Alrighty, what's happened since I last posted?

( Friday... ).

( The weekend... )

( OMG PRESENTS! )

( Comics and posters, ahoy! ).
( Merlin, Series Two! ).

( Twitter )

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT.

Similar to my Dollhouse "WHY." freakout. Not a question. Just WHAT.

I just read the latest chapter of GetBackers on mangafox, and all I have to say is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! I want the new chapter immediately!  Okay, guys, I am now demanding you all go read the manga.  I know the art looks kind of weird initially, but by the first Infinity Fortress arc, the art is more like it is in the anime, and the detail is amazing. And Ginji is ridiculously cute. Look at how cute he is! Yeah, I thought so.  And you get used to the constantly naked women. But seriously - I love it so much. One more reason why I hate TokyoPop for discontinuing their translation. Grrrrrr.  Mangafox doesn't have all the earlier volumes, but I do. I have all the ones TokyoPop will ever release, so you can borrow them in turn. I even have two copies of volume 3 (what? why?)! And then the rest can be read on mangafox. So, read it. I promise it is at least as good as the anime, and there is even MORE bromance!

 I should be in my film class right now, but I feel really sick.  I was gonna try and go anyways - I got dressed and everything! - but then I just...ugh...and decided I'd do better just to stay in bed and finish reading the Merlin slash I started yesterday...it's really cute, and a cool concept.  It's like an alternate universe, and takes place in a modern version of Camelot, and Uther is some rich business dude or something, and Arthur, Morgana, and Gwen are off a college and living in dorms (Morgana and Gwen are roommates) and Arthur meets Merlin because Merlin is his roommate, and they drive each other crazy and then fall in love and it's cute.  I'm not actually a MerlinxArthur shipper (I ship them bromantically, but not slash-ally), but it's really cute.  It's made me laugh quite a few times too.  Anyways, the point is, I might finish reading that since I'm sick and...yeah. And maybe I'll read "A Tale of Two Cities", which we are reading for English and is pretty much awesome.  Mabe I'll edit.  Maybe I'll write some fanfic of my own.  Or maybe I'll just sleep when the gravel I'm popping finally knocks me out.

 Since I've been so Twilight-snark obsessed lately, voila.  It amused me, because it's true.

Not much is up.  I really have nothing to report.  Well, other than Kaiti and Tracy are gonna hire the GetBackers with me to rescue my water bottle, but other than that...pretty quiet over here in Lutherville.  Maybe I'll make myself some popcorn later tonight and watch DNAngel or Gundam SEED...

I watched an episode of Dead Like Me today.  The one where Mason tries to smuggle drugs in his butt.  Ahaha. Mason cracks me up. (CRACKS me up!!! AHAHAHA! I didn't even mean to do that!)

I do enjoy living in res, though. At least, I really enjoy having a common lounge with all my quad-mates.  If you need a break from your room, you just mosey on over to the lounge and there will usually be someone there doing homework or watching TV.  The other night, there was a group watching Disney's Hercules.  Unfortunately, it stopped working at one point (it was a brand new DVD too - you owe money and an apology, Wal Mart!) and wouldn't play past a certain point, even after we flushed it in the toilet.  It was all amusing and fun, though.  Just one of those little things you appreciate going from day to day.

 So, I'm a fan of subscriber to Gunnarolla's YouTube channel (the 'Canadian, Please' and 'Mother Nature Rap' guy), and his most recent video asked those of us watching to go to his friends photography portfolio and rate it, as she has entered it in a competition.  I checked it out and thought it was really neat and quite beautiful (and also observed the third white person ever to successfully rock the Asian mullet - the two others being Tegan and Sara Quinn), and so I thought I'd share with you guys. Check the link, yo!  He also said we should donate to the relief effort in Haiti, so you should consider that.  You know who else is donating to the relief effort via auctioning off his video making talents? That's right, Little Kuriboh (folloooow the liiiiiink).  He's already up to $400 - I say we all pitch in money, and make him create a beautiful Marik/Yami Bakura video for us!  Let's hope whoever does win is a theifshipper...

