I know this is old news, but I just around to reading PC World's "The 50 Most Important People on the Web". Did anyone else notice that of the 50 there were only 4 women, 3 Asian men, and 1 queen of all media?
Oh and the other 42?
It's whole wack of white guys!
BTW - I had to turn word verification back on. Spammers suck.
I have 2 major projects due tomorrow! Besides that I'm feeling much better now. So much so that I miss actually having a life outside of school and my home. As Raymi so eloquently puts it...
le sigh.
In the meantime, enjoy this:
Well then you've come to the right place!
The last few days have been way below normal temperatures, super dry weather and extreme winchills. Today it's not too bad, and all the snow is starting to melt.
Why poopee, you say, you should be happy it's warming up and the sun is shining!
My response: I wish I could be. For someone who is allergic to molds and dust it's pure hell. For the last 2 weeks, I've had an inflammation of the nasal passages and a sinus headache with serious light sensitivity from all the massive weather changes we've been having. I'm taking (legal) drugs like crazy, just so I can get out of bed and not have to wear sunglasses, even indoors. At least it hasn't turned into a cold and my period is mostly over.
Besides all that school is going super well. I finally got a couple of homework things back, so I'll be posting more photos soon. I am also killing in my critical theory class, I got 96 on my mid-term and have started tutoring one of my classmates.
Oh yeah, here is the a shot of my window painting, after session #5, which I did a couple of weeks ago and forgot to link here. 
Previous sessions
fuck you.
i want to die.
love always,
poopee shm-oh-my-gawd-get-me-some-painkillers-please
p.s. i don't have any photos from my birthday dinner, which was the most deeeeeeelicious meal i've had in a long, long time, because we were all too dumb to bring a camera and my camera batteries were dead. sigh. then we forgot to take pictures of my cake, before we ate the whole thing. so yeah, sorry or whatever. i'm going to go back to bed now, lie in the fetal position and cry myself to sleep.
Big up to my good friend Ren and her partners in crime! This has been in the works for a while, so if you're in Toronto in May, you gotta check it out.
what is up with you the last few days? hunh?
first we get a foot of snow, then a few days of sun and warm weather where most of the snow melted into a disgusting filty mess and then and i wake up this morning and what do we have?
thundersnow
thundersnow??? seriously????
because now oscar is hiding in the bathroom. and it's your fault. 
i hope it was worth it.
Kirk also bought Ark II recently. There is not one thing about this show that I can remember. Not a single thing. I've watched a few episodes and it's OK I guess. In a hilariously preachy sort of way.
Last month Kirk bought the whole first season on DVD. He just couldn't resist his childhood appeal of a show with a yacht, a speedboat, a helicopter AND a ro-boz.
I was about 12 when Riptide aired so for me I mostly watched it to see Perry King. At that time, I regularly crushed on Dirk Benedict (A-team), John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard), Lee Horsley (Matt Houston), Jon-Erik Hexum (Voyagers & Cover Up), Bruce Willis (Moonlighting), Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.), Scott Baio (Charles in Charge), Daniel Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) and Jason Bateman (It's Your Move). Man, I know that last one seems out of place but Jason Bateman was pretty close to my age, and in that show he was a total brat, so I totally went for him like the crushing retard I was.
That is until 21 Jump Street in 1987. For many years to come, it was all about Johnny. Sigh.
Art as a collaborative effort between producer and viewer/receiver.
I handed out hand made Valentine's Day cards to everyone in my class, as an example of the practice that often happened when I was in grade school where we had to hand out Valentines to everyone in the class, whether you liked them or not, just to be sure no one would felt left out. How we were, in some ways, being brainwashed into buying into the bullshit concepts of romantic love. Seriously, no wonder so many people want what they can't have, or think that that's the only kind of real love there is.
Inside each card was a quotation about the notion of love in a few different contexts, minus the romantic aspect. The crass commercialization that is displayed every February nauseates me, but I didn't want to the project to be too cynical about it either. My hope was to provoke in the receivers some kind of thoughts about what love meant to them.
