Since I've been home on Monday night's, I've been watching Dancing with the Stars and my favourite of the teams is Joey and Kym. They put on a great show and wow, Joey is really looking pretty good!

I'm feeling a little under the weather today. I don't know why either. I did NOTHING yesterday. Seriously, I cleaned in the morning right after I got up and when D left, I curled up on the couch with a couple of movies. I feel asleep 10 minutes into Brick and not because it was bad either. When I did wake up again a few hours later, I re-watched that, prepared the stuff for dinner. BBQ'd, ate, cleaned up, watched the hocked game and then went to bed at 10 which is unheard of for me. But this morning, I woke up with a bit of a cold sweat and I'm not feeling quite 100%. I was planning on going to the movies tonight but I think I'm going to go home, eat and curl up in bed with another DVD.

This is kind of fun. I took think link from someone's blog (sorry, can't remember who's). It's called "The Gender Genie" and you basically post a snippet of a blog entry (or any type of writing), it analyzes it and determines if you're male or female. Go figure, I'm a guy.

I am exhausted.

I was up really late finishing up and uploading the most recent podcast (May's upcoming small movies - the blockbuster edition is coming up - which can be found here) I'm so tired I'm even skipping my regular Friday get-together and going home to cozy up in bed with a movie. The fact that it's like a winter day outside doesn't help matters any.

Other stuff to do this weekend: re-record with fellow bloggers (my player failed to record one of our shows), sleep, watch a few movies and generally just relax.

Oh, and I discovered yesterday that David Lynch's "Inland Empire" is going to playing in Vancouver for a limited 1 week engagement. I have to find some time over the next few days to buy my ticket!

This week's KFF:

Have a great weekend everyone!

Yesterday was the date of our Public Information Meeting in which we introduced the neighbours to the Tower 3 and the commercial space of our project. Much better turn out this time around and now that people have seen the shopping, the consensus is that the City of NW needs the project to revitalize the downtown core. It went very well with positive feedback all around. We were looking out the window and the project and I don't think anyone quite realizes the height of these things. We're already 10 stories up - but that's all parking. The 26 (or whatever it is...not quite sure) stories of suites are still to come.

I had to work until 6 but on the plus side, the boss lady decided that I didn't have to stay and at 5:40 she took me home. I think she just wanted to get out of there and to be honest, I can't blame her - some strange folk showed up.

I spent the rest of the evening watching hockey and editing audio for our next podcast. I plan to just add some finishing stuff tonight and then it'll be ready to go live!

At the show on Tuesday, I put the video aspect of my new camera to the test. I managed to record two short videos before security asked me to stop: "Pictures are OK but no videotaping please!" I complied. I've uploaded both videos to Google video (since they have a larger limit on the video size) and I must say, they're not too bad. The second one is better than the first but, you can enjoy either/or/neither.

Yesterday was Brit night for me. It started with the viewing of the hilarious Hot Fuzz (review to follow later today) and ended with a great show at the Commodore Ballroom where, once again, We had the chance to see the Kaiser Chiefs.

Too much drinking. Too much smoking. Too many people. Spotting someone I now other than my sister. Those were the highlights. The only low point came at the end of the night when I thought I'd lost the little one when, in fact, she'd left the show early (with my jacket no less!) and because I had her credit card, I hung around for 30 mins trying to find her and call her. I didn't want to leave thinking she might still be there and because I had her card, she'd be stranded with no way of getting home. When she *finally* called me, she was already on her way home. It all worked out and what's best is that I didn't have to wait around by myself like a loser (thanks to Sonny and his GF Steph)!

The Chiefs were great once again and there were a lot more people there this time around. Fun was had by all. Here is one of the pictures from the show. You can check out the rest on my Flickr page.



As you may be able to tell from the Flickr pics, the first 11 were taken with my shiny new camera and the bad ones are from last year's show with the not so great old camera.

Happy hump day folks!

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the biggest hockey fan but I do get just as excited as the next person when the home team wins a big one and wow, did they ever win a big one yesterday!

So I was talking with a friend after the game and he says to me "I'm not sure what everyone's so worked up about, the Canucks are going all the way" and I'm like "How can you be so sure?" His answer was quite simple really: destiny. This is from an email I was sent which explains how the whole thing works:

So, the Vancouver Canucks' fortunes go like this: every 12 seasons,
they make it to the Stanley Cup Final.