Friday night, I was hanging out in the 3S quad of my residence with my friends Marie and Jessica.  Apart from watching Dollhouse (which Marie is a fan of - yay, mutual Josslove!), I was also telling them my entire novel so that they may help me work out some issues with it (they are both fellow WriMos - NaNoWriMo participants).  The way I told the story, there was much joking about potential slash couples, to the point where we started making up lovey-dovey dialog between Neko, my MMC, and Tay, another prominent male character.  It got to the point where we jokingly schemed about working in a slash scene. The night wore on, Marie and I spazzed over Dollhouse, our buddy Steve brought us icecream cake, and the subject of slash and my novel was left behind. Just as I was preparing to leave, Marie and Jessica stole my gym shoes and water bottle (I had gone to the gym just prior).  I managed to retrieve my shoes, but was unsuccessful in obtaining my bottle.  I figured one of them would give it back to me at a meal or something the next day.  You can imagine my horror when, yesterday, I recieved the following ransom wall post via facebook from Jessica:

"YOUR WOTTLE BOTTLE. IT IS IN MY ROOM. I AM HOLDING IT RANSOM UNTIL YOU WRITE A SLASH COUPLE INTO YOUR STORY."

Obviously, I am devestated, and worried beyond belief for the well being, physically AND emotionally, of my water bottle.  I kept a level head, however, and calmly replied so that the following conversation took place (again, via facebook):

Mary:  "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!  YOU DIABOLICAL MADWOMAN, YOU!!!!" *shakes fist*
Jessica:  "YOU KNOW I AM ONLY GIVING YOU MORE OF A REASON TO GIVE IN TO YOUR TEMPTATION."
Mary:  "LIES! THERE IS NO TEMPTATION! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU CRAZY CRAZY PERSON."
Jessica:  "PFFFT YOU KNOW YOU WANT A SLASH COUPLE IN YOUR STORY. HECK, MAKE IT SAMSONLEE AND THE DUDE WHO IS FOLLOWING THE HEALING CHICK. DREAM SEQUENCE OR FLASHBACK. DO IT."
Mary:  "I DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS! HOW DO I KNOW MY WATER BOTTLE IS EVEN STILL ALIVE?!!"
Jessica:  "I WILL POST A PICTURE OF YOUR WATER BOTTLE IF I MUST.  YOU WILL RECIEVE IT ONCE I HAVE PROOF YOU HAVE SLASHED A COUPLE."
Mary:  "HOW DO I KNOW YOU WON'T JUST KILL MY BOTTLE ONCE YOU HAVE THE SLASH?!! HOW DO I KNOOOOOOOW?!!"
Jessica: "I AM AN HONEST PERSON. BESIDES, I HAVE NOTHING IN MY ROOM TO KILL THE BOTTLE WITH."
Mary:  "YES, I BELIEVE ALL KIDNAPPERS ARE, DEEP DOWN, HONEST PEOPLE.  HOW IS ANY OF THIS LOGICAL?!  YOU JUST WANT MY CHARACTERS TO QUESTION THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION SO THAT THEY GET DISTRACTED FROM THEIR QUEST AND DIE, DON'T YOU? THIS IS JUST A BIG PLAN TO MAKE ME KILL OFF EVERYONE, NOT JUST ALAN AND SAMSON LEE. THAT IS SO WRONG. MURDER IS WROOOONG. THINK ABOUT IT. ALSO, YOU PROBABLY COULDN'T KILL MY WATER BOTTLE, BECAUSE IT IS BADASS. BAD. ASS. I'M TELLIN' YA."
Jessica: "MARY. YOU WERE GOING TO KILL THEM ALL OFF ANYWAYS. I'M NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE CHARACTER QUESTION ANYTHING. MAKE IT A DREAM AND NOTHING NEEDS TO MAKE SENSE."
Mary:  "...................DAMN YOU AND YOUR LOGIC. DREAMS ALWAYS MAKE PERFECT SENSE! PERFEEEEEEEEEEEEECT SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENSE.................AGH, NOW I AM THINKING DIRTY THOUGHTS AND I BLAME YOU! BLAAAAAAAME YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU."
Jessica:  "YOU SHOULD BE THANKING ME. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO ADD THE DREAM INTO THE STORY."
Mary:  "I ADMIT TO NOTHING!"

