Dear Universe,

I just received a mysterious package in the mail, specifically addressed to me with the right name and address and everything. No note, no letter, no return address. Apparently, someone anonymously ordered me a book from Amazon.com.

A book entitled "Falling in Love with Jesus."

Please Explain.

I don't know how it happened exactly, but I spent a rather embarrassing portion of the day fucking around on Windows Movie Maker. The result was a badly-edited (see subject header), half-arsed, piece of crack fanvid that went something like this:

Flight of the Conchords' Bret and Jemaine are depressed after being racially discriminated against by the fruit vendor. They go home, turn on the TV and watch Doctor Who face a Racist Dragon who is making horrifying monster noises completely disproportionate to his size. Terrified, the Doctor and Donna flee to a cave. "How can it get any worse?" Donna asks. Just then, there is a threatening sound from behind them. They turn around and are faced with an emo-haired unicorn. The Doctor fells it with his water pistol, an act of bravery which is apparently so moving that Bret and Jemaine have a good cry over it until some royal upstart from the television scowls and tells them to stop being such girls. The Doctor, moving on like he always does, ditches Donna and decides to invite Martha for a ride on the TARDIS instead. His expression is appropriately embarrassed when she opens the door only to find Jemaine doing the Thong-song dance. The end.

This is why I cannot have nice things. Like Windows Movie Maker.

Happy New Year everyone! AND CONGRATULATIONS TO SIR TERRY PRATCHETT OMG.

A meta on 2008 to follow later. :)

1) Woo Christmas! <33

2) Making plans to see more friends. :D

I'm glad this meme isn't any longer, haha. I'm really running out of things to say.

1) Playing Christmas carols on the piano

2) Simultaneously watching It's a Wonderful Life and finishing Brad Fraser's Love and Human Remains (during the commercials). I love them both but they couldn't be more different if they tried. The film is all about the spirit of family and Christmas, and the play is this raw, gritty story of  serial killers, drugs, gay sex and  a group of messed up people searching for love (and is on my required reading list for Drama 100). The combined emotional response from these two very different stories is not a "happy thing" really, but it's just left me completely blown away. I highly recommend Fraser if you're looking for something that will do the same to you.

Also, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all! <3

So... I really want to write a Gawain and the Green Knight/Merlin cross-over. Really badly. It's entirely plausible, considering Arthur and Morgan(a) are already in it but... I just don't know how to do that without making it crack. Or cheesy. Or sound too much like Excalibur, which totally ripped off GN for its intro anyway.

It's just hard to ignore the potential when GN has canon boykissing. THAT'S HOW GAY ARTHUR 's KNIGHTS ARE, THEY'D RATHER KISS EACH OTHER THAN MORGANA.

kanthia  stop laughing at me

1) Colin Morgan as a gay boy in the Catherine Tate Christmas special. ITS A PENIS BUT YOU CAN EAT IT.

2) See above. I AM AMUSED EVERY SINGLE TIME.

3) This awesome course I found in my uni course calendar:

WMNS 217 - Gendered Alternatives: Science Fiction and Fantasy
This course examines ways in which science fiction and fantasy writers use technology and the fantastic as tools for the deconstruction and reconstruction of gender categories.  adlkjsad;alksd;

4) Christmas baking!

1) Friends and unnervingly intellectual conversations.

2) This article about Colin and Bradley getting mobbed by gay Merlin fans.

3) This quote from that article: "But Prince Arthur actor Bradley is delighted fans have picked up on the theme so quickly."

4) This comic strip from the online manga "Hetalia" in which history unfolds through the anthropomorphic personification of countries. It's really quite a brilliant concept, even if it plays heavily on stereotypes. This particular strip focuses on Canada's relationship with America. Thanks for the prod, kehrilyn  !

Canada-san : A sad country that nobody notices, thanks to America. He's kind, easygoing and honest, but without any special defining trait, runs a bit short on interesting features and is regularly forgotten. He's labeled by the European countries as 'the country to live in when you're an old man'.

PFFF LOL

1) Was invited out for drinks by an ex-bf-turned-friend-with-benefits.

2) Watching this guy  play the Legend of Zelda theme on the coolest instrument ever... USING MAGIC.

3) Reading Sam's hilariously brilliant Doctor Who Christmas Special. My vocabularly cannot even process the awesome. Go read!

Summary: The Doctor joins some Kings of Orient following a star, helps a quartet of sociologists, gets thrown in prison, meets shepherds (ditto: talking sheep), finds a baby in a stable, uses Christmas carols for nefarious ends, and learns The True Meaning Of Camel.

4) Best of all: Getting an e-mail from a friend back from my Elijah Wood fandom days (when I was much younger and more confused than I like to think myself now). He found me through bloody facebook of all things. Considering how I haven't spoken to him in eons, it was a very pleasant surprise. However, back in those days, I encouraged the general online consensus that I was nearly twice my actual age in fear that my words would count for less, my friendship less valued, if it were known how young I was. Even now I don't think I'm entirely comfortable with being completely honest, but obviously if you are reading this you're doing so knowing full well how young and stupid I am, and I thank you for that.

1) Singing at the concert!

