Ginormous survey fun. XD

The Favorites, Have-You-Evers.. and Last Times! Oh, the variety!
What is your favorite..
gum:	double bubble!
restaurant:	Jack Astor's
drink:	7Up
season:	Summer
type of weather:	Light Rain
emotion:	Love!
thing to do on a half day:	Sing
late-night activity:	Read
sport:	Fencing
city:	Vancouver
store:	Forever 21
When was the last time you..
cried:	When I read "Interview With the Vampire" a few days ago...
played a sport:	Not actually sure...
laughed:	two minutes ago!
hugged someone:	no clue
kissed someone:	never...
felt depressed:	while reading Interview with the Vampire
felt elated:	now! math! fun! competition! May!
felt overworked:	Today, ack, homework!
faked sick:	no idea
lied:	recently.
What was the last..
word you said:	oops?
thing you ate:	Havarti (cheese)
song you listened to:	Drops of Jupiter
thing you drank:	milk
place you went to:	Sericuse
movie you saw:	Gladiator
movie you rented:	La Grande Seduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis)
concert you attended:	Little sister's band. /pathetic
Who was the last person you..
hugged:	no idea
cried over:	ditto
kissed:	no one!
danced with:	myself
shared a secret with:	who ever reads my lj...
had a sleepover with:	ummm... probably Jess.
called:	Mat
went to a movie with:	My sister
saw:	My other sister
were angry with:	SEO 'small evil one' other wise known as my sister.
couldn't take your eyes off of:	hehe... /not telling
obsessed over:	ditto
Have you ever..
danced in the rain:	yep!
kissed someone:	nope.
done drugs:	no.
drank alcohol:	maybe...
slept around:	no.
partied 'til the sun came up:	almost. /friends finally let me fall asleep
had a movie marathon:	yep. BBC Pride & Prejudice = love
gone too far on a dare:	haha... oops?
spun until you were immensely dizzy:	oh yes.
taken a survey quite like this before:	yep. XD
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Quizlet

Warrior I'm not telling your actual score. Hmph!

Warriors, like Kings, are often leaders because they possess the necessary mental abilities to hold such positions. Warriors see something they want and go for it. They don't hold back. They speak their mind. They don't sugarcoat. They don't fear. Like Lovers, they often have bad reps because they are misunderstood. They may come across as harsh, unforgiving, uncaring, or insensitive, but it is only because they are realistic and drive right to the core of the situation rather than beat around the bush. The Warrior's complement is the thoughtful, artistic Lover.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 93% on Confidence You scored higher than 26% on Creativity

Link: The Medieval Archetype Test written by isayso on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Hostile Takeover

Business Plan for Kate McLellan

Executive Summary

Company: Kate, Queen of the Universe.

Business is World Domination

Headquarters are currently A.D.H.S. but will soon be moving to the Atlantis Operation.

Highly Illegal, at least until I change that...

History and Position to Date

Introduction to Your Business

Background: Ummm. power-lust?

Why business will succeed: Passion and bloodshed.

Mission Statement

Company vision: Take-over the universe.

Short-term goals: Year One: Global Domination

Year Two: Galactic Empire

Year Three: The Universe is mine.

Company values: Power.

Business Structure

Sole proprietorship.

Reason for this structure: Why would I want to share power?

Management Team

My experience: President of my 4-H club?

My skills/qualifications: Presentation Zen.

Skills and experience: Morbid, sadistic, and raunchy.

In the words of a dear friend: "Katrina. You. Need. HELP!!" ... "Thank god I read the description of the first site, it saved me from clicking any links. I don't even want to know how you find these sites!!" ... "Eww..." ... "If you ever feel the need to dedicate another post to me please stop smoking whatever you found under the couch."

Chief Financial Officer: Mat

Skills and experience: ~ good at Math. Can actually be trusted with money. Also suggested the plexiglass cube idea, and needs to be rewarded somehow.

Director of Marketing and Sales: Nils

Skills and experience: The only person crazy enough for the job. He gets all the kibble.

Other key personnel: Stephanie, my second in command.

*Actually, anyone else I can convince would be good at this point.

Personnel to be added: Someone sane might be helpful.

Products and Services

Of the least illegal...

Item#237 It's a book... You know with paper and words in it?

Steps required to make product ready for market: There is world domination to plot!

Cost to make product ready for market: The shredded remainders of my dignity.

Time until ready for market: A year?

Patents: Who needs 'em?

Competitive advantages: Conform or die.

Market differentiation: Competition is irrelevant.

Possible new or complementary products: If I get bored with being Queen of the Universe, I can always start highly experimental research in alternate dimensions and start taking those over too.

Regulatory issues: Moving H.Q. out of A.D.H.S. might help.

