My name is Nicole. I am from Ontario, Canada,
I am just your average TV obsessed 20-something with no direction in life currently.
Some random facts about me to getting an idea of who I am:
I own 2 cats. I enjoy spending time at my cottage: swimming, canoeing in the summer. I way prefer winter up there, though. No one else is up and you can walk across the lake and wear stupid snow suits! I used to go camping a lot, but i haven't been in quite a few years now. I am barely socially competent, and terrible at talking to people, so uh, sorry in advance to anyone? Last summer i spent a month in Ecuador for school and had the best experience of my life probably. 2 years ago I went to Iceland for 2 weeks and it was also amazing. I really love travel, but those are the only places that i've really been to other than Florida, and the Caribbean and a few other provinces. My dream is to go to Antarctica one day, but I've kind of resigned myself that that probably wont be happening.
You can find me on tumblr HERE, and twitter HERE.


I am currently watching:
Archer, Arrow, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Community, Cougar Town, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Girls, The Good Wife, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mad Men, New Girl, Orange is the New Black, Orphan Black, Parks and Recreation, Scandal, Shameless, Sleepy Hollow, Suburgatory, Teen Wolf, Trophy Wife, Veep

Shows I have watched fully:
30 Rock, 10 Things I Hate About You, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Breaking Bad, Dead Like Me, Freaks and Geeks, Friday Night Lights, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Go On, Greek, Happy Endings, The Hour, Lost, The OC, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Scrubs, Skins, Veronica Mars, The Wire, Wonderfalls, Young Justice

Shows I've seen some of but didn't finish for one reason or another:
Leverage, Gossip Girl, Glee, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Breaking Bad, Psych, The Simpsons, Homeland, The Mindy Project, Raising Hope

Comics i'm currently reading:
Hawkeye, The Manhattan Projects, Mind the Gap, Morning Glories, Rachel Rising, Revival, Saga, Ultimate Comics Spider-man, Young Avengers

HERE ARE SOME HALF-ASSED TOP THINGS OF 2013 LISTS WOOOO.

( TOP TELEVISION SERIES OF 2013Collapse )


( TOP EPISODES OF 2013Collapse )

( TOP MOVIES OF 2013Collapse )

( TOP COMICS OF 2013Collapse )

( TOP COMIC ISSUES OF 2013Collapse )

1) HOW GREAT IS THE GOOD WIFE THIS SEASON. I DONT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD BUT I FINISHED THE 100TH EP A BIT AGO AND ITS STILL ON MY MIND. FLORRICK AGOS AND ASSOCIATES IS THE GREATEST DREAM TEAM SINCE MSPC.

2) LOLLLLLLLLLLL SCHOOL LOLLLLLLLLL ESSAYS LOLLLLLLLLL EXAMS

3) IDK I WAS LISTENING TO FIREWALL/ICEBERG BREAKING BAD PODCAST TODAY WHICH OBV BROUGHT UP THE "PANTHEON" SHOWS DISCUSH.
SO HERES MY ARBITRARY RANKINGS OF THE ONES I HAVE SEEN WHICH I WILL STAND BY TIL MY DYING DAY OR UNTIL I CHANGE MY MIND, W/E: 1: THE WIRE 2: MAD MEN 3: BREAKING BAD. SORRY NOT SORRY.

4) HOW GREAT IS BROOKLYN NINE NINE

5) OK SO THE REAL PURPOSE OF THIS WHEN I NEVER FUCKING USE LJ IS THAT IF IGURE THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO DISCUSS HOW MUCH OF A PROBLEM IM HAVING RE: THIS FUCKING DUDE

SO GROSS U GUYS SO FUCKING RUDE. WHY ARE U STUPID HOT WHY R U A THING. NIGHTMARES DAYDREAMS DAYMAN IM SO TIRED. UR EXHAUSTING 

OK SO i was thinking and started rambling about this on twitter, but i have certain shows that i will look to in full seasons whereas there are other that episodes pop out for me

This probably has a lot more to do with the structure of the story telling than anything else.
Mad Men is a much more episodic show than The Wire and there fore its pretty obvious that Mad Men is an episode show for me and The Wire is firmly a season show.

But then, FNL, which i do think is a bit more episodic, is a more so a season show for me? Like, i can definitely pinpoint certain episodes that are in my pantheon of greats, and i have trouble ranking the seasons other than 2 being the worst, but i do always think of and discuss and compare it in my head as 5 large collections rather than 70 some odd single episodes???

How I Met Your Mother is also an season show for me, whereas Community or IASIP are episode shows.

Young Justice season 1 is an episode season and s2 is a season season IF THAT MAKES ANY FUCKING SENSE.

