That was pretty sweet. Then when he was looking through my portfolio he said it was awesome and that some of it was at the level some of his graduating students were at, and I was like "HOLY SHIT!" Then he told me right there that he was giving me an automatic yes to being admitted to the course! And I was like "HOLY SHIT, SERIOUS?!" So now I'm school bound for September! YAY! I SHALL NOT BE A SOBEYS LIFER!
(I used the sparkly letters up there just to piss you off, Chelle. Muh HA HA HA HA! WASH MY CAR!)
Saw Batman Begins on Wednesday. It was freaking sweet. None of that fluorescent light Gotham, corny villains, comic book cheese like in all the other Batman movies, this one was all cool all the time. EVIL LIAM NEESON ROCKS MY WORLD WITH SEXY! EVIL NINJA LIAM NEESON SURROUNDED BY EVEN MORE HOURDS OF NINJA GIVES ME JOYGASMS!
I also went to Warp 1 to pick up aforementioned GG comics, and not only did they have my issues one and three, they also had issue two in stock, so now I just have to wait till next month when four comes out and I'll be Grievous-comic-a-fied. I enjoy the art in them to a rather copious extent. It's amazing when you're so used to reading black-and-white manga, and then you read a full color comic book and it's like, "OH MY GOD, MY EYES! IT BUUUURNS!"
I am worth $1,257,000.00 on HumanForSale.com
(Before taxes of course. Afterwards it's probably only like, half of that, lousy fuckers. . . It could still buy a considerable amount of chocolate though.)
