I know, I know, I've been horribly neglecting LJ lately. I have a couple half started long entries, but I just have to say this one quick thing cause it's starting to really piss me off: ( Spoilers for the major event of the first few eps of Sanctuary S2. Ranty, and potentially not very nice. )

*breathes* Okay, I feel better now.

ETA: I haven't seen tonight's episode yet, so no spoilers, kthx. <3

Hi LJ! How are you? I am much better. Thanks for the comments on my last post. <3 I still have a horrible cough, but I thiiink it's getting better today, even though it totally kept me from sleeping last night, so that really sucked.

From Sunday to Tuesday I pretty much did nothing except sleep and watch TOS. Which I finished, in all its cracky glory. It was awful to be stuck in my room and hear my roommates out in the kitchen laughing as I was stuck in ~quarantine~. But now I'm back in the SFU Surrey Library, exactly where I was when I started feeling sick. Except not exactly, because I got here too late and someone stole my spot.

I still am not convinced that I actually had H1N1. But my mom says she's going to tell people I did, cause it sounds more exciting. Which is true.

So I got all my midterms rescheduled, and my first one is tomorrow, which means I REALLY should be studying right now, but.

( Some random TOS thoughts. )

After I finished TOS I started ( STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE )

OH GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I TALKED THAT MUCH ABOUT STAR TREK. AGAIN.

So quickly, ( last night's Glee. )

OKAY ENOUGH JENNIFER, GO STUDY.

It's a TRAVESTY that I don't have any Star Trek icons. DW=Space related and also low budget 60's sci fi cult favourite with awesome reboot?

OH THAT REMINDS ME. ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO STUDY. I was reading stuff about Enterprise the other day, and I came across this:

In a 2009 interview, Welsh writer/producer Russell T Davies, showrunner of the British series Doctor Who, said that he had considered doing a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek, but the latter was canceled before the idea could be pursued.

here

WHAT. WHAT. THIS WOULD HAVE MADE MY LIFE THE MOST AMAZING THING IN EXISTENCE. DAMN YOU PARAMOUNT FOR CANCELLING ENTERPRISE. I JUST. JKDSHFADFGJGDSJAGFD.

Okay. Really going now.

Hi guys! I'm staying home with swine flu!

Okay, but here's the thing. I don't actually think I have it. I just conveniently have almost all the symptoms. If I didn't have midterms this week I probably would have just stayed home cause I felt crappy and that would be the end of it. But since I have midterms, I was going to try and go to a doctor to get a note, until I realised I have almost all the H1N1 symptoms, and you're not supposed to go out if you do. I called the provincial health number thing, and the nurse I talked to said not to go out, BUT didn't actually tell me if I have it or not.

I wonder how many "cases" are really just people with the symptoms who actually have something else. I mean, the symptoms are things like cough, sore throat, fatigue, headache, runny nose, and fever. Now, I don't know about you, but I think those are PRETTY FREAKING COMMON SYMPTOMS. I was sure I didn't have it because I didn't have a fever, but that actually started last night, so.

Whatever. I blame the media for blowing the whole thing out of proportion.

I had three paragraph's written, but it was so disjointed I had to delete it. I blame midterms. I have three on Monday and Tuesday, and I work both days on the weekend, so this should be interesting. I am so behind in my reading for all my classes. I've also got an assignment due Sunday night, which I guess is a good thing because it's for the class with the very last midterm, which I would otherwise have probably let fall by the wayside while I concentrated on the first two, so this way it forces me to actually think about the course between now and when my second midterm is over, four and a half hours before that midterm.

Today I'm drinking a Royal Tea Lette from Blenz. Usually I get London Fogs, but I haven't been terribly impressed with their's, and it's the only coffee shop at Surrey campus. I think I'm spoiled by the awesome ones at Higher Grounds at Burnaby. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this royal tea latte. The tea has rosehips or something in it, I think, and it's growing on me. But I think maybe Blenz just sorta sucks at lattes in general. Definitely not foamy enough for me.

Most importantly, it's Sanctuary day! I realised I'm not going to be able to watch it tonight since I don't have cable. I'm disappointed mostly cause I wanted to have another twitter party. I should be able to download it pretty quickly tonight, so I shouldn't be that far behind.

Anyways. I'm going to get back to reading Oedipus. FUN TIMES.

ETA: Yes, I did just join a bunch of ADHD comms instead of actually working. LOLZ IRONY.