We are still working things out, but I believe a reasonable agreement may be reached.  I can only hope that my dear water bottle, which traveled around Europe with me this summer, is holding up alright in this stressful hostage situation.  I will of course keep you all updated on the state of this terrifying situation, and I thank you all for your concern.

 OMIGOD SO MUCH MIND FUCKERY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY DID THEY CANCEL DOLLHOUSE MY HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE OH GOD HOW IS THERE ONLY ONE MORE EPISODE LEFT FRICK WHY WHY WHY and I know I said I would only be on the internet from 8-9pm but WHY?!

In other news, I totally went to the gym and worked out today. Be proud!

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY. Not even a question anymore.  WHY.

I also finished "Growing Up Cullen" and it was AMAZING.  Go read it immediately.

WHY.

(This icon is getting some good use these days, isn't it?)

For those of you who looked at me like I'm craaaaaaaaaaazy when I declared that I am in love with Robert Pattinson, I have re-found the interview excerpt that first brought on this affection and is the proof that he is awesome right here:

" "When you read [Twilight]," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how a played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there." "
- some random interview from some-random-where, I don't even know and can't be bothered to find out

AHAHAHAHAHA.  I love him, I really do.  You all love him too, now, don't you?  I thought so.

Ya know, I think I'm obsessed with Twilight.  I am an obsessed Twilight lolfan.  That is hilarious, in a sad sad oh god please help way.  I just enjoy people snarking on it so so much.  I have also decided that I need to read "The Host".  And maybe blog about it here? Ooooh, I could be like Dan, or Mark, or Cleolinda! And then none of you will need to even touch it! It will be awesome! Because I do feel like someone who is not a Twilight fan needs to read it and give an opinion. The "Mary reads Stephenie Meyer's attempt at Sci-fi" section of my LJ! I'd need a sweet name for those segments, though.

Ya know, my obsessed-Twilight-lolfanness also might just be a symptom of my increasingly apparent severe internet addiction.  I think I am going to try and solve that by ONLY going on the internet from 8-9pm every not, but no more than that.  That sounds like a good plan.  Starting tonight? Yes. Yes, I'll start tonight.  Huzzah!

EDIT:  This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read, and I'm only about half way through it all.  It's just a random conversation speculating about Cullen life called "Growing up Cullen", but it has inspired a fanfic in me....muah hah hah....I am killing myself reading it.  It's mostly Emmet being awesome and Edward being pissy.  Make sure you read the second part too. Seriously.  Srsly guis.  So funny.

 This, this, and this may be the greatest things ever.  Make sure you read the descriptions and comments (my personal favourite? "The book was better").  Hilarious.

I love people.  Remind me of that the next time I hate people.

From the fuuuutuuuuure!!! That just means I scrolled up and am writing this AFTER the rest of this post was written.  Basically, it is reaaaaally long and rambles about nothing, so I've divided it up into LJ cuts. Most of the rambles are inspired by the Smeyer one, so they are all related...yeah.

...Enjoy? 

( Stephanie Meyer vs. Lullaby )

( Stephanie Meyer vs. Lullaby, DNAngel, Yu-Gi-Oh!, GetBackers, and FMA )

( Malik and Yami Bakura 4everz! <3  )

( Yu-Gi-Oh! vs. the Saw franchise )

( DNAngel and GetBackers lurrrrve (SPOILERS) )

So I have another rant, this one about Kyrid, but I think I'll save it for tomorrow. This post is too long, now...

