Stand By Me, Rosemary's Baby, I Heart Huckabees, Wonder Boys, Gone in 60 Seconds, Maria Full of Grace, The Secret Garden, American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, Proof of Life, Sleepless in Seattle
Television
I hate tv. Exceptions for Law & Order: SVU, and Intervention (my new obsession). And lots of hockey. Guilty pleasure: Project Runway. And figure skating ;)
Books
Yann Martel (Life of Pi), Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down), Will Ferguson (Happiness TM), Stephen King (The Body), John Marsden (anything he's ever written), Dave Eggers (How We Are Hungry), John Irving (The Cider House Rules), Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Heroes
Lamarck and his nervous fluid. Darwin and his finches. Linnaeus and his classification. Richard Dawkins and his memes. John Ford and his whales. (Can we guess that I'm an evolutionary biology nerd yet?)
1. I am terrified of failure.
2. I refused to chew any type of gum other than Extra brand peach-flavored gum for the entirety of high school.
3. I am only attracted to things that other people bypass – if you’ve heard of it, you can keep it. I’ll find myself another one.
4. I hate dancing.
5. The first book I ever read by myself was “Stories of Magic and Mystery to Read Aloud.” I have since put as much distance between myself and fantasy stories as possible.
6. I make exceptions for stories with unicorns in them.
7. Unicorns are probably real.
8. Monads are awesome!!
9. I have recently realized that while I am not afraid of heights, I am petrified by gondolas.
10. I cried in kindergarten one day because I had finished painting my paper bag pumpkin and brought it over to the teacher, and it dripped on the floor, and she yelled at me.
11. In grade one, they got me to share a locker with the class bully because we got along all right.
12. In preschool, I was the bully.
13. In early high school, I decided it would be cool to shave my arms.
14. I feel overly strong emotional ties to places I have never been.
15. Mushrooms are the most fantastic things in the whole world. I must resist the urge to touch them.
16. Spiders freak me out. They should die. Preferably by being bat-feed.
17. I really, really like macaroni and cheese.
18. I am a cat person.
19. (That in itself says a lot about me!)
20. I have visited the following Olympic cities (in chronological order of visit): Montreal (1976 summer), Calgary (1988 winter), Vancouver (2010 winter), Oslo (1952 winter), Lillehammer (1994 winter), and Stockholm (1912 summer).
21. I can’t eat nuts. I tell people I’m allergic, but really I just don’t like them.
22. Coolest animals ever seen in the wild: hedgehog and breaching humpback.
23. I don’t think we can ever really be happy.
24. I still think we should try to be.
25. The icing on the cake is the best part, we can all agree on that.
26. I only learned to tie my shoelaces in the fourth grade.
27. I still don’t tie them properly.
28. My favourite smiley face is =D
29. Those incapable of using punctuation and capital letters are fucking morons.
30. Those who censor themselves are just as bad.
31. I pushed my sister onto a rusty nail when the pool was under reconstruction when she was five.
32. The word potato looks much cooler when it’s spelled as ‘potatoe’, even if it’s wrong.
33. I can say ‘where is the white cat?’ in English, French, Spanish, and Norwegian.
34. Travelling itself is often better than the end destination.
35. Even if most of the travelling is done by night!
36. I’ve really taken a liking to names that are only one syllable. Funny, since I was always upset that my name was too short; I always wanted to have a nickname.
37. I was voted most likely to publish a book in my elementary school yearbook.
38. Whenever I buy a scratch lottery bingo ticket, I make sure all four bingo grids have O69.
39. ‘Crepuscular’ means active at dawn and dusk. It’s one of the words I always forget. Others are ‘clout’ and ‘parsimony’.
40. Pangolins are one of the most awesome animals I have ever not seen.
41. One day I’ll see a pangolin.
42. Swimming with sea turtles was something I will absolutely never ever forget. I can’t come close to describing anything that was that amazing.
