My current two winter coats are as follows:

cold weather:
waist-length, (really really) puffy down jacket from nike, no hood, baby blue (a really immature colour... I'm 23)
I look like a friggin baby blueberry when I'm wearing it, and it makes me look HUGE and ROUND. Not good.

really cold weather:
black, knee-length, (really really) puffy down jacket from nike, WITH a hood (which is marvellous)...
But I look like a big walking rectangle. It's ridiculous.

I want a flattering, but WARM and AFFORDABLE winter coat! I don't want to look like a poofy winter dork anymore, lol.


P.S. Those Aritzia/TNA coats that all the (Asian) girls have are awesome, except for the fact that every girl and her mother seems to have one. :|

P.P.S. Isn't this coat amazing? The British stores always have the nicest things. This is from Dorothy Perkins, and both blue and black sold out very, very quickly, I heard.

GOOOOO ANA!!!!!! That last game in the semifinal was clutch.
Please don't lose your nerve in the final!

Sharapova is OUT.
Dinara Safina, my hat's off to you!
:D

I live in Canada. You know one thing that's frustrating about living in Canada? We can't access videos on hulu.com. I didn't know that until just now. Let's backtrack a bit.

I just watched the 1944 movie Laura (Great film noir - watch it!). I became interested in its main actors and wanted to see what else they'd appeared in. Good ol' imdb comes to the rescue. I want to see more of Dana Andrews's movies. Why? Cause I'm a girl, and he's like, the embodiment of the quintessential 40s man, duh. :D

Ok, so he's not necessarily a popular, or terribly celebrated star (alcoholism in the 50s can do that to a career...) (so can being considered to have been in the right place at the right time i.e. he may have gotten some lead actor roles because the BIG stars were away at war, perhaps), but there were several movies that I felt I should try to watch. One of them is Boomerang!, directed by Elia Kazan (dun dun dun). I read that Dana did a pretty darn good job in this movie, and therefore I decided that I NEED TO WATCH. I learned that despite the DVDs being pulled off the market shortly after being released (something about contracts or copyrights or something..), it was on this website called "hulu.com" for free.

FOR FREE! Dana Andrews in Boomerang! FREE!!! UNIVERSE, YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN.
www.hulu.com/boomerang is the url, in case any of you is American and wants to watch it and then tell me all about it, making me even more jealous. Cause YES, Boomerang! is on the internet for free, but NO, I can't watch it, cause I am Canadian, and hulu.com doesn't like us non-Americans much.
Can you imagine my frustration and disappointment? It is completely palpable.

Watch The Best Years of our Lives, too!
Dana Andrews is completely underrated. That is all.

And it's the end of an era in women's tennis, as I see it.

( Dear Justine )

It's taken 4 years, but I think, finally, I have stopped being overly and unnecessarily worried about written exams.
Now I just need to work on how to stop peeing in my pants before oral assessments. (Just kidding. I don't pee in my pants. I just really really suck at oral exams.)

Why have you already lost twice this season to losers who shouldn't beat you?

Is the Dubai weather really harsh? Is it the asthma? :(
What's wrong?

When it's exam time, I magically have the entire plot to a story form spontaneously in my head. WHY???
Sigh. Cause I love Doug/Carol and have recently been reading some really excellently-written, classic, old-school fanfics which have rekindled my love for them, my first ever OTP, from none other than ER. Sigh.
I've even written part of my story already. This story is making me happy; my writing has improved. Ha. So science students can write! :O
And I was studying this weekend. I've gone through the first run of 15 of 24 microbiology lectures. WOO. I have exams on the 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 21st. Ughh.

And in other news, my new laptop's keyboard squeaks.

I also cannot wait for Christmas. I need to get away from school for a while! It's driving me nearly insane!!
My hands are crazy chapped. They hurt. But when I see the snow falling outside I think that the chapped hands and lips are worth it. I love snow. It makes me so happy and it makes winter so much more magical.

I'm going to Video Games Live (www.videogameslive.com) with my boyfriend! It's going to be awesome. The only thing is it's right before reading week. I hope midterm studying won't conflict with this escapade of ours... I would be severely disappointed.

Anyway, back to the crazy studying...

Bitch outbid me on ER season 4 at the last second. I swear, the first word out of my mouth was "BITCH."
I had always hated my internet connection, but this is the last straw!!
lol.
Well, I won seasons 1-3. WOOT! :D I have my fingers crossed that the DVDs work and I don't get scammed :S
Good thing I have season 4 on VHS, in case it never goes back on ebay for that cheap.

YAY.


...

I NEED A DRESS. DAMMIT, I desperately need a dress. A nice one, too. :O

Hot damn, I desperately want ER seasons 1-4 on dvd.

Tim has retired.

:*(
I will truly miss him being on tour. I no longer have an ATP player that I'll cheer for from the bottom of my heart.
All the best, Tim, and thanks for your classy tennis! <3

The picture of him kissing the grass is burned into my brain. So powerful, and it speaks volumes.

AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA, you are the shit! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

FUCK YOU, JO-WILFRIED TSONGA. FUCK YOU FOR BEATING TIM AT HIS LAST GRAND SLAM, YOU ASSWIPE.



*is heartbroken*

You're number one in my books, Tim. Thanks for sharing your beautiful game with us for all these years. Those Brits that rip into you never deserved a hero like you, anyway. Thanks for being the ultimate professional to the end, despite how much I know you probably wanted to smack someone when everyone ganged up on you each year at Wimbledon. Thanks for being the reason I love tennis so much.
Good luck at the US Open and at Davis Cup. Go out with a win, Tim! Best of luck in retirement :)

It's the NOVAK ATTACK!!!!! yayyyy!

fuck you, marion bartoli.
fuck you, roofless centre court.
fuck you, wind.

Come on, Justine. You can win!

FUCK YOU, MARION BARTOLI.


Edit: FUCK YOU, MARION BARTOLI. ALWAYS.

"omg. my emmy has become a demon."
- my lovely bf, after having witnessed me watching tim's match on live scores.

Honours Bachelor of Science with distinction, baby!

I'm never going back to U of T. You can't make meeeeee!

Q. Do you know Ana Ivanovic off the courts and have you done things together?

JUSTINE HENIN: No, we don't know each other at all.


Q. She seems to be very nice girl?

JUSTINE HENIN: And I seem to be a very nasty person, don't I? No, but we don't know each other at all. You can't know everybody, really. And part from saying hello, goodbye, we have very few contacts, very few relationships with people. But she looks -- she looks a nice girl, but I don't know her.



Touche, Justine.
She's sharp; I love it!