HAPPY CANADA DAY! *waves flag around* Weirdly enough, although we have the day off, it wasn't a long weekend, so everyone trudged into work and school grudgingly yesterday, only to have their week interrupted by fireworks and patriotic concerts with hot dogs and such.

And now, as a celebration of the country of Canada's 141th Birthday, I humbly present:

A Brief and Highly Subjective History of Canada!
Fully illustrated, with musical accompaniment, as compiled by mintroses.

( Our home and native land, etc. )

Alright, seven straight hours later, time for sleep. Read, and hopefully laugh, with perhaps a little learning along the way. :D

Movie Quote Meme time! :D I've screened the comments and will post the answers tomorrow or Thursday, depending on how exhausted I am after midterm two tomorrow night.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Quotes hiding under here. )

30 ROCK FRIENDING MEME! Go forth and mingle, etc. :P

And now, school! Mondays are terribly depressing.

*emerges from readings about Italian Renaissance goldsmiths*

TORCHWOOD TOMORROW! WHO'S EXCITED?

Happy Hallowe'en for those of you celebrating! May you have a lot of candy, cute kids at your door, and fun at your parties. Personally I am almost ready to go, decorations all up, pumpkin carved, bucket of candy standing at the ready, and costume on. I'm either a princess or a witch, I haven't exactly decided yet. I'm wearing a medieval dress that is actually supposed to be a replica of this one that Catherine of Aragon wore back in the 1510s, but when I went out trick-or-treating in this last, no one knew who that was.

And, just for fun:

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
mintroses goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as miscellaneous Medieval princess with a dark side.
_atmospheric gives you 15 white lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
arkanefyre tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
boxseat gives you 18 red-orange evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
bunniesbunnies gives you 15 red tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
jaymesalexander gives you 1 milky white raspberry-flavoured gumdrops.
merlyntemple tricks you! You get a clothespin.
pavaneofstars tricks you! You lose 27 pieces of candy!
shadowserenity tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
suitcasegnome tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
thisissirius gives you 12 brown lime-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
mintroses ends up with 24 pieces of candy, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, and a clothespin.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

ETA: CLASSICS COURSE = FINALLY DROPPED! ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE = ADDED! ANNE = SUPER HAPPY! *twirls*

Just got home and am OMGSOTIRED, but just one thing (mostly for boxseat) before I crash and sleep for ages:

PIP!!! \O/!

Sleep or actually working on assignment that's due tomorrow would probably be a better use of time at this point, but I saw that sheafrotherdon posted a 'What Are John and Rodney Doing Today?' sort-of challenge, and, uh, I tried to write fanfic instead. It's short and a kind of future thing for that Ottawa AU I was talking about earlier.

( And it is hiding under here. )

Also, the Greens did really well this election! 8.1% of the popular vote is pretty amazing, especially considering that the NDP, a 'major' party, got 16.9%. Pretty much halfway there! :D And check out this riding, where the Green candidate came second with a very large amount of votes. (ETA: Okay, apparently that link doesn't work. It was Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, in case you're interested.) And in the Student Mock Election the Greens formed the official opposition, with 18 candidates elected! The future looks very friendly, etc, etc. ;P

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! BABY HEWLETT!

A boy! Sebastian Flynn is quite the lovely name. And 9 pounds, 4 ounces! That's pretty big! o_O

*WAVES A DOG'S BREAKFAST DVD AROUND TRIUMPHANTLY!!!*

TAKE THAT, Best Buy Canada website that said they weren't in stock anywhere in Ontario! Clearly your facts are WRONG. (Although, perhaps correct now, as I bought the only copy in the local store.) HAH! This has pretty much made my day. :D

Heroes: Despite missing a few parts due to familial interruptions, I still enjoyed this episode a lot. I don't have too much to say about it, as it seemed like it was mostly setting up the rest of the season, except that the rest of the season looks to be awesome if this is a good indication of where it's going.

House: Very pleasantly surprised at how good this was! Hilarious and chock full of House/Wilson moments, with lots of Cuddy as well, and a very interesting patient of the week, with such a good (but sad) resolution. Hopefully it'll hang onto the strong start and not veer off weirdly like last season did.

And new Office tomorrow, then SGA on Friday! This week just gets better and better!

As a further installment in the 'How Did This Person Get Into University?' Chronicles, a conversation from the elevator this afternoon:

Grey-sweatered Girl: Does Canada have more than one army?
Buzz Cut Boy: What do you mean?
Grey-sweatered Girl: Like, if someone else told me they were in the Army, would they go to the same place that you do?
Buzz Cut Boy: The same building?
Grey-sweatered Girl: Yeah! The Army's not that big, right? You'd probably have met them.
Buzz Cut Boy: Uh, there's 65 thousand of us, I don't know them all.

And now, off to get my Hewletts fix. (:D!)

Since the new season of Stargate Atlantis is starting up this week, I was thinking that it'd be a fun idea to have a friending meme, so that everyone could have lots of people on their friendlists to discuss/squee to! So, here goes:

STARGATE ATLANTIS FRIENDING MEME!

