Yubsie's Yammerings

Whee, we just had our first trick or treaters. Well, the first this year. Last year, we were supposed to have a rehearsal on Halloween that got cancelled at the last minute. We tried to buy candy but there was NONE at the grocery store, so we wound up ignoring the door all night. :p

I mostly changed into practical clothes to TA today, but I left my costume boots on because they take ten minutes to put on or take off. BIG mistake. I love those boots, but they are the most ridiculously impractical thing I own. :p NEVER AGAIN. (Of course, I say that every time I wear those boots ANYWHERE and I always end up wearing them again. :p)

Oh, and CBC CLEARLY hates Doctor Who. First they wait forever to air it at ALL and then last night what did I get when I went to watch it? Some movie about a Newfoundland pilot during WWII. My Doctor Who was randomly pre-empted by a MADE FOR CBC MOVIE. It was supposed to be the episode that made the fandom asplode too!

Greetings from other-home! I'm typing on my sister's laptop. Which isn't particularly fun because the keyboard is all squishy. Also, she only has IE and won't let me install Firefox. Which is really weird, since she has every intention of installing Firefox "When I get around to it". :p

Oh, at the dollar store the other day? I SAW PIMP LUKE'S HAT! There are a fair number of you who will appreciate that. :p

Gwenna and I finished up watching Firefly. She can't decide on a favorite character yet. She's blaming the fact that it usually takes her a bit longer into the series than Firefly actually ran to settle on a favorite. :p

I think I need to get my mother to watch the show. If only so she can understand the conversations between me, Gwenna and Daddy that mostly consist of ever building references. :p

Someone needs to explain to my brother that "NOOB!" is not a general purpose insult, incidently. :p

I finally replaced my USB drive. Price Club can never not sell in bulk, apparently, because all that they sell is 1 GB. Of course, it's about the same as other places were charging for half that, so... :p We also picked up lots of food, so hopefully someone will give me a ride back to Sackville. If not, I've been promised a food delivery when we go see Anne and Gilbert in PEI next week. :p

Oh, and all that's left on my River costume is hemming the overdress. I got the slits in the underdress all done up now. Hemming sucks though. :p

It's been a pretty fun weekend so far. We went to see Superman Returns, which was quite cool. Even if Metropolis is totally populated by the densest people in the world. :p

Yesterday I watched another episode of Doctor Who, which I love oh so very much. WHY is CBC not airing the new stuff until October? Then I watched the commentary for "Shindig" and "War Stories". OMG, audio commentary is so much love!

Vicki and I were going to watch the infamous Holiday Special, but the file refused to open. Maybe the computers were too scared of what it contained? So we watched Sailor Moon instead. Which led to the new icon. :p

I did some more work on my River costume. There's something incredibly amusing about looking at historical recreation websites for tips on making a costume from a SCIENCE FICTION movie. :p

EDIT: Oh, and nukichan? I'm going to be in Riverview next weekend. :p

Well, let's see... the graduation was long and hot. There were eight kids with 95%+ GPAs. When I graduated, no one had EVER gotten that high. Oddly though, there wasn't a whole lot of scholarship money for them. Though some of them were going to Queen's. :p There were some really obnoxious guys who kept screaming and I was ready to hurt. :p The speaker was someone from MY graduating class, which was really surprising.

All through the ceremony, there was this recurring theme of trying to encourage the kids to stay in Riverview, stay in New Brunswick. No one seemed willing to acknowledge that a fair number of these kids are intending to go into science, and there JUST ISN'T WORK for them here. I had a long "discussion" with my mother about this. She thinks that they want people to start up work for them. But you can't just START UP a chemical company, it takes billions! I'm not in a field where entrepeneuring is FEASIBLE. She got really annoyed when I added that I didn't want my kids to have to go through the NB education system. Even though the only selling point she could come up with was French Immersion, which is what people are constantly trying to destroy! Amusingly, my grandmother was siding with me and my sister on the whole idea that one size fits all education and social promotion are a BAD IDEA. :p

Yesterday Gwenna and I hit the mall. I picked up a pair of sandals, because the one I have right now doesn't fit properly and do horrible things to my poor toes. I picked up the new Arrogant Worms CD for my father, which is a highly amusing bit of music. It has Canadaman. :p I bought a really cool shirt, because it was funky and only ten dollars. I finally picked up Betrayal, which is much Allstony goodness. :D And I bought the fabric for my River costume, which is terribly exciting. The overdress is getting made out of drapery fabric, because it was the most affordable sheer fabric in the colour I need. We ran into Doug on the bus ride back, which was great fun. He and Sammy are coming over tomorrow, yay!

After supper, I went over to Shannon's and introduced her to Firefly. She is very much addicted now, to the point of us losing track of time. :p

My sister tried to wake me up with the puppy this morning, but Topaz is too well trained not to go into bedrooms. :p

nukichan is evil and made me pick up the phone. I'm going over to her house this afternoon, so yay.

The convention is tomorrow.

The convention is TOMORROW.

How the hell did THAT happen?

On the plus side, the costume is almost done, I just need to stitch some trim on. I also need to clear enough space in my room for a camp cot for my sister. :p

Last night's little angst fit is over. Things always seem worse at two in the morning than they do in the daylight. Poor Tess getting stuck dealing with it. It must be SCARY. :p

Now I'm going to go run around in little circles because there's so much to do this weekend. :p

Another fun night of anime club. Because clearly after the Escaflowne marathon, we needed more animeness. :p

We watched Hana Yore Dongo (Something like that... live action, the English title of the manga is Boys Over Flowers) which was great fun as usual. :D After that, we watched Cowboy Bebop, which is fun. Not the GREATEST series in the world, but definitely worth watching. Then it was Gunslinger Girl, which I so utterly love. It's so cute... and disturbing. Of course, the cute is what MAKES it so disturbing in the first place. I'm also so utterly in love with the music and the art in it. Looooooooove! Then we watched episodes five and six of Pretear. I think, at this point, that it goes without saying that I love and adore that series. To itty bitty pieces. :p

Oh, and I finished my Fire Pretear skort! It turned out reall snazzy, I'm happy. :D Now I just need to make the blouse and the cape in the next two weeks. :p

We're having Pretear night on Friday. Much earlier than Escaflowne night so it's actually possible to make it to Toads on Saturday morning. Especially since I want to start working on my lab for Organometallics then.

Tomorrow, I need to do a pile of Organic and read the book for Soc. That's getting done while watching The Wizard of Oz. Then I need to hit the journals to figure out what I'm DOING for Organometallics. And find a paper to do my Kinetics project on, but I'm hoping it'll be something I come across while I'm designing my complex so I can do the project on an area of chemistry I find more interesting than Physchem.