Forgotten Blog!

I’d forgotten that I’d made this blog!! In case you were wondering what had happened to me, my blog has been located at http://aisling-b.net for quite some time now!

If you can read this…

… I am mildly surprised. I’m fooling around with stuff, so my site will probably be down a lot while I get things sorted. So… yes. If you’re reading this, you’re lucky, because not even I will be able to read this after I press ‘submit.’

How my tastes changed during Katimavik.

I sat down to a big bowl of Ramen today, and it got me thinking. I did not like Ramen before Katimavik. In fact, I was not a fan of spicy food in general! The rest of my family adored spiciness, but not I. Then, I went to Katimavik, where everyone was pretty much a beginner in the kitchen.

When you are first learning to cook, sometimes spices are the least of your worries. The main goal is to create something that 1) won’t kill anybody and 2) is not burned. Good flavour is just an added bonus! Besides, there is only so much flavour you can put into tofu and rice noodles, anyway. And that’s where the hot sauce came in. While I never quite got into the world of Tabasco, I did fall for hot sauce’s less-hot cousin, barbecue sauce. By the end of the nine months, there was not much that I did not put barbecue sauce on! It tasted good on everything! I especially enjoy the spicy version from Kraft!

Before Katimavik I avoided feta cheese like the plague. I mean, GOAT’S CHEESE? Ew. Imagine my surprise when I encountered it in a Greek salad, and discovered how amazing it was! Cheese had a great influence on me in Quebec. I had always enjoyed it, and often remarked it as my favourite food. However, my experiences pretty much landed in the world of cheddar. In Quebec, I was introduced to cheese curds, which were lovely and salted and squeaky, and I began to explore more cheese options. I’m not sorry, and I’ve never looked back. Cheese is amazing.

I’d never even touched a sweet potato since I was five years old. I had disliked it back then, so I assumed I still did. Sometime in Katimavik, I encountered them again, and discovered that I liked them. Then I discovered that I loved them when mashed with butter and cinnamon! Now sweet potato and cinnamon is one of my favourite foods!

Katimavik gave me different food experiences and choices. Which is great. I encourage everyone to get out there and try something new today!

Random Fact of the Day: Today is Blog Action day. Unfortunately, my stomach got the best of me, and I’ve blogged about something else. Still, please check out the Blog Action Day website, for a list of blogs that ARE participating!

The break is almost over…

Unfortunately, my two month reprieve from everything is drawing to a close. I’ve begun to search the job websites for suitable employers, and sort of out my resume. I’ve been thinking a lot more with school, and trying to decide what I really want to do. I’m pretty sure I would like to be a teacher- it’s been my plan for the last six months, but I’ve been trying to consider other options to make sure I am very sure of what I want to do. I mean, this is my career for the rest of my life, probably.

Another idea was presented to me, which was to become an Educational Assistant for a little while. If I take the course full-time during the week, I can be finished within a few months, and start temping at schools. This way, I would get more experience, and have a bit of an “in,” with the Board of Education when I do go back to school to become a teacher.

So, I don’t know! I guess it’s time to seriously consider my options and start trying to formulate a plan.

Random Fact of the Day: Nearly half of graduates choose a career in a different subject than their major.

An Email from the Year 2107

Dear Aisling,

I am a scholar, and recently I discovered your website in an Internet archive. I’m studying history, and I was wondering if you could tell me a bit about your life. It has taken me several months to learn your language. Here we speak a Global tongue, which I’ve read is similar to that of your modern day “Chinese.” I am quite interested in how you managed to survive in a world where you do not speak the same language. How is it that you’ve managed to communicate?

I live in the region formerly known as “Alberta, Canada,” which is where you live now. I live on a mountain, and from the West facing window, I can see the ocean. Sometimes, with all of the floods and tsunamis, it threatens to climb up the mountain and wash into the prairies. But it hasn’t yet.

Our government is controlled by one Global council, that was established after the third world war. They mandate pretty much everything. It is an honour to work for the government. I, myself, submit my research to them to help them run the world better.

The main conflict afflicting us these days are terrorist threats by reactionaries. They believe that the assimilation of former culture is wrong, and that we should be preserving the old values of your world. Many of them have been gathered and sent to the part of the world you know as “Africa.” Africa proved to be too much of a challenge for your generation, and by the end of the third world war it had been transformed into a nuclear wasteland. Now it is the site of the largest prison on the planet, and also contains laboratories for experiments comparing the DNA structure of your people to that of ours.

It has changed quite a bit, they’ve reported. Vaccinations were banned shortly after the break out of the war, and our immune systems developed a way of protecting ourselves without that ancient technology. There are still diseases, resembling what you would know as cancer, caused by the rapid changing of our DNA due to exposure to dangerous chemicals used as warfare, but AIDS is no longer a threat. The government took care of that by commanding quarantine in 2076, and waiting for the virus to run its course.