The Canucks entered the NHL in the expansion of 1970. In 1982 (12 years later), they made it to the Stanley Cup Final, where they were swept by the New York Islanders (4 games). In 1994 (another 12 years later), they made it to the Final again, where they lost to the New York Rangers in 7 games.

Now the next time they were supposed to go to the final was 2006 (another 12 years later; last year)--but they didn't even make it to the playoffs. But!--2004-2005 was a lockout year. So 2007 makes it 12 *seasons* later, and the prediction, which for the longest time (well, since 1994 at least) was stated as "every 12 years" can be refined to "every 12 seasons".

It's been 12 seasons since the Canucks last went to the Stanley Cup Final, so it's their time again this year: they're destined to at least win the first 3 series and become the Western Conference Champion. So why was everyone worried about this first-round series and about Game 7 for? *Obviously* they were going to win the series. It's destiny.

It was so crazy this week, I didn't manage to buy the new NIN CD, Year Zero, until today. I come home. I put it in. I listen. It freakin' rocks! I take it out and OMG! It looks different!

They've added some sort of heat sensitive coating to the top of the CD. It's the coolest thing I've seen in a while.

So when it's cold, the CD looks like this:


After listening to it, it looks like this:


Totally pointless, I know but I'll say it again: COOOOOOOOOOOOL!

The most difficult semester of classes for me is now officially finished. I completed my last exam last night, a tricky but fairly straight forward multiple choice and t/f exam. I also got back my 2 last papers and did fairly well on both, A-. One happened to be a play review and I received some excellent comments and criticism regarding the writing but generally, she was impressed with the tone, quirkiness and how I managed to bring in a little background research. I think most of these strengths can be traced back to my review writing over the last year or so. Both papers, and my last English paper too, had notes on my sentence structure and how I should try to keep them shorter and more concise. I tend to want to string related thoughts together in one sentence rather than breaking it up over a few and that's causing me a little heartache. It's something I'm going to have to watch out for with a little more diligence. But it's done. Over. Finito. Now I have 3 glorious weeks of no school and then summer semester which will be almost like more vacation considering I'm taking 1 class and it's a film class to boot. I can't begin to express how excited I am (except for the fact I bring it up at least once a week).

The weekend is supposed to be beautiful. I have plans with the girls tomorrow which will be fun considering we haven't seen each other in well over a month. And since D is off in the great city of Calgary (that, btw, got 22cm of snow yesterday - D's flight was canceled and they had to leave earlier and when they arrived over there, they didn't think they could make it to the hotel!), I'm going to stay up extra late with a bunch of movies I've been trying to watch for a few weeks. I'll be making an extra special, late in the evening pit stop at Blockbuster tonight.

Now, on to one of the best things about Fridays, the KFF.



Have a great weekend everyone!

So yesterday I was complaining that some loser was stealing my feed, it really bummed me out. This morning, I noticed a comment from Val, a fellow blogger, with a suggestion to add a disclaimer to the feed. When I finally figured out how to do that, I figured I'd get started on my daily feed reading and guess what folks? That other side is down! Not sure when it was taken down and I still don't have an email from the host so I'm not sure what sparked it but I'm one happy girl! To boot, now I have a good disclaimer on the feed in case anything like this happens again.

On an unrelated note, I wrote my English exam yesterday and though it wasn't a complete nightmare, it was pretty rough. I must admit the prof is tough but fair and I can't complain about that. He mentioned that without the exam, I'm sitting at a B. If I can get a B as a final, I'll be happy. Again, it was a pretty rough class.

One lass exam tonight and then I'm free! Even though I'll be taking a class during the summer, I'm not too concerned about it because it's a film class! I can't think of anything that could be cooler!

I had this great post all lined up in my head and then, just a while ago, the whole thing goes to shit when I find out that some bastard is pilfering my content. UGH!

I was wondering what had been happening to my traffic with the movie site the last few days and today I discover that some loser somewhere is taking my entire feed and posting it directly on his site. Now, if I was a big website with lots of traffic, I probably wouldn't miss a few hits here and there but this is BS! To boot, asshole doesn't have the face to post an email address!!!