 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

That is all.




Edit: AHAHAHAHAA! the sequel.

Don't you think I should do a vlog or blog titled like the subject of this post?  Or rename my LJ account?  I do.  But it was Emily who gave me that idea, so she gets it first (though, it was her dad who gave it to her).  I think it's a good pun. I also think it suits me. I mean, I live in Regina now...AND it references my (very prominent) feminist side! 

Well, I have survived my first day back at uni!  I'm actually quite excited - I had my English class (with the same prof who gave me extra candy during the final, which Patrick demanded an explanation for and she confirmed my suspicions by informing him that she thought I was funny on sugaaaarrrrr) and my women and gender studies (WGST) class.  WGST looks so incredibly interesting, and therein lies the reason for my excitement.  It also looks like it could, potentially, be a lot of work, but that should be fine so long as it is work that's as interesting as it looks.  That...was kind of an awkward sentence.  But I'm too lazy to fix it.

I have caught up on "Dollhouse" and AAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!!  I want the next episode NOW.  Why was it cancelled again?!  I admit, it didn't quite thrill me the way I expected a new Joss Whedon show to when it first came out, but episode six turned that around, and the second season has killed any doubts I had that this show is up to Whedon's usual level of awesome!  He is so much better with long story arcs than episodic stuff, especially in this case (another reason why "Firefly" being cancelled is so stupid, because he never got a chance to do more than episodic stuff - we got a glimpse of a giant story arc with the movie, but that world still remains mostly unexplored).  Poor Joss.  He just never seems to catch a break.  He should team up with Brian Fuller ("Dead Like Me" [cancelled], "Wonderfalls" [cancelled], the first and best season of "Heroes", "Pushing Daisies" [cancelled]) so they can make the most amazing show with their combined awesome, only to have it cancelled twice as fast.  I'm not bitter.  Honest.

Yeah, I definitely finished "Pushing Daisies" and cried my eyes out at the end.  I don't even really know why I was crying.  I just was. Hunh.

YAAAAAAAAAY!!! 'TIS 2010!!!  It will now be many months before I stop writing the date down wrong and get used to what year it is!

The subject says everything I wanted to say, really.  I wish everyone luck with 2010!  I also hope everyone had a lovely New Years Eve, as I did.  The annual Cline-Berntson New Years get-together was at our house this year. We visited, ate nummy food, and played Beatles rockband until 4am.  It was a goooood time.

We are currently introducing Shawn to 'Firefly'.  So far, he is quite enjoying it.  All part of my plan to help Joss Whedon take over the world.

 I remembered my more-to-say from last post!

My older sister Jennifer has been home from New Brunswick, where she goes to school, and it is lovely.  What is different this visit, however, is that she has brought her boyfriend of a little over a year and a half back with her to meet the family.  His name is Shawn, he's quite funny, thinks I'm pretty weird but seems cool with it, and seems to generally be an all around nice guy.  He is majoring in organ (the instrument - it is alarming how many people have assumed I am talking about organs in the body if I don't clarify that) and is insanely good at sight reading.  He has, however, taken over my room.  So I'm in Catherine's room (which we used to share) back in my old bunk bed.

Back in S'toon town.  Have been for awhile, now.  I have been swamped by friends and this lovely thing called sleep.

My Christmas was wonderful, though a tad strange.  Normally, we go to my Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Ron's church for Christmas Eve, then back to their house, but my cousin Erika is stuck in the States. She's living with her fiance there, and she isn't allowed to leave the country for some reason.  She probably shouldn't have done all that terrorism back in the day. So, Uncle Ron, Aunt Phoebe, and Emily went to Chicago for Christmas.  Ours, therefore was quiet, but still lovely. I have waaaaay too many DVDs to watch now.  Among them? The first four series of the new Doctor Who.  We also got a Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which is a game I love.  I was obsessed with it back in the days of Nintendo 64 and was only able to play it at my friend's house.  I suck at it, but it is still awesome.  Today, David, Felix, Catherine, Nolan and I gathered at Nolan's place for a Smash Bros tournament. We were joined by Nolan's younger siblings Alyssa (close friend of Catherine's) and Braden (who is 10) occasionally as well.  Catherine and I consistently lost.  It was awesome. We plan to duel one another at some point.