I totally had intentions of being productive today. But the fact that my roommate and I have just spent the last SEVEN HOURS watching Family Guy, should tell you that my day didn't exactly go as planned. I do not even know how that happened. One of our roommates I guess went to spend the night at her boyfriend's, and the other is really sick and super contagious so he's hiding downstairs. It was pizza night tonight so Lisa and I decided that it didn't matter if no one else was going to participate and got pizza anyway and decided to watch tv. We don't actually have cable, so when we watch tv we're really just watching whatever Mika has downloaded on his computer. So we started Family Guy and just...kept going, until now. Then the computer started acting funny, so we decided it was probably a sign.

I don't even really like Family Guy...?



...okay, and I literally just went out to the living room after writing that to grab something and Lisa was watching House and I sat down and watched the whole episode with her. I didn't realise how much I missed that show! Now I'll have to get caught up on the last season and a half.

Anyways. Everything else I had to say I suppose can wait till tomorrow. Hopefully I'll actually make some headway on my giant to do list tomorrow.

I'm sorta blown away by Sanctuary right now, and I don't quite know what to say. Other than It was really hard to not hashtag that. Too much twitter today! I had so so much fun spending the afternoon and evening tweeting with a whole crew of Sanctuary fans. I'm really sad we didn't get trending, because I KNOW we were higher than some of the ones that were. I think it just needed to be sustained for longer than we were able. I actually waited an hour to watch it, because there was such a party going down on twitter, and it was so much fun trying to get it to trend, that I wanted to watch it with everyone else. And really, waiting an hour wasn't all that bad, cause I was waiting it out on twitter and we were having a flail fest.

I'm gonna do an actual reaction post in a bit, once I've watched it again. It's downloading right now, so maybe I'll post something tomorrow.

Anyways. In real life news, I'm home for Thanksgiving. So my day tomorrow is going to be spent making pies with my grandma. We're doing our dinner tomorrow night instead of Sunday because I have to head home Sunday morning for work. Cranky. But oh well, I though I wasn't going to be able to come at all.

And now I feel the need to go hunt down Tesla icons. Good night! <3

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be finishing this stupid paper that is now late. But then the Sanctuary friending meme happened. And I am having way too much fun reading people's comments. I've never done a friending meme before! I guess I've always been to intimidated or something, but the Sanctuary fandom is still pretty small, and, of course, awesome. So welcome to my new friends! Looking forward to squeeing with you all on Friday! :D I'll do some sort of a proper intro post later when I don't have an incredibly painful assignemnt looming over my head...

And now, back to my paper. My roommate is awesome and sent me an article this morning. So I should get on that.

The last week or so my roommate Lisa and I have really started bonding. We've been doing homework together for the last few days, and it's been really great. I didn't really talk to her at all for the first little while after she moved in, and now I think I know her better than my other two roommates. WE haven't been terribly productive on homework in the last few hours, but I just spent the last little bit explaining wizard rock to her. I totally didn't think she'd be as understanding/receptive as she was. It's really cool. It's SO HARD to try and convey what the wizard rock community is to anyone outside it though. Like, I can say that I've met some of my best friends in the world because of it, and talk about tour, and all the experiences I've had, and friends I've made, but no one will ever understand what the wizard rock community is unless they live it.

Anyways. Yeah. Just wizard rock love. <3

Oh my godddd. What a weekend. We had our housewarming party here last night. HOLY SHIT. IT WAS INSANE. There are four of us living here, each of us with our own friend groups, so there were like, IDEK how many people. It was totally nuts. It was glow in the dark themed, and we had so much fun setting up with black lights and glowsticks and so much stuff. Our house looked so awesome. My roommate Emily and I started drinking way before people started showing up, so that was maybe a bad plan, but we had an absolute blast. Everyone told us what a good party it was. We have a trampoline, and we had beer pong set up in the back yard, we turned our garage into a smoking room, we had a freaking DJ, and just, wow. There were people in every single room of the house. Cleaning up this morning was not so much fun though. I came out of my room and was like, HOLY FUCK WHAT HAPPENED HERE. My house was completely COVERED in newspaper, glowsticks, and bottles. We carried out five big garbage bags full of empties. But that's gonna be like, $40 in recycling deposit we should get back, so that's pretty awesome.

Now my roommate Lisa and I are sitting at the kitchen table which is still in the living room from where it was being used for the DJ, drinking cider someone left here and attempting to do homework. I don't think either of us are being terribly productive, but you know. She's got an assignment due tomorrow, and I've got mine due on Tuesday, with no time to do it tomorrow, so I think we're going to be up pretty late tonight.

