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New Highest Scrabble Score Ever! (With Apologies to May-B)

Beat my previous best score of 513 last week with a new high of 517! Woot!

As happy as I am for doing so well, I felt bad it had to happen when May-B was having such a rough game. Right after she had to swap her tiles, I played slumping for 100 points (my new highest single word score). She started a new game called "Thank God that is over".

I am so wise

As I repost from angelfire, I cam across this gem:

"Laziness is the true tie that binds."
- December 2, 2004

You are not helping your cause, Ma'am

Yesterday I heard Jorge Cham do his presentation on "The Power of Procrastination". If you read his comic regularly, you would know he travels all over the world speaking at different universities. Weirdest part of the talk:

Jorge Cham: "Any actuarial scientists here?"
Random humanities grad student: "Not on this coast"
Jorge Cham stands blankly in confusion for a long period of time.

Sounds Like Me

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Quotables

Here are the rules of the game (for me):
Pick 10 of your favorite movies
Write a quote from each movie
Make your friends guess the quote
Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed

These rules are for you people:
Don't cheat.
Leave your answer(s) in the comments.

1. Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain or also more commonly known as Amélie
   
2. Hey! What're you kicking me for? You want me to ask? All right, I'll ask! Ma'am, where do the high school girls hang out in this town? Swingers
   
3. Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear. Empire Records
   
4. Sir. Whilst I don't wish to be rude, I do believe that you watched too many Tarzan films as an impressionable child. Mean Machine
   
5. The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory. Lola rennt or more commonly known as Run Lola Run
   
6. That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer. Snatch
   
7. You're the only woman for me. You and Janet Jackson. Enemy of the State
   
8. If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything, I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive Nick. Now, do you understand everything I've just said? Cause' if you don't, I'll kill ya! Now, Mr Bubble and Squeak, you may enlighten me. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
   
9. Man, I wanna see a picture of this Nubian princess. If you were any less black, you would be clear. Go
   
10. My line? My most effective one is to tell a girl she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears -- It seldom works. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    

Bonus Questions:
Which two of quotes were said by the same actor? Vas Blackwood
Which three movies have the same producer? Matthew Vaughn

Hit and Miss

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, iPod on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds!
There were way too many so I used the same ones LynnieC did.

How would you describe yourself?
"French Taunter Part 1", Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
Strangely perfect description

How do you feel today?
"Marching the Hate Machines into the Sun", Thievery Corporation featuring the Flaming Lips
I know the song and even I'm confused

What is your motto?
"Star", David Bowie

I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey - and I'd c'mon like a regular superstar

What do your friends think of you?
"What I Got", Sublime
"Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that"
Apparently my friends don't know me very well.

What do you think about very often?
"Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois", Sufjan Stevens
Wow, I'm nerdier than I even knew.

What do your parents think about you?
"Gonna Buy Me a Dog", The Monkees
Weep

What do you think of your best friend?
"Leaving to Stay", Jonny Lang

What is your life story?
"Sunny Days (Sesame Street Theme)"

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Black Math", The White Stripes
Creepy

What do you think when you see the person you like?
"Blackbird", The Beatles

What song will they play at your wedding?
"I Wear My Sunglasses at Night", Corey Hart
I'm pretty sure that will be played at LynnieC's wedding over and over and over again as she air guitars down the aisle

What will they play at your funeral?
"Chramer, Gip Die Varwe Mir - Krämer, Gib Mir Die Frabe", Carmina Burana
A little too triumphant

What is your hobby/interest?
"Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe", Barry White

What do you think about love?
"Seed 2.0", The Roots

Knocked up nine months ago
And what she's fittin' to have she don't know
She wants neo-soul cause hip hop is old
She don't want no rock'n roll
She want platinum, ice and gold
She want a whole lot of somethin' to fold
If you're an obstacle she'll just drop you cold
Cause one monkey don't stop the show

What is your biggest flaw?
"Dream a Little Dream", Mamas and the Papas
I wish it wasn't true.

What is your best trait?
"Brand New Key", Melanie Fathkay
That's kinda gross

Quote for this Generation Too

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

* Winston Churchill, Speech at the House of Commons, 12 November 1936

Studying Checklist

1. Pen
2. flash cards
3. lab companion
4. Watch hockey
5. Watch SportsCentre
6. Watch recorded SportsCentre from yesterday
7. Search you tube for videos of Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole
8. Watch Jay Onrait interview Sidney Crosby you tube videos
9. Stumble on W5 piece on Carey Price
10. Search for Carey Price videos on you tube
11. Search for Onrait/ O'Toole Facebook groups
12. Take my turn on three separate games of Scrabble on Facebook
13. Blog

Now that I have everything I guess I can study now.*




*The sad thing is my sister procrastinates more than I do. I should have never gotten her an early birthmas present.

