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    A good story should provoke discussion,
    debate, argument...and the occasional
    bar fight.
    -- J. Michael Strazynski




    ..:Hilarious Trajedy .:. Katie
    ..: Aerial Ambition .:. Tiff
    ..:Tales from Trent .:. Beej
    ..:Realm of Angst .:. Nikki
    ..:Mad Scientist .:. Bish
    ..:Grey Skye Blue .:. Brynne
    ..:Elected Potatoe .:. Sean
    ..:Magdelina .:. Kat

    ..:Fanthroplogy .:. Research
    ..:Scary Duck .:. Weirdness
    ..:The Dreaming .:. Neil Gaiman
    ..:Whedonesque .:. Joss Whedon
    ..:Photo a Day .:. Something Interesting
    ..:WKOA .:. Odd
    ..:Belle Du Jour .:. Secret Diaries
    ..:Nee Naw .:. Dispatchers Tales
    ..:Confessions of an Aca-Fan .:. Henry Jenkins
    ..:CJSD .:. Brando
    ..:LUTD .:. Tales from the Undeground
    ..:Inky Circus .:. Odd Tales
    ..:Copper's Blog .:. Met Cop
    ..:Occasional Superheroine .:. Marvel Girl
    ..:AE .:. Ed Kennedy's Blog
    ..:Sleep Talkin Man .:. Nocturnal Ramblings
    ..:Blag Hag .:. A Bit of Fun


    ..:Sakura Crisis .:. Manga Scanlations
    ..:Ill Will Press .:. Neurotically Yours.
    ..:The Very Secret Diaries
    ..:Pancino .:. A Kick Ass Indi Band!
    ..:Bubblewrap .:. Boredom
    ..:Threadless .:. Good Clothes
    ..:Magdelina Designs by Kat
    ..:My OCAD .:. Ontario Artists
    ..:Facebook .:. Online People
    ..:The Mall Ninja .:. Redneck Stupidity
    ..:The Penn and Teller Essays
    ..:Tales From Homeward .:. Uncle
    ..:Overheard in the Office
    ..:Evil Mad Scientist Labs
    ..:Cool Aggregator .:. Cultural Oddities
    ..:The Fail Blog .:. Wasting Time
    ..:Cute Overload .:. More Time-Wasters
    ..:My Life Is Average .:. Stranger than Fiction
    ..:Not Always Right .:. Proof Humans R Crazy
    ..:Oddly Specific .:. A Collection of Signs
    ..:1000 Awesome Things .:. Neil Pasricha
    ..:Texts From Last Night .:. Hilarious




    ..:Boy Meets Boy .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Friendly Hostilities .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Other People's Business .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Questionable Content .:. J. Jacques
    ..:Girl Genius .:. Studio Foglio
    ..:XKCD .:. Who The Fuck Knows
    ..:Vampirates .:. Jones
    ..:Cigarro and Cerveja .:. Tony Esteves
    ..:Count Your Sheep .:. Adrian Ramos
    ..:Dog Eat Doug .:. Brian Anderson
    ..:The Awakened .:. Sarah
    ..:Menage A 3 .:. Giz & Dave
    ..:Gingers Bread .:. Carl Sjostrand
    ..:Legend of Bill .:. Dave Reddick
    ..:Brathalla .:. Jeff Stevenson
    ..:SGVY .:. Kittyhawk
    ..:Nice Hair .:. A. Mauchline
    ..:Something Positive .:. R.K. Milholland
    ..:Weregeek .:. Alina Pete
    ..:Schism .:.Leigh Bader
    ..:Least I Could Do .:. Ryan Sohmer
    ..:Basic Insturctions .:. Scott Meyer
    ..:Girls With Slingshots .:. Danielle Corsetto
    ..:Blip .:. Sage
    ..:The Abominable .:. Karl Kercht
    ..:All New Issues .:. Bill
    ..:Just a Little Bit Off .:. Jeff Zugale
    ..:Ctrl+Alt+Del .:. Tim Buckley
    ..:Shortpacked .:. David Willis
    ..:CAD Sillies .:. Tim Buckley
    ..:Looking for Group .:. Ryan Sohmer
    ..:Family Man .:. Dylan Meconis
    ..:White Noise .:. Madsniper
    ..:Magic High .:. Madsniper
    ..:The Dean Show .:. Minkmix
    ..:Saturnalia .:. Spacecoyote
    ..:Pandect.:. Dina Situ
    ..:Arcana .:. Kelly
    ..:Megatokyo .:. Fred Gallagher
    ..:Mini!Marvels .:. ChrisG
    ..:Mac Hall .:. Matt and Ian
    ..:9th Elsewhere .:. Caroline Curtis
    ..:Sluggy Freelance .:. Pete Abrams
    ..:YWAM .:. Aoi Hayashi
    ..:Skyfall .:. Rekka and Mirai
    ..:Picture Diary .:. Lianu
    ..:No Rest For The Wicked .:. Andrea
    ..:Shifters .:. M. Tary and J. Strocel
    ..:Oh My Gods! .:. Shivian







