Facial Expressions

Today in my Eighteenth Century Literature class we were discussing restoration theatre and acting
Included in this discussion we discussed the facial expressions of the actors, which featured pictures from a acting guide of the time.
No one in the class could take the rest of the lecture seriously and we proceeded to laugh our butts off until my prof struggled to turn off the projector.
Perhaps not the most mature decision on our part, but come on! How can you NOT pee yourself laughing?

On a completely unrelated note, my bus driver tried to kill me today.
I was getting off the bus as it came to my stop outside where I work. I politely told the bus driver "thank you" and started to head out the door.
I was in mid-step when the bus driver decided it would be a good idea to start to pull forward with the door still open and me half off the bus.
You know that feeling when you accidentally think there is one more step and when your foot doesn't connect with the floor when you predicted you would you get that scary falling feeling and panic? Yeah. Imagine that, except a bajillion times scarier and potentially really dangerous.
So I guess I'll use my new found eighteenth century facial expressions to display my feelings of the bus driver...
Stupid bus driver.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

HERCULES!
Or at least that's how I spent my Sunday evening.

I hate award shows, and I have very little respect for the Oscars after what they did to Harry Potter last year (come on, they should have gotten at least NOMINATED for special effects!).

So I decided to have a classic Disney evening and watch GOOD movies instead of being bored for 4 hours or whatever as some other person I'd never heard of gives a speech for some category no one cares about and makes bad jokes that no one laughs at.
Seriously, why do people watch these things anyway?

Random fact though, Walt Disney won 22 Oscars in his life time, plus 4 honourary ones.

Also to the stupid ETALK lady who is a stupid face. The Life of Pi director won, so SUCK ON THAT! You know nothing of literature, so stop pretending you know anything and go back to your magazines, you obviously need the glossy pictures for it to not be "boring".

Life Scout - Haidee's House

So yesterday was the first time I had ever been to my friend Haidee's house.
Now you may be thinking, gee Ashley, it's reading week, is really the most interesting new thing you did this week going to someone's house?
To which I say screw you, because Haidee's house is awesome!

I don't think I would ever want a pet bird, because I like to be able to cuddle with my pets, like you can with a dog or a cat. But that being said, I think birds are wicked awesome and I just love to watch them move around. (Especially seagulls, those guys are the shit)
So Haidee has three birds! They were very noisy and very funny and I loved to look at them.

Plus going to Haidee's party was the first party I'd been to since New Years Eve. (Actually I think it was the first group hang out I'd been to since New Years...)
So it was nice to have a life for a night.

It also reminded me why I love my friends and how much fun we have together.

So I have earned the Visit Haidee's Bird Land Badge.

Life Scout -The Airport

(I meant to post this on Saturday, so imagine I actually did that)

There were many "firsts" for me this week, including visiting a prof during office hours, going to Robson Hall for another class and a few other class related things. But as I'm trying to move away from putting all my focus on school work, I've picked something else.

This week was the first time I had ever gone to the new airport.
It is also the first time I have ever picked Peter up from the airport since he started at York University.

So I'm giving myself the Going To the Airport Badge... (I need to come up with better names for these...)

See you next week (on actual Saturday in theory) when I hopefully have earned another badge!

Also, I encourage you to try doing the Life Scout Badge challenge too.

Stress

For once this isn't a blog post of me complaining about my overwhelming level of stress!
No, it's actually me telling you that while I am still stressed, I've got the stress level under control.
I only have one more essay left to write, and it's my easiest essay (yay!)
And in less than a week I will be able to relax (sort of) for a week!

Boy do I ever need to fix my sleeping patterns (I got about 3 hours last night... oopsie!)

Life Scouts Badges

Lately my life has become routine.
Practically all I do is eat, sleep, go to school and work and do homework.
The only "fun" thing I do is watch and make youtube videos, and I didn't even have time to make a vlog this week because of stupid essays.

My life has become exactly what I never wanted it to become. Normal.
But I'm not going down without a fight.

I know it isn't January 1st, but it's never too late to start a resolution, and I have found the solution.

http://lifescouts.com/archive

Life Scouts is this really cool idea of accomplishing new exciting things and getting badges for it (just like what I did when I was in Girl Guides)
The idea is you reblog the image on tumblr and write the story of how you accomplished earning the badge.

Well I'm going to do this, except different and my way.

