The Mundane Life of Emily Kate

2008-02-25T11:54:00.002-05:00

Emily Meets Mojitos

2008-01-13T20:16:00.000-05:00

The story so far:
On Friday night I went to to McGuinness landing and ordered a pomegranite mojito. The waitress, who was pretty busy since it was friday night and there was a rush after the power came back on Friday, brought me a Raspberry Mojito instead, in a delicious twist of fate. It was so ridiculousl, delightfully, amazingly good that i had another with dinner. The ingredients were listed as cane syrup, mint, raspberry vodka, and lime. My mission was clear: Recreate that drink!

Goal:
The mojito I had at McGuinness Landing was, as previously mentioned, delicious. The best thing Matt and I could think to compare it to was a white freezie. But... a fresh, delicious, alcoholic white freezie. Not that you could taste the alcohol, which was awesome. It was refreshing and slightly minty. The Mojito was presented in a tall, thin glass. It had sprigs of mint in the bottom held in place with ice cubes, the drink was poured on top, what looked like a raspberry slightly muddled (bar terminology for smashed) on top, and a fresh raspberry or two and lime wedge as garnish.

Round 1:
Found all ingredients, except cane syrup. Discovered that many recipes call for "simple syrup" (water and sugar boiled and cooled) or sugar. Simple syrup is preferred because it dissolves better, but I chose to use confectioners sugar because I thought it would dissolve well and save the mess of boiling sugar water.

The recipe so far:
1. Placed mint leaves from 1 sprig of mint in bottom of glass, muddled with back of spoon
2. Put some ice on top
3. Mixed 2oz Raspberry Vodka, somewhere between 1.5 and 2 oz lime juice, appx 1 tbsp confectioners sugar and a little bit of water in cocktail shaker.
4. Like a dummy, poured it in the glass without tasting. Added raspberries, tasted. Not even close to sweet enough, vodka flavour too strong.
5. Dumped whole mess in cocktail shaker... screw presentation. Added more water & 2 more tbsp of sugar. Shook, poured back in glass.

Result: Tasty, but not quite sweet enough

Round 2:
1 & 2: Same as round 1
3: Mixed 2oz Raspberry Vodka, probably 1oz lime juice, 4tbsp confectioners sugar, water to appx. 3/4 fill cocktail shaker, shook
4. Poured into glass, topped with raspberries.

Result: Close, but not quite. Sweetness seemed right, but vodka flavour came through more than the first time, likely due to the drink not being diluted enough. Hypothesize that same lime juice as round 1 with slightly more sugar and water will do the trick.

Now to finish my drink, so I can get on with round 3...

How Girly am I? (yoinked from Kama)

2007-09-17T22:19:00.000-04:00

How Girly Am I?
Do you:
[x] You own over 10 bottles of nail polish
[ ] You own a designer purse
[ ] You own perfume that cost over $60
[ ] You had/have fake nails
[x] You have more body/hair products than you can use
[ ] Your pet is a chihuahua/Pomeranian/Terri
er/Siamese
[ ] You have clothes/shoes/accessories for your pet
[x] You have enough clothes to cover an entire refugee camp.
[X] You have enough pictures to create your own wallpaper.
[x] A pink comforter, carpeting, walls or sheets.
total so far: 5

Do you:
[ ] Spend more time at the mall than you do at home/work
[x] Have a hair color that is not natural
[x] Have "blonde moments" at least once a day
[x] Buy stuff because it's awesome and then never wear it
[ ] Constantly keep your phone at your side
[x] Dance around in your room when nobody else is home
[ ] Have a name for your car
[x] Know what celebrity is dating who and who broke up this week
[ ] Refuse to go out in public without makeup
[ ] Prefer to be called "princess"
total so far: 10

Do you adore:
[x] Makeup
[ ] Glitter
[x] The Color Pink
[x] Shopping
[x] Jewelry
[ ] Mirrors
[x] Chick flicks
[x] Shoes
[x] Rainbows
[x] Unicorns
[x] Disney Movies
[x] Candles
[X] Flowers
[x] Stuffed Animals
[x] Purses
total so far: 23

Do you shop at:
[ ] Coach-the outlet store
[ ] Forever 21
[x] Victoria's Secret
[ ] Guess
[ ] Claires
[ ] Express
[ ] Delias
[ ] MAC
[ ] Sephora
[ ] Bebe
total so far:24

DO YOU SAY:
[x]Bitch
[x] Whatever
[x] Oh my gosh/goodness
[x] Honey
[ ] Fugly
[ ] That's hot
[ ] Dunzo
[x] Darling
[ ] Psh
[ ] Cutie
[ ] Hottie
[ ] Skank
[x] Totally
[x] For Sure
[ ] Fantabulous
total so far: 31

Do You Read:
[x] Cosmopolitan
[x] Glamour
[x] Marie Claire
[ ] Elle Girl
[ ] Teen Vogue
[ ] People
[ ] Us Weekly
[ ] Star
[ ] Self
[x] PerezHilton.com
[ ] Dlisted.com
[ ] 17online.com
[ ] people.com
[ ] usmagazine.com
[ ] popsugar.com
[ ] Pink Is The New Blog.com
total so far: 35

Do You Love These:
[x] Legally Blonde
[ ] Elizabethtown
[x] Mean Girls
[ ] Now & Then
[x] The Notebook
[ ] A Walk to Remember
[x] Sweet Home Alabama
[x] Where the Heart is
[ ] Just My Luck
[ ] John Tucker Must Die
[x] Centerstage
[x] Bring it On
[x] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
[x] Mona Lisa Smile
[ ] My Girl
total so far: 44

Are you Addicted to...
[ ] America's Next Top Model
[x] Project Runway
[ ] Desperate Housewives
[ ] The Simple Life
[ ] 8th & Ocean
[x] Sex & the City
[ ] Grey's Anatomy
[ ] The O.C.
[ ] Laguna Beach/The Hills
[ ] Nip/Tuck
[x] Gilmore Girls
total so far: 47

count how many you checked, multiply by 2, and that is your girly percentage!
I'm apparently 94% girly.

