Thanks to a recommendation in another blog, I've just wasted an hour playing GeoSense, a geography game on the net.

I was playing with the US map (because I'm better at that than the world map X_x;) and I realized... I'm so bad at US Geography. XDD; Fear my uber Canadian-ness! I can't even locate New York City on a map even though my cousin ( Read more... )

General weirdness from Rhia and I (and college rankings! XD):

[12:02] Aika Artemis: O_o McMaster University in Canada is ranked 155 in the world... what's McMaster?
[12:02] Aika Artemis: (has never heard of it, ever)
[12:02] rhiach4n: Dunno. Sounds like a McDonalds menu item...
[12:03] Aika Artemis: XDDDDDD
[12:03] Aika Artemis: "I'll have a McMaster's ( Read more... )

My little brother (13) is having a fit about having to deal with difficult/annoying people. Since people are annoying him at middle school and will go to the same high school as him next year, he is--and I'm not kidding--begging mom to move the entire family to Surrey so he can go to a different high school ( Read more... )

The annual Georgia Straight Vancouver rankings are in! (The Georgia Straight is one of the local free weekly newspapers. Supposedly the most popular one, but I prefer The WestEnder. But WE doesn't do annual Vancouver rankings.)

Best Local Band: Nickelback (WHOO!!)

Best Vancouver Excuse to Goof Off:
1. It's not raining
2. It's raining

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I JUST DIED A BIT INSIDE.


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I just got a call from my counsellor--I won a student draw to hear the Dalai Lama at the Orpheum downtown on Friday.

To really appreciate the irony here, I need to take you all back two nights ago to a conversation I had with Mr Truss via MSN at two in the morning. I read something in The Vancouver Sun about a guy in California who writes letters ( Read more... )

MY BRAIN JUST A'SPLODED.

SRSLY.

http://immeritus.org/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10004/remus_and_sirius_twisting_by_manechan.jpg

Harry Potter fans beware... it's spoiler free, but... GAH!

*MINDRAPE**

"VIVA ITALIAAAA!!"

Yes, that's what I screamed today running up and down Commercial Drive. For those who don't live in the area/don't know, Commercial Drive is an area of Vancouver known as "Little Italy" because it's the center of most Italian activity in the city. The Italian population is HUGE there.

So, of course, that's where the party was.

The ( Read more... )

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I wuas rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod aer, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit nda lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae ( Read more... )

In ten minutes I'm catching a bus to meet Rhia at Lougheed! She's going to stay the night and I'm going to drag her all over Vancouver because she needs to get out more. I haven't seen Rhia in forever, since we go to different schools now ( Read more... )