REAL Supervillians wear high heels

The week is finally over.  Thursday night before last my grandmother suffered a massive stroke.  My aunt flew into the city Saturday morning and we drove down together.  The group of us spent the week at her bedside or funeral planning.  She finally passed away on Thursday morning and we had the funeral today.  I am really tired and not just from the situation. I gave up the bed to my aunt and slept on the blow up mattress.

On a happier note, my mother and I are going to be flying out tomorrow and should be in Amsterdam by Wednesday morning.  This is the first time my mother has been in the Netherlands since her family moved to Canada all those decades ago and she has wanted to do this for a long time.  Hopefully it won't rain the whole time, but we are prepared if it does.

So, I forgot I had a six hour TA today until late yesterday (and needed to prep since I haven't done any of this stuff in a few years) and had a conference paper that needed to be in for 5 PM.  Wasn't sure I was going to get it done, since I wanted comments from my supervisor first (since his name is on it) and pictures take me forever to do, but it is in.  Very relieved and managed with time to spare.

Now I just have to stick around to pick up the last group of labs to grade.  I'd say that I'm planning to mark them tonight to get them out of the way, but that would be a terrible, terrible lie.

For the Ottawa locals, you may have heard me talk about the epic musical some friends are putting on in June for Fringe. This is kind of short notice as I was planning to post this Friday, but had the cold of death and was curled up in bed so I didn't get around to it. They're looking for people and I figured that scifi geeks would be interested. Feel free to forward the information on. They aren't just looking for actors and singers, so don't feel shy (plus I will personally vouch for the awesomeness of the people involved).  Or if you don't want to get involved, just keep its existence in the back of your mind for Fringe this year.

Alien Predator: The Musical!
In space, no one can here you sing!

Auditions

Go Fly A Kite Productions is looking actors and actress for its production of Alien Predator: The Musical to be performed at the Ottawa Fringe Festival in June. The musical is parody of the Predator and Aliens franchises.

Auditions will be held February 15 and 16th in the evenings at Hawthorne United Church, 2244 Russell Rd. Those auditioning will be expected to sing something of their choosing and to perform a scene in the script.

We are also looking for a director, choreographer, musicians and anyone interested in helping out. If that’s you, please contact bjshorton at gmail dot com.

For those of you who missed it I have been having a poster war on campus. I have followed up once again with posters (mine is an evil laugh) and online.

This morning's update: Someone put up Storyteller posters in the UniCentre. I am not the only one supporting Richard Brook.

These people may get an invite from me this week for coffee and, possibly, brunch on Sunday.

in response to a declaration of war. Curious to see the response now that I've tracked down the relevant blogs.

Come find me, fellow Sherlock fans.

Hoping for a response. Come on Sherlock fandom, don't let me down!

I just saw a "Moriarty is Real" poster on the door of my building when I came into work today :)

(I am also very tempted to put up a "Sherlock Holmes is a fraud" or "Richard Brook is Innocent" posters in response just to see if there is a response.)

And this is the part that gets me, because I completely agree. And, as a Canadian, I didn't even get an opportunity to vote for these people that have decided to include all North American IPs as domestic addresses. When I am enraged about Canadian copyright law, at least I got to protest by voting for someone else.