Love. Love. Love.

2007-09-11T19:39:00.000-04:00

Something about these makes me giddy and stupid. One day they shall be mine....

My Mother, the Engineer

2007-09-06T21:45:00.001-04:00

Backstory: My mom bought a spiffy new flat panel tv when our old one died but (as I discovered today) couldn't get the remotes set up properly

Tonight's Events:
Mom: "Emily, were you watching TV today? The TV's not working."
Em: "Yes...?"
Mom: "Could you come up here please?
When I got home the tv was on but the cable was off"
Em: "Doesn't the cable remote do both?"
Mom: "No..."
Mom: *Fiddles with controls on the remote, bringing up various menus*
Em: "So you tried turning everything on and off, right?"
Mom: "Yeah and that's all that comes up..." *gestures at screen that is blank except for menus* "..maybe because it's burned into the screen from you leaving it on! All I wanted to do was watch my thousand dollar TV and now you've wrecked it!"
Em: "If there was an image burned into the entire screen then why would you be able to see the menus?"
*Mom continues to lecture me about... whatever, as I fiddle with the tv, changing the input and testing out a dvd, which obviously worked*
Em: "Is the cable out?"
Mom: *calls rogers*
*a few minutes go by*
Mom: "The cable's out."

Is the vehicle you are currently driving:

2007-09-06T08:02:00.000-04:00

Very long?
Devoid of Seatbelts?
Yellow?
Driving children to school?

If you answered no to any of the above, you are not driving school bus and therefore do NOT have to come to a complete stop before a railway crossing.

Thank you!

A Crime Against Fashion & Business Etiquette

2007-09-05T16:36:00.000-04:00

This morning at starbucks, as I sipped my white chocolate mocha and read my book, I noticed an impeccably groomed woman in a (gorgeous) tailored white suit sitting across from a younger man in a flaming neon green flece sweater. Upon further covert observation, I discovered that the young man was a web designer and they were discussing a website for the woman's business. I also discovered that the man had paired his hideous fleece sweater with tearaway pants.

Ugh!

In honor of my last full day of co-op...

2007-08-24T10:20:00.000-04:00

I present the two most offensive jokes I've heard since I started working here:

1. Q: "Which two fingers pleasure women the most?"
A: "These ones, 'cause they're MINE!"

2. Q: "What food cuts a woman's sex drive at least in half?"
A: "Wedding Cake"

"They're like big, white rats... made of rubber"

2007-08-16T11:01:00.000-04:00

This morning at work there was a possum behind the watercooler. It was unceremoniously beheaded with a shovel.

I always assumed that possums were kind of like mice or rats, you know, fairly harmless. So when the possum was discovered, and people were trying to figure out who would kill it, I asked: "Where's the cat?"
Apparently, our cat is no match for a possum, even a baby possum. (See title)
Apparently, a possum can chew through a tire. Is that how they end up as roadkill so often... looking for tires to chew?

ANYWAYS ...
Like I said, it was only a baby possum, which means there are more possums lurking about somewhere.... DUM DUM DUMMMMMMMMM

I hate Access, I hate it so good.

2007-08-10T14:51:00.000-04:00

Currently I'm working on a vb6 project that is meant to insert the same sets of data into a database in access database and one in pervasive. Now, I was anticipating all sorts of trouble with the pervasive side of things (mainly because I've never used pervasive) but that worked beautifully. The code to insert the data into the access table, on the other hand, is ruthlessly being rejected due to a "Syntax Error". Oddly, if I type the EXACT SAME QUERY into the access query sql view, it works like a charm. Literally, once the query fails the string is outputted to a text box on the form, and then I copy and paste it over, and bam.

I've combed over 12 pages of google search results and gotten NOTHING. Nothing but morons who put vb variable names into their query instead of concatenating them and people with single quotes all over their data. You know, REAL syntax errors instead of imaginary ones.

This was one of my personal favourite:

Hi, im fairly new to asp and would like to write information to an access database.

I have tried websites that have scripts but the ones i have saw are fairly complicated.

All i have is a form for the user to input information and then i want it to write to a pasific table in microsoft access.

If anyone can share or tell me how to do this it would be very much appricated.

Many Thanks
Marc

I'm going to go stab myself in the eye with a pen now. Good day.

Stupid Apples.

2007-08-09T13:17:00.000-04:00

I hate vb6.

VB6 and I were highschool sweethearts, but that was before I got up close and personal with it's younger, more flexible cousin (c#.net).

Documentation for vb6 especially is a pain in the ass. I searched for visual basic <> operator at msdn online's VB resource center and returned a slew of pages on c#. There was a link at the top of the page to narrow down the searches, so I clicked visual basic, and when the page had finally loaded over the 28.8kbps dialup connection we have at work, it was ALL c# pages.

It was like walking into a library and saying hi, I'd like to know about apple seeds. The librarian says, well we have lots of books about fruit. And you say that you really want to know about apples, and the librarian's like, well we have all of these books (mostly on oranges) that have information about fruit, what kind of fruit would you like to know about? And you say apples, and the librarian painstakingly digs out every book there is on oranges and hands them all to you in a stack 8,764 or so high.

And then you're like fuck that, I'll just look myself. And then you dig through piles of crap (Apples at the Movies? Wtf?) trying to find the specific piece of information on apple seeds that you need to make your project work, all the while seeing tonnes of advertisements for oranges, and thinking damn, oranges are tasty, I wish I had some right now.

Eventually you discover that when you're dealing with apple seeds, the <> , as you suspected, simply means not equal to. Why couldn't they use a freaking != like oranges and all the other cool fruits?

(See title)

Ugh.

