Filed under: Current events, Fangirl, Internaute | Tags: Adidas1, Learning French, LOST, The Golden Compass
It’s at least a little pathetic how fidgety and excited I get over LOST. It’s not even my favourite show the way Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ER are/were. (It’d be really good for me if I could get this excited about reading these days.) None of my usual Lost-buddies are online to OMG! and WTF! with, thus I’m kind of having a really really really difficult time… kind of (only because I’m indulging myself, I’m sure I could calm myself down if I wanted or needed to – let’s hope). And then there’s more than three months until the next new episode/season of Lost. That’s crazy; what am I going to do?!
Actually, I’m probably going to try to watch two seasons of House since MJ lent me the first season… and you know… see real people and stuff… go outside since it’s getting warmer… yes… establishing healthier habits. =S I went down to Queen Street after French class (ie. walking outdoors) and YAY! we have Accessorize in Canada now. I bought a black plastic headband and silk one at Delineation. There’s another one at Delineation I want all black and white and polka dot but it’s like 40.00$. =(
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For some more i♥wiki, I really love how Wikipedia is actually immediately updated for things like this. It’s better than getting involved in additional fan communities. It’s kind of sad because it reflects the impact of television on our lives (the updates are probably faster than those for current events articles). But it’s still an i♥wiki thing. I found my old annotations for His Dark Materials. I freaked out when it turned out that Brinkster deleted my pages online. They weren’t on my external hard drive either. I found an old archive CD in a box full or random things I didn’t bring to Montréal but didn’t put away in storage. So work to do on the BTTS wiki. O man, too much time spent on the internet (speaking of establishing healthy habits). But what am I going to do with all my time until work begins? Driving lessons only take up 8 hours a week for now and French class only 6 hours.
And umm… TTC driver safety/fare thinger? (They took the sound effects away from the website; and they changed it in the subway?) And umm… our project from ExploraVision in grade 11 chemistry: The Adidas 1 was the bringer of bad news (this is why I hate Adidas), but now Nike and Apple have gone and done some more together. I’m not going to start hating Nike and Apple though. It turns out I might just be the kind of girl who shoots the messenger (or some alternative to shooting ’cause it’s me).
Umm… we saw the Da Vinci Code last night. It was ~okay. It wasn’t as bad as some of the reviews made it out to be, but it was probably about as disappointing as expected (because the book had already been such a good movie -we all know it wasn’t a real book- and it was ready for production). It was a decent enough outing though, I didn’t feel like it had been a waste of money à la the League of Extraordinary Gentleman or Hellboy (O DEAR GODS! 
they CANNOT be planning a sequel!). A lot of the blockbustery fun was lost in its cut down to two and a half hours though. I’m so glad I haven’t been paying attention to the news lately (my mom’s been watching WAY too much CNN, I thought she’d tried to quit that habit). All this OH-EM-GEE OPUS DEI EHH VATICAN GAH business bugs me. Jesus (teehee), it’s not that big a deal. Councils of Nicaea № 1 and № 2 and ecumenical conferences, whatever Catholicism, etcetera. Not so dark a con, just politics? I just wish it hadn’t been Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou, even though they’re good actors. Ian McKellen was cool. Gandalf! Magneto! (I’m really much more excited about X3 than I was for the Da Vinci Code.)
Anyhow, going to see a movie with too many Asian kids was fun, haven’t done it in a while and I have to say it was missed. O gifties: they can be so difficult to plan for. Either four people show up or twenty and then you can always tell that someone finds something about it more a tad boring. =S I miss afterschool, inexpensive sponteneity like “Hey, I’m bored, let’s see a movie ’cause it’s only 4.25$!” We at ate Asian Legends (LoL search result № 4) and barely fit, but tired+hunger so ehh.
Thing about Montréal: I haven’t been able to find cheap but medium-to-high quality Chinese food in that city. There’s cheap low-to-medium quality Chinese in the Concordia ghetto, but it’s not even as cheap as North York area quality Chinese food, nor as clean. Boh. =(
ooer! Suhana Meharchand’s husband is running for city-councillor in Olivia Chow’s old riding. It’s cool, but it means that the summer I’m back in TO and able to watch CP24, he’s not going to have a segment anymore. =/
Umm… that’s about it.
I♥wiki? (and annotations and the numero sign) J’en veux un.
the spinning top
made a sound
like a train
across the valley
fading
oh so quiet
but constant ’til it passed
over the ridge
into the distances
written on your ticket
to remind you where to stop
and when to get off
Filed under: Fangirl, Music | Tags: Gifties, The Royal Mountain Band, The Stills
I’ve been maintaining a blog on LiveJournal since 13th January 2004. That’s more than two years. Since 8 February 2003, I’ve been posting on the fansite BridgetotheStars.net’s forum as user:jessia and now I have its highest post count at 10282 (as of 3:17 pm EDT). Talking to strangers (but they’re not total strangers anymore, except that they are) for more than three years- unhealthy? Probably. But hey, at least I don’t write Harry Potter fan fiction (that said, I shouldn’t pretend I haven’t read some). <does the shifty-eyed thing> Because blogging seemed to be an inescapable habit (I tried to return to ordinary diary-writing but it didn’t work), I figured I might as well write a “real life” blog (as if the internet isn’t ~real~)- but I like my LJ; it’s so well established. Said blog didn’t really say much actually though. There are a couple reasons I have to keep them apart. [1] Internet privacy + safety: God forbid that the sraffies could find me. [2] I’ve gotten into the habit of writing about people in my life and I don’t know if people should read that kind of stuff.
But it takes so much effort having to tell stories more than twice and having to change names. And really, I’m not one of those kids who go and post their full name, phone number, and address in random chatrooms (I can’t believe they actually exist, who’s teaching these kids?). So… screw it. RL kids (RL = real life) have found me anyways: Dan (the one that looks like Superman), then Nade (the goalianator), and Melly (the girl who used to dress punk rock) and Val (skinny girl)… Katie’s found me too. And WordPress is so much prettier than LJ and Blogspot.
Today I signed up for French lessons at Alliance Française. It was really more complicated than necessary. They don’t actually offer all the scheduled class times listed on their website. I hate when they do that. Then I accidently signed up for a class during my tentative driving lessons (it’s finally happening) and then freaked out ’cause there’s 50.00$ administration fee on the refund. I OMG-ed for a few minutes before figuring out (but the receptionist didn’t even suggest it, aie) that there was a downtown campus. So I start Intermediate 201 tomorrow morning. It’s adult classes so I’ll be with grown-ups. I’m hoping that doesn’t make for awkward, but even if it does I’ll be all right because I’m really good at awkward. You can’t go two months without talking to anyone without being good at awkward.