Freaks and Geeks, oddly, is a season show or a series show if you will, even though i can tell anyone what happens in each of the episodes with very minimal errors. But it just all works together for me as eighteen pieces that fit together to make one perfect whole.

Arrested Development is ALSO a series show for me. Even though i can easily pick out a season and episodes above other i always view it in its entirety??? EXCEPT FOR SEASON 4 which is still new and different that i view as a separate season to the first three combined??

IDK IDK i could go on but this is silly

ps. i was supposed to be writting about my trip to nova scotia BUT THEN

I have talked about how i love to list before and this is basically gonna all be about that!!! Theyre have always been some troubles for me when ranking Top __ because no matter what there will always be x that is better but i maybe dont KILL MYSELF over like i do y and so how do they rank then??? WHERE DO THEY GO???

This actually particularly plagues me with my movies where i basically only have dramas on my lists?? No matter HOW MUCH i love 60s batman (SHARK REPELLENT BAT SPRAY!!!!!!!) there is no way i could feel right putting it above Eternal Sunshine because it is just BETTER all around. And Up is such a fantastic movie but Fantastic Mr Fox and Finding Nemo make me smile more, and The Lion King was my whole childhood. THESE ARE THINGS I WILL LITERALLY TAKE DAYS MULLING OVER??? (on the other side of this, comedy movies just don't stick as well for me because jokes have diminishing returns after a while. Dramas (or TV comedies) have more characters stuff that will hold me for a lot longer)

TV i've basically just steered clear of this problem by making three separate lists for best, favourite and important. I basically started thinking about this because i'm revisiting Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that is such an amazing and great show. But it will never be my favourite??? I would pick Friday Night Lights over it anytime even though i can say that BB is a much more solid and consistant show! On the other hand, is the fact that mad men and the Wire are the BEST inflating how much they are favourites??? I also have always felt weird not ranking The Simpsons like, #1 in comedies because i grew up on that, it inspired so many of the shows i love today, i can have conversations purely quoting it, and some of the episodes make me laugh, 20 yrs after they aired, like nothing else could! But i just dont... care about it as much as other things??? (and this is where this could spin off into a whole other thing about when things aired, when i was subject to them, later bad seasons tanishing shows etc but i am way too garbage at writing to continue)

IDK this is just a lot of rambling that boils down to me taking lists EXTREMELY serious.

I went to Calgary for two weeks! Visited my friend Jenna! Great times it was!! Her family just bought a cottage in BC so that was the first time for me to that province. Only Saskatchewan and Newfoundland left, FUCK YEAH CANADA TRAVELS*!!!

*excluding all territories.

We had the greatest lemonade ever made at a market in BC. Let me be clear that this is not an exaggeration. The greatest lemonade.

I saw lots of deer, some sheep, a chipmunk and a moose. I was enabled to buy lots of things and dye part of my hair turquoise.

( OVERALL VERY FUN TIMES. HERE ARE SOME PICTURES:Collapse )

( PACRIM, OITNB, AND LIFE STUFFCollapse )


IN CONCLUSION, DONT TALK TO ME ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE NEXT 17 WEEKS UNLESS IT CAN BE RELATED BACK TO PACIFIC RIM.

it was my birthday earlier this week, and that was a thing that happened.

i realized i haven't actually celebrated it with friends since I have like 15? so about 7 years ago now???? yeesh. i basically spent the day as i do normally, at home with my mom and cats. IM A PRETTY GR8 22 YR OLD IS WHAT IM SAYING.

i have also been spending the past week avoiding studying for my exams like the plague. an environmental studies final on tuesday, kill me those readings are so boring.

IN NON PERSONAL/BORING NEWS TV AND COMICS ARE THINGS THAT ARE GREAT

I got into morning glories and it is SO AMAZING. like all i want to do with my time is reread and come up with terrible theories and talk about it forever. PLOT IS NOT A THING I AM INTERESTED IN IN COMICS BUT MAN OH MAN. SO GOOD HERE. CRAZY TIME TRAVEL HAPPENINGS!! 8 13!!!! SHADOWS THAT MOVE BY THEMSELVES!! WHO IS DAVID???!! ETC FOREVRRR

while everyone else has been screaming about return of game of thrones i am off in a corner shouting MAD MEN IS BACK!!!!!!!!! thats all i really have to say, it still continues being the greatest. (BTW, not a dig at GOT which i am also watching and totally enjoying, just more into 60s ad men human disasters!!!!! dons cheating again!! peggy and stan phone buddies!! PETES HAIR.)

New Girl continues to rock it, the office had Pam discussing the secret house buying and community was pretty ok this week!!

also I still cant think about young justice without my heart crumbling into a million peices! still haven't even come close to being able to rewatch the finale. ILL GET THERE ONE DAY MAYBE.