Ya know, any mention of the word "duel" causes Cat and I to quote Yami.  Loudly.

They should make a Wii Duel Monsters game.  Actually, they probably do.

We also now own all the released volumes of the TokyoPop translation of GetBackers.  I am still upset about that being discontinued.  Even if another publisher does pick it up, I quite enjoy the TokyoPop translation.  They have Ban call Kazuki "Girly McString-string" at one point.  How is that not awesome?  What you have to understand, however, is that I read most of the first 5 volumes online or not at all (since I have seen the anime a million times and it is very faithful to those volumes), so I didn't know what the official translation was like those volumes.  I had read some reviews that complained the official English translation was bad, making Ginji and Ban talk like stereotypical gangsters and is ridiculous.  I never found that, so I thought these reviews were weird. Now that I own the first five volumes (which I have now read - there's a whole other retrieval plot about stealing people's organs! It's great! And you meet Hishiki then, instead during the retrieve-Madoka's-violin arc!) I understand what they meant.  For at LEAST the first four volumes, Ginji and Ban say "bro", "my brother", "brother", "man", and "dude" pretty much every second word.  It's terrible! They ruin the beautiful S-in-Getbackers line!  It normally goes something like this:
Ban: *tries to talk about his traumatizing past involving Himiko and Yamato*
Ginji: "It's okay, Ban-chan.  You don't need to tell me. *talks about how they are friends who will always be there for each other*  You're always telling me that 'GetBackers' is plural.  The 's' means neither one of us is ever alone."
Then they smile at each other, and it is wonderfully bromantic.  The TokyoPop version is more or less the same, except the "s in GetBackers" line goes like thus:
Ginji:  "GetBackers is plural, Dude!  We're a two-man team!"
*facepalm*
Luckily, they drop such ridiculousness pretty quick.  By the Infinity Fortress arc, there is no more gangster talk.  So, I still recommend buying the official translation.

Um....I feel like I should have more to say, but I can't think of anything.  So...um...signing off?  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  And has been having a wonderful holiday!

 Just read a quote about writing:

"Characters: we write what they do, they don't do what we write."

So. True.

I am back in Regina now.  I have one more final.  IDS.  My favourite class, but not the one I'm doing best in. Far from, actually.  Well, maybe not. I don't really know.  Point is, this exam has me quite terrified.  I am preparing essays like my life depends on it.  Time to study, study, study.  But all I want is to go home and sleeeeeeep. My mind's gonna 'splode.  Just one more day.  Just one more.

My exam this morning went well, I think.  I was talking to Patrick about abridged series and anime and my nande yanen socks (which amused him...a lot) and was quite hyper.  And my English prof was like "Isn't it a little early in the morning to be drunk already?" while she was handing out candy to the class.  She followed up the comment by remarking sarcastically that what I really needed was more sugar. Everyone got one candy, but when she got to me, she gave me four and looked amused and then walked away.  So I got extra candy for being amusingly hyper.  Then, as I left, she calls out "Bye, giggles!" and I turned and waved and then...she gave me more candy.  It was awesome.  I was amused.  So, apparently, was she. It was an enjoyable exam...I don't expect tomorrow to be that much fun.  At all.

