Celebrations

[felis_ultharus]

I have been even more absent lately. So this is belated, please forgive me:





I finally got my grades back for the semester. I've got seven A's and one A- so far, and one grad class left.

Mostly I've spent the last few weeks trying to get past writer's block. My usual trick (video games) worked, and I'm back on track for my self-imposed deadline for the novel in November.

Also, happy Dollard-des-Victoria-the-Patriot's Birthday today, to my fellow Canadians! Today we get together to celebrate Queen Victoria's valiant struggle for democracy in Lower Canada against the Iroquois! She was martyred, but she got better*

*To those of you completely lost, this is a long weekend in Canada. It's officially called Victoria Day, after Queen Victoria. It's also known as The Queen's Birthday, leading some to falsely assume that Lizzy Part II was born on May 24th. In Quebec, where the monarchy is often seen as a symbol of the evils of British empire and a form of parasite on the public purse, many took to calling it Dollard-des-Ormeaux, after the French soldier who was martyred, according to legend, killed by the Iroquois he set out to masssacre.

Of course, Queen Vic is now recognized as a symbol of racism, militarism, and prudery. And we tend not to consider would-be Indian mass-murderer heroic. So now it's called the Fête des Patriotes in Quebec, for the martyrs of the 1837-38 Rebellion for democracy in Lower Canada. Which doesn't help the rest of Canada.

May I humbly suggest Three-Day-Weekendmas? We could sit around, singing Three-Day-Weekend carols, roasting chestnuts over the Three-Day-Weekend log, and exchange Three-Day-Weekend presents.

Also, I don't think the name Festivus II: The Revenge of Festivus is yet taken.

Comments

[seal7.livejournal.com]

Thankeeee ^_^

Also, I shake my fist at your straight A's.
And I personally like The Revenge of Festivus as a name :P

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Well, in my program, a C puts you on academic probation. It's the sort of program you don't get into at all unless you're going to do well.

Plus, I have to be good, if only out of spite. If I get bad grades, all my griping about the program just sounds like sour grapes ;)

I'm glad you liked the pika letters. Since you're the one who taught me how to do that, it only seemed ppropriate you'd be the first I'd use them for ^_^

I also thought up Festivus II: Attack of the Clones, but thought that some of my LJ friends would hunt me down for that one :p

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Congrats on all the A's! But, um, when you say you have seven + one A- so far plus one to come, that's over your entire grad school career, right? Please tell me you weren't taking nine courses in a single semester...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's over the five semesters I've done consecutively.

I'm not that crazy ^_^