Not Even Foamous

I think I've missed a bunch of days. I've been/I am sick.

Tuesday: Leah came over and we watched Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story - OMG BEST

Yesterday: I was glad that I managed to make it to the Info Desk even though I felt like crap (though I kind of regretted it, because I felt like crap and I couldn't do anything right). And then I had to skip volunteering at OOTS. :(

Today: THIS.

Yesterday: Norway's pants in women's curling. Made my day.

Today: Woke up this morning with an email saying that The Danger Bees is now following me on Twitter and I kind of died. They are one of my favourite bands, and, they're only following about 30 people so it's kind of scary, but flattering. LOL! I hope they don't see all the stupid things I say. XD

I actually went out. On a Saturday. WHAA?

I went to another knitting group thing in the afternoon, which was good cause there were a bunch of people there I already knew so I wasn't terrified, and then I went out and danced for a bit at like 1am. LOL. Happy and tired. :)

Though I am TERRIBLE at dancing, but so much fun so I don't even care.

New Zealand, obviously. I mean, besides Canada. I like living in Canada. But I also wish I lived in New Zealand. And the UK, but mostly New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND. It's true that my New Zealand obsession started because of my obsession with Flight of the Conchords, and it was strengthened by my love of Karl Urban, but it's grown into an appreciation of New Zealand separate from any of that stuff. Once when I was bored I researched the entire history of New Zealand (not that I can remember any of it now) and researched what life is like there, what kind of plants and animals live there or used to live there. Which is part of how I decided that it would be the perfect place to live. It sounds like the most dangerous things that live there are bees. While I'm not a fan of bees, that's pretty good. The only thing that freaked me out was those huge birds (moas, maybe? Can't remember), but it turns out they are extinct so...it is perfect.

I want to live in a "boring" small town, though, not a big touristy city where people go bungee jumping and scooba diving and whatnot. Adventure is not what I seek. If I somehow acquire a large amount of money when I'm done school, I would love to go live there for a while. I have some information booklets about post-graduate studies there, actually, including some about FILM. Which is like MY DREAM. Or one of them. I want to make a film in New Zealand. Like a Canada-New Zealand joint production kind of thing. That's like my number one goal. I would also like to become famous enough to go on British quiz shows (which is not that famous, really :P) but I would have to learn how to be funny. But New Zealand is my top dream.

And while my ridiculous film-making dream will probably always be just a dream, I WILL go to New Zealand at least once in my life. Even if it kills me. Even if it means selling everything I own in order to buy a plane ticket, I WILL DO IT. There is no way I am never going to New Zealand. I just can't let that happen. 

REALITY, DON'T SPOIL THIS FOR ME!

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Yesterday: Leah came over and we watched some Takin' Over the Asylum with David Tennant from the 90s - which was actually good and not just "so bad it's good" - and then we went to Knit Night, and then we came back here and watched The Road to El Dorado which I had never seen before but it was AWESOME.

Today: I got postcards! :D

SO FLIPPING NICE OUT TODAY.

Of course, I feel like I might be getting sick/possibly allergies, but the brief time I was outside today it was beautiful.

 Missed so many days. Sheesh.

Saturday: Made progress on my essay (though not as much as I would have liked). Still, feels good to get stuff done, even partly.

Sunday: Went grocery shopping (which sucks) but it's nice to not have to worry about having no food for a while. Though I'm still too lazy to make meals, but whatever.

Yesterday: My evening class was cancelled, so I finished my essay and then watched No Heroics for the first time as reward.

Today: My art project went over really well. Even better than the last one, I think. My prof told me to submit it to the Juried Art Show happening this week (I made hand-knit and stuffed hiliter markers). She even said it was the sort of thing I could theoretically sell to galleries at $25 each. LOL. For 1.5 hours of work on each one, that's a pretty good rate. XD
Of course, I don't think that will happen, but it was nice to get such praise from my prof and the other students, especially since I don't really consider myself to be an "artist" or "good at art" at all.

Anyway, meeting time now, then class/submit essay. Woo.

Uh, so I should be working on my essay outline, but I just took a two-hour break to sort out my tags (among other things). Before I had all sort of random tags because I would just make new ones for each entry, mostly, which is useful to no one. So I've narrowed them down (a little) to ones that amuse me, and organized them in a way that I can understand, even if no one else can.

Some of them are pretty obvious, like the *fictional characters* tags are for fictional characters (though in my mind it is said the way Ben Aflleck says it in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), and the actiwity tags are for activities (and it's obviously meant to be heard as Chekov saying it). Then you get into stuff that is like an inside joke with myself, like the foamous tags, but it's pretty straight forward once you realize foamous=famous. Soundnoise is music, because when I was younger I used to think if there was more than one word for something (like a sound or a noise) then you had to use both words together (ie. "sound-noise"). State-of-mind is places I've been or places I'm going or places I am - based on "Yorkshire is a state of mind" from the Boosh. Srsbsns is like real-life boring stuff. Wordypages are things with words or pages, like books and comics and fanfic and stuff. That was a good price is a quote from the Boosh radio show which my friends and I have appropriated to just mean something good in general, whereas that was not a good price is the opposite (though we would often say "That's not a good price" in the same way that Captain Hammer says "That's not a good sound" in Act III of Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog). Temporary aesthetics are images and things, and the tag title is a play on Don Hertzfeldt's Temporary Anesthetics.

IDK, they are mostly self-explanatory. The main weird thing about them is WHY THE HELL DID I DO THIS? No clue.

Sheesh, I missed a lot.

Wednesday: UM... that was so long ago, I don't even remember. But it was a good day. I had a lovely little chat with my roommate in the evening, which was nice because our schedules are pretty much opposite and we've been super busy with school-related things lately, so it was nice to just have an impromptu hangout (as opposed to scheduling in time like we usually have to).

Yesterday: I figured out what I'm actually doing for mt Art project (not the Star Trek thing). I am knitting hi-liters. I might post pictures later because I'm sure that doesn't make sense to you. Speaking of knitting, a person at Knit Night might have the BARENAKED LADIES "YELLOW TAPE"!!!!! It came up that I am a *fan* and she asked if I had the tape with the sandwich on it, and I think I may have started to salivate. I have been looking for that tape FOR YEARS. I always hoped I could find it at a second-hand store really cheap or something, because any time I've found it on eBay, the bidding got way too high for me. But yeah, she said if she can find it, I can have it. I'll have to make her cookies or something. Also as an apology cause I accidentally stuck my foot in my mouth an implied she was old, because the tape came out around the time I was born. *facepalm* I meant it in the way that I was totally jealous and wish I hadn't been born so late.

Today: I got a haircut, and it was a little more expensive than I thought (because the salon's website was screwed up) but it was okay because I got some FREE MONEY today. Also, my mommy brought be an enormous cup of peppermint tea while I was on my shift at the desk this morning. :D *is a child*

So yeah, I've been in a pretty good mood this week, despite my midterm yesterday (meh) and being stressed out about my Art project (which is now solved), and even right now, I just finished sorting out the citations for my essay (damn style guides!) which frustrates me like mad, but I'm still SO IRRATIONALLY HAPPY. The only bummer is I have no idea what to have for dinner (i.e. haven't got groceries in a while). Even though I just ate lunch like 4 hours ago. IDK why I'm so hungry then.

This isn't off-topic, by the way, cause I'm still really happy and this is a good thing, and I'm like "I'm so happy even though..." SO IT COUNTS.

BYE.