'Lullaby' is a problem. That is to say, she is being a naughty child and distracting me.  I want to write, damnit! I have managed to resist thus far, but it is taking all my willpower. As much as I loved writing Fraydai's backstory, it was a long time to spend away from characters that I love a lot.  And, let's face it, 'Kyrid' and 'Garden Of' were rather depressing, and I'm excited to write something light hearted again.  Ya know, light hearted for me, anyways.  The first word of chapter 17 ('Halloween') is "Elliot".  As soon as I finished typing his name, I started to giggle and squeal with excitement. It's true what they say - absence does make the heart grow fonder.  It has been months since Elliot was in my mind, and now that I'm writing about him again, I remember how much I love him in all his angstiness.  I finished the opening section, which mostly featured Elliot, and am about to start on a section back in Class 15.  That means I'll be remembering what it is like to write Bobby, Will, Colin, Mona, and, of course, Nicky and Lara. I'm excited.  I expect to be giggling a lot very soon.  I just have to survive this last exam.

If 'Lullaby' wasn't bad enough, my unnamed fantasy novel series has been invading my mind like...something...invady...(insert your own George Bush joke here?). I don't think I've really talked about my unnamed fantasy novel series (to be known henceforth as UFNS) here, have I? In general, it is about a magical kingdom, the royal family, and the friendship between the youngest royal son and his manservant.  Basically, I was watching 'Merlin', squeeing over Merlin and Arthur,  and going "Awww, I want to write something bromantic about a prince and his manservant" and then...it...escalated. I can't say how exactly, because it will spoil stuff, and I want you all to read it someday.  I've made up gods and angels and religions and things just snowballed and...yeah.  It was originally supposed to be a nice little book about their misadventures together....but...um...I got ideas and...well...it won't be little anymore. It'll be a series of three or more books. The plot got really complicated, but in a way that excites me.  I have no idea how it is going to end. Basically, there's the king, the queen, their oldest son Jya, the son's arranged marriage fiance (so far, in my head, Jya and his fiance are made of awesome), the youngest and rebellious problem-child son Tass, Tass's personal manservant Yuev, and the servant girl that Yuev falls head over heals in love with.  Yuev was one of Jya's many servants, but he was "given" to Tass, who earned the right to a personal servant on his 16th birthday (or 17th - I haven't decided how old they are yet).  Yuev's main job is to try and keep Tass out of trouble, since his shenanigans actually threaten the peace of their nation. Yuev is completely and totally devoted to Tass, and together they work shit out. Civil war still threatens everything, though, so Tass now has to make peace and stuff.  He tries.  Shit goes down. Then there's this prophecy about how it is Tass's destiny to save the world, and prophecies, dictated by the gods and the angel of fate, ALWAYS come true. Yuev is constantly trying to help Tass, and they become bestest buds. Oh, and Yuev is an orphan of veeeeeeery mysterious origins, by the way. Then another prophecy is discovered, everyone goes nuts, Tass learns what he's supposed to do to save the world and is like "ALHJALKFGJALKJGSA???!!!!!" and shit REALLY goes down.  Basically, my nice little bromance story has escalated to the point where it is going to end with the gods and angels going to war.  Oops. I'll be experimenting with the concept of fate, souls, and soul-mates. Aren't you excited to find out how it ends? So am I...

I also have an idea for a nice little stand alone prequel book, taking place thousands of years before the series. It's about these teenagers who find an injured angel and try to nurse it back to health, and shit goes down. Shit going down seems to be a theme in these books, doesn't it? 

Okay, enough procrastinating for me.  This has been one long mother of a post considering how much nothing I said.

 Because not everyone still has two more finals to write!

Yes, in order to spread the holiday spirit, I am linking you to yet another hilarious holiday video.  If you haven't watched their other videos yet, I highly recommend you do so.  They're hilarious, AND semi-informative!

Also, if you're wondering why my icon for this post is so random, and thinking that maybe you missed some AVPM reference, or reference to Malfoy or Tom Felton in general, or hidden meaning, don't worry.  You didn't.  I haven't grown deep all the sudden.  I just felt as though this icon has been neglected lately, and I enjoy it, so I gave it a Christmas present.  That Christmas present was being used for this post. Let this be a lesson, children.  Give the gift of giving. Or some such nonsense.

So, I have survived my first two finals. Yay me? I think film went alright, and Critical Thinking...maybe...went...ok...ish? Here's the story on that...