My Brother: "Aliens are bullies"

2007-04-17T18:40:00.000-04:00

I went to pick up my little brother from daycare, and as he was getting his coat on, I took a look at the art around the room. The children had drawn pictures about bullies, and the daycare employees had written underneath what the children said about their picture.

The other childrens' pictures included depictions of bullies eating bugs, bullies pulling hair, "a bully pushed me and I told him stop I don't like that", "bullies are mean".

My little brother's picture was captioned, "Aliens are bullies". With a picture of an alien.

EPIC!

my fine is $250

2007-04-16T23:10:00.000-04:00

Smoked pot -- $10
Did acid -- $5
Ever had sex at church -- $25
Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you -- $40
Had sex with someone on Facebook -- $25
Had sex for money -- $100
Ever had sex with the a Puerto Rican -- $20
Vandalized something -- $20
Had sex on your parents' bed -- $10
Beat up someone -- $20
Been jumped -- $10
Crossed dressed -- $10
Given money to stripper -- $25
Been in love with a stripper -- $20
Kissed some one who's name you didn't know -- $0.10
Hit on some one of the same sex while at work -- $15
Ever drive drunk -- $20
Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk -- $50
Used toys while having sex -- $30
Got drunk, passed and don't remember the night before -- $20
Went skinny dipping -- $5
Had sex in a pool -- $20
Kissed someone of the same sex -- $10
Had sex with someone of the same sex -- $20
Masturbated -- $10
Done oral -- $5
Got oral -- $5
Done / got oral in a car while it was moving -- $25
Stole something -- $10
Had sex with someone in jail -- $25
Made a nasty home video -- $15
Had a threesome -- $50
Had sex in the wild -- $20
Been in the same room while someone was having sex -- $25
Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars -- $20
Had sex with someone 10 years older -- $20
Peed in the pool -- $0.50
Played spin the bottle -- $5
Done something you regret -- $20
Had sex with your best friend -- $20
Had sex with someone you work with at work -- $25
Had anal sex -- $80
Lied to your mate -- $5
Lied to your mate about the sex being good -- $25
Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 -- $25
Been in love with two people or more at the same time -- $50
Said you love someone but didn't mean it -- $25
Went streaking -- $5
Went streaking in broad daylight -- $15
Been arrested -- $5
Spent time in jail -- $15

Cats

2007-03-21T23:44:00.001-04:00

Facebook Movie Quiz

2007-03-14T22:22:00.000-04:00

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane

Total so far: 6

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
(x) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
() White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
(x ) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 12

() Scream
() Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 18

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
( ) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 25

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total so far: 33

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
() Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
() KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x ) KING KONG

Total so far: 37

(x) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
(x) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber

Total so far: 43

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 48

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
(x) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask (CaP)

Total so far: 50

( ) Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
(x) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total so far: 58

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
( ) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 63

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
(x) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
() The Terminator 2
() The Terminator 3

Total so far: 68

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 82

() Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
() Old School
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old Virgin

Total so far: 86

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
() Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
() Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 90

() Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
() Elf
() Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
( ) Three

Total so Far: 90

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard

Total so far: 93

( ) High Tension
(x) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
() Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld

Total so far: 97

() Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
(x) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 98

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 104

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
() Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal

Total: 109

I have no life. What can I say? I love movies!

my house

2007-03-13T19:45:00.000-04:00

Since dean did it...

Based on the drawing and the 10 answers they gave this is a summary of their personality:
Your house tells the world that you ought to be a leader. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You love your house and family. You are a gifted artist as well. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes. You are very tidy person. There's nothing wrong with that because you're pretty popular among friends. Your life is always full of changes.

You will avoid being alone and seek the company of others whenever possible. You love excitement and create it wherever you go. You see the world as it is, not as you believe it should be.

You added a flower into your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.

Fun, but probably not too accurate since it called me "a gifted artist".

I almost forgot...

2007-03-12T00:25:00.000-04:00

to actually post what I thought of the movie.

*ahem*

REALLY FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW WHERE ARE MY PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

and with that, I bid you good night.
-Em

300...

2007-03-12T00:18:00.000-04:00

...proves that on a big screen, stunning visual effects and cinematography make up for a story that would probably take about a page of fifth grader printing. The theater sound being REALLY, REALLY loud probably didn't hurt, either.

It also proved that Matt and I can devour over one and a half large popcorns after already having consumed a full meal.

That is all.

I've Done 91 Out Of 150 Stupid Things

2007-03-08T21:48:00.000-05:00

Level 1
(x) Smoked A Cigarette
(x) Smoked A Cigar
( )Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
(x) Drank Alcohol

SO FAR: 3

Level 2
(x) Are / Been In Love
(x) Been Dumped
( ) Shoplifted
( ) Been Fired
( ) Been In A Fist Fight
( ) Gone Out On A Blind Date

SO FAR: 5

Level 4
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(x) Skipped School
( ) Slept With A Co-worker
( ) Seen Someone / Something Die

SO FAR: 7

Level 5
(x) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your Facebook Friends
( ) Been To Paris
( ) Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
(x) Thrown Up From Drinking

SO FAR: 10

Level 6
(x) Eaten Sushi
(x) Been Snowboarding
( ) Met Someone BECAUSE Of Facebook
( ) Been in a Mosh Pit

FAR: 12

Level 7
( ) Been In An Abusive Relationship
(x) Taken Pain Killers
( ) Love/loved Someone Who You Cant Have
( ) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x) Made A Snow Angel

SO FAR: 14

Level 8
( ) Had A Tea Party
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
(x) Gone mudding
(x) Played Dress Up

SO FAR: 18

Level 9
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
(x) Gone Sledding
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School

SO FAR: 23

Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
(x) Felt An Earthquake
( ) Killed A Snake

SO FAR: 25

Level 11
(x) Been Tickled
(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized
( ) Been cheated on
(x) Been Misunderstood

SO FAR: 28

Level 12
(x) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
(x) Had Detention
(x) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident

SO FAR: 31

Level 13
(x) Had / Have Braces
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Danced in the moonlight

SO FAR: 24

Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Look
( ) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(x) Questioned Your Heart
(x) Been obsessed with post-it-notes

SO FAR : 27

Level 15
(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
(x) Been Lost
( ) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
( ) Felt Like You Were Dying

SO FAR: 30

Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
( ) Played Cops And Robbers
(x) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins

SO FAR: 34

Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls
(x) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
(x) Kissed In The Rain

SO FAR: 38

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach or anywhere

SO FAR: 42

Level 19
(x) Crashed A Party
(x) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey

SO FAR: 46

Level 20
(x) Worn Pearls
(x) Jumped Off A Bridge
(x) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"
( ) Swam With Dolphins..

