An Idea Is Bulletproof

Woah, awesome shindig, ended with drinks with Sue... a little bit tanked now... parts of face feel numb, clearly an awesome night, tshirts rock, lost my camera thjogh.... probably at Mel's house if I'm lucky. Having the spins on the subway is fun. Tshirts all turned out awesome excpt for ones for my brother....oh well. Spinning agam time for bed.

There is a new Sarah Slean song up for download at her website when you sign up for her new mailing list: http://www.sarahslean.com/mailinglist/. The site is a little sparse right now as it's being revamped for the NEW ALBUM which is due out in March. VERY exciting!

Go download, enjoy some new Slean music. There are also some new pictures. I really like the look of the site so far :) http://www.sarahslean.com/

Enjoy... and while you enjoy please remember the Passioneer Holiday Project ;) Every bit of good you can go shine out into the world is appreciated :)

Hi Slean fans!

I know you're out there ;) There is just under a week left to particpate in this year's Passioneer Holiday Project :) So far there are just 10 people who are taking part and I want to see a lot more names on the card.

All you have to do is go out into your community and do something good, and really this is an easy time of year to do that. Once you're done you can email myself and Andrea at slean_holiday@yahoo.ca and your info will be on the card which will be given to Sarah Slean next week AND if you get back to me on or before the 17th you will be in the draw for our prizes :)

You can read the full details here: Passioneer Holiday Project

Our Canadian Browncoats are back from the Browncoat Cruise and ME Strike Day. There are going to be such great stories about the strike march. I looked through the photopage on Flikr which was posted up on Whedonesque when there were only about 300 pictures (I would hazard the guess that it's well over 1000 pictures now) and found a few of people I knew :) While I SO wish I could have been there I was still so proud to see people I knew marching in support of the strike and out there with the ME crowd and so I'm happily jealous. If it couldn't have been me there at least I know people were there who deserved and were appreciative of the experience. From what little I've heard so far (because I'm nosey and couldn't wait 'til Saturday for stories lol) it was a fantastic crowd of people down there and a great time was had by all.

Plus had I been there I would have been so freaking sick still and probably would not have been able to walk for very long at all so perhaps that's a sign that this was not the time for me to meet Joss. My time will come ;)

Hey look, LJ is batshit crazy. I'm sure most of you have been made somewhat aware of the flagging that can be done to entries now for adult content. Well now LJ needs a way for users who incorrectly entered their date of birth into the system to correct it.

Additionally, we are determining what the best option available is for users who initially entered an incorrect date of birth. As a temporary solution, anyone who is experiencing this problem can contact coppa@livejournal.com with their username and a copy of any government issued identification which includes a date of birth. Full entry here.

Okay, hell no.

Firstly, I don't think there's anyone on my friends list who would do this but just in case, do not send these people your legal ID. Huge safty risk, HUGE! They keep making updates without fully testing them first and now are coming up with far worse solutions for the problems they're now having. Please if you feel you must send in ID to prove your age at this point then black out all personal information other than your birth date. Personally I wouldn't trust anything sent into these people to be kept 100% confidential. So if you're sending them personal information please be really aware of that and be safe.

Ugh I am so sick. Totally have the flu (the one you get the flu shot for ... cold with a fever and lots of aches and pains) and I am very much unimpressed. No this still does not make me want to get a flu shot at all, I'd rather get some natural immunity to this so I don't get sick later on this year with the same darn thing. Still no fun. I could feel myself getting a little foggy yesterday and I had a hormonal migraine (there's a fun combination) but I still pushed through and got through work and tutoring (I probably caught this from the kid who I tutored last night so I wasn't too worried about making her sick) and then fell asleep just after 10 last night. Then I woke up around 1:30 and spent from then 'til now, tossing and turning and having a fever and chills and hurting in all of my muscles. This is my least favourite kind of sick because I couldn't sleep through it and mostly I just feel whiny.

Also I still have that headache, it's been downgraded from migraine which is good but it's refusing to go away.

So I'm off sick from work, not happy about doing that because I missed a day last week and I do not like having sick days so close together.

I miss having Nomi as my roommate, she made me soup last year when I was sick like this.

Hi friends list, I know there are some Sarah Slean fans who read this. So to all of you I'm reminding you about the annual Passioneer Card project for Sarah. There are two weeks to go. All info is behind the cut.

( Passioneer Holiday Project info )

Everyone is welcome to participate :) If you have friends who you think would be interested then please pass the info on to them.