OK. So, it was kinda simplistic, but the idea was to present a prototype of a larger project I could do outside of the school setting, with enough time and effort, based on the ideas of unconditional love and random acts of kindness. I could randomly pick names out of the phone book, take their address and send them a pretty handmade card on Valentines Day (or any other holiday or for no reason, really), with no expectations for anything in return. Since I didn't sign them, I told my classmates that they were free to pass the cards on to anyone they wanted, sort of paying it forward (so to speak).
Anyway, it's giving me a few ideas of a couple of collaborative projects I can do with the great folks I've met through blogging. That means you!
I'm still working it out, so stay tuned for that.
my husband found these this morning.
from the moment i met him i knew he was a keeper.
okok. since i know he sometimes reads this i will have to admit that it actually was from the second time i met him that i knew. the first time i was introduced to him, i was all, "yeah, yeah, nice to meet you. so anyways....." and kept talking to whoever it was i was talking to at the time.
yeah. i'm lucky he has the hots for me.
colour and composition class project#1
acrylic on 3, 5x7 canvasses
project guidelines:
Did anyone else notice those white hairs? Yeah...it's because I'm getting old. On the 28th I'll be 33.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about procreation. Not just the practicing part, but the actual spawning part (I know, I know, real romantic).
There's part of me that feels more capable now of caring for another human being, which I never really felt before. But the truth of the matter is, I'm having a hard time imagining myself pregnant, or toting a babe around with the hell of a school week I just experienced.
That being said, I wonder if there's ever really a perfect time to do something like this?
it's not my fault we had a huge snowstorm and pardon me for having to carry a largish box while you sighed and rolled your eyes at me after i had to shove you out of the way when you wouldn't give me a little room to pass.
go fuck yourself.
to everyone else, happy valentine's day!
oh and here's another shot of missy, this time with my dad.
Isn't it obvious tell that I am PUMPED for my upcoming critical theory exam?
I spent the whole day yesterday, studying for that exam with Cheryl and felt so braindead that I didn't do a lick of homework last night. Instead, Kirk and I watched Bon Cop, Bad Cop, which was really good. Being half French Canadian, and bilingual, I got a real kick out of the dialogue. I wanted to watch it without subtitles, but Kirk gave me stinkeye about it, so we watched it with English subtitles. Basically it's about the tensions between Ontario and Quebec explored through the buddy cop genre as Colm Feore and Patrick Huard investigate a series of murders that take place within the "hockey community". I don't even really like hockey but I LOVED this movie.
Here is a shot of Oscar sulking with his mini-teddy because we were watching a movie and not playing with him.
Oh and thanks for all your advice on the stink problem I was having with my sweater on Friday. Please note that I have HEARD of deoderant, and understand how it works, it's just that damned sweater that needs to be burned like all future news items about Anna Nicole Smith.
A few years ago, I stopped using anti-perspirant. I was starting to get pimples in my pits and figured that smearing aluminum there every day might not be such a good thing to do. So far natural deoderants seem to work great - as long as I wear clothing made of natural fibers. Right now I'm at work, wearing my favourite black turtleneck sweater. It's acrylic. And I stink - but it's not even a normal sweat stink. It's acrid and makes me want to cry.
I love this sweater but hate that it makes me sweat more and smell after only a few hours. I totally showered today and everything. Ugh.
my favourite part is the opening credits theme music. the rest is kinda funny and kinda dumb.
the painting is on hold for a while, so i can work on mid-term stuff that's due in 2 weeks. yeeeehaw!
Thanks to Squid and Tense Teacher, here's a taste of what's in my iTunes party shuffle:
The second week of school is almost over and it's been pretty good so far.
Except now I'm considering changing my major.
To printmaking.
Yeah.
After only 2 classes. I'm working on some stencils. Photos soon.
It's FUN!
My printmaking prof is Jack Cassady, and of all my homework, it's the only stuff I'm at all excited about.
I feel a little insane.
I guess the thing about it is, is that I LOVE painting, but I guess I'm feeling that I already CAN paint. What's interesting to me right now, is learning new ways of getting colour on paper or canvas. I'm all about the HANDS ON work.
Anyway, the deadline's not until February 2nd. So I won't worry about it yet.
sigh. Why am I here again?
I'm not sure how often I'll be posting while school's on, but I will try to stay on top of the blog and share more of my projects and stuff.