SO FAR: 49

Level 22
(x) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cube
( ) Kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
(x) Sat On A Roof Top

SO FAR: 52

Level 23
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
(x) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
( ) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
(x) Recently stayed Up for a while talking to someone you care about

SO FAR: 55

Level 24
(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
(x) Climbed A Tree
(x) Had/Been In A Tree House
(x) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone

SO FAR: 59

Level 25
(x) Believed In Ghosts
( ) Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes (close... very close)
( ) Gone Streaking
(x) Visited Jail

SO FAR: 61

Level 26
(x) Played Chicken
(x) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
( ) Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused

SO FAR: 64

Level 27
( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
( ) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
( ) Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed

SO FAR: 66

Level 28
(x) Mooned/Flashed Someone
(x) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
(x) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
(x) French Braided Someones Hair
( ) Gone Skinny Dipping
( ) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
(x) Tried to hurt yourself

SO FAR: 72

Level 29
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
( ) Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling
(x) Had A Cavity
( ) Black-Mailed Someone
( ) Been Black Mailed

SO FAR: 74

Level 31
(x) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs
( ) Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone
(x) Licked Someone

SO FAR : 78

Level 32
( ) Been shot at/or at gunpoint
( ) Had sex in the rain
( ) Flattened someones tires
(x ) Rode your car/truck until the gas light came on
(x) Got five dollars or less worth of gas

Total: 91 - upon recounting. I lose 11 somewhere up there.

91/150

Repost Your Results Like This...
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An Ode to the Interview I Bombed

2007-02-20T15:44:00.000-05:00

There once was a girl named Emily,
Who always did interviews clumsily.
Her answers weren't bright
or eloquent, but trite;
So she was dismissed quite readily.

//Get Matt to tell you wtf he wants for lunch - documentation

2007-02-08T09:56:00.000-05:00

/* There seems to be some confusion over my previously posted code. It has been misunderstood that Matt.getFoodPreference() actually accepts input from a user. This is wrong for several reasons.

1. Matt is obviously an instance of the boy() class, not a user
2. getFoodPreference() is a method of the boy() class which discovers and returns the boy()'s food preference, whether the boy() is consciously aware of it or not.

How getFoodPreference works:

First off, Ensure that there are favourite foods:
----if there are no items in the favourite foods vector:
......check the boy()'s history of items eaten and pick the one he liked the most
......place it in the favourite foods vector
......if the boy has never eaten, exit the program with error message: "Invalid
......instance of boy object"

1. Determine how hungry the boy() is
----if int howHungry() returns 0 for not hungry, return(pickRandomFood())
......pickRandomFood() returns a random food item from the boy()'s vector of
......favourite foods
----The vector of favourite foods is ordered from most to least favourite

2. Check if the boy() has any cravings; cravings are stored in a vector ordered from most craved to least
----if so, sort through the vector from most to least craved foods and return the
----first one that matches the level of hunger (or exceed by up to 2 points)
----if all of the craved foods are too low, return the first combination of foods
----that matches or exceeds the level of hunger; using multiples of food if necessary
----but using as many different foods as possible

3. If the boy() has no cravings...
----iterate through the vector of favourite foods from most to least
----return the first food that matches (or exceeds by up to 2 points) the level of hunger
----if all of the foods are too low, return the first combination of foods
----that matches or exceeds the level of hunger; using multiples of food if necessary
----but using as many different foods as possible
*/

//Get Matt to tell you wtf he wants for lunch

2007-02-06T09:32:00.000-05:00

food Lunch = new food();
boy Matt = new boy();
girl Emily = new girl();

while( 1 ){
if( Matt.getFoodPreference() != NULL )
{ Lunch = Matt.getFoodPreference();
break;
}
}

// Because Matt is a gentleman, Emily eats first
Emily.eat(Lunch);
Matt.eat(Lunch);

I have 3 words for you all... (and one picture)

2007-01-30T18:56:00.000-05:00

Harry Fucking Potter!

Music Survey

2006-12-23T18:59:00.000-05:00

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...just type it in man!

Opening Credits:
Pearl Jam - Evenflow (live)

Waking Up:
Olivia Newton John - You're the One that I Want ...lol :)

First Day At School:
Prodigy - Jericho

Falling In Love:
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Fight Song:
The Tea Party - The Badger

Breaking Up:
Coldplay - Clocks (live)

Prom:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Lucky 13

Life:
Pilate - You're All I Need

Mental Breakdown:
Deftones - Crenshaw Punch/I'll Throw Rocks at You

Driving:
Stone Temple Pilots - Pretty Penny

Flashback:
Prodigy - No Good (CJ Bollands Museum Remix)

Getting Back Together:
The Mars Volta - Abortion, The Other White Meat (charming? lol...)

Wedding:
Puddle of Mudd - Control (lol...)

Birth of Child:
Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)

Funeral Song:
The Mars Volta - Eriatarka

End Credits:
Scott Weiland - About Nothing

Behind the Parkway Motel

2006-12-19T23:55:00.000-05:00

A pic I took:

More on my deviantart page, emilykate.deviantart.com

...I'll take my mocking now.