Market Research

Customers

Geographic scope: I'm taking over the universe. Mine, mine I say.

Customer needs: Food. Water. Exercise. Leashes and muzzles.

Market growth: 100%

Growth relative to local economy: KICK ASS!

Demographics: Doesn't matter at all.

Innovators: Evil, like-minded persons. They will have to be quietly assasinated later, of course.

Product Features

Feature: World Domination Comes First.

Benefit to customer: George Bush is among the top ten for relocation to a black hole.

Proof: George Bush is among the top ten for relocation to a black hole. 'Nuff said.

Feature: Building A Galactic Empire comes next.

Benefit to customer: I will turn Pluto into a theme park.

Proof: Everyone loves Disneyland, right? Just think a /planet/ of Disneyland. Except, with more fun. And not just Disney character. And no Spongebob EVER.

Feature: Next, I take over the Universe.

Benefit to customer: Ice cream shall be declared a food group. So will chocolate. And Monday will be declare universal caffeine celebraion day.

Proof: Short school weeks = goodness.

Competitors

Lord Voldemort. Darth Sidious. Sauron. Oh, and Galadriel's gonna be P.O.'d I didn't include her.

Competitors' products: L.V. - Can't even get a decent nose.

D.S. - Wrinkles, please, not the wrinkles.

S. - A giant evil eye? Bitch, please

Me - Compared to above? Beauty itself.

Strengths and weaknesses, relative to us: L.V. - He's got the Unforgivable curses. On the other hand, he was defeated by a baby.

D.S. - Use the force. Ooo Ahhh. Electrocution and lightsabers. *wants*

S. - Orcs and Wargs are soo passé.

Strengths and weaknesses, relative to each other: Voldie vs. Siddie vs. Eye.

Hmm... Voldie will definately be the first to go.

Probably Siddie next. There are, after all, some advantages to not being strictly human. Such as being rather hard to get rid of permenantly.

Critical factors for success: Those brainwashing machines had better work or someone is going to pay.

Business Strategy

Pricing Policy

Pricing factors: Company Policy, Business Conditions, Channels of Distribution

Advertising and Promotion

Long-term promotional goals: Complete and total brainwash

Short-term promotional goals: Subliminal messages

Marketing message: "Kate is Queen" "Conform or Die" "Save the Dolphins"

Media: All possible. One must use all means at disposal if global domination is to be achieved.

Monitoring marketing effectiveness: Number of people brainwahsed/day

Promotional budget: Irrelevant.

Location

Factors in choosing location: The Atlantis Operation. Totally and Completely Secure.

Competitive advantages: Unlike my stupid competition of other "Dark Lords", I'm easily accessed, and therefore, have easy means of escape. I am not below runnning away screaming like a child.

Distribution channels: Lying, cheating, and stealing.

Channel we will use: All of the above.

Reason for choice: Sadistic pleasure.

Operations

Sales and Sales Management

Who will conduct sales: Pretty much everyone.

Training: Training? What training?

Sales methods employed: Begging, cajoling, pleading.

Sales monitoring: Computer?

Incentives: Bribery.

Customer complaints: Nuke them.

Manufacturing/Supply

Materials/supplies needed: brainwashing equipment

invisiblity-cloaking devices

space shuttles

Vendor(s): The Russians. And the Chinese. They're into some crazy shit.

Terms of sale: highly illegal

Production process: even more illegal.

Competitors' production process: In secret underground labs.

Engineering/design support: evil genuises who can be bent to my will.

Facilities and equipment: Space station, underground labs, the Atlantis Operation. (A.O.)

Quality control: brainwashing machines

Cost to become operational: Irrelevant. Victory shall be mine.

Staffing Issues

Key positions: I'm taking over the world. Minions required as of immediately. Extra rations will be provided.

Recruitment: Coscription, bribery, blackmail and brainwashing.

Dress code: You must.

Other staffing issues: Rebel and you shall be anahilated. Painfully so.

Forecasting

Orders in hand: Global, then Galactic, then Universal domination

Past sales: The same thing we do every nigh, Pinky, try to take over the world!

Market research: I have read the Evil Overlord's Handbook...

Assumptions: Resistance is useless.

Projected market share: fun!

Financial Statements

Assets and liabilities: Assests= World Domination

Liabilities= Inevitable Rebellion

Gross profit: More then you can possibly imagine.

Key ratios: I'll be Queen of the Universe by the time I'm 18. MOO HA HA HA.

Cash flow: Gazillions.

Break-even point: 5 cents.

Break-even assumptions: Blackmail will go a loooong way.

Sensitivity Analysis

10% drop in sales volume: more brainwashing!

10% rise in fixed costs: more brainwashing!