I'm going to try to shoot for a new "badge" every week, but instead of one of the badges that appear on this site (necessarily) I'm just going to try and do something new each week in general.
I know some weeks will have something bigger than others. Some may just be like, so umm, I tried this weird food for the first time.

I will then proceed to design my own little badge and post about it here.

So stay tuned :) And much love as usual.

Drowning in Essays

It's almost reading week (YAY!)
We're half-way through semester (YAY!)
I don't have midterms like most of my friends (YAY!)
I do however have 4 essays, a project and 2 tests before the break (UGH!)

While I have finished half of the essays, I have the hardest one still. Not only is my 18th century literature class one that I find the most difficult to understand, the time period that I hate the most, but also my Prof is by far the hardest marker I have ever experienced.
With the last essay I had to write for that class, I struggled and tried so hard to write the paper (having to rewrite and change the topic roughly half a dozen times) and after FINALLY getting a product that I was content with, my Prof tore it apart *sigh*
I understand I'm not in high school anymore and that Profs are hard markers, but it is kind of ridiculous.

My friend Nick went to talk to my prof before handing in his essay and she read it over and gave him pointers.
He followed all the pointers and thought he had now greatly improved his paper.
Nope. When she was marking it she then proceeded to say she hated the ideas and points that she had told him he should add.

Oh well. No use complaining about it.
Nothing to it, but to do it. UGH!

Sick Days

I'm sick and it sucks. I didn't make it to Uni today because I felt like complete and utter garbage when I woke up up this morning.
I got out of bed, went to wash my face and then went Nope, and went to back to bed, where I proceeded to sleep for most of the morning.

My mom proceeded to wake me up hours later confused as to why I was still home.

I've been watching far too many YouTube videos and working on homework today (yay for "productivity").

I've also been in a weird semi-conscious state of being dizzy and uncertain of what is going on around me.
Stephanie started to listen to some song and I believed that it was saying "Gob Gob Gob Gobby Gob Gob Gob".

I was so confused.

I think I may go and take another nap. Either that or re-watch the other half of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. *yawns*

Live Strong -right?

So it's been in the news for awhile now, but everyone has their knickers in a knot about Lance Armstrong finally confessing to using performance enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.
He has since been stripped of his title, banned from the sport, lost any and all endorsement and lastly is potentially going to have to pay a lot of money for all the trouble this has caused.

Personally, I think it is completely ridiculous how people are reacting to this situation and I feel bad for the guy.

So he lied. Lying innately is wrong, but if you think about it, is what he did really any worse than what any other person in the spotlight does?

Recently Beyonce was accused of lip syncing at the Presidential Inauguration, and people are defending her saying that it would have been a very difficult performance because it was outdoors, cold and windy.
Fair enough.

Look at any magazine, billboard, or advertisement. With very few exceptions, none of what you see is what the models actually look like, they have been photo-shopped, and made over to appear the way you see them.
We know that, this is old news, we've moved on.

Turn on the radio. Almost all music now a days has been auto-tuned, or electronic.
People obviously like this type of music or else it wouldn't be popular.

And finally, Al Gore.
Now it's no secret that I'm not overly fond of Al Gore, but that is besides the point.
A few years ago Al Gore came out with this little movie, you may have heard of it, it's called an Inconvenient Truth. In this movie he discusses the issue of global warming and how we need to fix it. He showed a lot of evidence to back up his claims and used a lot of statistics.
This included a lot of falsified or misleading graphs.
Did we scream and yell at him for lying to us? No. We gave him a Nobel Peace Prize.

Now you're probably thinking, but Ashley, Global Warming is a big issue. So what if he used misleading statistics to get his point across? He was doing it for a good cause!

Well yeah. He was.
But have you forgotten that Lance Armstrong has (had) his charity. Remember those LIVESTRONG bracelets everyone wore where the money went to cancer research.
He likely wouldn't have been able to start a charity like that if he wasn't famous, and he wouldn't have become famous if it wasn't for winning the Tour de France as many times as he did.

You could also point out that Al Gore is a politician, it's his job to not be 100% honest.
Armstrong was a cyclist. If you were to give all this medals to the next runner up who hasn't been caught using performance enhancing drugs too, you'd have to give it to the guy who came in TWENTY-FORTH place.

So, to paraphrase Chris Crocker "Leave Lance Armstrong alone!"
The issue is with cycling and society, and you can't put all the blame on Lance.