2006-12-10T20:24:00.000-05:00

I did, in fact, dress myself the day of school pictures in whatever grade this was (< 5). Thankfully, by the time I hit highschool, I'd learned to hide my nerdliness under a more normal (however much less entertaining) facade. Oh, and I got braces.

Daily Dose of Nerd

2006-12-08T17:44:00.000-05:00

So, I was coding c++ and wathing the ep of TNG where Picard is in 3 time periods and there's an anti time eruption.

Geordi said something about anti time meaning that time goes backward, and I thought, "Ohhhh, so Anti-Time is a reverse iterator for time!"

aaand I'm done.

Re-Templated

2006-12-03T01:09:00.000-05:00

I changed my template.

Love? Hate? Ambivolant?

2006-12-03T00:38:00.000-05:00

A sampling of things I like:

1)The Foo Fighters
2)Live Recordings
3)Acoustic Tracks

The following are from The Foo Fighters Skin and Bones album:

The Best of You
I have a better live recording of the best of you that I'll post when/if I find it, but this one is pretty delightful. The first few bars always give me shivers.

Everlong
Dave Grohl's voice is soothing and awesome, yes? :) this is an old favourite of mine Also... call me crazy, but I enjoy the parts where the audience sings along... it sounds kind of haunting.

I'm posting about...

2006-12-01T12:40:00.000-05:00

Aliens Aliens Aliens

and now back to schoolwork so I don't grow up to be a failure

ACM

2006-11-21T14:05:00.000-05:00

Here are pictures of 2/3 of each team that Fanshawe sent to the ACM programming challenge at Sheridan this year. Go Us!

2006-11-20T15:49:00.000-05:00

Colour Quiz + More Quiztacularness

2006-11-16T08:19:00.000-05:00

Emily took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"Her need to feel more causative and to have a wide..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

Willy Wonka

You scored 74% outgoingness, 62% intelligence, and 54% goodness!

People think you are a little bit weird, but that´s probably in a goog way, as you yourself are a nice and good person.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 88% on outgoingness
You scored higher than 44% on intelligence
You scored higher than 37% on goodness

Link: The Which Movie Character Are You Test written by 5934 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Another 10 for Captain Safety

2006-11-07T14:36:00.000-05:00

From this lovely lady on plentyoffish.com. Go Steve!

Blog Monks

2006-11-07T14:13:00.001-05:00

from MarriedToTheSea.com

My schedule for today.

2006-11-04T08:31:00.000-05:00

I have 3 time sensitive things to do today and they all overlap, meaning I'm going to be completely busy with various crap from when I leave my house in 25 minutes (assuming we get out of here on time) and when my brother's bday party is over at 6.

I have to go order glasses. The glasses store opens at 9. Unfortunately, 9 is also the time that I would normally leave in order to be at school by 10, which is when the ACM practice contest starts. So I'm going to have to go in, mom will have to place the order quick quick, and then I jet off to London. The ACM thing goes until 3 and hopefully wont go late because 3:00 is when my little brother's birthday party starts. The oodles of little kids leave at 6 at which time I'll have to help clean up, and then maybe go to London to watch a movie or something with Matt. *phew*.

I'm going to go enjoy the last 20 minutes of pseudo-sanity that I am allowed in my day until then. Bye kids.

The following baseless accusation brought to you by my mother

2006-11-03T11:21:00.000-05:00

"Are you on diet pills? You've lost weight, and you've been irritable lately."

I lost the weight in question appx. 3 months ago. As for the irritability, can anybody say Midterms?

I love the woman, but she makes me crazy.

Toothpaste for Dinner

2006-10-25T07:47:00.000-04:00

toothpastefordinner.com

Your Results:

The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.

Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.

How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards.

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (99%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
4. Secular Humanism (94%)
5. Neo-Pagan (82%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (76%)
7. New Age (75%)
8. Taoism (71%)
9. Mahayana Buddhism (69%)
10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (65%)
11. Nontheist (65%)
12. Reform Judaism (65%)
13. Bah�'� Faith (61%)
14. New Thought (60%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (57%)
16. Scientology (56%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (48%)
18. Jainism (45%)
19. Sikhism (45%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (44%)
21. Hinduism (34%)
22. Jehovah's Witness (32%)
23. Islam (30%)
24. Orthodox Judaism (30%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (27%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (18%)
27. Roman Catholic (18%)

From the Belief-O-Matic

2006-10-24T12:45:00.001-04:00

Which Cowboy Bebop character are you?

ok, so...

2006-10-20T11:27:00.000-04:00

Dean was in class.

In other news, this lady rated Captain Safety/Steve a 10 on plentyoffish.com

Dean isn't in class.

2006-10-20T10:30:00.000-04:00

Why?

Google Image Search says:

marriedtothesea.com

2006-10-18T08:44:00.000-04:00

Hilarity!

Prom v3

2006-10-13T10:59:00.000-04:00

Prom at Central Elgin Collegiate, in the school Gym, in St. Thomas

Aerosmith was played, so I decided the party would be better under the table.

Prom 1.0

2006-10-09T23:00:00.000-04:00

More prom pix, these are from the first prom I went to, which fell at the end of my pseudogoth phase.

Shane posted a prom picture

2006-10-06T10:47:00.000-04:00

So I'm posting one too. This is my friend Lucy and I at the second of three proms I went to, my actual prom, at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. I'm not sure how apparent it is from the picture, but between when I purchased my prom dress and when I wore it to prom, I gained appx. 10 pounds. Good thing it had boning. It felt like that scene from Gone with the Wind where Scarlett is holding onto a bedpost and Mammy is lacing her corset. Also, in most of the other pictures from the night, my boobs look HUGE and like they're trying to escape. Go figure.

Yay braces?

The Red Shoes

2006-10-01T20:51:00.000-04:00

I <3 Them all.