43. Blue M&Ms should be shared with friends.
44. The coolest job in the world would be the person who chooses the music used in TV episodes and movies.
45. I would never actually want to have this job.
46. My favourite number is 5. You can easily turn it into a picture of a lion. Try it!
47. I can’t juggle.
48. On a scale of 1-10, my confidence level lingers around 0.
49. I try really hard not to care what people think of me. There are some days when I fail miserably.
50. If you actually read all of the above and don’t hate me yet, then we are completely compatible to have a normal conversation.
51. Haha, I know you didn’t read it all.
Who I'd like to meet: People who can pat their heads and rub their tummies. People who ride unicycles. People who know what the only word in the english language with the letter combination "wkw" is. People who work at the tops of ladders. People who design cakes. People with goldfish named "Killer". People who know what animal is on the Canadian quarter. People who can say the alphabet backwards as fast as they can say it forwards. People who meander, who wonder, who wander, who argue. People who have seen kangaroos. People who can roll their tongue like a hot dog bun. People who are afraid of aeroplanes. People who can name more than five constellations. People who work at coffee shops making muffins. People who know the value of Pi to more than ten decimal places. People who don't use umbrellas when it rains. People who will tell me that everything will be alright. People who will tell me that there is no point to anything we do. People who wear suspenders. People who use coasters religiously. People who are religious. People who can skip a rock a dozen times. People who know all the words to all the nursery rhymes. People who are worth a thought. People who can rub their heads and pat their tummies.
oh you know just science. as of right now organic chemistry and biochemistry but i mostly do theoretical biophysics. and i guess the eyes didn't actually bleed outside of the eye, but i was joking around saying i was studying till my eyes bled to my bro and then lo and behold my eye starts hurting and i look in the mirror and there's this big popped blood vessel on the right side of my right eye. it was actually kinda funny....
oh you know just science. as of right now organic chemistry and biochemistry but i mostly do theoretical biophysics. and i guess the eyes didn't actually bleed outside of the eye, but i was joking around saying i was studying till my eyes bled to my bro and then lo and behold my eye starts hurting and i look in the mirror and there's this big popped blood vessel on the right side of my right eye. it was actually kinda funny....
Psh, that was yesterday, you late person you!
Your comment was at 12:01 AM. Yay nit-picking! (Apparently, it is one of my perpetual habits. )
Well, I'm always annoyed by people who try to convert, so they annoy me. I would So turn the mat for them, if i had this mat, and if they ever came by. They can't? Wow, that would suck! I enjoy having birthdays, although I never usually do much. I don't even know where one of their damned churches are. (Heh heh, "damned churches" is such an oxymoron!)
Well, apparently you really did re-enable HTML, for I noticed that the one word I used real HTML on was correctly italicized. Must just be your layout that is a hater of paragraphs, and henece; proper grammar. (Grammer?)
Well, a normal zombie would, i assume, first attempt to eat me, and then eat the brain matter off the walls, since zombies enjoy brains. So in effect, any zombie would!
I know, right? Of course, to touch them would be.. difficult, but perhaps very informative! Perhaps Sarah Brain Juice™ is the cure for cancer!
But it's such a good train of thought, there are just so many ways to make it a plausible theory!
I read a bit of Goosebumps, but I was never a fan of either. I'm mostly a fan of Sci-Fi, which neither of those really were. They kind of were, but just not well enough.
So, I'm going to Paris tomorrow! Straight flight from Portland, oregon, to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fun fun. Gone for 10 days! Yay! So if I happen to not reply, that will be why. ;)
Well, you would have to look at the mat once you were inside for the message "go away" to succesfully register! It's like Shadow Writing; if you've never seen it before, you can't read it upside down. Or, you could inversely flip the mat, which could possible scare away Jehova's Witnesses people that come door to door. (Or so I've heard. I've never actually had one of them come to my door; I atrribute this to the fact I live to far away from anything. )
(I'm not sure, but i feel you have enabled html codes once again. But in case you have not, I shall inform you, this a paragraph gap. )
But, oh my, if your head actually exploded, of course I would welcome Zombie Sarah in! But you would have to clean your brain matter off my walls and such. I might get sick, from... uh... Sarah Brain juices? Does touching other peoples brains transmit diseases? Which leads to another question; What if thinking is somehow a parasite, which is why we age, it feeds off of our bodies, while we grow. Kind of like those Animorphs books.. Heh, I'm surprised I still remember those.. So long ago.
