Oh, my goodness...

Big D and I have just spent a chunk of a rainy and otherwise yuck day watching two of the coolest things we've seen in ages.

Firstly, Pan's Labryinth.  Wow.  I remember watching Das Boot in the original German with subtitles, Big D took me to it (heck of a date movie, hmm?  Mind you, 21st anniversary this June, guess he was right ( Read more... )

First post in ages...

And I won’t go into everything, so it shouldn’t be too long.  But I have friends here who likely thought I fell off the face of the earth!

For those who don’t know, my Dad died Feb 7, 2007.  It wasn’t unexpected, he’d had Parkinson’s for ages and he just failed.  My brother and I flew out East to Nova Scotia to help my mum ( Read more... )

Yes, I just saw Sunday.

I'll try not to contribute spoilerage, but the mechanism of that character's death is so lame as to be completely laughable.  I mean...and with the...and then...GAHHH!!!  I have to learn to use cuts.

Suffice it to say I have thrown out better writing than that because I considered it unoriginal and poorly concieved.

Even Big ( Read more... )

Happy things...

Got an airbrush for Christmas!  Actually, four - Big D found an amazing deal on line and I have two dual-action, one single and a gravity feed, along with a small compressor and all the trimmings!  What a cool gift.  I've been putzing with it since.

Passed my exam!  Means I have three months before I need to start to study again, ( Read more... )

I think it's a combination of finishing a sculpting project (more on that in a month or so, we're still waiting on the go-ahead for production), finishing my most recent exam, and "The Tao of Rodney" (no spoilers here) that seems to have broken loose the bunnies from their pen.  I am currently writing again, a shorty that should be up here sometime ( Read more... )

Sick computer.  Exam on Monday.  Whine!

I actually have the germ of an idea for a fic - first one in - I can't recall how long.  And my computer is fried - Big D tried to resuscitate it, no luck, and it is now with a dear computer-geeky friend who has discovered evil things like broken pins.  So, after this exam is over (and I don't have to start ( Read more... )

Did that cool American accent thing and got the business with Fargo, and being mistaken for Canadian a lot.  Giggle!  Not bad...coz I AM Canadian!!!

Very fun.  Wish I knew how to post it on my LJ but all I got was the code I copied and pasted.

In other news, doing massive studying for exam, which I write in four weeks.  Then Christmas, and more ( Read more... )

We live in Ajax, but that's a matter of a few Km outside Toronto, and we work in the city anyway, so when Big D called me and said "There's a con of some sort going at the Convention Centre, and there's a dealers room and McGillion's gonna be there, want to go?"  I said "Sure ( Read more... )

Oh, horrors! Billie Piper - aka Rose Tyler - is leaving Dr Who at the end of this season! (being season 2, currently underway in the UK ( Read more... )

but I know me - if I don't have a deadline I never get anything done! I have an exam I need to write for a course I'm taking for work. I had until December to book it. I booked it for next Tuesday and now I'm all frantic and boring about it. I'm frantic. I get the feeling I'm boring for anyone in earshot, as I sit there on the train studying, ( Read more... )