Yum. That is all.

Call Me Crazy...

2006-09-28T09:31:00.000-04:00

But I think Dean looks kinda pretty in this shot.

Make Dean Over

2006-09-27T09:23:00.000-04:00

This hour of wasted time brought to you by makeover.ivillage.co.uk

Dean just said Ayaz was a snappy dresser.

2006-09-22T10:38:00.000-04:00

"Don't trust Ayaz. He's a terrorist. He's definately a snappy dresser, but he's a terrorist."

This piece of running commentary on Dean's words and actions was brought to you by Garth Santor's intermediate c++ class, and how important yet boring it is.

Thank you.

Update: The handsome and charming Matthew Mark Mark Jacques pointed out to me that if you google image search "Dean's Hairy Ass", this is the only result:

Obligatory non-Dean post

2006-09-20T12:15:00.000-04:00

Google Image Searching: Dean is Pretty

2006-09-20T08:28:00.000-04:00

Tada!

Ode to Dean

2006-09-19T14:26:00.000-04:00

Deanie Dean Deanie
Deanie Deanie Dean Deanie
Deanie Deanie Dean

Good, now I can post this without having 4 Dean-related posts in a row!

2006-09-17T13:27:00.000-04:00

So... the other night, the night before that last post, I had a dream that I was pregnant and about to give birth. I can only assume the baby was Dean's.

I'm still waiting on that malt shop, Dean. I know where you live.

Happy Friday!

2006-09-15T20:36:00.000-04:00

Courtney and I got stoned and then laughed while we were trying to put on makeup. It was teh funz0rz. Then I realized that wearing tights while you're stoned is both a hard state to achieve (tights are complicated!) and really, really weird.

omg there's a scary child eating chair on tv aaand I totally meant to put that in all caps cuz its SCARY !!!!!

bananabananabananabananabananabananabananaDUCK!

:) Love, Emily <3

The Plan

2006-09-14T08:47:00.000-04:00

Deanie's building me a malt shop out of modelling clay and construction paper. We're going to go out for ice cream and then sit in his room and listen to records while our hundreds of fat children are immaculately conceived.

Dean Coming Out

2006-09-12T18:08:00.000-04:00

I took a screenshot for posterity.

We should all be paying attention to C++

2006-09-08T11:03:00.000-04:00

But instead we're google image searching.

Here's the only result for "Dean's Bones Kill People"

Expletive, Expletive, Expletive, 2

2006-09-06T20:17:00.000-04:00

SO. I got a loaner laptop from connect. I go home, and unplug it to move it not realizing the battery is dead. Then I try to boot windows again, it flashes the blue screen of death, and shuts down. I can't boot windows. I'm so pissed off... we have *WINDOWS PROGRAMMING* First thing tomorrow and the fucking loaner laptop I had to get because my laptop is broken doesn't fucking work.

UGH!

Expletive, Expletive, Expletive

2006-09-06T09:40:00.000-04:00

Somehow I've ended up with a broken hinge on my laptop. By broken, I mean the one hinge is now completely detached and I had to hand the ppl at connect the pieces of it. Apparently Asus will not consider this to be normal wear and tear even though I didn't do anything to the laptop that could have broken the hinge except for, well, use it. So basically, I'm going to bitch & complain and be a pain in the ass until something is done about it. w00t.

Back to it

2006-09-05T07:44:00.000-04:00

So, today is the magical day that we all go back to school. Tres excitant! At least, *I'm* excited. I've worked all summer except when I was on "vacation" with my family. I wish I'd had more downtime (read: time to go to the beach) but thanks to a few gaping holes in our schedule hopefully I'll make it down there at least a couple more times, though the weather is definately cooling off faster than it did last year.

Apparently I'm expected to babysit more this year, which is frankly ridiculous and means that I'll have to cut down my hours at my actual job. Damnit, though, I'm going to get A grades and have a social life if it kills me. Having a car and finessing my study skills last year should facilitate both of those things. It's a challenge I'm up for.

On that note, I'm off now to go get my brother ready to go, take him to daycare, and mow the lawn, so I can go to Matt's and watch What Not to Wear before class.

See everybody later today :)

2006-05-12T18:24:00.000-04:00

tales of mere existance

Heh heh heh....

2006-04-25T09:32:00.000-04:00

Some Pictures

2006-04-14T18:31:00.000-04:00

These were taken today in Port Stanley. Hope you enjoyed them :)

Stick People Commentary

2006-04-05T13:46:00.000-04:00

Wishes.

2006-04-03T14:16:00.000-04:00

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.

2006-04-03T10:33:00.000-04:00

A letter to god from Fresh99's Dear God letters

My Soon-To-Be Car!!!!!

2006-04-01T11:35:00.000-05:00

So, everything has checked out on the Protege! It's getting an undercoating and a little minor work done, but it will be mine by next weekend, barring alien abduction or natural disaster!

Since I've only test driven her, I can't name her quite yet, though she's definately a she - a little picky (with a tendancy to be vindictive) - but she goes like *woah* if you handle her right. She demands respect. In short, I like her.

Edit: amusing personal message brought to you by Kirk of the St. Thomas A&P: "I'm the coolest guy in St. Thomas, good for me, that's like being the smartest kid with Down's Syndrome."

Amusing Link

2006-03-31T18:07:00.000-05:00

http://office-humour.co.uk/g/i/3637/

enjoy :)

My hovercraft is full of eels!

or should I say, Légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal?

If you write a class definition, but do not write a constructor method for the class, how is it that you can still create objects of the class?

2006-03-30T08:13:00.000-05:00

Magical elves sneak in during the night and create an enchanted constructor invisible to the human eye. They then rifle through your belongings and raid your fridge before escaping into the nth dimension.

-Rob Macintosh

(This was a midterm question. Full marks were recieved. Scan coming soon.)