So, I got done my film final with an hour to spare. My brain was fried, so I went to coffee house (held every Sunday in the cafeteria at 9, and now is every night at 9 during finals) and then came back to my room to go to bed. I planned to get up early and cram, and I was tired, so bed seemed like a good idea. People in the halls, however, were kind of noisy. That was to be expected, though, since it wasn't that late. Then I was restless for a little while. Then my neighbour had her nightly midnight talk on the phone (yes, this happens nightly, anywhere from 11:30pm to 1am, lasting sometimes until 3am, and she is always talking really loudly in Chinese). Then, around 2am, some people came home noisily, and I was only lightly asleep, so it woke me up. Then, after finally getting into a deeper sleep, I wake up at 5am to the sounds of an obnoxious sitcom coming from my neighbours room. I swear to God, this girl does not sleep. So, I got about three hours, maybe a little more, of sleep. And had to write a logic exam. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

At least I am going home today! I should be heading out relatively soon. But...yeah.

To cheer myself up a little, I rewatched some LK videos, including the latest Abridged Series episode (45, "Requiem for a Nyeh"), and, now that I have had some time away from it, I think I can safely say it is my favourite episode this season. Possibly my favourite episode ever! I mean, script aside, the editing (sound and visual) has hugely improved since the first episode, and the mouth flaps frequently line up better than some professional English dubs I've seen. And the voices - his voice for Marik was INSANELY hysterical this episode. And now, back to the script - so many good lines. I mean, it was an 11 minute episode, his longest so far, and it was PACKED with great lines! Right from what the 'G' in 'GX' stands for, to the Kaiba brothers movie talk, to Yugi's rant about Marik being a psychopath, to Hank's song, to the whole Ishtar family (thought mostly Marik) and Shadi, to more angry Yugi, to the very last "KILL YOUR FAMILY - IN 3D!!!". And, omigoodness, how epic was Yami Bakura? Like, really. That was friggin' awesome, and badass, and hardcore, yet still hilarious. Also, I completely ship him and Marik now, by the way. It is all LK's fault, too.

I have noticed I say "friggin'" a lot more since that episode came out, too. Just like how "Dexter" and "Dead Like Me" caused me to say "fuck" more often, Marik has influenced me to say "friggin'". So...wait...does this mean Marik has been a good influence? Or, at least, a better one than Dexter? How interesting.

Really, it should say 'holiday cheer - so near, yet so far', but that didn't rhyme...

So, tomorrow night I have my first University final EVER (film 100), followed immediately by my second final (Critical Thinking) Thursday morning, so I'm a tad nervous. Also, I'm all grrrr because my finals are so late. My last final isn't 'til the 22nd. I'm going to go home after my CT final,but I won't see anyone because I will be studying. Except maybe Nolan, briefly, for a cup of coffee, but THAT'S IT. But my older sister will also be home by then, yay! And, when I return for my final two exams on Sunday, I won't have to take the bus because the fam jam is going to Moose Jaw, so they'll wing by Regina on the way! That's nice of them, since it does add an extra hour or so to the trip.

Anyways, I just wanted to spread some holiday cheer and link to this video! I've been complaining about the INSANELY COLD weather, so this video felt fitting. With the cold, though - I hear S'toon has it worse off than Regina, with that -45, -50 windchill.

EDIT: MORE holiday cheer!

I was just reading Catherine's live journal, and her latest entry linked to this video of an artist interpreting the Germany occupation of Ukraine in the Second World War from the Ukraine equivalent of 'Britain's Got Talent', or 'America's Got Talent' - those types of shows. I thought I needed to mention it here as well, because it is literally breath taking. It is so beautiful I almost cried. There were actually tears in my eyes. This is her second piece of beautiful art on the show, and I think it is worth watching too. I found out from one of the comments that the words she writes at the end says "Don't be late". So sad, yet so beautiful. Thank you, Catherine, for linking to that video!