I'd like to hear more fairy stories about policemen

Today we had a pumpkin-carving contest in our department. Since we have a small lab, we teamed up with another lab to play, and we won third prize! Many people thought we should have been first.

( Lookit! )

Pretty sweet, y/n? Is a scary dragon-thing. Never say scientists don't have some right-brain skillz, too! I barely helped, apart from the initial gutting of the pumpkin (I have Skills when it comes to raking the seeds out of things. It's a legacy from being the fruit salad slinger at Sobeys for couple summers.)

:D?

Also, there were some very good costumes today. One of the guys in my lab had a very excellent Jesus costume which was very fun. Another lab dressed up AWESOMELY as the Fellowship of the Ring. Not only were the costumes fantastically detailed, but the heights even worked out (four of the girls were about a foot or more shorter than the rest of the lab.) Needless to say, they won the group prize. I'm hoping pictures pop up on the dept site.

Hi, I ate a lot of candy. :D

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Hi. It's nearly Thankgiving weekend and I am bored in the lab. Poking through science things on the internet has led me to a Facebook group called "you know you've worked too long in a lab when..." which has a very amusing list that I now feel compelled to turn into a meme even though the percentage of my flist that will appreciate this is very low. I'll have to make an FB note of it for my science bitches.

( But in the meantime! )

Haha, that was amusing. *dork*

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1. It is really, really rainy and I do not like that. No, I do not.

2. It doesn't seem right that I have to pay $6.80 to liberate my own birthday present from the post office.

3. But I got a card in the mail from queue! It was pretty and ♥.

4. I saw nos! She's still alive! And in danger of getting completely turned around whilst driving. She really needs a GPS. We should donate one so she doesn't end up lost in the Muskokas somewhere.

scarfe soundly beat me at Battleship, then sold a whack of NBX figurines to a friend of mine (who hung out for a while -- it was like my worlds colliding!) and then Nos and scarfe and I went to see a movie, because you can only party so hard on a Wednesday night.

Which leads to!

4. ( I am, like, the only person left on the internets who hasn't given their thoughts on Star Trek already. But late isn't never! )

5. There was also some amusing linky, via said scarfe: My Favourite Movie, which is spoilery for ST, and, unrealted, Transforminators, which is not spoileery for either of the movies concerned since it's made of trailers.

6. Okay. Time for perogies and slowly reading my way up from skip=100.

7. And oh, I'm a stupidhead who nearly forgot to add a happy birthday ot akamine_chan! I hope everything is super-awesome.

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Hi! Hi. I am back from my weekend of birthdaying. Apart from early Saturday, it was appropriately drunken and gluttonous, though most of that was my family. (Hey, Meres, what'd you do on your birthday? Oh, I got drunk with my family.) Man, those people can pack it away. Good times. There were seventeen of us in one tiny cottage, being crazy. (On Saturday at lunch, there were roughly thirty, which is not even half the crowd we could have pulled.)

For the epic win, I was at the beach!

( Pics! )

It was cold and windy all weekend, which was not of the win. But there were good times! And we played a lot of cards. My family is the only family I know that goes to a bar for lunch and then settles in for about three tables worth of Euchre. We are always equipped with cards!

We also played Things, which... if you have never played that with your family, it is hilarious and wrong. And we tried to go bowling last night but that didn't work out because apparently bowling closes at 10pm up there. Whatevs. We went back to the cottage for more drinking and like 23453 kinds of Mennonite pie and there was a point where I was obliged to point out to my family that The Internet Is Serious Business.

Anyway, I got many cards and hugs and some nice jewellery from the mom and many, many drinks bought for me, including several pints of Peeler cider which is the bestest. Yay!