I've sent a friendly email to the webhost and if nothing is resolved until tomorrow, I'm going to have to do something else but what? Anyone have any suggestions on how to get back at these leaches?

UGH!

So I upgraded the firmware on my mp3 player over the weekend and wow, what a freakin' nightmare. The new firmware reads ID tags all wonky and so 90% of my music goes into the "unknown" category and displays no song title, artist or album. Pain in the ass I say! Now I have to go back and edit all those tags manually. Pisses me right off.

This week is exam week. I'm feeling prepared and pretty confident for most of the stuff except the English exam. Prof said he would give us a study guide last week but he didn't send it out until Sunday afternoon and to boot, is was extremely vague. I think it'll be ok but I'm still a bit worried about it because he tends to brings things in out of left field.

Back to work. Tons of stuff to deal with before lunch.

Hell week is officially finished and I couldn't be happier. Next week is just exams which should be fairly straight forward: Philosophy is open book and we have the questions which he'll choose from, English will be some short answer and essay which should also be pretty straight forward and my humanities exam is all multiple choice and true false so I'll be re-reading my notes a few times to get myself reacquainted with names and dates but other than that, things are under control. I'm starting to get really excited for my summer semester! I can't wait to be in a classroom, talking movies with I'm assuming will be other movie fans. Oh, the sheer pleasure of the thought leaves me with a HUGE smile on my face.

What better way to celebrate the end of a week but with a great picture. I considered posting two since I failed to post anything last Friday but, one great one is all it takes. This week's KFF:

This week was supposed to be a little more relaxed than the last but oh man, it's been anything but! The day has been a little more manageable today but I still can't wait for the weekend.

No class tonight and D has plans with friends so instead of going home, I'm going to a movie. Still not 100% sure what to see but I'll find something to quench my thirst.

And did anyone else watch the hockey game last night? Holy moses. That was INSANE! Poor D almost didn't make it! We'll have to see if this OT thing continues for the rest of the series. I predict a couple of late nights in my honey's future.

I found another time waster too. Justin.tv. The real life EdTV. Am I the last person to hear about this??? Word of warning, it's bloody addicting.

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

You will be missed.

I'm getting really excited. It's 14 days until I see these guys live again and I can't WAIT! It's going to be AWESOME. I just know it!

I was feeling a bit under the weather yesterday so I left at 1PM, went home, slept for a while, got up at 6ish and then was up until nearly 1AM because I couldn't sleep. Go figure.

I'm having a really hard time getting my head wrapped around my English essay which is due tomorrow. I've taken a bunch of notes but for some reason, I'm having a difficult time coming up with fresh ideas. Hopefully the floodgates will open tonight otherwise, I'm going to be in some major trouble.

I found this kicking around the internet. It's a public service announcement as only David Lynch can do.

I'm not 100% sure why we're at work today considering that most businesses are closed for the holiday Monday. To boot, transit (and almost everything else) is working holiday hours but not us. No, not us. We're here filling up space and time when I could be at home working on my essay for Wednesday that I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around. Not sure why but it's been really difficult settling down into this Literature course.

The weekend was pretty good and we managed to get a nice rest of day in yesterday. D and I left the car at home on Friday and headed off to Granville Island for the day. Took the little ferry across from Science World, did some fresh grocery shopping, spent some time downtown and generally had a nice time. We did stumble on some transit problem that had Skytrain running very, very intermittently so we ended up having to maneuver home on the bus system. Took a bit longer than usual but it was a fun little adventure.

Perhaps the best part of the weekend was watching Grindhouse. Wow. That movie was a great throwback to my highschool movie viewing days when we would make trips to places that played stuff like this. It was a lot of fun.

I hope everyone enjoyed/is still enjoying their holidays!

Here's a little something fun. Alanis Morissette has done a cover to The Blackeyed Peas song "My Humps". I just saw this the other day and thought it was hysterical! And if you can figure out how this ties into Grindhouse, bonus points for you!

And I couldn't be happier. Seriously.

It's been a nasty week full of nasty projects but it's almost over! I can hardly wait to go home after class tonight knowing that there's an extra day of rest in the calendar for me. Lots of work to keep me busy but darn it! I'm going to make the best of the darn thing.