Anywayssss. That's my weekend! How was yours?

There are many things I would like to talk to you about. Some of them are:

1. SANCTUARY DVDS!
2. Glee
3. Star Trek
4. Tea
5. School

I have a bad habit of writing lj posts in my head when I'm on the skytrain or whatever, but not actually putting the effort into actually typing them out when I get to a computer. Blargh. But I'm sitting in the library avoiding homework, so. You know how it goes. Also, I've started taking my medication again so my concentration is AWESOME right now, just not on the things it's supposed to be on...But whatever, now that I wrote that list, I think I'll just go through one at a time.

1. SANCTUARY DVDS. THEY FINALLY ARRIVED. HMV was supposed to call me, but they didn't. I stopped by the HMV in Lougheed when I was there the other day and decided to ask anyway. (I've been trying to ask whenever and wherever possible, so try and generate interest and make it seem like LOTS OF PEOPLE are asking for it, when in actuality, it's just me being a crazy person.) They told me that they didn't have it but it was in downtown! So I ran down there as quick as I could. There were TONS of copies on the shelf. When I went to pay for it, the cashier guy said it looked like a very intriguing show. So I flew into a (restrained) tirade about how great it was and how it was entirely Canadian, produced here and no american studio backing them and everything. And he wanted to know when it was on and which channel and everything, and I'm pretty sure I got him converted! So that was pretty cool. I think it's really unfortunate that it was only on the movie channel last season, cause that means hardly anyone has heard of it. It makes me really happy that it's going to be on Space next season. And even though it's not as though it's on CTV or Global or something, it's really (I hope) going to make a lot of difference in the Canadian viewership.

I immediately came home to watch the commentaries, since as most of you probably know, I'm a commentary ADDICT. OMGGGGG. I was so happy to see that it's Amanda, Damian, and Martin for almost all the episodes. They were always my favourite commentators on SG1, and I'm pretty sure that they are just three of my favourite people EVER. I got as far as Kush last night, and oh man, I'm loving it. GUN BUM. I just. ♥

I didn't watch any of the previews of the special features when they came out a few weeks ago, cause I wanted everything to be a SURPRISE when I got my DVDs. I'm still waiting till I get to the last disk. Oh man, I can't wait for the bloopers. Like, woah.

I heart this show so much.



2. Hey, nice segue way, cause another show that I heart so much is number two on my topic list, GLEE! ♥

I've tried to do the liveblogging thing for each of the new episodes so far, but end up just watching the episode. It just sucks me in a way nothing else does. But I have to say, that I haven't enjoyed any of the new eps as much as the pilot. The second episode had a lot that I really wasn't a fan of, but the next two have been so much better. ( An overview of my opinions of the show so far, spoilers up to Preggers ) (PS I'm pretty much completely unspoiled in terms of previews, upcoming songs, etc, so please none of that in the comments, kthx)



3. STAR TREK OMG. I don't know which angle to approach this topic from! Okay, well, I finished Enterprise a week or so ago. I know, I know, this is the Star Trek no one watched, but I LOVED LOVED LOVED it. Months ago, probably back in January or February, right after my parents got full cable, I started watching it casually because it was on after something I watched. It was right at the beginning of Season 3, which is the start of a major ongoing storyline. I decided I wanted to watch the whole thing from the beginning, so I started, and enjoyed it, but after four or five episodes, I got distracted or bored and stopped. I didn't really think of it much again until a month or so ago, after I finished Fringe, I really wanted to marathon another show, preferably something sci fi-y. I remembered about Enterprise and picked up where I left off back in February.

So it's not the best show in the world. It doesn't have the greatest writing, it's cliched at times, but there's just something about it that I ADORE. It feels much more contemporary than a lot of the other Star Trek shows. Its premise, if you're not familiar, is about Earth's first warp 5 star ship; humans really going out into deep space for the first time. It takes place only about 150 years in the future, and so it doesn't have a lot of that THIS IS THE FUTURE LOOK AT HOW HIGH TECH EVERYTHING IS!!1! feel to it. It shows the evolution of a lot of the things that come into Star Trek later, like the universal translator, the transporter, etc.

