PC TIEM NAO

Alright guys. I need to know what day and time you guys want Pseudo Christmas. Need to, need to, need to know.

Need to know.

Alright?

It's always a pain to get everyone together for things, and getting possible dates is like pulling teeth. But I'm not telling you where I live until you tell me when you want this to take place.

Also, volunteers for various foodstuffs? Snacks, dessert, meal type stuff?

I'm back!

Whee! I post again!

Nothing much is happening on my end. Except that I want someone to watch movies with this X-mas.

The gloves we use for dissection hates me. I think I'm allergic to them. Whenever I wear them, my skin becomes really dry and painful for 2-3 days afterwards. Once, it got so dry it bled. T-T So I'm avoiding gloves from now on, or at least wearing them inside out so the powerder doesn't attack me.

I miss you all. What day is everyone getting back?

Pseudo X-Mas Wishlist: Starwing

(Natrix is posting it for her, because she can't get into the blog?)

Hey everyone,

Since I can't access the blog (I read it though), I'm going to email out my list. If anyone has some time, could they post it on for me? I don't have much of a list anyway... Hm... And some of it might be very pricey, so just get me anything and I'll love it. Or invite me out to see the Golden Compass, muahahahaha.

List
-A comfortable fleecy blanket I can carry around the house, preferably with an 'Emily' design XP
-The Blue Planet: BBC documentary series about marine life
-A good dissecting microscope
-A color photograph-based atlas to animals in tropical forests (the more obscure the animals the better XD) - I don't have any books in mind, but I'm guessing they will be expensive because of the photographs... So don't go out and look for this exactly, just... if you come across one that looks promising...
-Photographs of rain forests - could be a calendar, a book or anything, as long as the pictures are nice and spooky-looking
-CDs of animal sounds or forests
-Guide books on how to use Poser, AutoCAD, After Effects, Photoshop - I trust your judgement ^^'

Others
-Any RPG computer games that look interesting
-Any board games
-Any good fantasy or sci fi books you could recommend

Thanks! I need to start shopping too... everyone's finished... X.X

Dance Dance

First off, I've been bad and I think I've infected my left ear. So woe is me.
Second of all, I am insanely jealous that my parents get to go see the Russian Ballet playing at the Jubilee. Insanely jealous. You know how good they are. Freaking good. And they're dancing Swan Lake. I think last year, I missed the Nutcracker too. Alas. But one day when the timing is right... I will be gazing in wonder at their gloriousness.

Another Addition!

Hey everyone,

I have a new addition to my wist list; it's a book that a friend of mine recommended and it looks pretty funky. It's:

Flocker, Micheal. The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man. Da Capo Press, 2003.

Thanks everyone! As for me, I'm almost done my shopping! Hurrah!

~Rubin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DESUDESU!

Duh duh duh, and another one bites the dust!

Welcome to the wide world of the twenties! One more year to being legal EVERYWHERE!

May your day be full of niceness, with something fun waiting somewhere ready to leap out and hug you. Lots and lots of warm wishes from up yonder, and all about, on this day of your birth :D

...and I've gotta run to English. *zing*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OSHI!!!!!!!!

At least I hope it's your official birthday. I am getting old and I was only alerted through facebook. Actually, I'm pretty sure it is your birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! Say goodbye to the teens and being an adult! But I'm sure you'll still get carded whereever you go. But be glad for your youthful figure and all that! Live it up wherever you are, and tell me the juicy details later. I wish you much happiness in the coming year. And hope that you ate lots and lots of cake.

Live long and Prosper!
Muchos Kisses and Hugs!

List Addition-->OB

Well if you've gotten me something already, that is fine. But for ppl who haven't gotten me something, I'm going to steal a line from Oshi, and ask for pretty pretty earings. I don't care what kind, cheesy ones, classy ones. If you're going to get me cheesy ones, make sure that I can still go out in public with them...I must start my earing collection!

And other small things that I can look at and think of you. Pretty girly things. Or maybe something related to Superman. Because he is Da Bomb.

Feed the poor!

I'm sure we've all heard of this somehow somewhere, the vocabulary game freerice.com

An international effort, it's a game that donates 10 grams of rice for each question you get correct. It made news when it amassed quite a bit of rice to be distributed.

Recently, I just finished a project dealing with poverty, and came to appreciate the seriousness of the issue. You know, something we all know and hear about, but it's become old hat. As a motivator, lemme just tell you that someone in the world dies from hunger every 3 seconds.

So head on over here and give it a spin! I stopped after donating 2kg of rice, and ended up at vocab level 38.