    ..:Ver. 1 .:. Half of Mine
    ..:Ver. 2 .:. Lost Girl
    ..:Ver. 3 .:. Broken Doll
    ..:Ver. 4 .:. Kanashimi
     ..:Ver. 5 .:. Sgoil Dhubh
    ..:Ver. 6 .:. Solas Suarach





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    .:Friday, March 20:.

    ..:Bad luck and Birthdays:..

    So. This really has been the week from hell. Whomever I ticked off up there?I;m sorry ok? Now stop taking it out on my pets!!

    Tribble is still pretty sick, her ear is actually better, but at the same time, the medication seems to make her a bit dizzy and sick. She keeps running into the edes of things and the bookshelves. V. cute to see, but really sad when she starts crying because she can't actually make it over to her food dish. Poor baby girl. Never more happy in my LIFE that I shell out the money on pet insurance every month.

    Birthday... has gone to shit as usual. Was planning on having small party this weekend, about 10 people, some wine, some chees, some ridiculously sugary snacks, etc. Oh, and booze of course. People all confirmed that they were coming, then I had a storm of voice mails and txts saying people couldn't come after all, so sorry and all that. Bah.

    Accidently blew up a bit at a few people, but this is WHY I never do anything for my birthday, cause this is inevitably what happens. People suck.

    Tiff is kinda awesome though, we're going to the circus tonight and then out to Kareoke with the boys from Mideval Times. I am literally going to spend my night with the Knights and Circus Freaks. Sweet. Like a mini-renfaire, but with more booze and bad pop music. You know what? That kinda is a ren-faire....

    So, this weekend will be spent with Friends and family, just not the way I was actually expecting.

    Here's hoping it doesn't suck.

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    Meru at 10:21 AM

    .:Thursday, August 7:.

    ..:Stupid drivers:..

    My everything hurts. Quite a bit worse than yesterday actually. See, Meredith walked down the street to get lunch yesterday, and got hit. No really. Some jerk in the parking lot didn't check their mirror and backed into me. Left knee, right shoulder are currently aching like no tomorrow, and Beej was there yesterday to help me yank out a sliver of glass I didn't realise was in my side.

    I want nothing more right now than to curl up in a hot tub and soak for a few hours...

    And in other news, I totally want to make one of these so badly. Geeky and chocolate, how can you lose?

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    Meru at 1:52 PM

    .:Monday, July 28:.

    ..:The good and the bad:..

    Okay, this weekend? Both really really sucked and was really really fun. I feel very conflicted.

    Spent literally ALL of friday night alternating between chatting with Tiff and doodling and then SCREAMING at my drivers because I got stuck on call cause a dispatcher called in sick. Boo-urns

    Saturday was a good breakfast out with tiff, then 10 hours of scanning family photo's for my mum. My back is killing me but I have some freaking awesome blackmail material. And possibly a few things to send to Mon.

    Sunday was... good breakfast out with a bunch of the girls, then coming out to find a ticket on my car. Going to wonderland to get shat on by a bird. Staying all day in the park and having a blast and then spending 2 hours driving everyone home and not getting to sleep until very VERY late and am quite useless. I've never been so pissed off and happy at the same time.

    My brain hurts.

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    Meru at 10:00 AM

    .:Thursday, June 19:.

    ..:Rude people and racism:..

    So, got up a bit earlier than usual today, made the effort to actual head in to the gym. I rather like going in really early as there was literally only 5 other people there, and three were supervisors.

    So I sat down at one of the weight machines, and right away the guy next to me lets out a shit eating grin and grabs a pair of handheld weights about 20 lbs heavier than the ones he had been working with. You all know the type, brainless jocks that think big bulky muscles will immediately make a girl swoon and pant. Dumb tosser.

