We're Always Proving Who We Are...

Look at me, I'm procrastinatoring!

Someone posted a thread in the fantasy section of the BPAL forums about Hockey Scents. I, being obsessive, decided I needed to come up with scents for all 30 NHL teams. (I didn't quite, someone else came up with Red Wing. Better that way, mine would've been mean.)

( What does your team smell like? )

IT'S HOCKEY SEASON!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

DUCKS! COREY PERRY! TEEMU SELANNE! JONAS HILLER! RYAN GETZLAF! BOOBY RYAN! SAKU KOIVU! DAN SEXTON! PORNSTACHE PARROS!

THIS IS HOCKEY!!!!!

I have a new hockey girlfriend. It happened last night during the Opening Ceremony.

This is Hayley Wickenheiser:


She's the Captain of the Team Canada women's hockey squad. If you watched the OC last night, she was the one who read the athlete's oath. She's pretty and she has a great voice, which are what made me notice her last night. Today, I investigated further and it turns out, she's TOTALLY AWESOME.

2010 is Hayley's 5th Olympic appearance. She also played with the Canadian women's softball squad in Sydney. She won gold in Salt Lake City and Torino and silver in Nagano. She's the first woman to make her living playing pro-hockey, not as a goalie. She did two years on Finnish teams and a year Division 1 with a Swedish team. Those are men's hockey squads, She can take a check and throw one, because she's just that badass. She has an honorary doctorate from Nipissing University. She traveled to Rwanda with Right to Play. If she hadn't been a hockey player, she'd want to be working against the AIDS crisis in Africa. She has a children's book written about her called Born to Play. She's been IIHF Best Women's Forward of the tournament twice, 2007 & 2009, and she was MVP in 2007. She was Olympic MVP in both gold medal runs. On April 1, 2010, the first Hayley Wickenheiser International Women's Hockey Tournament will open in Burnaby, BC. (I wanna go)

This is Hayley Wickenheiser and she is AWESOME.


(If anyone can find a pic of her taking the oath in the Opening Ceremonies, I would be extremely appreciative)

Was I unclear about my plans for tonight? I said, to anyone who asked me, that I was going to stay in, watch the hockey game, and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters.

Well, my upstairs neighbors are making enough noise to scare off small children and the darker it gets, the less visible the sign in my window with the arrow pointing people around the corner is.

And Centre Ice has decided that the Ducks game can be on GameCenter online, but not on Centre Ice on TV, so I can't have it, since there's no way to buy a la carte games online and I refuse to pay $200 to have games on my computer when I'm already paying $200 to have them on TV. Centre Ice and GameCenter are both run by the NHL, if it's available online, I should be able to have it on TV. But I can't.

So... Now I'm not in a good frame of mind to do my Samhain ritual. In fact, I may just sit here and cry because damnit, I'm just that hormonal right now.

Seven new white hairs today. I blame Tuesday, which was an absolute disaster of a day.

Woke up, couldn't find my student ID anywhere. Ripped my apartment apart looking for it, nothing. Without my ID, I can't ride the bus, nor can I check out library books, which was a problem since my plan for the day was dominated by researching in the library and picking up the 5 books I needed for my Wednesday class. Went to put on my new steampunk bat/angel necklace and the chain snapped. :( I paid for bus fare to campus because it was coming down cats and dogs and bought a new ID. Slogged to the library and picked up a pile of books and then went to class. Got an email telling me that somehow I left my ID at Subway on Monday. *facepalm*

Got home and got kind of excited about doing a fresh layout for the Big Damn Web Project (aka Joss Whedon Annotated Web Guide for Web Design class) but apparently also shut off my brain at the same time, because I proceeded to take my new blank template pages and write them over the content filled pages that I spent all of last weekend creating. The internet was kind and I hadn't uploaded the new pages yet, so I was eventually able to pick my content back up again, but that was a deeply panicking and self-loathing moment. I gave up and went to bed.

That was my Tuesday. I'd rather not repeat it.

The good news is, it's NHL Opening Day, so hockey returns to the universe, and the Toy Story 3-D double feature and Whip It are both on the docket for this weekend.

(Prof has convinced entire class I TA that Clytemnestra is a slut and that's how the Athenians would have seen her. And is calling Cassandra when she's brought onstage by Agamemnon in Aeschylus's Agamemnon a "minx on a leash" *FACEPALM* *gets out Big Book of Feminism for THWAPPAGE*)

GO DUCKS!!

WIN! WIN! WIN!

WIN! WIN! WIN!

GOOOOOOO, DUCKS!!!!

Motherpucker. So frakkin' close. Okay, regroup troop, we'll get it on Sunday.


4.4 quake. The entire STATE disapproves of this loss.

Hey, I fail at update!

Um... Ducks shut out the Sharks last night. Boo. Yah. Take that, Nabby. The announcers persist in talking about Getz and Perrs as 'twin brothers', when it's very clear that they are boyfriends.
*In other news around the NHL, Scott Hartnell is a big 'ole butt, I apparently dislike the Sedins more than I realized, little Chris Kunitz is a daddy now and playing nicely for the Pens on the wing of the Bits, and I had higher hopes for the Blue Jackets than Game 1 showed. With the exception of the Hawks, I favour the underdog teams in the West, without exception, I prefer the overdog(?) teams in the East. So, I'm for the Chicago Blackhawks, the St. Louis Blues, the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Anaheim Ducks, in the West, and the Boston Bruins, the Washington Capitals, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. (I just don't care about the Devils-Hurricanes series. If pressed, I'd call it for the Devils, but I really don't care.)

I'm in the dead waiting time on an internship in DC and grad school. *twiddles thumbs and frets*

Looking forward to the BSG Prop Auction Redux coming up in a few weeks, as well as the Ron Moore WGA event I bought my ticket for today.

Am considering picking up a new TV show. You be the judge: NCIS or the BBC's Robin Hood?
[Poll #1385465]

Chocolate Peppermintini is great when made with vanilla vodka. Hee hee.

ULTIMATE FAIL, FLYERS.

You have besmirched our honourable sport. You lose.

Teemu starts for the Ducks tonight!

Kunitz on the Getzy/Perry slash line!

GO, DUCKS, GO!