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January 21, 2010

Ah, those twitchy little days of winter.

So, every once in a while I shake like a leaf in a high wind, occasionally twitch like...well, I don't have to put the reference in, but it involves crack. (Which, by thewaymygoodfriends, I do not do). Today is one of those days. Makes me want to go and run like a angry bear is behind me. Since I am in Saskatoon, I can't go for a run around town, so I have to settle for the gym. But I don't like the track.

When I get twitchy, I need to be outside and doing something.

I saw a guy with legs so skinny I could have probably closed my hand around them. No joking.

I hate my computer right now, since it won't play DVDs. And I finally found "Role Models". Arrrgghh.

....that's all I feel like typing today...God, I can barely even type. Best quit now while I'm ahead. -,-

January 11, 2010

HTML is the language of the gods!

Ah, computer science tutorial....a place where I get to play. Or show off my 3P1C KN0WL3DG3.

...which consists of a variety of interesting things and otherwise entirely unneeded tidbits.

I DID know what HTML stood for, though: Hyper Text Markup Language! THE LANGUAGE OF THE INTERWEBS. Which while not a series of tubes (though some say it is) , computers themselves were a series of tubes back in the day....like 1950 back in the day.

Reminiscing time!

Lessee. The oldest gaming system we have..is Pong. The original. Like the little knobs.

Then we have a Commodore 64, pretty much the best gaming thing ever. Floppy disks FTW. -still in the basement-

Then we got the Sega, then a Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, PS2, Gameboy Advance....I currently am enjoying the PS2 and GBA.

In computers we ended up discussing the Blue Screen of Death....which made me think of the XBox's Red Ring of Doom.

Lulz.

January 07, 2010

Awkward Elevator Silence, Among Other Things

Ah, yes, the awkward silence only found in a small elevator as you wait for it to get to your floor, panicking, wondering if you should say something-anything (the weather?)-to break the nerve-wracking quiet, only to thankfully exit mere moments later.

Feels like eternity, though.

Does anyone make up random life stories about people they pass? I do. It's quite amusing.

Enjoying: A delicious maple donut courtesy of Tim Hortons
Going to: Type up my english notes, mostly on meter and a bunch of symbols
Happy about: Buying a video camera case and burning 3.45 gigs of videos from Christmas (hard drive space! \(^o^)/

I found (actually typed that dnuof...dyslexics, untie!) myself taking larger steps than usual on my way back from class to avoid stepping on the tile cracks...at least up to the small tiles. Unavoidable and inexcusable....

....I have lots of interesting things from my classes today, but am too lazy to find where I wrote them.

...word.

January 05, 2010

Go in peace, my readers...until I throw you out a window.

Good gracious, English profs are an amusing bunch.

I quote:
"Grading essays is like dusting...no matter how much you do there is always more. And I'm afraid to put two essays on top of each other...they breed. I start with two, leave the room, come back and there are nineteen."

He also randomly told us that the word "defenestrate" means "to throw out a window".

Also, what is it with English profs and taking pictures of students to help remember their names...?

January 04, 2010

Sociological Camera: Capturing the Mob Mentality

I was assigned to a battlefield, a place of unholy chaos and terror the likes I'd never seen before-and I had been to some....odd...places. A rampaging koala could not have wreaked as much havoc. Death, destruction, and mystical mayhem.

I was at the U of S bookstore on the first day of classes.

Of course, I had gone at 9 am....the line was as long as time itself. Coming back-OMG WHO JUST SCREAMED D: -ten minutes later showed the line having shortened considerably. (This may be due to the little things I noticed-but more on that below.) I waded through the mass of texts and people crouched and sobbing in my quest to find the Almighty Texts. I was a bit disconcerted with the blood around the Political section, but mentally waved it off as an accidental fall into a shelf.

Unfortunately, I hadn't counted on the Guardians of the Books.


As it turns out, the U of S bookstore's renovations included their adding merchandise supporting said university. What was not advertised was the accidental aquiring of some creatures of myths and legends-and for good reason, I suspect. They were there to protect the books, and they had done an excellent job of it. -blooood eeeevarywheeere-

Needless to say, I ended up fighting a few Daityas using the Gewgaw, made a deal with Sekhmet involving candy and a few blood oaths, and gave a Xaphan a lighter to help him out.

All in all, a successful mission, I'd say. Many people were not as pleased as they attempted to wrestle with the Guardians of the Books of their particular genre. Oh, and it turns out the Politics Guardian was a giant tick.


Moving on! Moving up~

In class today, our teacher said she wouldn't ask us to jump around or dance on desks.

...I was a little disappointed.

Pondering: If it is possible to die from snowflake inhalation
Listening to: Sir Inksalot's disquieting fan problem
Soon be doing: Reading a text for Wednesday
Want to be: Playing guitar

~here we go exorcising, exorcising, exorcising~

January 03, 2010

Aaaand...we're back!

Holy father of the Great and Mighty Socrun, Ruler of All That Is Fictional, it has been a hiatus of epic proportions.

I'd like to start off by apologizing to my no doubt angry hordes of followers (here's to you that still check this!) and tell you that with the new year I have made a few resolutions....the first being, obviously, to get back on this page of delicious purple propoganda.

Other resolutions:
-Trip less (this was almost broken approximately 26 seconds after the new year, thanks to a certain rug that was not secured AT ALL to the floor)
-Use fisticuffs
-Videotape all my hijinks
-Find the Shadowbeast that lurks in the university (was so close a while ago-one day, you umbral personage! One day!)
-Determine which is more awesome: a unicorn or a narwhale?
-Write whatever chapter I am on of the UOP *shifty eyes*
-Fix my computer (hooray for Arts tunnel! How long is this open for... o_o')

But chyeah. Holidays=win.

I GOT UNO EXTREME WHICH IS AWESOME BECAUSE IT SPITS CARDS OUT AT YOU.

'Nuff said.

Your Blogod,
Tiffany

Addition: I felt like such a rebel. I blocked the wheelchair ramp-even though the sign says to NOT block it!

(of course, this was at like 10:30, so...no one was around to witness my act of rebellion. Such is my luck.)