I’d best be wrapping this up now, as too much information about the future can prove to be harmful to less-developed mind of your century. Just a tip- learn to use the extra 90% of your brain, it will be useful in the future.

Sincerely,

A Future Friend

What do you think the future will be like?

Proof that Aisling has absolutely no will power.

So, here you have stone cold proof that I have absolutely no will power at all! I swear, I tried to keep the old layout up, but it was driving me CRAZY!!!!

Anyway, I’m back to my old ways of black with a bright colour. The difference is that this colour is not hot pink this time around, but BLUE. Ooooer. It also features a vexel of me, and the old daffodil drawing that is sort of my “logo,” these days, ha ha.

Sorry this page looks F-ed up!

Sorry if this page looks messed up, I’m in the process of changing the layout. Durrr.

And now, an Ode to Bill Nye the Science Guy!

I have a lot I need to thank Bill Nye for. He taught me, essentially, all I know about science. When my teacher asked me what inertia is, I proudly answered “Inertia is a property of matter,” and everyone else went “Bill Nye the Science Guy! Bill! Bill! Bill!” It has just that much of an influence on our culture. One day I was sick during Katimavik, and the next day I went back to the class I was working with, and found out that they had watched Bill Nye while I was away. I almost cried.

And now, for the ode:

Bill Nye.

Your name rhymes with Science Guy,

But really, you’re my guy.

If we had lift and drag and thrust and gravity, we’d fly,

All over the dense gaseous atmospheric sky.

And we’d look into each other’s eyes,

And the lights would reflect off our retinas,

And into our world of luuurrrve.

Yes, I do realize that Bill Nye could be my father. In fact, he is 6 years older than my father. But still. He helped me pass Biology, and I can never repay him for that.

Random Fact of the Day: Bill Nye won a Steve Martin lookalike contest, and started being a stand-up comedian at night. Then he developed the idea to become Bill Nye the Science Guy. And the rest is history…

For more Bill information, visit his official site, or watch him on YouTube!

The Internet is making me angry

I QUIT THE INTERNET!!!!!

Random Fact of the Day: The Internet and technology, in general, are making me angry today, and driving me absolutely crazy!!! I seriously want to poke out my eyes when I look at this layout, and any other layout I am working on. Breast cancer awareness is important, yes, but this pink is driving me bonkers, which is saying a lot because pink is my favourite colour.

Also, my old computer crashed and took my music files with it. Not too big of a pity about the computer, since it was destined for the electronics recycling depot anyway, but now I have to find all those music files again so I can re-build my media library on my laptop.

All of this makes me want to just give up with computers altogether. However, I am addicted to blogging. So here is my new blog:

http://www.freewebs.com/aislingzpage/index.html

….

Oh, alright, I’m kidding, but sometimes it just seems like that route would be so much simpler.

Fictional Dinner

So, our dining room table seats 8. (It can seat 10, but for the sake of timeliness, let’s just stick with eight, shall we?) This afternoon at our Thanksgiving meal, we played a game where each of us chose a bunch of people that we would invite to our fancy dinner party, and here’s who I chose:

Ellen DeGeneres: She is very funny, and I love her. Ha ha. I watch her show all of the time, and she makes me laugh, and I’m sure she’d make my other dinner guests laugh as well.

Emma Watson: Well, I kind of feel obligated to her since my fan site dedicated to her did help me reach the depths of fame I hold today. Ha ha. No, really, I love Hermione, and I think it would be interesting to talk to her about growing up in the spotlight like she has.

Zac Efron: He’s cute.

Reba McEntire: I’ve recently begun watching her show, “Reba,” and have rather enjoyed it. It’s about a mom, Reba, dealing with her ex-husband’s cheating/marrying/new baby/moving next door, and her kids, including one of her daughters, whom also has a baby at the same time as her ex-husband! Also, she’s an amazing country singer, so much love there!

John Krasinski: He’s cute and funny and nice and the star of my favourite television show! I think he’d be nice to talk to, and easy for everyone to get along with.

Anderson Cooper: zOMG, I love Anderson. I think I’ve mentioned my love for him before. He is SO SMART. Smart guys seriously turn me into jelly. Normally, I don’t like them to be too much smarter than me, but this is an exception. I also found him quite funny on Regis and Kelly. He is the complete package.

Regis Philbin: I have been watching Regis practically since I was born! I love him, and he is definitely coming to my dinner! He would be a riot, in his quirky way. OMG I cried when he went for heart surgery, it was so sad, and I didn’t even have a T.V.!!! I got to see some of the footage from We Heart Regis Day, and that is when I realized how much I love Regis.

And then, obviously, the last chair goes to me.

Also, this is just my pop culture list, ha ha. Obviously there are other lists for historical people (Gandhi, FDR, Pierre Elliot Trudeau…) and musicians (John Lennon, Bob Marley, Elvis…) and so-on, but that could take years!

What I want to know today, is, if you could choose any 7 guests at your fancy dinner party, who would you choose?