Fish

You can feed my fish just by clicking.



I added a smaller tank to the sidebar.

How is a girl expected to study?

Canadiens clinch division over Senators
CBC Sports, Last Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | 10:26 PM ET

I'm so giddy. I feel bad that I want them not to win the Eastern conference so they will play Boston in the first round.

Weird thing is I now prefer to watch hockey en français. It was a pleasant break on Saturday not to have to listen to Don Cherry's nattering. Although I did change to the game in English just long enough for Grapes to complain about "the tree huggers".

That's me in pictures: update

Here’s how it works:
1. Go to http://www.photobucket.com/
2. Type in your answer to the question in the “search” box
3. Insert the picture into your Blog

Updated!!!!!What is your relationship status?

Yes, I am single but I don't have time for anything else.

What is your current mood?


What is your favourite movie?


What kind of pets do you have?


Where do you live?


Where do you work?


What do you look like?


What is your favourite TV show? (I went with ones on the air right now)


Describe yourself


What are you going to do tomorrow?
What I do every day....


What is your name?


What is your favourite candy?

7 Odd Things About Me

Yes, yes, tag I'm it. I finally got to it.

1. When bored I often imagine sound effects to people’s words or that the people around me break into elaborate dance sequences and /or musical numbers. My mind is very amusing.

2. When I was a first year teacher at a conference, I found out that my ability to learn by hearing is incredibly low and learning by doing and seeing are incredibly high. Learning by hearing is so low that the teacher facilitating the session was surprised I got good grades in school. People learn less by hearing than by seeing or doing but I learn way less than normal.

It really made sense to me. People have accused me of being hard of hearing and I usually retort that I am hard of listening. I can’t really spell something by sounding it out but rather remember what it looks like. Sometimes I even forget what word sounds match with what letters. Telling me a phone number or how to spell a word? You have to slowly say one letter/ number at a time. If I’m occupied with something else and someone starts talking to me, they will be half way through what they are saying even before my brain has processed that someone is trying to talk to me. I have a hard time watching TV if people are talking. This is why I often sit in the basement by myself to watch TV.

3. I was one of the shortest girls in my class up until grade 8. In two months I grew about 4 inches and became the second tallest girl in my school.

4. I hated apple juice even from the time I was a baby until I started getting allergy shots. I loved orange juice but it started making me very sick. I can only drink in it if it mixed with other juices or if I only have half a glass occasionally.

5. I can’t seem to eat crusts on bread. They are all scratchy on the roof of my mouth. If I’m eating a sandwich I’ll eat the crusts of the first half but not of the other. I used to dip my crusts in orange juice but now cannot (see above).

6. English was always my best subject in high school. I was always good at math but I was passionate about literature (still am). I didn’t get passionate about math until my second year as a teacher.

7. I can rewind and fast forward songs in my head. This may sound contrary to #2 but it actually isn’t. People’s ability to remember music is different than regular listening skills.

Book Meme

1. Name one book that changed your life.
The Information by Martin Amis. I really started to look at the world differently after reading it.

2. Name one book you have read more than once.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Has to be the most pleasant book ever. It makes me happy in the same way Amelie and Pushing Daisies do. Everyone needs to be reminded what it is like to be a little kid.

3. One book you would want on a desert island.
The Bible. It is the Book of books you know.

4. Two books that made you laugh.
Joe's Apartment by Gordon Korman
The Information (it realy made me realize what a dark sense of humour I have).

5. One book that made you cry.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. A little boy named Oskar finds a key in hidden vase by his father who died on 9/11. The boy begins to search to see what the key is for. I loved this book even more than Everything is Illuminated.

6. One book you wish you’d written.
Can't think of any.

7. One book you wish had never been written.
Fifteen by Beverley Cleary. Seriously the worst book I've ever read in my entire life. A teenage girl wants a yellow rain slicker but her mom buys her pick one. Said teenage girl gets so upset she puts roses in the garbage disposal. Parents can't handle such a rebellious girl so they decide to send her way to live with her mom's friend. Teenage girl finally gets a boyfriend who just happens to be a popular basketball player. He starts failing classes so they aren't allowed to see each other anymore. One her last day before going home she realized that she really truly loved this random boy who is barely in the book. She is devastated. There was a lot of "You got to be kidding me!" while reading this book.