    Which is why it was immensely satisfying to see the dumbass drop a weight on his foot and hop about like a little girl.

    One of the things I find I have really not missed about working in trucking is the rampant racism employed by... pretty much everyone in the industry. Anything that goes wrong is immediately associated to the driver being a "dumb paki" and everyone laughs. How is that funny? One of the women in the office spent a half hour or so this morning ranting about how immigrants are taking jobs away from those who "deserve" to have them. I got news for you, we're all immigrants, except for the native ammericans none of us "deserve" to be here, you have to earn it, and a hell of a lot of immigrants work alot fucking harder to earn their place in Canada than the "Canadians" do. Myself included, I take alot of things for granted and I know it, health insurance, schooling, literacy. Much as we bitch about our government and our lives, Canadians have it made.

    I just don't GET racism, and I know I have my parents to thank for that, and damn am I thankful. I like my friends because of that too, you lot are some of the most laid back, accepting people I know, and you have no idea what a relief it is to be able to come home and have an intelligent, reasonable and fun conversation with someone like that rather than talking to someone at work because there's honestly not anyone else to talk to.

    I hate how stupid humans can be, when are they gonna get that people matter? All that other shit just adds flavour.

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    Meru at 10:09 AM

    .:Monday, August 27:.

    ..:The good, the bad, and the downright Creepy:..

    So, haven't blogged in a few weeks now. I have a new trainee at work who has been occupying my time with her complete incompetence at this job. (Seriously, it's not that hard, and it's been a WEEK now and she hasn't improved). Anyway, not going to rant about work because that will just piss me off far too much.


    So, the pirate fest last week was small, but what was there was kinda fun. I don't think this is going to be a lasting event in any case. The Parrot Aid society was there, with the cutest damn bird in the world. This thing snuggled! His name was Peaches, and he was adorable, the thing even made BISH hug something. A sight to see. Met a leather worker who does custom made orders that are NICE for a damn good price, going to commision a couple of pieces off her I think.

    We did the first of the old movie fests, and I gotta admit I've been converted *ducks to avoid the flying pigs* Dammit.....

    Last Sunday was the trek to Wasaga Beach. It was kinda cold, but lots of fun, was digging sand out of my ears for DAYS after we got back, and we got horribly horribly lost on the way back. Never ever trust google maps, they're evil (and don't seem to get the fact that U-turns are illegal on most canadian roads)

    The week was hell (see rant about trainee above) but the weekend was sweet.

    This past weekend being, of course, the yearly event Fan Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It was V. good, amazing costumes (mostly really good Star Wars ones as it was the 30th anniversary for the origional films) It was also the year of spending far far too much money... I got Sandman. The giant leatherbound edition. It was about half of my spending money and it was SO worth it!! Also got several other stand-alone short stories or comics, and a few more stuffies and posters.

    Posters forthcoming when..... I have time, maybe tonight if I can actually remember!

    Then last night happened, I had gotten back from the con at around 6pm, had my brother and sis-in-law over for dinner. Good food, had some good new comics to read and a cat who wasn't being a complete spaz for once. It was shaping up to be a good night. So I settle in and get changed for bed and I hear someone knocking at the door. It's a guy who lives across the courtyard from me, nice person. Who said "Um, I don't mean to scare you, but I just chased off a man who was crouched down and looking through your window. He's gone now, but I thought I should warn you."

    My window.

    Of my room.

    Where I was just getting changed for bed.

    Fuck.

    I spent the night locking and pulling the blinds on all windows and doors and not sleeping (seriously, am dead tired right now)

    God is that creepy.

    Anyway, this is my last week of day-shift, I switch over to nights next week and start school the week after.

    Now back to work. Oh joy.

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    Meru at 11:22 AM

    .:Thursday, July 5:.

    ..:Geekgasms:..

    So, went and saw transformers with Jenn last night, AND IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!! Oh my god that movie was so damn brilliant! Everyone must go see it, now. Now I say!! Seriously, you could practically hear everyone in the theatre having geekgasms the moment Optimus Prime spoke!!

    Unfortunately didn't get back till really late, and then couldn't sleep cause the people across the courtyard from us had left their window open and you could hear them going at it like rabbits all damn night. Seriously, that's just not possible without some pharmaceutical help. Stupid people.

    Now all zombified at work and trying not to fall asleep on my key board...

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    Meru at 8:36 AM