BTW, vocab level adjusts as you get things right or wrong, up to a max of 50, with a "it's rare to get to 48 and beyond" in the FAQ section, because it's meant to be a challenge from the average joe to university profs. I don't think I could crest level 40 (I MIGHT have been at 41 for the duration of one question before I got it wrong, haha), and eventually ended up at 38 after 2kg. This, I think, could be a motivator to us Creative Writing Clubbers back in the day, when words were still cool. ;)

So see how you score, and feed the hungry at the same time!

OWSCORPIO x-mas list

After much thought and deliberation, I've come up with a list of things that would be useful to me. I can't really afford to buy very expensive gifts again this year thanks to my egnormous daily expenses here, so please don't make any big purchases for me (cuz "stuff" is hardly important to me....just want to spend time with you guys). Again, please let me know this month whether you would like to have something from here....oh, and Rubin, I'll take Sex andthe City photos if u can find out where to go...'cept the clubs...i won't go there! Can't afford the fake ID!

Knee height socks (girls)...happy colors/designs, whatever suits your fancy
Bright, hot, warm coloured nail polish....nothing expensive, I just wanna keep up with the "cool" girls!!...candy pink is ideal
Costume jewellry from those girl's stores like Ardene's/Clarire's or any superstore: Loop earrings (pls keep in mind that i have an unusually small head!), any nice coloured dangling earrings
Candies: red/purple :gummies, lollipops, fruit roll ups...etc
Dried fruit: either the bulk stuff that comes with trail mix nuts or just prunes/cranberries/papaya....i'll eventually go to superstore which I find most reasonable
Garnier fructis curls and shine leave in treatment: to be rid of my horrid frizz so that I don't have to have my hair in a bun all the time
One 0.05 or 0.1 size sketching pen in black...to illustrate this wonderous city!
One medium gray tone marker for illustration

Or just a nice letter. I love to read stuff from friends about what they're doing and joke about the old days. there should be enough things here that are easy to find...one for each of you! If you want me to come up with more, then let me know!

Unpierced NOMORE!

At least, a post not about wish lists!
I have pierced my delicate delicate ears! It was a nerve wracking experience that I probably should've done when I was much younger so I could have an excuse to cry. But actually it wasn't painful at all, except for the actual puncturing. And I guess it helped that a 5 year old did it before I did, and then I wasn't allowed to cry according to my friend. I even needed to show them photo id so that I could prove I wasn't a minor. It looks very nice, and in the words of my friend, "makes me look more feminine." Because I was oh so unfeminine before...

But yay for punctured ears. Couldn't imagine doing the belly button piercing though because it involves needles and much more blood/pain. So must take good care of my ear holes for another 6 weeks, and then I can don lame Christmas earings. But today, while undressing, I almost wrenched my ear off because I wasn't being careful and my earing got caught in the cloth, and then before you know it, lots and lots of pain, and then I lost the back of the earing. But all is not lost. My friend lent me a replacement backing. So all is well in the land of earrings.

Wish List Changes! (Again....)

Hey everyone!

Before I start, thanks to everyone who have put up their lists! I'm doing some shopping this weekend so it will help me out tremendously! And to people who have not posted: Get those things out soon!

Anyway, I just wanted to make a few changes to my list:

Books:

-Priven, Joshua, David Borgenicht and Jennifer Worick. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Chronicle Books, 2004.
Any of the following will be fine:
The orginal (yellow cover)
The Dating & Sex edition (black cover)
The Extreme edition (hazard markings cover)
The Travel edition (bright red cover)
The Life edition (pink cover)
The Work edition (ligh blue cover)
The College edition (red/burgundy cover)

Music and Games:
-Any CDs by Hed Kandy, except "The Mix Summer 2006"
-Any CDs by Guster
-The Sims 2 Celebration Stuff stuff pack (in addition to the other ones in the original list).

As always, due to lack of space at my place, no calendars (For the love of the gods and goddesses of Mutualism, NO CALENDARS) and knick-knacks, etc...

And that's it for now! Thanks everyone!

~!Rubin/Satine

Nire wants....