10% rise in cost of goods sold: time to watch the Breakfast Club

Financing Requirements

Funds required: 5 cents. And LOTS of Blackmail.

Use of funds: Gum.

Money from partners, investors: Me? None. "Investors"? MOO HA HA HA.

Percent of equity that is borrowed: It's like a bomb made out of bombs.

Desired funding sources: Blackmail of various World Leaders.

And Bill Gates /really/ wants that little secret I caught on video kept quiet.

When needed: A.S.A.P.

Offer to investors: Conform or Die!

Equity company is prepared to sell: None. Nils gets all the kibble.

Exit routes: Death is an exit.

Business Controls

Accounting System: Unhackable laptop with automatic self-destruct built in.

Reason for choice: Security.

Auditors: Myself. the IRS has nothing on me.

Sales monitoring: Interesting, to say the least.

Marketing records: MOO HA HA HA

Manufacturing/production: Populating the outer planets will require extensive research and development. And I want to turn Pluto into a theme park.

Personnel records: I want to know how long their toenails are. Big Sister is watching. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Quality control: Control is essential.

New product development: All shall love me and despair.

Weekend time!

The only schoolwork I have is an extra credit assignment for Media Studies, so I got off easy! *does happy dance* World History Spare made this day not-as-sucky, though I'm still PO'd that our Winter Carnival got canacel *goes off in rant about people with no sense of fun*

Also:

Laughs ass off at chart: linkage!

And why school can kill your brain

ETA: This sounds like it came straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy almost, but not quite, entirly unlike tea

Guilty As Charged

Guilt	What is yours?	Explain yourself
Culinary:	Chocolate	caffiene+aphrodisiac. 'Nuff said.
Literary:	Douglas Adams	It's all because of the towels
Audiovisual:	Can you say "Yellow Submarine"?	erm. yah... Beatles= <3?
Musical:	Soundtracks to Musicals	from "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" to "All I Ask of You", what's not to love?
Celebrity:	Brits	because the accent is HOT.

IQ Queen

Your IQ Is 205

Your Logical Intelligence is Exceptional Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

A Few Quizes

You Are Creepy

Serial killers would run away from you in a flash.

How Scary Are You?

Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression - and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog... And the next, you're passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important - and you're careful about who you share it with.

What's Your Blogging Personality?

and...

You Are Rain

You can be warm and sexy. Or cold and unwelcoming. Either way, you slowly bring out the beauty around you. You are best known for: your touch Your dominant state: changing

What Type of Weather Are You?

Yerk.

Today's post is for Mat, with apologies for scarring him for life.

Three Steps.

1) Click Here
2) Click sub-links
3) Laugh arse, head, and various other body parts off

brain=dead (EXAMS START TOMORROW! DON'T PANIC!)

Interesting Things Discussed In French Class This Year
(2005-2006)

· Feminism
· How To Shotgun a Dubie
· Homemade Alternatives to Steroids
· Window Sex
· Gay Cowboy Sex
· Sex in General
· Cigarette Bondage
· Alcohol
· Aliens
· Conspiracies
· Alien Conspiracies
· Chocolate
· Hockey
· Interpreting Dreams
· Dead Bodies
· Love Triangles

If that fails to amuse, try this for hours of entertainment:
What I'd be Doing If I Didn't Have to Study For These Stupid Exams

Ahoy matey!

My pirate name is:

Captain Anne Cash

Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

*loffs* Muppets : Kermit is sexxxy.

-Kate

Apparently my hair is white?

Your Hair Should Be White

Classy, stylish, and eloquent. You've got a way about you that floors everyone you meet.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

More quiz-ly results

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

*loffs*

Your Social Dysfunction: Paranoid You show pervasive and unwarranted suspiciousness, and mistrust of others. You are overly sensitive and prone to jealousy.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

356 Books

Recently I read somewhere about a 100 book challenge. I figured that if I was going to read a hundred, well why not 3 hundred? Or 356? A book for everyday of the year. I think I must be crazy, but I'm going to try anyways. Today's? The Picture of Dorian Gray. I got it for Christmas, and I've been wanting to read it for a while anyways. Also, by saying 356 books this year instead of a book/day, I can skip some days if I have to and get caught up on weekends. Wish me luck!

-Kate

Happy New Year

Happy New Year all! Hopefully 2005 was good to you, and may 2006 be even better. I went to a masquerade last night, but had to leave early so I could go home and spend New Year's Eve with my family. We sat around playing tuck and watching hockey until it was almost midnight and then we watched the ball drop and went to bed. All in all a rather boring way to ring in the New Year. The masquerade was interesting though. It was held at my old piano teachers house and I knew almost no one there, but there was good music and food, so hey, I wasn't complaining. I can at least say I spent New Year's Eve in a more... dignified... way then my some of my friends who were partying it up in day-glo colours and getting sloshed.