2) My sister rented HP5 for PS2 and we spent several hours laughing our heads off at how much of a dork Harry is. In the game, he levitates tables and throws them at people, stupefies everyone in sight and whenever someone talks to him he snipes at them in that hilarious angsty capslock way. Also, he had to go help Cho get her owl down from the Owlery (-_-)  as one of the tasks. In order to do this he had to cling to the walls and shuffle around in owl crap- which would have been entertaining in itself, but then every time he got near to the owl, it flew higher. This went on for a good five minutes. We feel as though Cho was just having a laugh at Harry's expense and maybe admiring his CGI ass, I don't know.

3) The Poisoned Chalice:
Merlin: Oh Arthur faster go faster...
My 15 year old sister: YOU DIDNT TELL ME THIS WAS PORN.

1) The ridiculous snowstorm! We haven't had a proper Canadian white Christmas in years.

2) This, because it is hilarious.

3) Seeing old friends again at the rehearsal for our yearly Christmas concert. I was also incredibly amused by this one line in this New Zealand Christmas piece: "love is like a flying sandal" LOL OKAY.

4) Speaking of sandals... Not having to wear flip-flops in the shower for once. :)

Stealing this from aestheticized  because it just seems like a more structured, upbeat form of blogging, really.

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.
3. Tag eight of your friends to do the same. Realistically?

1) Finished my last exam (spanish), FINALLY.  I don't even know what to do about spanish. I kept thinking in latin, of all things, when trying  to answer questions on the exam. Why I remember random phrases from two years ago, but not vocabulary from the week before remains a mystery to me. Also, in one short semester, spanish seems to have pushed french and japanese and possibly other languages I may or may not have been learning for 12 years out of my head entirely. People would say hi to me as I walked down the hall and I would just flail and mutter nonsensical things like " no es un boligrafo rojo". You really don't want to be around me when I cram. :/

2) Had a marvellous train ride back to Toronto. The nice Quebecois man offered me chocolate truffles and refilled my tiny wine glass three times, I kid you not. I like to think he was psychic and trying to make me feel better after running into The Ex-Roommate at the station. :/

3) My bed.

4) I am forcing my sister to watch all of Merlin, from the beginning. We're at the part in the first episode when Morgana enters the feast and Arthur ogles her and then Gwen and Merlin ogle them ...

Gwen: (paraphrased) She looks wonderful doesn't she?
Merlin: Yeah.
My Sister: Yeah, yeah he does. Oh wait you meant the girl? because it is that obvious

I can't even...

The one time I don't check the news and Harper SHUTS DOWN PARLIMENT? 

BECAUSE THAT'S HOW TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS!

-_____-



On a completely unrelated note: Adam/Eve in Paradise Lost? I'd ship it.

Things you really shouldn't do during exam period:

1) Decide to host a LOTR (Extended Editions, of course) marathon. 


That is all.

Tonight's schedule:
- beta a fic
- write two ficlets
- write and submit a poem to local magazine

Just looking at that short list makes me happy. I've had ideas stewing in my head for months that I haven't been able to put down on paper because of school, and now I finally have a short break before exams in which to do so. Hell, I've been away from writing and fic for so long that I hung out with guys on my floor (named Peter, James and Remi) the other day and only just now realized that their names are Peter, James and Remi.  o_0


ETA: So I just recieved a basket of fruit in the mail, with a note attached wishing me good luck on exams. Parents can be so adorable sometimes. ;p

WTF, FILM CLASS needs to be a tag. I don't even know how to express what I'm going to say....

So, in today's screening, in my university class lecture , we watched a painfully cheesy, badly acted, 90's musical about the origin and transmission of the AIDS pandemic, starring a relationship between a ghost and a really fucking annoying, 200 year old version of Richard Burton. When they weren't spouting cheesy cheesy lines at each other, they were having sex in a diorama case of MONKEYS WHO TURN INTO LESBIANS. OH AND DID I MENTION THEIR ASSHOLES SING TO EACH OTHER WHEN THEY SLEEP?!?!?

OR THE 1948134082 COCKS AND ASSES WAVED IN OUR FACES - ACCOMPANIED BY A MUSICAL NUMBER, OF COURSE?


You know, I've been exposed to a awful lot of really disturbing things in my life, but this fucking takes the cake. SINGING ASSHOLES, I ASK YOU.

When I wasn't laughing hysterically, I was poking myself in the eye over HOW CHEESY EVERYTHING WAS. argggkillmenow

Clip from the film (titled Zero Patience, btw):

Sorry I haven't been writing much lately. I've been having an absolutely amazing time during the run of Drums in the Night, but it really has left me with absolutely zero free time. I can't even write more than a short paragraph right now because I have to leave for a show in a few minutes... and it's our last one. I can't believe it's almost over. It's just been such an incredible experience - the acting, the people, the parties, the love. :D We were even sold out so many times that we had to add an extra matinee! It's just... going to be hard going back to the real world - working on essays and studying for exams instead of scarfing down dinner and heading to the theatre every night.

More on this later when I'm less sappy and more coherent.

The show went really well today - all the local media came today to write their reviews and take promo shots, so it was also the first time performing with a real audience, and they were wonderfully responsive. SO EXCITED FOR OPENING NIGHT.

Also, it's snowing! :D

Tonight's episode was exceptionally shippy wasn't it? Elle/Claire is possibly the most adorably dysfunctional thing ever. And now that Nathan's decided to be a bitch and not listen to Peter, Sylar has taken up his role which is aweesome. More dysfunctional love!

In other news, opening night on Wednesday!!! AHhhh exciting.