8. Two books I am currently reading.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I'm about 2/3 done which means I've read over 600 pages. This book is never going to finish. A coworker remarked "What? Only Tolstoy's second longest book?".
I'm currently also reading Physics: Principles with Applications and Programming and Problem Solving With C++

"Totally Lame" Meme (a little late)

TO DO:
List 5 things you do, did or like that some may consider “totally lame,” but that you are totally proud of.
1. When I play a game, I play by the rules -- no variations. I hate to play "house rules" for Monopoly (i.e. money for free parking, not allowed to buy until after you've gone around the board once, etc.) It only makes a long game even longer. It annoyed my grandma that I didn't want to play Scrabble with 9 tiles instead of 7. I realize there are many variations of card games which does not bother me as long as the rules and variations are decided on before the game starts.

2. I still love the Daily Show. I've had a huge crush on Jon Stewart ever since "the Jon Stewart Show" that came on after Lettermen for a brief time. Some people say it isn't as funny as it used to be but show like it change in waves. Right now a lot of the "correspondents" are relatively new and trying to find the pace of the show. Most people don't remember what it was like when Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Rob Corddry and Ed Helms were new. Exact same thing. At the time I was heartbroken that Mo Rocca, Nancy Walls and Beth Littleford were gone. Eventually over time the new people became favourites as well.

3. I adore Martha Stewart. Yesterday I was reminded of it when she said a recipe called for 2 rims of celery. Martha would never incorrectly call it a stalk. People don't realize how funny she is unless you've seen her eat bean burritos and drink malt liquor on Conan.

4. Math & Science. People don't realize that I love learning about any topic but math and science seems to be less socially acceptable.

5. As many others have mentioned, I have many stuffed animals in my room (well my room in Calgary, they are packed away right now). I have a friend who is a complete minimalist, she thinks anything that does not have a use and is used often needs to be gone. It is so beyond her comprehension to keep something for sentimental reasons. My stuff animals were on top of my bookshelves, they weren't in the way of anything. She said to me "You are a grown woman, you should not have stuffed animals!" I completely disagreed.

Right Brain versus Left Brain

Bron saw her turning counter-clockwise, I saw her turning clockwise. Right brain thinker? Makes sense to me. I've taken a lot of career interest and personality tests in my time and it isn't tell me anything new.

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Optimus Janice

janice --

[noun]: A human transformer (Robot in disguise)

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Career Advice

I think this list demonstrates how diverse my interests are. I'm amused that high school teacher is at #24.

1.	Biomedical Engineer
2.	Mining Engineer
3.	Materials / Metallurgical Engineer
4.	Electrical Engineer
5.	Astronomer
6.	Physicist
7.	Agricultural Engineer
8.	Petroleum Engineer
9.	Industrial Engineer
10.	Oceanographer
11.	Environmental Engineer
12.	Chemical Engineer
13.	Mechanical Engineer
14.	Aerospace Engineer
15.	Music Teacher / Instructor
16.	ESL Teacher
17.	Foreign Language Instructor
18.	Actor
19.	Computer Trainer
20.	Astronaut
21.	Computer Engineer
22.	Special Education Teacher
23.	Elementary School Teacher
24.	High School Teacher
25.	Director of Photography
26.	Coach
27.	Lighting Technician
28.	Early Childhood Educator
29.	Director
30.	Professor
31.	Civil Engineer
32.	Geologist
33.	Hydrologist / Hydrogeologist
34.	Meteorologist
35.	Mathematician
36.	Musician
37.	Comedian
38.	Casting Director
39.	Corporate Trainer
40.	Composer

If you want to try this one out, you go here, enter in the username "nycareers" and the password "landmark".

Watch the New Shows You Will love

Watch with Kristin's TV Fan Personality Quiz - Let Kristin help you decide which new fall shows are your best bet. Are you a geek? Are you chic? Or are you unique?*


*Big "surprise", I'm unique but geek was a close second.

Vanity, Thy Name is Woman*

I have this problem where when my finger nails are long I become so vain it becomes a serious distraction. Right now my nails are the longest they have ever been and this past weekend I gave myself a french manicure. It is the best job I have ever done. My nails are so pretty! Serious distraction time. I pretend to listen to what people are saying but I'm really thinking "I wonder if they've noticed my nails?" Sometimes I catch a glimpse of them and I can't stop staring.

Years ago I was at a convenience store, trying to navigate the aisles. I put my hand on a young man's back as I said "Excuse me". Just then I got distracted by my nails and my hand lingered on his back a little too long. I think I gave him the wrong idea. I need to write a book "She Just Not That Into You -- She's Just Vain About Her Nails".

*This is not the first time I've modified this quote. My football coach of a Grade 12 English teacher was very amused by the discovery that I had anonymously left "Stupidity, thy name is man" on the chalkboard across the hall.
Other considered titles: "I'm So Vain, I Know this Song is About Me"; "Vanity, Vanity, All is Vanity"; "Ecclesiastical Dilemma".

Right now my mom is shaking her head and rolling her eyes (possibly saying "Oh brother"). And yes, I do realize how late it is.