And thank you for believving I'm such a nice person. I'll do my best to not make you wrong. ;)
it is absolutely a fact that life is better when there are bagels available. Especially fresh ones. They call it the Bagel-ANtiDepressent phEnomenon or BANDE for short. its not very well understood quite yet why it happens but it does happen. Anyway, i've been good, just doing way too much science (obviously) and trying to get through finals without making my eyes bleed again- which is actually a funny story. but for another time cuz this post is getting a bit long...
I don't need to blog more at the moment. The only thing that's remotely concerning in life right now is that there's no way I can possibly get a job that's compatible with my next three weeks and then two weeks off and then four weeks more of work. I'll have to subsist on the scholarship and TA pay. I needed to sign up for a yoga or martial arts class or something to make up for the free time (not that there's been very much of that to begin with, but you know - in theory).
How could you blatantly try and screw up my life's goodness? Or, more importantly, why would you blatantly try and screw up my life's goodness? I wouldn't do that to you. In fact, here's a spiffy picture for you, as I try and figure out how to work this "add a photo!" button.
It's funny because you can predict what will happen next. Remember when that person on the bus in front of us told the story about Prometheus? Well, this may be Sisyphus and not Prometheus, but they're pretty much all the same.
It doesn't hate me. I hate it. No, I don't. But I don't need therapy right now! Life is good. Also, I never know what you're referring to. Except when I do.
I do see why you aren't happy. I'm sorry! And it's the Winter solstice in an hour, for me. ;) Well, there must be SOMETHING to like about Vancouver, no?
Well, I suppose it can be fun, but I don't enjoy it. What happened to Scrooge? He got mentally owned in the face by a ghost. And yeah, I certainly know what you mean by happy things making angry. But still! Happy 5 days 'till Christmas, yourself!
Yeah, but being scrooge-like isn't any fun! But... everybody already has a facade, anyway! Now it's just a happy facade. And yes, Oregon is Amazing. But I bet Canada can be just as cool in some places!
Oregon IS spiffy, ain't it? Right now I'm in Paradise Village, Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico. It's pretty freaking sweet here! Although I stepped on a thorn. It hurt a lot. Now where it went in (I took it out) is all swollen and itchy. Yay poisonous Mexican plants! I also was hit in the mouth while playing frisbee. It bled a bit.
OOo, we went to this one all you can eat brunch thing, and I have like 10 plates of just fruit. And 5 plates of actual food. It probably gained me 5 pounds. I suppose now i'll have to work it off. Swimming perhaps. Maybe playing Tennis. WHo knows!
why thank you! did you happen to hear the live version of i'll fix this if i can? i'm really happy with the drums- its on our page, bottom left video...
Well, I took forever to reply, as usual. This time, however, I blame it on me having a relationship. (Which, sadly, is no longer present. Sad day)
Hmmm, why do they circle just one row of numbers? And what does it mean for different numbers to be circled? So when they put effort in, they circle more than just 1 single number? :O
Eh, it was okay. Not that great, but it built up some good muscle! ;D Yeah, he was pretty freaking cool. And he sure showed most of us up on hikes. :< We want to kill small dogs? WHAT?! Heh, that reminds me, we're getting some kind of puppy soon! I think it's german shepherd. We need another dog to ward of unwelcome peeps since our current one is, well, kind of going to die. She's super old. >_>
Fog is always fun. Duh!
Hm, which place is awesomer, then? Of course, I don;t know WHY I think Norway is the awesomest place ever, considering I have never, ever been there.
Online Now!