On the internets, I got a virtual cupcake! And nice comments and many posts! And the fic what Nos started for me for last year's birthday, which is Epic and will take me a while to read but YAY. And sionnain wrote me this fic which I also must read, yay! secretlybronte wrote me a very nice entry that made me giggle. *hearts the flist*

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Check it out, last night nos4a2no9 and primroseburrows and I got to see Paul talk about the State of the Arts and stuff in a lecture hall with only about 150 other people. ROCK.

As Nos has reported, he was pretty and fantastical, despite a Captain Obvious mod guy and deeply bad audio. The school was photographing and filming the lecture, probably for their own edification, but keep an eye on the interweb for that. You never know. My alma mater does podcasts of President's discussions, so. In the meantime I have about 26 minutes of shaky, blurry video for y'all that I'll upload tonight in some fashion. The audio is hearable, if riddled with the clicking of my zoom button and my giggles. But! You can see Paul and his gestures as well. \m/

( Things Paul talked about )

So, in conclusion, Paul is terribly thinky and adorable with the flaily gestures, and very gracious and intelligent when responding to Captain Obvious and students. Also, he needs a haircut. We three didn't hang around to bother the guy, being shy fangirls all. The ladies in front of us totally had magazines and copies of the Passchendaele novel to sign. I sort of laughed at them even though I totally had my premiere ticket stub in my wallet JUST IN CASE. Oh, you would, too, shh.

Also, he's going to be on The Hour on the 27th! Nos, we should see about going to THAT, y/y?

zabira wants to know what the BEST TIMES were. It was supposed to be five, but the flist has upgraded it to ten. Since Z is my fandom wife, I'm required to do her meme. I already commented on her entry, but I thought I'd repost the list, plus some more...

( In no particular order, and in no way comprehensive... )

- I'm starting to digress now. :D?

You guys should all be reading Newsweek's Secrets of the 2008 Campaign if you're not already. It's interesting and gossipy and really rather like reading an episode of the West Wing. Only in real life.

*waits for Chapter 7*

This here contains random shots of the city in which no actual fangirls appear. Those pics will be along in another post under a filter (CanCon only). Much as there are some folks on my flist I'd love to share any and all photos with, I have to keep them back for the comfort of the other fangirls in said photos, gnome sane? And it's just too complicated to run a spreadsheet of who precisely can be shown to whom. Sorry, dudes.

Anyhow.

( Toronto! )

That's it for now! :)

Hi, flist! *waves*

I just got back from Toronto where I spend the afternoon with nos4a2no9, bohemian__storm and primroseburrows and her son. We went to a nice little cafe and had yummy sandwiches and pizzas and the world's most bored waiter. Oh, and massive pieces of chocolate cake.

I think we were supposed to be thinking about Can Con things, but mostly we just talked fic and fandom and RPing and generally bored Prim's son to tears. He peeled off in search of a bar, since he's legal to drink here, while we parked it in a Second Cup and yakked. *g*

Very unproductive, but good times! I am very sleepy Meres, though. All the bus riding. *zzzz*

Tomorrow is Monday. Blah.

ETA because I fail: This weekend was also the occasion of the births of our very own slidellra and callumvixen, who are both total rockstars and awesome me regularly. I know you had a rocktastic squee-filled weekend, which means at least some things are right with the universe. Happy birthday! \♥/

So, check it out! It is More Joy Day again, and my tabs are getting out of hand! I amd feeling very joyful today. There is a lot of squee on my flist! vsee sent me a daisy, and I got an anonymous polar bear! _unhurt_ made a whole post about my other other tv boyfriend!. YAY!

I'm not very organised at all. I don't really have anything fannish prepared, though I WILL try to get my BDtH picspam winnowed for posting by the end of the day. Jeez, I've had since the end of March to do that! What gives, Meres? Falling down on the picspam job, I am.

What I DO have is a whole tonne of pictures from my Pride/Canada Day weekend with Nos! That is joyful, right? Right!

( Onward! To a connection-breaking number of pics! )

If you got all the way through that, I salute you. Now I must eat. Then maybe more picspam.