MISC
**- 20 Q. Not pink or purple. Green or blue would be nice. Mabe one of the flat ones if possible, the sphere-ish ones are weird.
-anything (tasteful) featuring the names Tom, Mike or Nick
-anything (tasteful) with a logo of, picture of or anything of an accordion
-anything (tasteful) featuring the drapeau tricolore
-anything (tasteful) featuring New York =DDDD Oshi =DDD A bear or something, with little bear sunglasses? =3 Something NY that I can hug the stuffing out of. Maybe a man, if you can fit one in your bag. A man with black hair. I'm not going anywhere specific with this, no sir. >.> <.< -Chapters gift cards

http://muse.trinitystreetdirect.com/
- Silhouette Wembley t-shirt (in girl's clothing)
- the logo bag (not the horse logo bag though) or army bag (in accessories)
- Wembley nebula poster (in accessories)
- either badge set (in accessories)
- Tour For Absolution Programme (in sale)

T shirts in a medium, please

books
- Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, the single volume edition
**- Chimera by Ian Irvine
- White and Other Tales of Ruin by Tim Lebbon
**- Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke
- Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells
- The Aenid, as translated by Robert Fagles

DVDs
**- Stargate Atlantis, season 3 (season 1 or 2 are acceptable, I've just seen them on TV a lot more)
-Ratatouille =D
-Good Bye Lenin
-The Rabbit-Proof Fence

And I think that's it.

Wishlisty note #2 -_-'

Updated list again. This latest development is beyond my control:

My sister, having come back from her 4 month Peru trip, missed Ratatouille. She wants to watch it.

Well, this just in: my brother has bought the DVD for her to watch.

THEREFORE, Ratatouille is no longer on my list. Sorry again!

New York Items

I know that some people are interested in New York paraphanalia. There's all sorts of stuff oviously. The famous I love NY T's were fashionable this summer and they come in a lot of colours. oops colors! Nyways!
Of course there's the assorted other shirts, sweats, NYPD, etc etc. Let me know if this sort of thing interests you...Nyx already said so...anything specific?
K, well i wuz suggesting that we get together a lot the week of the 17th...maybe u can come for dinner at my place but there's nothing to do other than eat...so we'll talk
G2g
Love ya'll

Belated Celebration of the Gothic Festival of the Lights and the Mysterious/Halloween

Gleetings all!

Here are some pictures of Twill, Nyx and I at our belated celebration of the Gothic Festival of the Lights and the Mysterious/Halloween.

All in all, it was glorious.We had dinner at Boston Pizza and concluded with a movie at my place... we watched Devil Wears Prada... Kris would be proud.

We also had booze, supplied thanks to Twill... Oh Blue Curaçao!

As promised here are the pictures: I was "Margaret, the slutty French maid", Twill was the personification of Static Cling (aka. Mrs. van de Graff) and Nyx was a cute sleepyhead.

Enjoy!

~!Rubin

Twill preparing the "brew" for the night

Hark! It's static cling! Beware all wool wearers/people not wearing hair product!

"I'm just an over-exhausted post-secondary student who craves sleep.... Is that too much to ask?"

"Bonjour! How may I "service" you today?"


The Crew

Important--Natrix's Wishlisty CHANGE

Yes, I know I said I wouldn't take stuff away...

But something came up! Or, I'm stupid. Take your pick!

I've been rereading His Dark Materials, with the notion that I could go for a bit and not worry, because it was The Amber Spyglass that I don't have, but read before.

Well, I finished The Golden Compass yesterday, and went on a search for The Subtle Knife--which I swore I had--and found The Amber Spyglass instead. o_O

Er. I knew I was missing one, and I know I only was able to read one of them because a friend lent it to me. I THOUGHT it was #3, but it would seem it's #2--The Subtle Knife, by Pullman.

So, this means...my list (now updated) should say, "THE SUBTLE KNIFE" by Phillip Pullman, rather than The Amber Spyglass.

Hope it doesn't mean disaster for someone who's already gotten it...sorry!

Nyx, you gave me quite a fright!

XD

Awesome job! My heart seriously skipped a beat with your "What I got people" e-mail, and you wrote something for me aside from the standard "?????"

I was at once pleased and bewildered that you looked up the "art exhibition" that student had with with the Virgin Mary to spite me. :P Pleasantly surprised, and frightened to death all in one stroke--masterfully done!

Oshi's list will come soon....need to think!

well, i've moved yet again...and this time to an actually descent apartment room....curretnly free of raoches but that's for now...
Can't wait to see everyone...let's start planning now, i'm sure we all have a million things to do before we head back...
#1. State what days you'll be in town
#2. Wanna go out for dinner? Drinks? Movie?

Pseudo Christmas Wishlist: Nyx

List is in no particular order, although I would really really really love some disco balls and origami paper. <3 :D

~ Cash or Safeway gift cards

I'm poor. I'm in Business. Money would significantly improve my debt-to-equity ratio and increase my return on assets. :D

~ Disco balls (a.k.a. mirror balls)!!!