But the thing that made me fall in love with the show was Trip/T'Pol. It's the same thing that happened to me with BSG where I really enjoyed the show, and definitely needed to keep watching, but it was Adama/Roslin that made me ADDICTED to the show. It's what I looked forward to in every episode, and what I couldn't stop thinking about when the episode was done. And it was the same thing with Enterprise. I was enjoying the show, looking forward to see where it was going, and loving the characters, but Trip/T'Pol made me fall for the show headfirst. ( Cut for rambling about Trip/T'Pol. I've tried to make it not too spoilery for anyone who might want to watch the show. )

But seriously, Enterprise, good show. If you're thinking of trying to get into Star Trek, especially after the movie, try it. I think it's easier to get into than some of the others because it feels more contemporary and accessible. Stick with it at least through the Xindi storyline, cause that's when things start getting really good.

On that note, STAR TREK TOS! Once I finished Enterprise I started on TOS. KDSFHDJSKFHGKA THIS SHOW. IS SO RIDICULOUS. I LOVE IT. I'm about half way through the first season. I just finished Shore Leave, where everyone is ON CRACK. For serious. It's the only explanation I can come up with for ( this ). WHAT. WHAT. IDEK.

Also, is it really necessary for Kirk's shirt to be ripped open EVERY EPISODE? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS SHOW.

But honestly, some of the episodes are made of WTF, but others are legitimately REALLY GOOD. One of my favourites so far is City on the Edge of Forever, which I watched when I bought the Best of TOS DVD. I did not expect Spock to be so funny, but I LOVE IT.



Okay, I think that's enough for now. Sorry for the tl;dr. I know no one read through that whole thing. I just did a word count, and it's over 2300 words. Wow. That's almost five times the length of the assignment I'm supposed to be doing right now.

*cries* I just want my Sanctuary DVDs! (Yeah, I definitely hash tagged that at first.) I have called literally every electronics type store in town and had them check their stock for all their locations NO ONE HAS IT. The guy that I talked to at HMV Robson was the most helpful. He actually let me know that they only got half their new release shipment today, but it might come in later today. So I'm probably going to run downtown tonight. I NEED THAT BLOOPER REEL. LIKE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH. AND COMMENTARIES!

I knew I should have ordered it on Amazon.

I had so much else to say, but this is clearly the most important thing in my life right now.

Plan for the day:

1. Finish reading for Hum 102, do questions
2. Figure out what the readings are for my SPACE COURSE and do them, if any
3. Go see Rick Mercer at 1:30
4. Continue obsessively refreshing twitter for the #luciferiscoming drama
5. Go buy SPN S5 DVDs
6. Go home and watch Glee

Yeah, nothing like some internet drama to pull me back to fandom. Apparently #inkripkewetrust was also being blocked? I don't know for sure, but it sure seems like it. Censorship. Good times. [ETA: No it wasn't. It's trending now.]

Anyway, I never even finished S4, so I'm going to watch it tonight so I can download tonight's ep tomorrow. School's wireless was surprisingly quick downloading Glee today. I'm sure it must be violating some kind of terms of use to use the school's internet to illegally download tv shows, but what can you do? Four days till I get internet at home!

Hellooooo internets.

I am now six days away from getting the internet hooked up in my house. It has actually been far less painful than expected. I've been keeping busy unpacking and running errands and hanging out with my room mates. Last night we set up our trampoline. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. MY HOUSE HAS A TRAMPOLINE.

I don't have class till this afternoon, but I'm on campus early mostly to use the internet. The first thing I did was go to check twitter/my flist, even though I should probably have been using it for "important" things like tuition, opting out of the health care plan, checking my waitlist status for CMNS 262, etc. I NEVER SAID MY PRIORITIES WERE IN ORDER.

Got to campus this morning and headed over to Ravens Cafe to get tea, cause it's the only place on campus with Starbucks drinks, and discovered it's been TURNED INTO A TIM HORTONS. AMAZING. WOW. I'm not quite sure what this means for my Starbucks drinks though. I'm pretty sure Higher Grounds or Renaissance will do a london fog, but what about my egg nog lattes and peppermint hot chocolates come Christmas time? Especially now that I don't have a Starbucks on my route to school.

I'm sure I have other stuff to say, but I can't think of it right now. Isn't that always the way?

So I'm moved into my new place, mostly. I've still got a few boxes to unpack, but I'm pretty well settled. It' weird moving into a place you've never seen before. The house is old, and a teeny bit run down, in a neighbourhood that's just this side of sketchy. (okay, that's an exaggeration. It's not really sketchy at all, I'm just used to slightly better areas, I guess.) But my room mates are good, and my room is a decent size, with a closet big enough for all my clothes. I wanted to update about the last few days of moving, but I'm way too tired right now.

