Stumble Upon

My friend was telling me about this website called Stumble Upon. and how she loved it so I thought I would give it a try. Turns out it is pretty much as addictive as Facebook Stalking was when I first got Facebook, and probably is something that I wouldn't get sick of as fast. How it works is you check some boxes with your interests, and click a button to stumble and off you go to websites that other people with your same interests liked. So far it has only brought me to one site I haven't liked. I really enjoyed this one on geeks. And this was a pretty good music site.

I've pretty much found yet another way to waste time on the interweb. Great.

State: Procrastinatory
Song: One-A- Illscarlett

NDP for the Win- well at least in my riding

Election results are pretty much in. While the Conservatives have taken the minority and had an overall gain in seats they lost one seat in their Stronghold: Alberta. This loss happened to be in my riding. For the first time in my voting career I have helped elect someone to the federal government. As of right now, one poll left to report, Linda Duncan of the NDP has won a seat in Alberta.

My roommate and I sat around the TV tonight, watching the election results as intently as others would a sports game final or the 100m dash final at the Olympics. I'm pretty sure I would have made M. Poirier proud tonight with the amount of enthusiasm I watched this election with. I can't say that I have ever felt this excited before. Every other election I have voted in my candidates have lost by so much you could really only call my vote a protest vote. Politics are much more exciting when there is some uncertainty.I had to drink a sleepytime tea to calm myself down and I am still awake, albeit, calmer than before.

I'm off to bed because waiting for this last poll to come in is agonizing. I hope that when I wake up and check the results tomorrow I won't be disappointed and find that Linda Duncan winning was all a dream. I'm really hoping that I'll living in the solitary spot of orange in a sea of blue.


Update 00:28 MT- 223/223 Polls reporting: Linda Duncan 20,076 Rahim Jaffer 19,634. NDP wins by 442.

State: Excited!
Song:The Canadian Dream- Sam Roberts.

Twilight Widget because I am Obsessed!

Halloween and Happiness

I should really be putting clothing on and getting ready to go to school, but I thought I would post first. Last night I thought of the most awesome Halloween costume that has probably already been done before, but I don't care because I love it! I'm going to go as a vampire pirate! I've wanted to be a pirate for Halloween for years and my recent fascination made me want go vamp. So I decided- why not a vampire pirate? I was googlizing for images of pirates and found the vision of what I want my costume to look like (see left). I think I will make it a bit more bad ass, but that is essentially the look I want to go for. I like the idea of it being kind of sexy, but not to the point that most people take it on Halloween.

Also- I've been pretty happy lately ever since I have returned to school. I feel like my life has purpose again and it is weird but I am actually getting excited about things again. It is nice to finally feel a whole gambit of emotions verses various levels of blah or nothing at all. Time to go clothe myself. Do not worry- I have been decent the whole time I have been writing this, just not in clothing I would where to school.