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yuuagoSo, since Canada Day is on a Sunday, I also get Monday off. Four-day weekend for me! Feels good, man. Don't really have anything planned for it, though. It might be the national day, but for our family it was always more focused on my gran, because it was also her birthday, and with her gone, it just isn't the same.
Argh, need to pound through this fic and get it done for the fest. I have until midnight tonight. LET'S SEE IF I CAN DO IT. (I know I can, it's just, man, I'm really not feeling it.)
Received the copy of Sabaton's Coat of Arms album in the mail yesterday. Oh man, it's awesome. A really well put-together album, yeah. Though I must say I think I prefer the Carolus Rex album instead. It's partly a matter of time and distance, though. I mean, the songs on Carolus Rex are all about the Swedish empire, whereas Coat of Arms deals with WWII... and to be honest, WWII is one of those subjects that, even though I find it really interesting, things related to it tend to make me feel uncomfortable (and sad, and disturbed, depending on specifics). So I probably won't be listening to this album as much as the other one, ah.
Though I must say I had a really pleasant surprise when I listened to "Aces in Exile" and realized that it mentions Canadian pilots in the Battle of Britain. *_* Maybe it's silly, but I get this incredible rush of happiness whenever I find music or literature that mentions Canada in some way and isn't by a Canadian. Probably just because it doesn't happen often. It's like, "Oh wow, someone remembered that Canada exists and decided to include it! Yay!" Pfft.
Fighter pilots in exile fly over foreign land
When the battle has been won, tell of 401
Fighter pilots from Canada in the Battle of Britain
Guarding the skies of the isle...! <3 <3 <3
Hm, what else. Oh, I'm reading a book on the Spanish Influenza - (Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918) - and it's really fascinating. Obviously, very US-focused, so I'll have to see if there is another book with a more global scope, but anyway, it's good. Really readable. I've been meaning to read more about this subject ever since I first heard about it, so it's nice that I came across this one. It's kind of scary to think that something like that, which sounds like something out of the middle ages, could actually have happened in the 1900s. When I brought up the subject of the book, my mum started talking about how my great gran lived through that. It was back when she was still living in Poland/Ukraine. She claimed that she was able to survive because she always boiled her water before drinking it. That... probably didn't actually have much of an effect, heh. She was probably just lucky. But I guess back then, nothing was working, so you'd try any solution you could think of.
Ahhh, man. I'm getting so excited to go to Edmonton with my brother in July. Unfortunately it isn't until the 27th, so I get to squirm and fidget and anticipate it for a whole month, argh. It's just, I haven't been anywhere since that Europe trip I went on, and I haven't been to Edmonton in particular in years. The last time I can remember doing so was when I was 13. So... yeah, it'll be pretty exciting. I admit, I want to go shopping, heh. And it'll be nice to hang out with my brother. I find it kind of hard to talk to him when my parents are around, but when we're alone together, it's a little easier.
Argh, need to pound through this fic and get it done for the fest. I have until midnight tonight. LET'S SEE IF I CAN DO IT. (I know I can, it's just, man, I'm really not feeling it.)
Received the copy of Sabaton's Coat of Arms album in the mail yesterday. Oh man, it's awesome. A really well put-together album, yeah. Though I must say I think I prefer the Carolus Rex album instead. It's partly a matter of time and distance, though. I mean, the songs on Carolus Rex are all about the Swedish empire, whereas Coat of Arms deals with WWII... and to be honest, WWII is one of those subjects that, even though I find it really interesting, things related to it tend to make me feel uncomfortable (and sad, and disturbed, depending on specifics). So I probably won't be listening to this album as much as the other one, ah.
Though I must say I had a really pleasant surprise when I listened to "Aces in Exile" and realized that it mentions Canadian pilots in the Battle of Britain. *_* Maybe it's silly, but I get this incredible rush of happiness whenever I find music or literature that mentions Canada in some way and isn't by a Canadian. Probably just because it doesn't happen often. It's like, "Oh wow, someone remembered that Canada exists and decided to include it! Yay!" Pfft.
Fighter pilots in exile fly over foreign land
When the battle has been won, tell of 401
Fighter pilots from Canada in the Battle of Britain
Guarding the skies of the isle...! <3 <3 <3
Hm, what else. Oh, I'm reading a book on the Spanish Influenza - (Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918) - and it's really fascinating. Obviously, very US-focused, so I'll have to see if there is another book with a more global scope, but anyway, it's good. Really readable. I've been meaning to read more about this subject ever since I first heard about it, so it's nice that I came across this one. It's kind of scary to think that something like that, which sounds like something out of the middle ages, could actually have happened in the 1900s. When I brought up the subject of the book, my mum started talking about how my great gran lived through that. It was back when she was still living in Poland/Ukraine. She claimed that she was able to survive because she always boiled her water before drinking it. That... probably didn't actually have much of an effect, heh. She was probably just lucky. But I guess back then, nothing was working, so you'd try any solution you could think of.
Ahhh, man. I'm getting so excited to go to Edmonton with my brother in July. Unfortunately it isn't until the 27th, so I get to squirm and fidget and anticipate it for a whole month, argh. It's just, I haven't been anywhere since that Europe trip I went on, and I haven't been to Edmonton in particular in years. The last time I can remember doing so was when I was 13. So... yeah, it'll be pretty exciting. I admit, I want to go shopping, heh. And it'll be nice to hang out with my brother. I find it kind of hard to talk to him when my parents are around, but when we're alone together, it's a little easier.
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Date: 2012-06-30 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-30 05:09 pm (UTC)Say, did you have plans to do
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Date: 2012-06-30 05:17 pm (UTC)gay upgive some appreciation to the Nordics!no subject
Date: 2012-06-30 05:19 pm (UTC)I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully I'll get something that I've never written before. (Or, well, something I've never done an actual full-length fic for as a pairing. Like Nor/Ice maybe, or something.)
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Date: 2012-07-02 10:32 am (UTC)And YAY travelling!
that should be great fun :)