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[Error: unknown template qotd]To quote my favourite Muppet holiday special:

It's cold enough to freeze your Winnebago!

I should know. I was outside today and while it wasn't snowing heavily or anything, the wind just made it miserable. I was so happy when I got inside again. Ah, the joys of living in Canada.

[Error: unknown template qotd]Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect series. Preferably the female version. We could kick geth butt by day and chill out with a bottle of Serrice Ice Brandy at night. ;-)

[Error: unknown template qotd]It's not really my resolution, it's my company's resolution, but I plan to walk 1500 kilometers (or 932 miles if you prefer) in a year.

When I say it's my company's resolution, I should explain. They're holding a contest to see who can walk 1500 kilometers in year to celebrate 1500 years of something or other. All that's really important is a) they're giving out free pedometers b) there are prizes. Yes, nothing motivates like free things and prizes! ;-)

Or the company is telling us that we're all fat and need to get some exercise.

I walk to work every day, if the weather's right, so I think I already have a head start on most people. I'm not thinking I'll win anything, but it will be cool to see how many kilometers I walk in a year.

[Error: unknown template qotd]I'm going to split this question in two: Favourite hand drawn Disney movie and favourite CG Disney movie.

Favourite old school animation Disney movie has to be Mulan. Asian Disney Princess! Also, she's not the damsel in distress. She dresses up as a soldier and goes off to save the empire. And her horse is pretty hilarious, too. I can remember seeing the movie in the theatre with my mom, though mostly because I kept asking her what all the Chinese characters meant and she kept having to tell me she had no clue. Runner-up: Lilo and Stitch. Why? Because Stitch is cute and fuzzy. :-D

Favourite CG Disney movie, or in other words, favourite Pixar movie, is, hands down, WALL-E. I really enjoyed Finding Nemo and The Incredibles but WALL-E wins the prize because of the story. The majority of the story is told without any dialogue. You just have these two robots who manage to convey more emotion than the human characters in the movie. I think that's just an awesome feat of writing. Also, WALL-E is pretty much the geek and EVE is the kick ass girl. :-) An honourable mention for Up and its opening sequence. It tugs at your heartstrings and it does it without any dialogue, too.

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Ooh, I totally have to answer this. So, got a BA in General Humanities. Don't even need it for my job.

I bet no one has any idea what General Humanities is. That was always the fun part, trying to explain it, when people asked me what I was studying. "Well, it's general, you know, about humanities." *insert confused nod* I think the best explanation I ever came up with was it's like a general English degree, only the classes were from all over the Humanities department. I took English classes, Canadian History classes, Philosophy (bleh), Chinese, even a Film class. I think I had a broader range of classes to choose from, compared to my friends. That always made it interesting.

Heck, I even took a Creative Writing class and it counted towards my degree. Fiction writing, for credit!

Of course, none of it prepared me for a PA job in the oil and gas sector. Good to know my university days were worth my time. ;-)

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Since my other major goal of the day was to play a video game...

I used to think that my parents never let me and my sister play any computer and video games. We never had a game console growing up, just an old school Game Boy, and we barely had any good games. I just recently realized our parents let us play loads of computer games.

They were just educational.

Of course, at the time, we didn't know that. They were fun to play and who cares if we were learning reading skills, math, or history. The first computer game I ever played, to answer the question, was Reader Rabbit. I was probably, ooh, six? I vaguely remember the colours weren't that bright, probably a limitation of the graphics at the time. That was my first game. I eventually moved on to Treasure Mountain and the other games in that series. Those ones were all about math. I also have memory of watching my sister playing her computer games: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and all those games in the series, Challenge of the Ancient Empires, Operation Neptune, Time Riders in American History, etc. I recently looked into these games and wow, it was a trip down memory lane. Obviously, my parents were trying to foster some learning while also letting us have fun (I also think they secretly hoped my sister and I would become math geniuses or something).

And I like to think that it's because of these games that my sister and I are so into video games now. It's not that all different, really. You still get that same thrill from accomplishing a level or beating a one of the bad guys. So really, I should thank my parents for buying all those games. It would had been a boring childhood without them.

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My aunt's ginger shortbread cookies. Mmm...

She always sends a parcel around this time of year. And even though my mom is a mean baker herself and she has the recipe, it's just not the same. The cookies always taste best when my aunt makes them.

A close second would be Andes Chocolate Mints. They're one of the few chocolates I can eat and I always get a package in my stocking on Christmas Day from "Santa".

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I write it. Not sure if I "love" it. I certainly don't hate it. It's an outlet for me mostly. I love to write but I'm too damn lazy to come up with an original world to write in. So, fanfic is a nice middle ground. Fully formed characters running around in worlds I enjoy already. I guess it's sort of a necessity then. I always try to get away with writing at work. It helps the day to go by faster. :-)

As for reading it, hey, that's fun, too. People are always coming up with stories that can't be explored or don't get explored in the source material. That's the cool thing about fanfic. It's a forum. People can write whatever they want.

I really don't get the professional authors who say, "Hey, don't write fanfic set in my fandom!" If no one is profiting from it, then what's the harm? But that's just me.

[Error: unknown template qotd]LJ gets points off for tagging this "dr. who" and not "doctor who". Shame on you, LJ. You do it right in the actual question, but you screw up in the tags. ;-) Seriously, I hate it when people write "Dr. Who" when they're talking about the show or the character. Does it say "Dr." anywhere in the opening credits? No. It's like people spelling Buffy's name wrong. It's right there in the opening credits; you used to see it every week.

Um, I suppose I could answer the question. I was thinking about it but then I saw the tag. I dunno, the only actor I had my heart set on was Tony Head, but I knew that was a long shot, considering he's on Merlin. Unless they decided to kill off his character, but that's more of a thing you'd do in a later season. And no particular reason why I would want to see him as the Doctor. I just love him from Buffy and hey, why not have him starring in another fan favourite show. :-D