My Soon-To-Be Car (unless the world caves in/explodes/mom changes her mind) II

2006-03-29T00:45:00.000-05:00

OK so, the Saturn SC1 didn't work out. But I have high hopes for this one! This isn't the exact car, but it's the same model and colour. It's a 2002 Mazda Protege, 5speed. Passed the Mom test, my mechanic Uncle is gonna take a look. Everything's positive so far. *fingers crossed*

Deanpunzel Olympics

2006-03-28T14:32:00.000-05:00

We tried to give Dean to some of Morley's friends, but they didn't want him. Go figure.

The Best Things in Life

2006-03-26T21:29:00.000-05:00

The Best Things in Life:

I yoinked this from a website I don't remember and revamped it a little. Enjoy.

Falling in love.
Laughing so hard your face hurts.
A hot shower.
Never EVER having to go to Wal-Mart (Formerly: No lines at the Super Wal-Mart.)
A special glance.
Getting mail. Specifically: Postcards from far away.
Taking a drive on a pretty road. Specifically: When I'm driving. Fast.
Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
Hot towels out of the dryer.
Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.
Chocolate milkshake. <-- Not such a fan of milkshakes. Eh.
A long distance phone call. Specifically: from someone nice!
A bubble bath.
Giggling.
A good conversation.
The beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter.
Laughing at yourself.
Midnight phone calls that last for hours.
Running through sprinklers.
Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.
Laughing at an inside joke.
Friends.
Falling in love for the first time.
Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
Your first kiss.
Making new friends or spending time with old ones.
Playing with a new puppy.
Late night talks with your roommate that keep you from sleeping.
Having someone (non-icky) play with your hair.
Sweet dreams.
Hot chocolate.
Road trips with friends.
Swinging on swings.
Watching a good movie cuddled up on a couch with someone you love.
Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking eggnog.
Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid.
Going to a really good concert.
Getting butterflies in your stomach every time you see that one person.
Making eye contact with a cute stranger.
Winning a really competitive game.
Making chocolate chip cookies!
Having your friends send you homemade cookies!
Spending time with close friends!
Seeing smiles and hearing laughter from your friends. (is it just me, or is this getting redundant?)
Holding hands with someone you care about.
Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.
Discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time.
Riding the best roller coasters over and over.
Hugging the person you love.
Watching the expression someone's face as they open a much-desired present from you.
Watching the sunrise (Especially if it's somewhere pretty and youve been up all night!)
Having friends you know you can cry on or talk to about your deepest problems

Grammar Nazi

2006-03-22T09:52:00.000-05:00

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

from: angryflower.com

also enjoy: Bob's Quick Guide to French, You Idiots and The War in Antarctica.

Oh. My. Freakin. God.

Gimp

2006-03-01T10:20:00.000-05:00

I just downloaded Gimp, a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. I've never used Photoshop before,so I'm a little *eh* about the tools and filters, but I had fun playin around with some pictures I took. (I don't usually wear that much makeup, it photographed well and the red lipstick especially made for easy select-by-color)

Original

Photocopy, cartoon, and a little coloring in by hand

This one was done from a diff't photo

The original photo, just photocopied (it's a little too light)

Again from a diff't photo - oilified, "cartooned", softglowed, relit

One Heck of a Horrible Coincidence

2006-02-24T21:56:00.000-05:00

Huzzah for collegehumor.

The c++ midterm: aka, evil

2006-02-22T18:35:00.000-05:00

struct Exam{
//insert exam specs here
};

class Emily{
private:
//insert Emily specs here
public:
Emily(); //default constructor
~Emily(); //default destructor
};

void writeExam(Exam theExam)
{ if (theExam=="c++")
{ ~Emily(); }
else {
//do stuff }
}

int main()
{ Exam todaysExam="c++";
writeExam(todaysExam);
return(0);
}

MidtermsMidtermsMidterms

2006-02-21T21:07:00.000-05:00

My brain is officially consumed by the hell that is midterms. It's almost literally *all I can think about*. I fell half asleep on the couch, the brand of half asleep where you hear things and think about them but you're so tired that everything ends up all jumbled. Anyways, my mother was trying to convince William to wash his hands.

My train of thought:
"isn't there some sort of automatic WashHands() function in c++? I shouldve paid more attention in IT last year... agh! Is there a WashHands() function? Am I just making this up? No no... I swear you could pass a reference to William to Wash Hands (WashHands(&William);), and the function would sort through all the People, find William, and wash his hands. Gee, the STL library is great."

Then as I tried to implement it I woke up. Boourns.

My Crazy Dream

2006-02-08T14:34:00.000-05:00

OK so... for those who haven't heard about it yet I had a cr@zy ass dream last night. It involved a pile of ppl from class and a few other friends hangin out in the building Courtney used to live in (ie. Dean and Dale's current residence). Then Shane (surger1) was posessed by a witch and tried to kill us all. The only way to stop him and de-posess him was to hack off his face. Soooo... we did. Shane was back to normal, albeit without a face. Then we realized that if we got caught having chopped off Shane's face, we'd all go to jail, so someone came up with the bright idea of burying him in Dean's neighbor's (Courtney's ex-neighbor's) front yard. Then we were all sad cuz we killed Shane.

Fin.

Yeah, freaky. Uberfreaky.

Notes on my last post:

I reserve the right to whine on my blog.
It said no reasoning or rationalizing. Again, my blog, my whine, my rules.
I have a job because I searched for a job. My job generally occupies 8 hours each weekend. Occasionally I get a weekend off, but that means that I had to work both days either the weekend before or after. That means that sometimes I can't go out at all on the weekends, which is sucky, cuz I dont get out much if at all during the week due to homework/weightlifting/babysitting my little brother. Which is fine. But again, I reserve the right to whine about it in this, my blog.
Not having a car isn't a big deal. I mean, sometimes it's a big deal, because if I can't get a ride to school Mom has to make alternate arrangements so that I can have a car, and that usually makes it harder for her to get her work done, which is not good since she's a single mom and thus the one paying the bills. For the most part it's fine, I was just really disappointed because I was looking forward to a stellar weekend that turned out to be completely lackluster through no fault of my own (it was crappy due to weather, poor maintainance record on the car, the superbowl, and superstore losing power)
I dislike situations that are out of my control.

