so I was on TV tonight — on a show called play, a current performing arts show on the CBC cable channel. It was for this cute folk rock duo from Vancouver called Tegan & Sara. I really do dig their music, but likes it a whole lot more :)

Anyway, we got a photo together, which I’ll post as soon as uploads the photos. I even got to trade cute comments with Tegan about lending her my jeans, since hers weren’t tight enough. (Don’t ask :P )

And the host of the show is a really cute guy; I didn’t realize until later he was Jian Ghomeshi of Moxy Fruvous! What a small fuckin’ world. Everyone was unpretentious, and reaffirmed my belief that unassuming artists are far better than those who spend effort on nothing but their image.

Now, if only my throat didn’t hurt from overexposure and smoke….time for bed. Check me out on the CBC Newsworld tonight at 3AM, and again on Friday at 8PM and Saturday at 7pm. If you do, tape it for me? I have no VCR… :)

and I just made and had some pumpkin pie.

mmmmmmmmm pie. pie is gooooooooood.

Do you ever get sick, your partner gets sick, and you make love while ill and on medication? For instance, Neo Citran/Theraflu, nyQuil, etc…

It’s like this incredibly soothing, comforting, giving yourself up situation where you know that everything is right in the world, and the person you’re with is completely trustworthy. You can surrender yourself to this wondrous, enveloping softness without a worry, AND know that you’re going to come out of it (after a nice nap) feeling so much better.

I love being a charter member of the IEEE’s Women In Engineering group, especially so when they put together such wonderful exhibits as Powering the Electrical Revolution: Women and Technology. (Quicktime needed for movie clips.)

Perhaps there is hope for the fairer sex in the sciences after all.

For all the same reasons: Check it out (needs Quicktime)

What did he just say?

is hanging with me for the week. She’s cool ! Don’t worry, she’s just fine, all of you who know her. We’ll have a blast.

I’m up early because I crashed early picking her up from the airport last night. We watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch before bed, and I’m so fucking stoked. I love that movie’s fuckin’ music, it’ll be in my head for days and days now.

Today? Maybe rock climbing. Maybe flying. Maybe a 3D IMAX movie. We’ll see! :)

Happy Birthday !

See (Windows Media format) what happens when someone has too big of an ego.

Long story short, this guy claimed he had 500 hours of helicopter experience, bought this helicopter, then attempted to fly it away. (I use the term ‘fly’ very loosely.) The NTSB had this report about what occurred. This isn’t faked, folks — it’s all too real. At least “Hawk” (that’s his nickname) managed to walk away from it.

For the record, flying a helicopter can be very safe, assuming you don’t pretend to be a pilot when you aren’t one.

<beaker> ALL YOUR SENATE ARE BELONG TO US.
<beaker> YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO DISSENT MAKE YOUR TIME.