So I finally managed to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday. Yay! Yes, I went by myself. It wasn't showing much anywhere, so when I was buying my ticket from the machine and realised it was in the IMAX theatre, and cost a bit extra, I couldn't really change my mind. Still, I told myself, it just means it'll be a really big screen ( Read more... )

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This is a very crappy time, and it just seems to get crappier and crappier. But I won't bore you with that ( Read more... )

Wow.

I owe you one Kelly!

I've just watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and I am totally in love.

This is all because of madhowan's crazy icons that had me perplexed and, when I asked what the hell "shiny new Australia" was all about, first heard about Joss Whedon's short movie.

We were at Big Daddy's looking for a movie to watch (rented Toronto Stories ( Read more... )

It's going up to 8˚C today. All those 6 foot piles of snow are going to start melting all over the place. It's going to be warm! And very wet, because it's supposed to rain as well! Crazy.

We watched Passchendaele ("Passion-dale") last night. I don't know if it's made it to Australia or not but if it does I really recommend it. It's a Canadian ( Read more... )

Last night we went out for dinner and a movie (first time since my birthday) and saw Slumdog Millionaire. It was PHENOMENAL!!

Seriously, this is the best movie I've seen since Across the Universe, original, engrossing from the first second, beautifully filmed, wonderfully portrayed, funny and bittersweet. We went in not really knowing anything ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes! *hugs*

Had a great dinner, and crepes for dessert, then went to see Twilight which was actually quite good - I think it's always going to be a bit "not quite there" for anyone who's read (and loved) the book but my friends hadn't read it or heard much about it and they really enjoyed the movie. So ( Read more... )

Phew! Week 3 is over and I can finally breathe again! I'm actually enjoying a four-day weekend and, since I'm only teaching ONE PERIOD!!!! next week (the final week of Practicum) I don't have anything to stress over, so can actually relax and get some real sleep and all the rest of it ( Read more... )

Hello. I'm procrastinating. Trying to ease the panicky feeling in my gut :) I have to plan four lessons, with a fifth having some kind of evaluation task, for grade 10 Great Expectations unit. It's only up to the end of volume 1. The first lesson will be on the time period, and the next three on character study and caricature. It's a little ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday madhowan ! I'd do the sparkly thing but I don't remember how!

Looks like we're getting into that time of year when pretty much everyone's born! Christmas or New Year babies *smirk* ;)

Today has been such a write-off. I haven't got anything done. By the time I got home it was about 1.30. Then I had to make myself some lunch and check all my ( Read more... )