Awkward number, right? Well it's for everyone's safety, let me assure you. If you happen to stumble upon this journal and you are curious/know me/a stalker/etc., comment here please.

( extraneous things )

The short list of movies I have viewed (and re-viewed) this past year.

( 12 months of movies )

My heaven on Earth <3

Just decided to keep a short list of movies I've watched (and re-watched) this past year. January - March is a muddle as I don't quite remember when I watched what.

( 12 months of movies )

WE DID IT! HALAK IS GOD, ALL PRAISE HALAK!






I am back from spending 2hrs on St-Catherine's running with the mob screaming endlessly and OMG WE SERIOUSLY BEAT THE CAPS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I won't be able to speak tomorrow but I DON'T CARE BECAUSE WE WON!

Ehehehe, I got myself a new phone today.  A real phone!  Not a plastic pile of crap like the one I had for 2.5 bloody long years! \o/  I feel like I'm finally a person in the 21st century now that I have a smartphone, LOL.  

It's way too late but I can't stop playing around with this thing.  It's just so pretty and can do so many things *__*

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg YOU GUYS



I GOT THE JOB!





Starting Monday I'll be a paralegal at the Law Firm! I have a real job! It seems fairly awesome and fast-paced! Believe it or not, having Model UN listed on my CV actually helped me get the position. Never thought that would benefit me until now. o_o

EITHER WAY tonight I celebrate! I've already done my celebratory clothes shopping, but later is shisha and booze with Jon and I CAN'T WAIT!

One last GIF for the road:

While I was in Ottawa, goldy_dollar noted that I hadn't made a music post in a long time.  I checked my tags and lo and behold she was right; I haven't made a music post since 2007!  Sorry about that guys.  To make up for it, I've made a little mix of my favourite Christmas songs!  They're all in one bundle for convenience, and hopefully most of you will agree they're the less-annoying songs of the holidays. :D ( 13 Christmas songs to make the holidays awesome! )

Hope everyone enjoys these. Merry Christmas!

I'm officially in the CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!!

Cinnamon spice hot cocoa in front of me (my recipe is perfected over years of experimentation and crazed cocoa-making, it's the shit), Christmas playlist playing on my iTunes, we had 'snow' the past two days, IT'S TIME. All I need is string lights and hilarious holiday cat macros. Well...one of those I can fix up right now.



Now if only these papers would write themselves. :(

So hot...so humid...

Why did my ancient freon-using aircon have to die the day before this massive humidity hit? Life, that's just cruel. Really, really cruel. Oh suuuure, keep it working when the weather wasn't so bad, but the second aircon would be handy to have, *DEAD*. ;___;

I've never seen ice melt so fast in my apartment before. This feels as hot as when my heater was on full-blast last summer. Even varying stages of nakedness have done little to alleviate the heat. Poor Mina is passed out on the bathroom tiles, I've never seen her so hot.

Granted, I gave her a quick cool rub-down with a chilled paper towel. She didn't like it at first, but I think she's learned to appreciate it.

Aaaauuggghhhhhhhhhh bbl when I'm not dripping to death.

Show your support for The Pirate Bay, fly the flag at half mast!

Honestly, when I woke up (really early, at like 9:45am D:) I was just expecting to study for my final in ooooh less than 3 hours but I found this all over my internets in the form of Tweets (it's #spectrial if you want to follow the tag), blog posts and opinion articles. While the larger charge got thrown out due to the prosecution's own stupidity, it's just sad to realize how politicized this has all become. I mean, The Pirate Bay is not doing anything illegal under Swedish law, so they had to resort to American RIAA's "interpretation" of US copyright law to pin these guys with a very loose "infringement" verdict? Hell, if it's taken seriously, they could go after Google and Yahoo! if they so desired. Of course the guys are appealing but that opens up a process that will take years.

And while I know no one in Moscow, I really wish I were there to show my support at The Street Pirate Party at Pushkin Square.

HAPPY PERSIAN NEW YEAR!
SALEH NO MOBARAK!




Have a great new year full of luck and $$$!

This year's Christmas tree, as brought to you via my mother's iPhone:


 

This week, I have been very disappointed by Ottawa.

Someone tell me, who's been sneaking doses of crazy in everyone's coffee up on the Hill?

So my mom is flying in to Montréal around midnight tonight from Memphis, TN! She e-mailed me last week saying how she was going to be in the airport and why doesn't she just take a flight to me instead of flying home? Sure enough, she's coming up and renting a car so we can go shopping at IKEA (yay!!) and hang out.

However, I failed to notice that I have 2 papers to write while she's here. D: Though one got pushed back to the 5th of December (at the same time as a final so I have to turn it in the day before), it's still a bit of a terrible oversight on my part. <_< Before she comes, I need to clean my entire apartment and do as much laundry as I possibly can. Oh dear.

Oh gods oh gods oh gods it's snowing. It's been snowing since last night.

I'M NOT READYYYYYYYY! I don't even have winter boots yet! Even worse, I WIPED OUT ON ICE ALREADY. My left knee smarts, and it's all because somehow on this ramp near Burnside there was snow that just randomly built up and got frozen and pointy and evil. ;_; I don't usually wipe out walking until February! I DO NOT APPROVE!

*hyperventilates*

High point of my day? A guy came up to me while I was sitting outside the Cyberthèque in Redpath Library this afternoon and said how awesome my Roslin/Adama '08 sticker on my laptop was. :D BSG fans = best.

Speaking of BSG, SEASON 4.5 NEEDS TO START RIGHT NOW. I'm done with waiting. ;_;

That being said, I need to get back to writing up a succinct history of Somalia and Ethiopia. Somali pirates flinging dead babies, here I come. Man I can't wait for McMUN!

Canada dropped from F1 Calendar

What was arguably the most exciting race of the F1 season has been dropped from the 2009 race calendar in favour of more 'circuits' (aka yawnfests) because those bring in more $$$$. No matter that the spectators and events in Montréal were amazing and that the races there were known to be a 'wall for champions,' bringing the drama and exciting unexpected outcomes which make for a TRUE race.

One could argue that it could partly be due to the lack of proper maintenance of the track here, and for that I blame Montréal's laziness and Québec's terrible track record for road maintenance...which also applies to circuit tracks. Honestly, in the end I thought the corner of the track breaking up in this past summer's race proved for some serious excitement.

But let's look at what we're getting in exchange. Abu Dhabi?! Yet another street race that's probably going to be a dull processional? There are now three races in the Middle East and only for the reason that they have way more money that the FIA bigwigs want. Now there are NO races in North America (not a single one! What about true F1 fans here huh?!) which is complete bull! There aren't nearly that many F1 fans out in the Middle East, whoever attends those are just rich oil bastards that go just to look cool!

If it's so 'awkward' for drivers to go to North America for "just one race" then using that logic they should drop the Australia and Brazil races too. Bernie Ecclestone, you're ruining the spirit of F1 and tossing aside your most loyal fans for the sake of padding your retirement funds. Take your Singapore, Spa, Valencia, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi and shove it up your wrinkled midget ass.

Tea 'healthier' drink than water

This is for all those people that kept telling me to drink more water and less tea because it was "bad for me" or that "water is better for you." I drink my 3-4 cups of tea a day and LOVE IT suckers, far more than I'll ever like water. Water = bleh Tea = <3

*cuddles her box of Super Ceylon Earl Grey tea*