#40 - LIST FRIDAY, Untitled Edition

Wouldn't it be funny if I made a List Friday that didn't actually have a list. I could call it "LIST FRIDAY - Listless Edition". That is not as funny written out as it is in my head. Oh well.

Songs of the Week

• Puttin' On the Ritz - Taco (especially the "supa dupa" part)
• Birthday - Junior Boys (addictive!)
• Nashville Parthenon - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
• Civil Twilight - The Weakerthans
• You Got the Style - Athlete
• Something Pretty - Patrick Park (which, three years later, still reminds me of reading the beginning of Hey Nostradamus in the backseat of a van driving home from Cypress Hills)
• Duke of Gloucester - The Foxymorons (excellent buh-buhs)
  

Some Random Book/TV/Movie Related Thoughts

• I finished reading a non-school related novel yesterday! This is both a good thing and a bad thing. One one hand it is excellent because the book is a week overdue from the library, on the other hand I haven't done homework in two days.
• The are making Nick and Norah's Infinte Playlist (Cohn/Levithan co-authored YA excellence!) into a movie with Michael Cera! Do you see how this is two awesome things being combined in to one enormously awesome thing? Do you?**
• My support for the writers' strike and my love for new television are fighting a war in my brain. So far the writers (and my conscience) are winning, but I could turn at any minute...
• I have watched an entire season of Our Hero (which you have never heard of unless you were watching a lot of CBC after school programming in the year 2001, which I was) so far this weekend and it is so good. Also, trivia!: The actor who plays Ross on Our Hero is now the drummer for Broken Social Scene. Strange, no? I think he has a big beard now.
  

I still have not done my Christmas edition, not because I have forgotten but because Christmas is a big deal requiring attention and planning my brain is not capable of at the moment.






*Mainly off the playlist Buddha vs. Jesus that I made for cramming for my Religious Studies midterm. Nine hours straight of religion is tough, my friends, but these songs, as well as some post-Zoroastrianism, pre-Judaism cheesecake got me through it.

**It seems that I have gotten a little carried away with the italics, sorry.

Yeesh.

I am very very late again. Whoops. Except it his hardly even my fault because I had a very hectic weekend. I will tell you about soon. Maybe later tonight after I have had a nap and and read 150 of my Poli Sci text. Isn't it good to see that I have my priorities straight. Also, I may discuss why I will never run away from home (although, I suppose at this point running away from home would just be moving out, what with my technically being an adult and all).

#39 - LIST FRIDAY, I Know, I Know, It's Monday (Not Friday) Edition

Could be titled "Less Lists Than General Babbling Edition"

This week I was going to do a list of crazy things my Poli Sci T.A. has said, but it turns out his insanity does not translate well into list form. Perhaps sometime this week I will post some of my transcripts. Example: "So we colonize their country and force our religion on them and make them eat a bunch of cake or something. No, no, I didn't mean cake. I meant slavery and oppression." And then he starts talking about his new iPod Touch or whatever. He's NUTS. Also, he is exceptionally well dressed. He wears cuff links. Who the hell wears cuff links? Rich dudes from Boston apparently. Fun Fact: Everything I know about cuff links I learned from Peter Pan.

ANYWAY, since I am not going to do that I have to make a list about something else. I have been thinking a lot about Christmas lately (it all started with that crazy guy at the Modest Mouse show...) so I could talk about that, but Christmas is important and I am not mentally prepared. THAT is what I will talk about next week. I saw red and green wrapping paper in Wal Mart yesterday and it complete warmed my heart. I am soooo excited for Christmas it's crazy. Which brings us to an (admittedly kind of lame) list:

Stuff Other Than Christmas That I Am Excited About In November and December

• Going to Saskatoon this weekend for the purposes of seeing Cuff the Duke and generally hanging out. If it were going just to see Cuff the Duke that would be absurd, because they played in Regina on Friday.
• The end of classes. Don't get me wrong, I love my classes. Part of the reason the end of classes is exciting is because it is followed shortly by the start of new, different classes. But I also love not going to class. The end of this semester is awesome on multiple levels, obviously.
• Stars on the 23rd!
  
• Knitting lesson this week! Or maybe next week, in the event that I have to go out for supper with my sister tomorrow night. Not that I don't want to go out for supper with my sister, but the timing is unfortunate. I am a terrible person. Today is her birthday. Happy birthday sister who will never read this!
  
• Seeing all my Edmonton and Calgary family during holidays. I miss everyone a lot.
• Christmas. I know, by definition of this list Christmas should not be on it, but I can't help it. Did I mention that there was ribbon beside the wrapping paper?

I know Christmas is supposed to get less exciting as you get older but I think I love it more now than I did when I was little. Would you guys please all tell me about whether or not you still love Christmas. And why. Please? I would really love that.

Anyway, I should probably go, as this is getting less coherent with every sentence. I have been not writing an essay all day, which is exhausting. I did clean the hell out of my kitchen though...

#38 - LIST FRIDAY, A Week Late and A Dollar Short Edition

The Week In Numbers

• Number of blue candies eaten: 15*
  
• Number of days slept past noon: 3
  
• Number of hours spent on prompt book: 15*
  
• Number of professors met awkwardly in restaurants: 1
• Number of excellent playlists created: 1**
  
• Number of The Office (US) commentaries watched: 5
• Number of Jim/Pam related squees: 4*
  
• Number of pictures hung: 5
  
• Number of leftover Halloween chocolate bars eaten: not as many as my dad
• Number of times the songs Braille by Regina Spektor was played: 8
• Number of podcasts listened to: 7
• Number of new people in Poli Sci seminar completely baffled by the insane T.A.: 3
• Number of union strikes I am worried about: 1***
  
• Number of union strikes currently directly effecting my life: 1***

A Few Things That Are Pretty Much Unrelated Except That They All Make Me Happy Because I Am A Big Nerd

• A movie of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist starring Micheal Cera(!!!)
• A new Joss Whedon show
• A spin-off of The Office (actually, I am unsure of how I feel about this, but I didn't want to have to make a whole other list called Things That Are Pretty Much Unrelated Except That I Have Mixed Feelings About Them Because I Am A Big Nerd)

In un-list related news: Hey! Have you seen my new bookshelf? I like it more than most humans I know, and all animals.











*low estimate
** the playlist is as follows

1. Monarch - Feist
2. Dark Horse - Julie Doiron
3. Jezebel - Iron and Wine
4. Tennessee Train Tracks - Rocky Votalato
5. Braille - Regina Spektor
6. Chicago (acoustic version) - Sufjan Stevens
7. Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle and Sebastian (if you do not know this song you must download it immediately but wait until you are in a really bad mood to listen to it, because it will most definitely cheer you up)
8. Leslie Ann Levine - The Decemberists
9. Dance Music - The Mountain Goats
10. Honey and the Moon - Joseph Arthur
11. Lavinia - The Veils
12. Those To Come - The Shins

*** it is important to note that these are not the same strike. One is the strike at my school, the other is the Hollywood writers strike. Guess which is which. (HINT: the correct answer should make you seriously question my priorities)