But here's the thing. I have no internet now, and I won't for another two weeks. Well, a week and a half now, I guess. I'm on campus now to check my email and stuff, and to go buy my books. I'm currently connected to the internet only by twitter, so I've just gone and added more people to my mobile updates. I've done a quick glance through my flist and twitter. Next week should be better cause I'll be at school everyday. And then the intet gets hooked up next Monday at noon.

Anyway, that's what's happening in my life right now. Now I gotta go buy textbooks!



There are people lawn bowling on the grass outside the library right now? Or maybe it's bocce. WTF?

New computer!

IDK. There's a bunch of stuff that I have to get used to, and HOLY FUCK do I hate Vista. Like WOW. Oh well. Just two months of this til I get Windows 7.

I'm at my grandma's right now. Kirsten and I were supposed to come up today to dye some wool. My sister, aunt, and grandma are all knitters, and yesterday they all went to see some lady who dies her own wool, and so they bought some undyed wool and dye, and we were going to dye it today. But they I was traking my computer and saw that it was in town, so I had to stay home to receive it. No one seemed to really get that ys, I DID have to stay home, because actually it is more important than dying wool. If I didn't get it today, I would have to go and pick it up next week, and since I move on Tuesday, I really needed to make sure I had it in time. ANYWAY. So it finally arrived around 2, and I did some initail set up and then came up here. Long story short, It's been kind of a crappy day. My grandma drives me fucking crazy. I mean, I love her, but GOD. I'm currently sitting in the basement with my 12 year old cousin. He's playing WoW and I'm working on setting this machine up. We'll just be the antisocial computer addicts of the family. I def get along better with him than most people in the family.


Current computer frustration: Finding wallpaper to fit my 1366x768 resolution, and having to photo editing software to adapt any.

OH LJ, IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG.

I just ordered my new computer! It's a Dell Inspiron 15, (Basically what I have right now) and it's PURPLE. I'm pretty excited, now that I've ordered it. I almost waited for another few months so I could get Windows 7, but Dell has a free upgrade, so I'll just do it that way so I have a shiny new computer for the new school year!

Anyways, updates on my life...bifocals got me in touch with a classmate of hers who was looking for a house and needed more roommates, so I think I'm sorted for a place to live. Haven't given the my final confirmation yet, cause it's a little bit farther from the skytrain than I'd like, but it's close enough that I think I can probably deal. It's about as far away as I was last year, which is about as far as I can deal with. I was hoping for closer, but this is $2000 bucks a month, split between six people so I can't really turn that down.

I randomly got into NCIS a few weeks ago. I just started watching it whenever it was on TV, and then I decided I wanted to know the characters back stories, so I watched the whole thing from the beginning. WHOOPS. ADD TWO MORE SHOWS TO MY FALL VIEWING SCHEDULE. Cause the spin off, NCIS LA, which I hadn't thought I would watch, had a pretty good launching ep in regular NCIS, which made me like the characters and...blah.

And THEN I started watching Fringe which, sklahfdkjshgkaf. I'm on ep 16 now, SO I might finish the season tonight or tomorrow.

Also, randomly, I wanted to say that I've been using Google Chrome pretty much consistently as my main browser for the past few weeks, and I've decided I really like it, in case any one was wondering. I still hate that it doesn't warn you when you close multiple tabs, but I love that you can separate a tab from a window, and move tabs to other windows. I also really like the home page set up, and how it gives you more browsing space cause there are fewer toolbars and stuff. So yeah, that's that.

Home from tour and exhaaauuusted. I've written an epic post about it but it needs to be edited before I post it and I am far too tired now.

I don't want to be home.

Yes! I got my email about tickets for the Sanctuary con! I was stressed for a while. Registering three hours late and all. But now, SO EXCITED.

Tonight I am going to see the AMERICAN IDOLS. But Jennifer, you say, you don't watch American Idol. True, I say, BUT Adam Lambert is going to be in my city, so, YOU KNOW. I HAVE TO GO SEE HIM. Even though I'm pretty sure I only know about three of the other people's names. OH WELL.

And then tomorrow we leave for Tour! I SURE HOPE EVERYONE IS COMING TO THE SHOW IN VANCOUVER ON FRIDAY. PotterCast, The Remus Lupins and The Whomping Willows, 6:00, at the downtown library, BE THERE.