Just copy the text from the box into a comment, fill it out, and away we go! :D

<b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Location:</b> <b>Favorite Characters:</b> <b>Favorite Ships:</b> <b>Other Fandoms:</b> <b>Would you rather have a stargate or a puddlejumper?</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

Comment with one (or more, I'm quite bored :P) of my fandoms, and I'll reply with:
01. The first character I first fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag anytime
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

(A Hopefully Helpful List: 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Dead Like Me, Dexter, Doctor Who, Firefly, Harry Potter, Heroes, House, Lost, The Office (US and UK), Oz, Six Feet Under, Stargate Atlantis, Strangers With Candy, Torchwood, The Wire.)

The convocation job ended up not being all that bad. Hot and frustrating and boring at times, but the people I worked with were all pretty nice and there shall very soon be a paycheck involved, so I think I'm going to put it down as a success. An exhausting, sun-burn causing success.

Also, my first Spanish midterm went really well! I got an A, and so far with assignments and quizzes, have an A in the course as well. Not bad for someone who dropped out of university once, then flunked out on her second try. Third time's the charm and all that. ;P

It's a little too late to be doing a huge amount of garden work, but while walking around outside a couple of days ago, I realized that our backyard is in serious, serious disrepair. All the raspberry bushes are dying, the roses are being swallowed up by invading monster yarrow plants, the mint and lily-of-the-valleys are crowding each other out in a battle to the death over the flowerbed by the chimney, and a regiment of gigantic thistles are quietly plotting total domination from their vantage point at the top of the compost pile. Clearly this state of chaos cannot be allowed to continue, so I've decided to dedicate the next while to playing peacekeeper. Ruthless, weed-destroying peacekeeper. My grandpa's volunteered to come over and help, because while I spent a good portion of my childhood running around and helping him out in his garden (squishing Colorado beetles off the leaves of potato plants for two hours each day is actually surprisingly fun, and very satisfying), it's been awhile, and I'm worried I might actually kill something that was put there on purpose.

Back tomorrow with Doctor Who and Big Love reviews! And maybe if I can get my camera to work, some pictures. Also, catching up on the friendslist and comments! :D

( Stanley Cup finals )

On a more positive note, the Spanish midterm went well, despite mild panic during the section on direct object pronouns. Also, I am going to Ottawa tomorrow for the weekend, which promises to be pretty fun. Aimless wandering in the Byward Market, FTW! :P

Still mainlining SGA, still very much in love with it, now on the second season! :D

Is it connected to the fact that it's been thunder storming and gloomy all week? The weekend can definitely not come fast enough, although I doubt it's actually going to make anything get better.

So, when you get really down, what makes you feel better? It can be anything (a song, a snuggly fic, a certain type of chocolate bar, running around outside barefoot, really anything at all), I'm just having trouble coming up with ideas myself at the moment.

Job interview in an hour, oh crap. *crosses fingers that it turns out okay*

(P.S. arkanefyre, call me sometime, okay? We have to make Spiderman plans!)

Tori Amos - Flying Dutchman This is so gorgeous. It's one of her older songs, and she sounds a lot younger in it. There's also lots of pretty piano and orchestra, and the lyrics are very good too. Just all around wonderful. *nods*
Robots In Disguise - She's a Colour Scientist They have a Dalek as a backup singer! (Or at least it really, really sounds like they do.)
They Might Be Giants - Why Does The Sun Shine? Occasionally when no one's in earshot I turn this song up really loud and dance dorkily while singing along. I am vaguely embarrassed to admit that I know all the words. But, hey, it's fun, try it! ;D

*goes back to obsessively marathoning Stargate: Atlantis episodes*

(*is lazy and orders pizza for dinner* XD)

( IMDb Keyword Meme Answers )

The fact that the only sound my computer will currently make is the warning chime accompanying the error message informing me that no, I cannot change the volume on my computer because no functioning audio devices are installed would be hilarious if it weren't so frustrating. >_<

I opened up a bag of cashews a couple of minutes ago and sadly saw that they were all covered with something that looked a lot like white mould. After eating one anyways (living on the edge, oh my!), and then actually reading the package, it turned out that it was just odd looking salt. Hooray! *munches*

That's... basically it. *waits for Doctor Who download to show up*

This looked like fun. Stolen from muse_in_my_head:

THE TV KEYWORD MEME
• Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite TV shows.
• Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
• Have your friends guess the show names. (Comments are screened.)

01) Fake Documentary, Brother Sister Relationship, Magician
02) Television Network, Page, New York
03) Dysfunctional Family, Death, Eccentric
04) Reincarnation, Tragic Hero, Girl Heroine
05) Awkward, Prank, Pretzel
06) Interracial Couple, Japanese, Memory Loss
07) Violence, Homosexuality, Solitary
08) Cane, Diagnosis, Sarcasm
09) Religion, Radiation, Robot
10) Flashback Sequence, Scientific Experiment, Fate