even less in this one

I just watched The Accidental Husband, and loved it in all of its formulaic romantic comedy glory. It's true, I have no shame.

Uma Thurman really reminds me of Anne, for some reason. Probably something about the hands. Anne (my sister) has very unique hands. Piano playing, nail-biting, athleticism have made them what they are. It probably sounds a little odd talking about Anne's hands, but somehow being so close, and mostly sitting with our finger tips together while we talk, has made them very familiar.

Hmm, that photo makes me think that every guy needs a brown wool coat.

Iron Man was great. I cannot beLIEVE they're doing a remake of Death Race 2000

nothing much in this post

I kind of doubt that anyone in my family reads Cyanide and Happiness, a web comic. It's a love it or hate it brand of humor. All of it is in very bad taste, and generally makes you cringe while you laugh, and hope that no one around can see you laughing at it.

Offensive example:

And I'd kind of wonder if they would ever try and actually be just funny, without being crude and/or offensive. Lo and behold, today's comic was neither offensive nor crude. I wonder if they're worried by that.

I had more interesting things to say...oh, art posts will be starting again soon. Anne said she might visit!!!! Though that doesn't mean that any guilt resulting from not visiting can be removed so that you don't feel bad enough to come to my graduation. Of course. :)

Knitting is going really well. I've successfully cabled for hte first time, and now that I own cable needles I feel like a real knitter. The next stop to becoming a Real Knitter will be learning fair isle. Though I will probably cheat somehow at first, of course.

Cable: Fair Isle:

Though I will never, ever do large scalle fair isle projects. So don't get hopes up about huge, cool Fair isle sweaters. :-P Anyway, the cables I did are much cooler than those regular cablse. Mine are like, postmodern cables.

Since this is the Christmas knitting season, there will be no photos of any of my projects. I love sharing what I'm working on, though, so showing my roommate Sarah and publishing photos on the knitting community Ravelry will have to suffice until after everything's been given. I have some pretty great patterns picked out.

X-Ring Invitation

It's a very strange thing, but already I'm a 4th year, and the X-Ring Ceremony will be December 3.

To some people this is the most important event at university. People's families come up for it, all the hotels and restaurants are probably already booked solid. Since everyone spends the next week posing for pictures with their hands up, most girls get manicures. ...a manicure could be fun. I like manicures. But they're awkward. Sitting across from someone you don't know who's holding your hand. Kind of weird. I might do it anyway.

Anyway, in case anyone feels like making a trip up to Nova Scotia on December 3, I have extra bedrooms. There will be a lot of partying to be done. You could participate. Or bring a friend/spouse/sibling to keep you company. And Nova Scotia isn't that cold in early December.

I'm all excited 'cause I just picked up my X-Ring eligibility form. So tomorrow I'll be off to the jeweler's to make a deposit and get sized! Some people grow up waiting for X-Ring, so there are those who are really. really. excited about this. Obviously, I'm not one of those, but it'll still be cool.

I don't think anyone will actually be able to come, but I thought I'd just let everyone know in case. So, it's an open invitation!

And here's an example of the X-Ring blingage that occurs for a solid month after X-Ring. This is Gregg with a lot of girls I don't know.

Argh, for some reasons the paragraph spaces won't stay when I publish. I have to go to class, so I'm not going to fix it!

oh and just a note that my Skype and Skype phone are totally up and running. I haven't tested it out yet, so I dont' know if it works well or not. Those of you who called me at my last place (Anne and Dad, I think), know that a) I was never there and b) the call quality SUCKED.

Aaaaand I have a webcam set up. The first time for that since...sometime last spring.

A general rule: Don't call me before noon. Oh, and if someone else picks up, it's probably Sarah, my housemate! She's very friendly. :)

I have found what I've been craving!

Today is apparently a day for blogging.

The only thing that ever tempted me to go mac was the iMac. I loved its all-in-oneness. So you can imagine that when I realized that they'd started making all-in-one PCs, I was pretty excited. But! None of them really did it for me. Most of them looked like they were intended to function as autonomous home media systems, which was not what I wanted. Or they only said they were all-in-one, and actually had peripherals. OR they didn't have a built-in webcam. Unforgivable.

Anyway, back to the point that while reading engadget tonight I finally saw an all-in-one that I really like the look of, and it's a Vaio! It even has that nice slim keyboard that the Macs have that I like. Well done. Vaio also had another all-in-one that was one of the gross "be my home theatre" ones. But this is the one I like:



I also want a netbook of some sort. :-[ Cute, with at least 20GB. Or just something tablet-y.

what I do when I'm angry:

I become very productive when I'm angry. All the things that I left sitting around, procrastinating about doing, I take care of. I make certain that I look nice when I'm angry. I think my logic is something along the lines of, "If I'm mad, I might as well look nice." Great logic. Inevitably, somewhere a ribbon is lying around the house, and I angrily put it in my hair while I scowl.