Happy 2006!

-Kate

Time-consuming, Mindless, Brain-rotting Fun

Wow. Found this Fly pen site, and had to blog it. I could spend hours playing with the loading screen. The program itself is fun,fun,fun. My brain will be goo by the end of the weekend. I also found something called "MOPy Fish". Was intrigued, and downloaded the program. Have named mine "muffin the goldfish" It will doubtlessly receive far more love & affection then deemed sane for one to give a computer program. I know, I'm insane. It fun though. Also, I was reffered to this site by my sister. Was very amused by the comix section, and highly recommend it.

If that isn't enough entertainment for you tonight folks, I suggest you check out a piece of Harry Potter fanfiction called Draco Dormiens by Cassandra Claire. Or :shameless self-plug: my LOTR fanfic spoof Gondor Today.

-Kate

I love spares

I really do. I have two again today. And one last period & one right before lunch. I'm very happy. I actually miss French class somewhat, but spares are excellent for catching up on stuff, or just goofing off. I have started to work on a new webpage which will hopefully be better then my old one, which I haven't updated for at least a year and wasn't very good in the first place.

I will post later on with a link once I'm done it.

I'm now in music class and we're in the library. Again. It's boring. But At least lots of my friends have spares so they can come visit me. Not that they don't come and visit anyway when they don't have spares. But I'm getting off topic. Again. I fear I shall never learn anything about the Baroque period of music at this rate. Oh well, that's what Wikipedia's for.

Wikipedia is my hero. It has saved me from having to actually work on many projects. I just go there, and all the information I need, no searching through shelves of books or pages of search results. What can I say, I'm lazy!

-Kate

Woot! Christmas Shopping Trip Surviver!

Yay! I am started on my Christmas shopping! Go me! I finished shopping for my Dad, and need another gift for each of my two sisters, and something more for my Mom, but other then that, I'm good. Spent the last four hours in the Mosh pit they call a "mall" and survived without spending my last cent. Still need gifts for my friends too, but I'll probably just buy them candy, so that's easy, and I'll get my dog a bone. Hopefully I won't have to enter another mall until after Christmas. It was a nightmare. People everywhere, could hardly see down some of the aisles.

Also, I had 2 spares this morning, and for 3rd period we "worked" in the computer lab. (Which is to say everyone played games or talked to friends when the teacher wasn't looking. All in all a fairly good day.

Anyone who thinks they might die of boredom spending time with younger relatives might want to check out this link/idea:

Dice rolling machine made from LEGOs

This craft will keep the kiddies busy & can be used for adult entertainment later on!

Also - for pure & mindless amusement that will rot your brain -
The Create Your Own Road Trip Game

-Kate

Wish List Meme

I found this meme over at elmathelas's journal while searching for "Fred/Hermione". Had to add it to my blog.

Step One:
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Billy/Dom icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two:
Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

So... Here's mine.

1) A fluffy Fred/Hermione ficlet
2) Some one to illustrate a scene from my Gondor Today fanfic.
3) Instructions on how to play a simple guitar song.
4) A neat craft idea
5) A link to my blog from someone's site

Happy Holidays Everyone!

-Kate

Update

Hmm... Let's see... This week has been very busy so far, I played trumpet in our loacl Christmas parade Sunday, Had my dress rehersal for the play Monday, a major biology test today (which I, in all likelyhood, bombed.) and tomorrow I'm playing trumpet in the academic awards ceremony as well as receiving a few awards myself :D honour roll, and thing for the Waterloo Math Competiton and I might get some others too, but I won't know 'till tomorrow. Anyways... back to thenot-exactly-a-point-but-subject. I'm playing 1st trumpet (i.e. the best of the brass!), and, thankfully, we get to play harder songs then in the Christmas parade... If I had to play "Jingle Bells" again, I think I'd scream. We're porbably playing Novena, Exodus (Which is easy, but at least sounds nice) Columbia Crest March (Ditto) and 25 or 6 to 4 (Easy & I don't know why we're playing it. Not really ceremony material) and Joy to the World (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog. Which I love.) We might be playing Stairway to Heaven too, but our teacher isn't sure it's appropriate for the occasion (And yet 25 or 6 to 4 & Joy to the World are?) Fun fun fun.

I also have a French test tomorrow, an English project on Blake & the romantic poets due, a comparative essay to work on, a project for French class, a Music project & a bunch of questions for Biology homework. Which leads me to the question...

Are my teachers trying to kill me with stress?

Actually, I don't think they are, as if they were I probably have more homework then I do.

Oh yes... One final not. Fellow members of the fairer sex might apperciate this .

- Kate