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IF YOU ARE CANADIAN AND YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY THEN TODAY'S THE DAY TO VOTE. WHATEVER THE RESULTS, THIS ELECTION WILL HAVE HISTORICAL VOTER TURNOUT, SHOWING OUR LEADERS THAT WE DO HAVE A VOICE, WE DO CARE, AND WE WILL MAKE OURSELVES HEARD. GIVEN THE NEWS IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO REALIZE HOW PRIVILEGED WE ARE TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE DEMOCRACY IS A RIGHT. EXERCISE IT. VOTE.

WHAT A GAME!

And what games, man! It's going to be so weird to have no more Olympics to obsess over after tomorrow. A bit of a relief to be sure (back to our regularly scheduled programmes!) but I've had a really fun time watching the Olympics these last couple weeks. I've had the chance to watch with various family members, with friends, on my own, and with loads of twitter folk! (Which btw, sorry for the constant spamming. *g*) And I've enjoyed it all so much, thank you everyone!

*HUGS*

Now time for the closing ceremonies! Where mah popcorn? I can only hope we're going to get something as epic as the punk rock fiddlers again. ;DDDDDDDDD

(Oh, so apparently Yonge and Dundas has been completely shut down for an impromptu block party. AWESOME!)

The thing I love about grad school is that we get show and tell. No, seriously.

Today, our guest speaker was a man named Jowy Taylor, who has created a guitar made from 63 different pieces of Canadian heritage, from all across the country. His goal has (succesfully) been to take the guitar all across the country and the world, and expand the scope of symbols we identify as quintessentially Canadian. Check out the website for more info: http://www.sixstringnation.com/. It's so cool, it's got pieces of the Bluenose in it, of Pier 21 (yay!), Trudeau's canoe paddle, Louis Riel's schoolhouse, caribou bones, bagle racks from Montreal, a seat in Massey Hall, and tonnes more. And so many people have played it (or at least have held it) now as well; from Bruce Cockburn, to Stompin' Tom, to Feist, to Hawksley Workman, politicians from all parties (though apparently Gilles Duceppe wouldn't go near it *g*) and ordinary people all around. I played G - A - D very quickly before passing it off to the next person. ;) But there you go, our piece of cultural history for the day.

And in more show and tell news, my homework for Friday's Collections Management class is to photograph 12 objects I would put in a museum of myself. Show and tell! You just ignore the four hours of reading time I clocked in at the library today, and it's just like kindergarten!

Woe is me, for I am bored.

I don't have another exam until thursday, which I know really shouldn't be something to complain about, but I have NOTHING TO DO in the meantime except refresh my friends page over and over (I mean, I suppose I could study but...) and it's only 9:00 and blerg.

So. Sentence meme? You gimme a prompt and I'll write you a little story in the comments? Or (stealing from anythingbutgrey) ask me anything about any fandom I've participated in, and I'll give you an answer.

Please to play with me? Otherwise I'm just going to be moping around my computer until tomorrow. And then I'm going to go see The Golden Compass with xtinethepirate. That'll be fun.