Anyways, this week is turning out to be pretty alright :) I'm probably goin out with a girl from work on Friday night to some bars in St T (which could be good or bad) and depending on whether or not I work Sunday or Next Saturday. I find out that.... tomorrow. Woo!

:) S'all folks!

The World Caved In

2006-02-04T19:26:00.000-05:00

Today has been crap crap crap crap.

I had to work all day, and it was busy, which sucked, except that I was excited because as soon as I got off work I was going into London to hang out with some people.

As I was leaving work it was snowing. Crap. The chances mom was going to let me drive in the snow were slim.

I get home and mom isn't even back from the dealership yet. Crap, crap, crap. Call the cell, no answer. Call Aunt Deb's where Willy is, mom called and said she hadn't left the saturn dealership and she'd be a while beause the weather was bad. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap.

I call mom. She checked out the maintainance report on the car and apparently there were some things that didnt look good, so we're going to keep looking ie. start over from scratch. Also, the roads are nasty and she doesn't want me going to London.

The especially crappy thing is that I left a book in my locker which I'm going to need. So if the weather is clear before work (eeew...) tomorrow, I can go pick up my book. If not I'm fucked.

SO my weekend, which was shaping up to be pretty good aside from the two, 8 hour shifts I am scheduled for, is now looking exceedingly bleak. I have to work from 12:30 to 9 tomorrow... Superbowl Sunday --> Busy busy busy. No party, no car, busy lateish shift tomorrow, homework I may or may not be able to finish.

I am grouchy. I am not in a mood to listen to reason. If you don't have something sympathetic or completely unrelated and not in the least (even remotely) antagonizing to say, don't try to talk to me, because I'll probably snap at and/or make fun of and/or murder you (in your sleep with a baseball bat).

My Soon-To-Be Car (unless the world caves in/explodes/mom changes her mind)

2006-02-03T19:47:00.001-05:00

Tomorrow while I'm at work mom will (hopefully) be signing the papers for my car!

Wanna See? ...of course, that's not *actually* it, but its the same year/model/color. Mine has a stickshift and currently resides in London.

I am excited. Mega excited. Now hopefully the world doesn't cave in like the last time I got all excited about le car.

Java aka. Losing Concepts in Hugely Complicated and Boring Metaphors 101

2006-02-03T13:47:00.000-05:00

The Java prof is ranting about ppls shoe size. Why? I dont know. It makes no sense. Well actually, I shouldn't say that, it might make sense if I was paying attention. Unfortunately, the people I'm sitting around are just too damn entertaining.

My legs, they are like Jello.

2006-02-01T20:34:00.000-05:00

I went to the gym today. I'm trying to lift regularly again, 'cuz I've been a lazy bastard recently.

Exposition: I'm an Olympic-Style weightlifter. Have been since I was 13. Not so much recently though, mostly due to time constraints.

ANYWAYS.

Today:

Went to school. C++, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Came home. Went to the gym.
Worked out... lots.
Came home, ate, then picked up some pants I got hemmed. Yaaaaaay pants. I like pants.
Bought a new book! By one of my all-time favourite authors, Robin Hobb. She really is amazing, pick up Assassin's Apprentice if you ever get the chance. She wrote a trilogy of trilogies all set in the world of the Farseers and the plot lines are just amazing. It's fantasy of course, but all very well described/explained. The characters are realistic, detailed, and grow as the stories progress. Did I mention the plot? It's intricate and seems a little sketchy at first, but in the end everything comes together beautifully. Have I mentioned that Robin Hobb is amazing? Anyways, her latest book is called Shaman's Crossing, it's set in a whole new world, and I'm totally excited to read it.

Right now I'm watching Firefly DVDs with commentary, care of Dean. Thanks Dean!! Firefly = Awesomeness. And doing laundry. Not so awesome.

On tap for tomorrow: More school (early day.... booourns), Games club or probably Simcity and hangin out (and eating, and reading), then sleep and maybe more laundry. Woooooooooooooooooooooo.

I AM A BANANA!

A Little bit 'o Nostalgia

2006-01-30T17:38:00.000-05:00

So, apparently my old, crappy Opendiary still exists. In the interest of nostalgia, I present:

Life by Emily Katherine

Love it. Hate it. Laugh at the craptacular-ness and the inevitable point where it degrades to song lyrics, like my msn space before it, and this blog sometime in the distant - to - near future.

Time to aller au gymnase pour fair du halterophile :)

AuRevoir, mes amis! <3

Introduction

2006-01-29T23:22:00.000-05:00

So, yeah. I'm bored. And I decided to hop on the blogwagon... woooooo!
Things I did today:

1) Painted my nails
This is actually not such a mundane process as you might believe... sheer polishes are pretty but retarded as far as applicaion 'cuz you can never get them on evenly, so they end up looking like crap.
2) Watched Tristan and Isolde (Romeo and Juliet with more fight scenes)
3) Half my java project
I hate java, I hate java, I hate java, I hate java. It is retarded. And hi-lo games. Ive now written a hi-lo game in 4 programming languages. Hi-lo games were interesting in grade 10. MOVING ON.
4) Listened to "You're all I Need" by Pilate
Its stuck in my head in a continuous loop. Good thing its a good song.
5) Pondering life with a car
And how wonderful it will be! I test drove a saturn, SC1 with a stick shift and 3 doors. It was car-like. My only complaint was that it was so low to the ground, I felt like I was sitting on the road. BUT it has 4 wheels and goes, so who cares!!