Nothing else to really talk about except that I walking into a cloud of pot smoke this morning and it's starting to make me a little sleepy. I'm such a lightweight when it comes to that stuff.

Instead of just posting the song of the day, I thought I'd post the video considering that it's a GREAT video. For a while this was one of my favourite songs and though it's been replaced by others, it's still great. Sad part is that at some point I read an article where Trent mentioned he didn't like this one because it was done at a time when he was heavily into drugs and alcohol. Either way, I like it. Enjoy.

Represent! Boney M man!

Surprisingly, the day managed to work itself out fairly well. I managed to activate library card earlier this morning and during lunch, I frantically finished up the assignment. The office has been particularly quiet today so I even managed to finish my reading! WOOHOOO! I'm actually prepared for tonight's class!

Except for the fact that there's been a bit of a drizzle out there today, the day is going well and to boot, there's only one day left in this hellish week.

Completely unrelated but something that happened to me on Sunday and which is best expressed by Jessica Hagy over at indexed.


This was D's idea of a good joke. Needless to say, I didn't laugh. One simply does NOT joke (at least to a movie crazed wife) about the prospect of a 42" wide screen, HDTV.

Simple really, I'm crazy!

In all seriousness, OMG. So I come home after class today to do my quick homework assignment which consist of an annotated bibliography. I go to log into my library account remotely and, go figure, it doesn't work. Turns out my library card hasn't been activated which means that I can't access the various scholarly catalogs. What does this mean? That at some point, probably tomorrow before class, I have to take my ass to the library, activate my card and somehow manage to do an annotated bibliography of 4 sources including a paragraph or two of information on one of them.

Yeah, I think I'm screwed.

On the other hand, I did manage to do complete my theater review for class on Thursday. The only other thing left now is to finish my essay on New Age religion.

I'm excited for the end of the semester. 2 weeks left.

If I could upload a song today, it would be something loud and abnoxious. It's been a hell of a morning - boss lady was monopolizing my time with trivial questions on how to use her cell phone, I just found out that I have less than 2 weeks to organize a public information meeting (which took 3 weeks to organize last time and THAT was tight) and I had to do stacks of filing before lunch.

Things are a bit quieter now but not for long. I think all hell is going to break lose any minute now.

I did manage to register for classes before heading off for lunch. The summer semester this year is sadly quiet and I've registered for two classes but I think I may drop one because 1)I don't need it and 2) it doesn't really appeal to me. We'll see. I'm going to wait a few days and see if I warm up to the idea of a class titled "Introduction to the Canadian Legal System".

Back to work now. Hope everyone is having a better day than I am! On the good side, it's beautiful outside!

Between D and I, we spent a whole whack of money this weekend.

Dale (not to be confused with D) and I went shopping for audio recording equipment on Saturday. Some of you may be aware that we've been trying to podcast but we've been unhappy with the overall quality of the sound so I bit the bullet and upgraded to some semi-professional recording equipment. I went in looking for a mixer and a couple of microphones and walked away with a 'field' recorder. The Zoom H4 does everything I need it to (and has a bunch more features that I have no need for) but it was the right price and is flexible enough to meet all of my needs. I went home and tested it right away with D, my parents, the tv, the wind, rustling paper, the washer - essentially, anything I could think of. Bottom line - it's pretty damned good and I can't believe the great quality of the built-in microphones. AWESOME. Can't wait to record our next show!

If that spending wasn't enough, D and I went looking for a blender yesterday but the story starts 2 weekends ago when D and I bought some chocolate smoothie mixes at Costco. D tried to make a smoothie on Saturday with our current blender and he said it was crap. The ice didn't blend properly and it was just a big mess (what do you expect from a $30 mixer?). So yesterday, he decides we need to go looking for a blender. We spend most of the day at a variety of different home appliance stores (with a short 3 hour break in the middle for my dentists appointment) and after much looking and debating, we spend $100 on a Cuisinart, 1500W pulse power blender. 1500W. Take it in people. That's insane. The average blender is between 150 and 450W. WOW. We made smoothies again last night. This thing crushes ice like a mofo. I can't wait to make margaritas! Goes to show that sometimes you DO get what you pay for.

It's Monday, I'm tired but there are only 4 working days this week so I can't really complain. I'm heading off back to work. I have a bunch of filing to do that's left over from Friday. Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE filing?