Delusion-Elle

Like all good Canadian teenagers/young adults, I spent my evening watching the gold medal game of the WHJC where Canada took on the Russians in Buffalo, NY, at HSBC centre in front of a sea of red and white. For this entire tournament, I swear, it's like Canada annexed Buffalo what with all the Canadians there for the WJHC.

After ousting the tournament favourite (USA), Canada was feeling good. We wanted the USA after clobbering the Swiss, and we got them. The biggest act of revenge was over and done with. But we wanted gold, too. Oh, alas, it was not meant to be.

I moseyed on over to the live stream on TSN and participated a bit in the Facebook live chat that was going on while Canada dominated the first period with two solid goals. The second period saw another goal by Canada, but it became clear, most notably during the Canadian power plays, that Russia was starting to wake up. After a 3-0 lead for two periods, Russia charged back in the third with 5 unanswered goals, earning themselves gold medals and the title of champions.

Yes, I admit that I am not thrilled with the results, but considering that this Canadian team had no "superstars" and that they were in no way favourites, they did manage to snag silver. That in itself is quite a feat considering the fact that their pool included some tough opponents.

That being said, the fallout on Twitter was... well, interesting to say the least. Throughout the game, various player names and "Gold Medal Game" trended. After the game, the list of trending topics was invaded by various Russian players' names as well as "National Travesty" and "Soviet Russia". I have to say that "National Travesty" was borderline ridiculous and originated from a tweet by a certain Canadian World Juniors superstar from a few years ago. I admit that I got quite a few kicks out of the "Soviet Russia" trending topic as "In Soviet Russia ..." jokes cropped up, the majority of which contained a bittersweet hockey twist.

In Canada, hockey is srs bznzz, folks. You do not deny this country a gold medal in ice hockey. Ever.
All I can say is that Russia had better watch out next year, when the games will be held on Canadian soil.

Some good did come of this disastrous game, and that includes Brayden Schenn's goal which has him tied for the record of most points in the WJHC. Good on him!

Another good thing that came of this was that I made amends with a friend I hadn't talked to in 6 months.
"How about them sneaky Russians?"

In other news, I think I may have pulled a leg muscle after slipping and falling (into a violent half-split) on the bus this morning. It kind of hurts to crouch down or even go down and kneel.

ALSO. I'm in for co-op! :) This means that every Thursday 12 - 2PM I'll be in a co-op workshop meeting thing. Despite the fact that that means I'll be seeing high school buddies less, my epically long 4.5-hour break will not be quite so long.

Errrrrrrr. Okay. So my English research essay is on synesthesia. We were allowed to pick whatever topic we want and it's something that I'm pretty interested in. So today I spent my evening taking notes (on my computer) while reading a book I'm going to be using as research. I put it down because I was tired and ready to turn in for the night, but then my mom picked it up. She read the title out loud and asked what it was about and for. I explained the whole synesthesia thing to her and... she pretty much called me a freak and then called it all hogwash.

"Music doesn't have colours! You don't see anything!"
"Well, it's like in my mind's eye."
"Music is just grey, like your cat. Does it really have different colours?"
"... yes..."
Then I tried to justify why I chose it as my essay topic and gave more examples. I brought up the "it's like perfect pitch" (as in one thing -- numbers/letters/sounds -- directly evokes another) point and she seemed more okay after that because that reminded her that my brother seems to have relative pitch. And then she said that we're both weird.

ASDFJKL;
It was like... coming out of the synesthesia closet. D:
I guess it was kind of shocking for me to think that songs/instruments don't have colour for most people.
And when she said that it was weird and freaky, it just... I don't know.

Regardless, I think that these books on synesthesia are absolutely fascinating.



Watching the news... they say that visible minorities are going up in Vancouver... lolol wow Mandarin Immersion?! Are you shitting me?!
The diversity? Soon it'll just be like Little Asia so I don't see much diversity there lol.

It hurts. :(
I got my H1N1 shot Saturday afternoon, but my arm still hurts. I know that a certain Jackass did not have a sore arm after getting the shot, but apparently his case seems to be an anomaly. Sadly, it still feels like he 1-up'd me in terms of the H1N1 shot & subsequent pain.

I don't know how I can make it feel better aside from popping back painkillers. :T

In other, non-ouch-my-freaking-arm related news, I'm quite pleased with what I managed to do yesterday night. Not only did I tweak my CPSC lab, but I also got Rent (the musical) onto my netbook and that is what I am spending my bus rides watching today. No naptime for me, but it's suggested that I watch it for class so yay for making use of bus rides? Well, for sure yay for using outlets at school to recharge my netbook. Srsly, the bus ride this morning felt really really short. I ALMOST didn't want it to end. D:

And tonight I shall start working on my CPSC assignment #3.