I can't stop amazingly annoying songs from getting stuck in my head. Rick Astley's No Stranger To Love is a particular offender in this area. I have a feeling that most of my brothers and sisters don't have problems with being Rick Rolled, so here's the video for demonstration.



My internal narrative also falls apart when I'm angry. Instead of thoughts going smoothly from one to another, I can't finish them, and just end up cussing a lot in my head. This in turn makes me very absent-minded, and I do things like not realize that I left hte key in the car and the gas tank thing open.

Haha, wow, embedding the Rick Astley video was "disabled by request."

Just so you're all updated

Everyone. is. sick.

This entire campus is just one giant vat of contagion. Being off campus tends to help insulate from the sick population, and it's almost amusing seeing entire dorms fall ill together, but when my housemate and her best friend got sick, I knew that buffer was gone. The three of us played Settlers together Saturday evening, and I woke up that night with the taste of being sick in my mouth. By Sunday morning, I was down for the count. I missed all my classes on Monday entirely legitimately. Today I only had one class, Shakespeare, and I got to cough and sniffle with every other person in the class, and for once didn't have to feel guilty for being one of the very few healthy people in teh room. I don't know how professors can stand trying to lecture over all the coughing.

Haha, it's really not that bad, but everyone is noticeably sick.

Well, I finished a knitting project which I think is both attractive and useful. And i'm about to start another that is so cool that I'm jealous. It's going to be hard giving these things away.

The student union does a really great job of getting bands to come perform. East coast bands. I hardly ever take advantage of it, but there's a free concert tonight featuring 4 bands, and I'd feel bad passing up the opportunity. There are just so many people there.

I'm abotu to start my first cable knitting project. I have a feeling it's not going to be even half as bad as I've been fearing.

Minor youtube gaff

Well, I did what I knew I would do eventually. In an email to my professor, I *thought* I had copied a youtube link of the guy's cool stone henge project. But in fact, the puppy video I had just pasted into a friend's MSN conversation was still copied.... So yeah. I sent my professor a link to the puppy video.

It had to happen sometime. Why didn't I double-check? Anyways, I don't actually care, I'm just really amused. Really. Amused.

I'm almost up and running for Skype on my roomie's computer. I just have to ask if she minds me installing my phone's drivers.

Knitting is happening, but nothing will be revealed.

And other nefarious gifting schemes are also being hatched.

I am spending all of my money on buying meals between classes. Instead of taking Modern British Fiction, I'm taking Shakespeare. I opened up a play by Beckett, read a bit, and decided there was no way I was going to take a course on that material all year.

Pet peeve: dammit....what was it...right! I hate it when people HAVE the Google toolbar search engine thing, but instead they go to their address bar, type in www.google.com, and search on Google's homepage. What. is the point. of your toolbar? Why don't you remove it if you're not goign to use it? Gah.

I can't imagine how many things I must do that bug people.

I thought you'd all be relieved to know that I've moved past my issues with what bathroom stalls people pick. Sometimes I walk into a washroom and pick the center one just because.

Despite its keeping me away during North Carolina, I don't think anyone could have had a cooler summer job than mine. I had so much fun. Granted, it did take away every single evening of my entire summer (except Sundays), but it's not like I had anything better to do.

Sleep beckons. I'm enjoying all of my classes a ton. Drawing and Painting Botanicals is, surprisingly, my most stressful class. :-P

You're all sooooo sweet

My last post was my 400th post! Happy 400 to me.

But infinitely more important, is that I got the package from everyone at Cape Hatteras! It came totally out of the blue and unexpected. I was wandering around the house with my hair wrapped in a towel, when Sarah came upstairs with a package. What a perfect card, and what beeeautiful yarn (I happen to be a big fan of fine yarns, not bulky ones), and cute bag (I think I'm going to use it for a knitting bag, actually), and I laughed when I saw the Pop Tarts and knew that Ben was involved. :) Those are definitely only going to be brought out for a special occasion. They must be conserved. Hoarded.

Anyways, that was fantastic. Thank you guys so much!!!

soon I will be connected once more!

My internet's getting set up next Thursday. Hurray! So I won't have to walk to campus every time I want to check my email.

My first class is in..half an hour. Dad is coming to visit this weekend! I will take photos. I've gotten tickets for us to go see Sexy Laundry on Saturday, which should be fun. I've heard it a lot this summer backstage but never gotten to actually see it yet.