I want THIS edition of Waitress, with pie recipes!!!!!!! Why is that only available in the US? :(

Also I was just linked by carolinga to a note from Tanya Huff HERE saying that two of the Blood Ties eps are only going to air online. I'm hoping that CityTV here runs all of them on television because if Lifetime puts them online I don't think people from outside of the US can watch them anyways :S I really liked this show. Frak. There had better be a DVD release!

And now for something a little more cheery, my weekend update ;) Yesterday I made fudge pretty much all day. Oh boy am I ever not exciting. But the good news was that it all set properly this year and tastes delicious :)

Today Jess and I went to see Sweeny Todd. Jo found us a discount on tickets and we ended up about 10th row orchestra for half price! Very sweet deal. I quite liked the show. I'd not seen it before and now I have no idea how the new movie version of it is going to work. While I love musicals as they were meant to be seen I think a lot of the lyrics are giong to have to be talked through so that the general audience can understand everything that's happening, it's a tricky show.

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This is a good one. As I don't drive I have lots of these. I think one of the absolute worst experiences I've had was when this guy and his dog were on the bus and I don't know what the dog had been doing but he was soaking wet and stunk. Not like regular wet dog stink, not even like sprayed by a skunk stink... like the worst thing I think I have ever smelled in my life stink. I have nothing to compare it to, I've never smelled anything that bad before or since then. But I spent the entire bus ride thinking I was going to throw up and trying to repress my gag reflex because the smell was that bad. He got off the bus 2 stops after I got on and the smell lingered for the rest of the ride. I had to change when I got home because it had permiated my clothes.

Close runners up:

Being on a streetcar where some 20 something guy hit a little old lady for no reason. Then the driver locked down the car and called the cops and the guy came to the doors I was standing next to and kicked his way out. Full on swinging himself from the railing on the stairs at the doors until they gave out. Not the most fun time ever.

The Greyhound trip overnight from Sudbury to TO. 1 trip where two men from WaWa spent the entire ride drinking and puking. I was so glad that my frend Matt had the aisle seat that trip! Another trip where a really overweight gentleman sat next to me, his fat was on top of my leg so I was pinned in. Already not loving this but it got worse. He was wearing blue tights with red shorts overtop, jumbo sized Superman style. Uncomfortable!

Wow, so much *headdesk* I don't even know what to do with it.

At lunch today one person I eat with was saying how in Jamaica they wanted to have a gay pride parade but the people opposed to it were so "radical" in their thinking that they shut it down. So right away I had to put in that no, that wasn't "radical" thinking, it was conservative thinking.

Then she got in with how she can be good friends with a gay person but she could never support their lifestyle and that in Jamaica that's the way it is. Do what you want to do but do it behind closed doors and no one should be forced to think it's okay. I don't like that really. I personally don't like the idea of saying that you're good friends with someone but when it comes to how they live their lives you don't support them at all. In my mind that makes you not a friend. If I had people say that they were friends with me but because I'm straight they didn't like how I lived that friendship would be over.

The comparison was then made to people pushing their religion down peoples throat. I think that's a different thing altogether and said so. Gay people are not trying to convert people by having a parade or living an open lifestyle, they're just being free to celebrate who they are and how they love. There's nothing saying that if you don't change then you go to hell etc. There's no incentive to "convert" and there's no punishment for being straight. It's just having the right to exist openly. I think religions have that right already. Also many religions will preach that being gay is wrong, or a sin etc but a lot of gay people still practice religion.

THEN this person continues on to say that being gay is like being an alcoholic. Which I really disagreed with because being an alcoholic is a disease, it's also harmful to yourself and to your family/friends. Being gay is not so much any of those things.

Well she goes on to say that no, people are just prone to being weak over certain things and that being an alcoholic isn't a disease, it's just a weakness and that to her being gay is just another weakness. When I argued this she said that being promiscuous fit into that same catagory and that "you wouldn't be friends with someone who is promiscuous would you?" (Anyone else having a 'Girl Interrupted' moment?) and hello, yes I would be friends with someone if they were permiscuous. It's somewhat the same in that I feel who one chooses to sleep with is none of my buisness unless it's me. However again, it's not really the same thing. All three of the things she's lumped into the category of "weaknesses" are not related at all.

This is the point when I said that now I was offended and leaving... she kept trying to "explain" to me how I was wrong in my thinking as I left.

It just drives me crazy. I think that everyone should be able to live as they like as long as they're not hurting anyone. Who cares how you love, if you're lucky enough to find someone to be in love with then what should it matter to anyone else who it is?