In the meantime, here are some super cute photos of my nephew, Kirk, who we visited in Kingston this past weekend.
Oh and here's two of the cat and dog together after spending the night apart. Usually they are fighting:
And here's a creepy croissant Kirk bought for me:
Oh! And some Christmas presents. My new mini mouse for the iBook and a GINORMOUS pepper grinder (IT WORKS!) from my brother. 
every time i do stuff, i plan to write about it here, or post pictures and then i end up doing something else, or not having my camera or whatever.
i wish i could be more committed to it.
here's some photos of my current painting in progress.
sigh.
Ok, so I've stayed away from my computer as much as possible over the last few days. I was starting to get that weird carpal tunnel feeling, which could also be from the repetitious nature of shovelling food and chocolate and booze into my gullet over the last 2 weeks, but who can say for sure really. I think that's the only resolution I plan to make this year, to take better care of my physical self. I'm going to be 33 in a couple of months, and have definitely felt the lack of physical activity and overeating. Any resolutions of your own?
I did finish a painting finally (see above). Though, I'm not totally satisfied with it, I have decided to leave it for now. What do you think?
I also totally forgot to take photos of our little New Year's Eve soiree. The Melissas came over and we ate a roast chicken dinner that I cooked, plus the salad the Missys brought, and THE MOST DELICIOUS PUMPKIN DESSERT I HAVE EVER TASTED that Kirk made. We also drank 2 bottles of wine, 2 bottles of champagne, a lot of coffee and amaretto. We also played a game of Texas Hold'em with a $20 pot. I totall lost my $5.
How was your New Year's Eve?
In case any of you are interested, here are the recipes for what we cooked:
ROAST CHICKEN WITH CITRUS AND MARJORAM
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adapted from a recipe in The Conran Cookbook
1 chicken, preferably free-range
2oz butter
1 small onion
2 oranges
1 lemon
1/2 cup of Jack Daniel's
1 tbsp of black pepper corns
4-5 sprigs of dried marjoram or 1tbsp crushed marjoram
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Rinse the bird, then loosen the skin from the meat.
Slice 1 orange and 1 lemon, about 1/4" thick and slide them and half of the marjoram under the skin.
Quarter the last orange and the onion.
Stuff the bird with the remaining orange, onion and remaining marjoram, and pepper corns.
Put the bird in a roasting pan and spread the butter all over the breast and legs.
Pour the Jack Daniel's into the roasting pan, then roast it. It's about 1hr for a 3lb bird. Since ours was 6 lbs, it took just over 2 hrs.
Baste the bird often with the pan juices.
Use the leftover crusty bits and citrussy-jackdanielsy-pan juices to make the most delicious gravy ever.
Deglaze the pan with 1/2 cup white wine and bring to a boil.
Add about a cup of water and simmer for about 5 minutes to evaporate the alcohol. Dissolve a tablespoon of flour into a bit of cold water and pour into the bubbling sauce.
Then whisk until it thickens to the desired consistency.
LENTILS AND LEEKS
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from The Winter Vegetarian
2lbs leeks, rinsed and sliced 1/2" thick, including some of the green part
2 large carrots, peeled and sliced 1/2" thick
1/4 cup olive oil
2 1/2 cups water
1 cup green lentils
1 tsp sugar
1 1/4 tsp salt
Fresh ground black pepper
In a large saucepan toss the leek and carrot slices with olive oil.
Cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, until the vegetables are lightly browned, then stir in the remaining ingredients.
Cover the pan and simmer the mixture for 1 hour, until the lentils are tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed.
To keep the leek slices intact, do not stir.
Serve hot.
PUMPKIN POUND CAKE
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adapted from the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Family Favourites (don't bother looking for this, I got it from Kirk's mom)
1 cup cooking oil
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups flour
20oz tin of pumpkin (we used a 28oz tin and put in a little extra flour)
2 cups pecans
Preheat the oven to 325F.
Mix all the ingredients together and bake for 1 hour.
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"i'm thinking about convincing kirk to let me take the summer off working full time, so i can take some courses to get a head start next year"
"really, shmoopee? does he know that?"
"no, we haven't really talked about it yet, why?"
"cause he's sitting right next to me here. in the same room as you."
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