practicality

I generally have very few complaints about this university - yeah, there's construction, yeah, some of the buildings are ugly, yeah, dealing with the administration blows, but this is widely true of universities everywhere, up to and including MIT (well, I can't speak about admin).

The one thing that really, truly drives me up the wall here, though, is UBC Athletics. UBC, unlike most universities in North America, is incapable of providing faculties for student use. Each student here pays about $200 in student fees, and the only facilities we get for free are a couple hours a day of use of the pool and Aquatics Centre gym (which isn't terrible, but it's not great either). Everything else? Pay extra. A full 4-month membership to the Aquatics Centre is $94. One for the good gym is $136. Tennis courts are $12 an hour for a student to book. Comparatively, a 4-month membership to all UVic facilities for a non-UVic uni student (ie, someone like me) is $102 - UVic students pay nothing other than their Athletic fees.

Fucking great, UBC Athletics. If they do end up closing the Aquatics Centre gym, there is no way in hell I'm shelling out for a membership. I'd rather get a membership to the YMCA or JCC or something which disgusts me less. And would probably be cheaper.

Okay, so the only two things that have managed to get me anywhere near hammered are several shots of Bacardi 151 (which, yes, I know, is not meant for human consumption), and somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters of a glass of Goldschlager (40% alcohol, for those unfamiliar with it). Apparently the first thing to go is my vision (those who wear both glasses and contacts fairly regularly - you know that unfocusing thing that you get when you take your contacts out? I've got that, but worse)

Although, uh, the coherency of this entry probably says something about my alcohol tolerance. Although I will admit to being in the sort of mood where I sing along very loudly to songs, regardless of how good I am (I can't judge my musical talent normally - tipsy? Not happening).

And many thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on Monday - went out for excellent Mexican with a few friends, had a few drinks (but it was Monday, so not very many). This week has been kind of crazy, but thankfully, it's almost over. And I've got aaaall my taxes and other paperwork DONE.

Just a reminder to all my friends in North America at least that daylight savings time has begun, so it's just after 2 PST. I think my clock may actually have reset itself, but as there are no guarantees - figured it'd be best to mention.

Also, my AIM has died horribly (as in it won't load - doesn't even give me error messages, just...nothing), sooo...if you want to catch me I'll be on MSN - address is my T-T.org one.

Almost twenty hours into DDS, just after the first set of stuff at Coordinate 136. There are actual plot spoilers this time, so, read at your own risk.

( Or, to quote the X Handpuppet Theatre: FORE-SHA-DOW-ING! )

Is there something about the name Jack that implies 'man-whore'? Because three of the five characters with that name I can think of would have sex with practically anything that moves, another one is debatable (Jack Sparrow), and only the fifth (Jack Skellington) is most definately not a man-whore.

RR!Jack is the reincarnation of Casanova, and accordingly has slept with half the characters in the game. Including Asher, because while he's less of a slut than most of the Jacks, his pants are not exactly hard to get into.

And totally, completely unrelated - if there is no Argilla/Sera bandwagon, I am forming one right now, damnit. Because I think it would be cute (and really, that's about the only justification I need for a ship).

Nope, haven't forgotten to do a con report and what not, it's just been a very busy week. This'll be shorter than the usual con report, because, well, Kei-kon is smaller than the usual cons I go to.
( The con )
( The photos )

I just had a thought this afternoon walking home from Chem - much as Asher has a lot of traits that originated in various friends of mine or myself (although at this point, most of them couldn't be picked out by anyone other than me, save maybe his emoticon choice ;) ), his cat, Francis, is a mix of a number of different cats I've known over the years - he's about the same build and color as Yama-kitty (a touch lighter and bigger, maybe), he's got Emma's tendancy to treat people as furniture, and chews on everything like Bitey. Not sure where the whole 'attack cat!' thing came from, though XD;

His full name is Francis Alexander Demter-Haring the Third - as you can probably tell, Ally named him. Asher just calls him Francis.

forelyse tagged me for this a couple days ago - I have a fantastic tension-headache right now, and need to take a deep breath and just chill.

Name ten things (in no particular order) that make you happy and tag five others:
1) Hugs
2) A nice hot cup of tea
3) Sleeping in
4) Mail
5) Chocolate
6) Cats
7) Cat macros
8) Long hot showers
9) Good fic/art for my favorite pairings (particularly the obscure ones)
10) Laundry fresh out of the dryer

Tagging: minasehijiri, kin_leung, riddled, kurosakihisoka, naoka_chan

And now, a nice hot cup of tea ♥

Yoinked from gamera, because I am bored. Some of these are very easy, some, maybe not so much. And there's a few older fandoms of mine in the mix because I only tended to have a small handful of things I'm really really into at a given time, which is less fun, as well as some things I'm a fan of, but not in fandom for.

1. Post a list of fandoms.
2. Have your friends guess your favorite character from each fandom.
3. When guessed, add to the list your favourite characters and a sentence explaining why you like them.

1) Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (riddled) One with two - Lucifer: Sexy Evil Bastard, and man is he evil. Delightfully so.
2) Resident Evil (grayhour) Leon: Pretty without being girly, gigantic dork, consume Nice Guy - what's not to love?
3) Devil May Cry (grayhour) Vergil: Classy, and I have a soft spot for snarky uptight bastards with daddy issues
4) FF6
5) FF7 (riddled) One of the ones with two right answers - Rufus: Same as Vergil, largely and Tseng: All the loyalty with a strong side of sexy badass
6) FFX (riddled Braska: Pretty, and a total nice guy without being really naive.
7) X (bramblyhedge) Seishirou: Sexy Evil Bastard. And an assassin!
8) Cardcaptor Sakura
9) Torchwood (bramblyhedge) Ianto: See explanation for Horatio, pretty much. And he's pretty!
10) Yami no Matsuei (grayhour) Tatsumi: Cheap bastard, and a pretty one at that - totally a man after my own heart.
11) Hamlet (grayhour) Horatio: Many people have heard me ramble about why Horatio is the greatest guy EVAR, but basically - he's the sort of guy I want to be: smart, kind, completely loyal.
12) Fullmetal Alchemist (bramblyhedge) Roy: Snarky and wonderful!
13) Heroes (bramblyhedge) Hiro: Adorable nerd-boy ♥
14) House, MD (riddled) Wilson: Same reasoning as Braska (Cuddy's up there, though ^^)
15) Star Trek (bramblyhedge) Spock: My first fangirl-love ever. He's so wonderfully deadpan and smart.

So, my friend Justin is thinking about transfering from Engineering to Science (a move I fully support), and was talking about going down to talk to Engineering Student Services about it:

Justin: So, basically, I have to go and tell them 'I don't want to be raped up the ass by you any more, I want to be raped up the ass by someone else'
Me: Science uses lube!

And then today, I was talking to Justin about Kei-kon, and mentioned posting about it on our messageboards as an FYI for people in the club:

Me: ...It'd be like...the Wargamers invade UVic, or something.
Guy next to us: All I heard was 'Wargamers invade UVic' and I already think this is a good plan.

Seriously, I love the Wargamers. We've had mass sing-alongs to both Weird Al and 'The Ultimate Showdown', watched Rammstein music videos on Youtube, had discussions about about Dante's part time job as an exotic dancer (you know it's true. And it totally needs to be written. Or drawn), and regularly quote geeky webcomics.

And reading break, hooray!