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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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    .:Thursday, October 23:.

    ..:OMGWTF?!:..

    Holy Shit, I'm in the freaking Globe and Mail... No, really, go Here and check it out.

    Now, as I feel practically comatose, I'm bloody well going back to bed.

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    Meru at 4:40 PM

    .:Tuesday, October 21:.

    ..:Zombies and Sushi:..

    Hmmm, catching up on the last week. Went to the parents house on friday to scan all the family photos as a gift for my mum, only to discover that the scanner doesn't work with any of the compies and I have to take all the albums home with me to work on them. All 20 of them. Gah.

    Spent all of saturday afternoon scanning like mad and trying to ignore how sore I was from the tumble I took the other day. Finished all scanning, snapped at Jenn cause I was in a pissy mood, apologized and then ate far too many cookies for my own good.

    Went on the zombie walk with Kat, Kat and Brett on sunday, 4 hours of stumbling groaning zombies shambling across queen and then up bathurst and scaring the living piss out of the poor mundies. Lots and lots of fun!

    Kat, looking rather like some odd miz between a zombie cheerleader/raver. (The teeth are so cool, they were worried because Kat had burned them in the oven, but they look great!)


    Kat Piro getting all ready to go.


    Kat Piro in full zombie ragalia, the teeth are painted clay glued on with spirit glue, and the blood is all dyed corn syrup and red glitter. She's wearing one of Kat's dresses and as always, looks awesome.


    Star Trek Zombie, she made Kat squee like a little girl!


    The Marvel Zombies.... the crack of the comic book world..



    Well, most of the patrons of the restaurant are practically zombies anyway...


    Awwwww, those 2 are so cute. "Here lies my beloved Kat, somewhat less attractive now that she's all Zombified and gross."


    Close up of Kat, Hawt!


    Heading home, I have been declared the Zombie Wench of Howland Court, gotta love it!


    After the walk we hit Big Sushi on bloor. Best. Sushi. Ever. Seriously, forget new Gen, this was awesome, even if they were desperate to get us to leave as we actually had a ring of empty tables around us for a bit and we were making the other customers loose their appetites... All in a days work!

    Now am back at work, heading out with Brynne tonight to go see Passchendale, the new Paul Gross movie. Please don't suck! (Although honestly I'm not sure it's actually possible for Paul Gross to suck.....)

    Will update better later, but for now I am off to hunt for chocolate

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    Meru at 3:53 PM

    .:Tuesday, October 14:.

    ..:Thanksgiving and Thinking:..

    Am back from the Cottage. Was V. fun. Although very very crowded. Me, Beej, Mum, Dad, Drw, Kat, Owen AND Mon all under one roof. Plus the dog and my two monsters. Yeah, crowded.

    It was good though, we haven't had the whole family (including Kat and Mon) together for any good amount of time in quite a while. It was really really funny to see how we all kinda compare with how we live. All of us brought notebook computers up with us, Mum, Dad and Kat for doing work and school stuff, Drew for watching things, Owen just got his as a present and I brought mine to clean it up while I had a bit of free time. We also all brought a bunch of comics, which all got swapped and traded and passed about a bit as all good books should.

    Went down to the lake as well, it currently has a species of fish in it that's... really not supposed to be there. It's a type of mudskipper, butt ugly and I have a feeling really bad for the lake...

    Saw Dana (one of my dads good friends from the Emirates.) Mocked alot and had a bit too much to drink (as always). Spent 3 hours driving home on monday, wasn't too bad, damn hot though, especially with 3 people, lots of luggage as well as 2 unfortunate cats.

    Got home, was unpacking the car and immediately got invited to Jenn and Bills' thanksgiving dinner. Mmmmmm, roast lamb.... As it stands now I've had 3 thanksgiving dinners and have enough leftovers to choke a horse. And there is Pie, oh gods is there Pie.

    I love the fall, pumpkin flavoured everything and halloween and carving pumpkins and good food. Driving through the country when the whole world looks like it's on fire, and just enough cold for it to nip and for me to wear coats without it being too bad. Being able to wander toronto in full ren-gear and demon contacts and not have the mundies give me a second glance... I love the fall...

    Am going crazy at work recently, Brandi, the data-entry person, has been off sick for 5 days in a row noe. Not good. And one of the people in the office has spent most of today in a massive shouting match with a driver, amusing, but also not terribly fun.

    Have had alot of time to think recently, and am seriously considering a few options with the whole housing.... thing. If Jenn moves out in December and Tiff can't move in, and I can't find a roomate I think I'll move in with Drew and Kat, they have the room and it's a good distance from work, and rent would go down. If Tiff does move in I think I'll quit, try and pick up a job in the city, and look into taking some evening and summer courses over the next little while.

