"I think this line's mostly filler."

I went to the theatrical production of the musical "Nunsense" tonight which I enjoyed rather enjoyed. There's nothing like biblical humour ("Mary Magdalene tarts, they look easy." "And cheap!") I tend to enjoy musicals (both the plays and the movies). Some people get thrown off by people randomly bursting into song, but I am good with that because, quite frankly, I actually do occasionally randomly burst into song. The choreography needs work and I don't have the musical accompaniment, but other than that, I can relate. Some of my favourites include (but aren't limited to): Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, the Once More With Feeling episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chicago (both the movie and the play, but mostly the play), White Christmas, Singing in the Rain (other than the whole movie in the movie thing, that was weird), and probably many more.

"I'll be there for you!"

Every night on one of our TV channels (or actually, possibly more), Friends comes on at around 6:30. I watch it every now and then and I remember how much I enjoyed that show. It still makes me laugh. I continue to quote the show to this day; the most commonly used quote is the line about the 'moo point' and how "it's like a cow's opinion, it doesn't matter." I don't ever use the word 'moot' anymore, it's always 'moo.'

Bademöglichkeit!

Today was my weekly French class. I really enjoy learning new languages. In university, I took classes in French, Spanish, German, Old English and Cree and really enjoyed myself. I find that learning new languages helps you learn more about your own language because you have to think about language in a new way. I am not really fluent in any language other than English but have a very basic understanding of the construction of other languages. It may also help that I was a Linguistics major so language construction was pretty much what I studied in university, even without the language specific classes. The language that I have the best grasp of (aside from English) is French but that is because I took classes in it from early elementary school through Grade 12 in high school, plus two classes in university, plus living with some French speaking people for a few months. I am no where near bilingual but have a fairly good grasp of it. The class I am taking is pretty basic but it's good because it has a big focus on the pronunciation aspect of it which is my weak point.
I would like to study more of Spanish or German, maybe even Cree but I need to actually get a job first so that I can pay for classes. Other languages would be cool to learn too. I find that when I start to learn new languages, words get stuck in my heard completely out of context. When I first started studying German, the word "Bademöglichkeit" got stuck in my head. I will never forget that that word means 'swimming facility'. Now, if I am ever in a German speaking place and absolutely NEED to go swimming, I will know how to make my desire known as long as that is the only information they need. I could do well on the Amazing Race all of the challenges were at German swimming facilities. No problem getting to the location at all. Though there are probably a limited number of swimming facilities in German speaking countries, and even more limits to the number of activities you could do there. Here they are: swim, dive...that's about it. Maybe learning more German words would be useful after all and, you know, more than one word in other languages as well.

"Spare the snark, spoil the networks!"

I was introduced to Television Without Pity a few years ago. It continues to be one of my favourite websites. It is basically, at the very least, a site that had recaps of various TV Shows. The great thing about the recaps are that they don't just tell you what happened in the various shows, the recaps are really quite snarky and sarcastic, my favourite adjectives for reviews and recaps. The creators of TWoP also published a book about various TV related topics that is quite amusing as well. You can check their archives for shows they have covered in the past and maybe catch up on their recaps for shows you are currently watching. They don't recap every show out there but they cover quite a few.

Fail!

A few months ago I found out about the website Failblog. The name pretty much tells you everythng you need to know about it. It features videos and photos of some things that didn't exactly go right. If you have some time to kill, this website can keep you entertained. Some of the content may be a bit off colour but it's generally pretty tame. Occasionally they feature something that had a more positive outcome, but generally it's about stuff that went very very wrong.
What can I say? It amuses me.

One stop

Last year, my sister told me about iGoogle. I signed up for it shortly after and have really found it quite useful. I like it because I have 3 email addresses (Yahoo, GMail, and Hotmail) and with iGoogle I can check all three accounts by just looking at one page. You can add different content to your pages but email is pretty much the main reason I like iGoogle. It just saves me a lot of time, so, rather than going to three different websites to check my mail, I only have to go to one.

Somehow, paper is required when printing. Imagine that!

Apparently, I have been relegated to the role of my sister's "office assistant" since I am unemployed and seem to have taken over the computer with the attached printer. As such, I have been doing tasks such as scanning and printing and photocopying. In return, I get such privileges as food, water, a bed to sleep in, a car to drive, and a couple of TVs to watch. You know, the "unessentials." Win-win....win. Today's task was printing, a seemingly simple task. Even upon further analysis, it continued to be pretty simple. It was all well and good but we ran out of appropriate paper for the printer and she needed the printing done by the time she leaves for work tomorrow morning. "Screw gun," I thought, because it's my expletive of choice after hearing it an episode of The Office. So up the stairs I went, to see what my sister thought I should do. It turned out that she may or may not have been sleeping as her bedroom was dark. So I paced beside her door because I wanted to wake her up "unintentionally." She soon came to the same conclusion I did and told me to use the old school paper to print the stuff on. You remember the kind of paper with the holes on the sides, don't you? As I was tearing the holes off and the papers apart, I remember that I used to have fun with those lines of holes, especially when I was extremely bored or was supposed to be doing some sort of assignment. Good times.
In other printing news, apparently the printer took my command for it to collate the pages as more of a suggestion, as, it didn't. That made my triumph in figuring out how to make it print back-to-front rather than front-to-back rather unnecessarily.