The old-fashioned 80's kind, not the LED kind. It can be any size and any colour. The only restriction is no keychains. I've seen disco balls at Spencer's Gifts, San Francisco, and amazon.com, but if you happen to be strolling through the mall one day and come across, for example, disco ball Christmas tree ornaments, then think of me! I'm starting a disco ball collection, so the more the merrier!

~ Origami paper

The bigger the size, the better! I would prefer funky patterns, but solid colours are okay, too. I will be needing tons of this stuff, so it is okay if more than one person gets me this.

~ The Golden Compass movie posters

Just the ones with the giant polar bear (i.e., this one or this one). Oh, and as an aside, I already have all 3 of the books.

~ The Roaming Gnome statue (small)

~ Certain tokidoki merchandise

Tokidoki posters, stationery, stickers, pin buttons, wristwatches, or bags/purses. I'm in love with tokidoki!

~ Movie passes

~ Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Penguin Classics edition)

I checked and this is available at Crowfoot Chapters (but only 1 in stock).

~ The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson (Penguin Classics edition)

~ Books about drawing (Natrix! Starwing! Desudesu!)

I have no idea which books are awesome and which are crap, and I trust your opinion over amazon.com book ratings. I'm interested in digital art/digital vectoring/people/anime/chibis, so something about anatomy/hair/eyes/expressions/clothes/cel shading would be great! I have Photoshop, Illustrator, and openCanvas.

~ New York souvenirs! (Oshi!)

Tote bags, cookies, mints, posters, postcards, etc. Oshi, if you see something cool and you think that I would like it, then go for it! :D

No knick knacks/curios, (unless you're Oshi), plushies/toys, or calendars please and thanks. :)

If you need more wishlist items make a comment or email me.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Have you guys seen this? It's hilarious! XD

Pseudo Christmas Wishlisty: Natrix

Whew. TGIF. TGIF! TGIF!! :( Actually, now that I think of it, it's not good to celebrate Fridays. Friday is certainly not a nice class to end the week... TGIW? Thank God It's (the) Weekend? Something like that. I can actually breathe...and sleep! Yay!

Um, so it's that time of year again, and once again, we are encouraged to write up our PC Wishlists. And once again, I find myself wondering at how little I seem to want! I have been told before that I'm a little difficult to shop for, not providing enough options and all. So, in light of that, I've wracked my brain, and I'll endeavor to update this list whenever I am reminded of something, or convinced that I wouldn't mind something after all!

And something else important: I promise NOT to remove anything. What's listed here will not be obtained by me, despite how much I'd like to maybe, but I will diligently hold out just in case. :) Again, I may update and add, but never take away.

To the list!

CDs
*Fauxliage (by Delerium + Leigh Nash)
*Desideratum (by Synaesthesia)
*Embody (by Synaesthesia)
*Outernational Sound (Thievery Corporation)
*Versions (Thievery Corporation)

Books / Graphic Novels
*The Ice Dragon (by George R R Martin)
*The Subtle Knife (by Phillip Pullman)
*The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (by Neil Gaiman)
*Death: The High Cost of Living (by Neil Gaiman)
*Death: The Time of Your Life (by Neil Gaiman)
*The Sandman: Book of Dreams (edited by Neil Gaiman)
*The Little Endless Storybook (by Jill Thompson)
*Death: At Death's Door (by Jill Thompson)
*The Dead Boy Detectives (by Jill Thompson)

DVDs (widescreen if there's a choice)
*Rome Season 2
*Sunshine (2007, directed by Danny Boyle...yet to be released)
*Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
*Shrek the Third

Games
*Icewind Dale II (PC game)

Other Stuff
*A decent, USB plug and play mouse, wired or not, just NO BATTERIES and NO BLUETOOTH!
*An FSM T-shirt or hoody (any colour, but only variations with the logo: the "FSM" in the football shape, 6 wavy stalks, and eyeballs. The other designs are not so great. Could also include the "WWFSMD?" with logo. Medium or Large)
*Money. Honestly, the one thing I NEED (and want) is a ginormous, archival printer like the ones some print places downtown have, or the one at school. But, it's like $1000+, so it's not part of the list, and any funds I get would go towards that. :) Based on scholarships and working in the summer, I could get it right away, but it'll put a sizable dent in finances... It would be used to output large-format projects I have, as well as prints, so I don't have to pay outrageous money to do so outside of ACAD, which has the advantage of great pricing, but closing way too early to be of use to me. :(

There, I think rather detailed this time around. :)