    Either of these are pretty temorary though, still thinking I want to move out to Vancouver after the 2010 Olympics and try to go to UBC out there. I dunno, thoughts anyone?

    This weekend looks to be rather mad, parties and the Zombie walk and shopping, sweet! Have also decided that Meredith WILL get in shape even if it kills her (which it might really). I am so sick of being tubby it's not funny and now thanksgiving is over so I REALLY have no damn excuse in the world.

    So tonight, it's back to the weights and the cycling, at least now that I have my I-phone I can watch TV and stuff while I'm doing it.

    Ah, all the line just lit up on the phone, time to get back to work.

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    Meru at 12:53 PM

    .:Tuesday, October 7:.

    ..:Zombies:..

    Hmmm, ok, I gotta admit: though I may have felt like absolute crap on sunday and monday: Saturday night was totally worth it!!

    Saturday was the third time going to Nuit Blanche, but this time we had a bit of a twist: we all did the Zombies in Condoland exhibit in College Park. Spent friday doing makup tests and playing with Tiff's massive bloody SUITCASE of makeup. (and no, that is NOT an exageration) Then spent a few hours before we left making me, kat and beej resemble slightly rotted corpses. Will post photo's when I get the camera back from Kat, but Kat was in full Zombie Fashion Line regalia, Beej was in one of her dresses with my top hat and tails to finish it all off, and I went as gypsy/vodoun queen. No, really, got declared queen of the zombies. When you are doing a Zombie walk, surrounded by hundreds of other rotting corpses, and THEY'RE all shying away in fear? Freaking awesome. I love my contacts.

    Wandered about a few other exhibits after that, interesting stuff, but nothing really outstanding. A few sculptures, some interactive stuff, a Japanese-style wish tree, but nothing else terribly special. Unfortunately we couldn't find the exhibit that Tiff was doing, despite wandering around the West end of Queen street for half an hour. Finally we just gave up and headed off to the cameron house to see Mon and her bandmates from Hayley Stark play a set. Have never actually heard them play, very good, although definitely not what I was expecting from Mon. She does have an amazing voice though.

    Me and Beej headed home after that to crash, spent all of Sunday and Monday bumming about watching cheesy cartoons and trying to ignore my aching head.

    Blah.

    Dad stole my car this morning, he's taking it up to Woodstock to have uncle Terry take a look at it for me as it's been making some.... interesting noises recently. He seemed rather less than pleased about having to suffer the indignity of having to drive my itty-bitty little car. And in the mean time, I get to suffer the indignity of having to drive the Alkesh covered in math bumper stickers.

    Fun.

    Hmmm, Tiffany has just reported in that apparently they're making a sequal to 300, with Miller writing. Much as I adored that movie, this can only end badly.

    Bah, back to work. In the meantime though: here are a few photos others took of saturday:

    That's Kat in the front in the stripeys










    Me in full Zombie priestess/gypsy regalia, not the best photo, but you can see all the makeup work I did











    Zombie high school skank











    The biker? with the long hair? was fucking FRIGHTENING!

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    Meru at 10:27 AM

    .:Friday, August 15:.

    ..:Getting rid of a few links:..

    Okay, few odd things I've run accross while surfing about:

    First off, absolutely awesome news: JOHNNY DEPP IS PLAYING THE MADD HATTER!!. I love Tim Burton, both because of the really cool films and because that man has a ridiculous man-crush on Johnny Depp. Awesome.

    A really cool steampunk Jewelry creator. Seriously, I want about half of these.

    The best sculpture EVAR!! The day I buy a house I demand this as a housewarming present!

    The Fail Blog. A good waste of time at least....

    And last, I am considering buying this and I don't even have my license yet...

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    Meru at 12:45 PM

    .:Friday, March 7:.

    ..:Birthdays:..

    Allright, people keep harrasing me about presents and such for my Birthday, and honestly? There's not a hell of alot that I want. Anyone artistic *cough, Kat and Drew, cough* I have NO problems getting artistic stuff for my birthday, if a bunch of people wanted to chip in together maybe season 4 of NCIS? or season 3 of Battlestar? Ummm, comics, House of M? other than that I really can't think of anything... New shoes maybe? Or creepy stuffies, ummmmm.... yeah. That's all I've got, unless someone want's to help me pay off my damn credit card, that's the only thing I really NEED right now....

    Oh!, and for those who wanted to see the photo of me from the zombie birthday party, here:

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    Meru at 3:42 AM