Greetings,
As you may be able to tell, this journal is mostly f-locked.
This does not, however, mean that I'm being entirely mean here. Some of my entries are still unlocked, and shall likely remain that way.
Add me at your peril, as I am a compulsive blogger (for example, I've been up for all of three hours, and this is my third entry today).

I'm currently a Police Foundations Student, who serves coffee for a job, and by night is a spy diplomat diplobrat. I hope to join the New Zealand Police.
My hobbies include fanfiction, original fiction, decent coffee, and learning about comparative Criminal Law.
I can sew, knit, and kick people at head-height. I occasionally cook, and sometimes participate in online games.
My username is one that I've had since I was fourteen. We only had a few moments to think one up for me, as the bell was about to ring for class, and I said 'Oh, I don't know... stupidknight? idiotknight? foolish_knight?' - taking an Arabic meaning of my name, and the descriptors most frequently assigned to me. One of my buddies suggested 'bakaknight', and that was that. Since then, I've come to see it less and less as two words, and more and more just as another group of letters for me to answer to. I've had this name for roughly six years now, and despite a certain dislike of it in the beginning (I actually preferred 'foolish_knight', which is now in my title) it's rather grown on me.

Some things from this journal that you may be interested in:

Fiction by me.
Things I write from my Twitter account.
Small highlights of Canadian Criminal Law, with English subtitles.
Fandom-related essaysrambles.
General essays.
ANZAC Day
Meeting Paul Gross.
The awesomeness that is Blood Bound.
A warning to any people who may, for reasons unknown, wish to copy from my journal.


I hope you find this useful. Anything else should be able to be found within my overall tags.


I am also a maintainer of a few communities here. Namely:
bookfind_wgc
A very quiet Reading List related community for the students of Wellington Girls College, New Zealand.
cosplaypicnicnz
A not terribly quiet community for attendees of the Wellington Cosplayers' Picnics and related events.
vampire_inn
A community for the upcoming Blood Bound webcomic, Vampire Inn, and for Catherine Haines in general.

For webcomics, I am involved with:
Sequence
Sequence - coloured
L'Ailes de la Mort
Vampire Inn - Coming soon!
Comic Dish Cafe
Protectre - Coming soon!
High Kick! - Coming soon!
You may also locate me on DeviantArt.

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The Sandman

( Because Delirium clearly knows how things end, and we're never told what turns her from Delight. )

Watchmen/The Sandman
(I'll be busy. You're getting an early posting.)

( Nite Owl I )

The Muppet Show

( No, the very special guest star is not Anderson Cooper. -sigh- )

Star Trek: Reboot

( Why do none of my Trek!fic get quotation marks? )

Pirates of the Carribean

( Cat and Mous- er. Shark and lunch. )

This is all catherinehaines' fault.
The Princess Bride/Firefly


( If this were crack, then at least I'd have an excuse....... It's not crack. Oh dear. )

Adventures of Al and Robbie

( A talk of Role Models. )

Star Wars (Kinda sorta DUH, for tonight, I think. :P)


( In which Kenobi realises something altogether rather horrid. )

It was FREAKING FANTASTIC. Seriously, like awesome times like a million.

Okay, there were some technical-I DON'T FREAKING CARE!

Anthony Daniels was STUNNING (and, er, hot. Guys, THE GUY IN C-3PO'S COSTUME IS HOT, OKAY!)

And THEN I ran into amidala_thrace while I was getting my program (and lightsaber), and I WISH I could have stayed for a proper chat with her, but unfortunately I had to go off with crystalfairie because we had to go get into her Mum's car and go home. But, YAY!, Random meetings are always awesome (hope I didn't creep you out with the staring there babe, I was trying to remember why I knew you and then BAM, it was all whoa, yay, now I remember!), and this one was double-cool because I was really hoping to meet her. So! COOL!

And now I remember why I love Star Wars so much. It's like Paul Gross. You leave it for a bit, and then you forget a bit, and then BAM, it's all like OHMYGOD, NOW I FREAKING REMEMBER.

So. Yeah

That's my review.
<3

Reporting from Beta Blogs.

Coaster’s wee police car incident

From Stuff.co.nz, By The Press’s Giles Brown

When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. However, a young West Coast man has found out that there is a time and a place.
Ryan Stentiford, 21, of Greymouth, has pleaded guilty to trespass after entering a police car park.
On November 1, Stentiford walked into the Greymouth Police Station carpark and relieved himself on a police car.
The Greymouth District Court heard yesterday that Stentiford, who was drunk, was walking along the town’s Guinness St when he made a detour for his toilet stop.
“It was like sticking your hand up and saying ‘book me’,” Sergeant Nigel Orpwood, of the Greymouth police, said after Stentiford was arrested.
Defence counsel Vicki Walsh told the court it was “rather unusual behaviour, and clearly the defendant is embarrassed by his own actions”.
“He doesn’t have a clear memory of the event or why he went onto police property.”
Police officers had caught Stentiford in the act and had made him wash the car.
Yesterday, Judge Jane Farish gave Stentiford, a mine worker, an ultimatum.
“If you go and clean one of the cars at the police station, you can come back this afternoon and I will discharge you without conviction,” she said.
“I will clean the car, thanks,” Stentiford said and left the court.

Okay, this one’s mostly just for the sheer amusement factor. Not for the issue that he was charged with, but for the community policing involved in the sentencing.

Sometimes, I just adore my country’s attitude.

I'm afraid that I, er...
Haven't actually gone through my flist since roughly a week after school started. Which was in September.
-ducks-
That's why I haven't been commenting, and that's why I haven't been keeping track of, well, ANYTHING. Or commenting on fics.
The 52 days thing is just a whatsits. Thing to make me function when I'm not in a mess over the schoolwork - because that's what things are at the moment for that. A mess..
I'm sorry.
I'll probably put things onto specific filters and read them this weekend though, as that'll be the first in a while where I've really got proper free time (enough freetimte to twitter a little is not quite the same).
This particular schedule is a lot more... Hectic than the Police Foundations course, and I feel worn a little thin.

Until next you hear from me!

Just while I'm still in a country with the code in the library, is there anything that anybody would liked answered over what's legal/what's not in Canadaland? This especially goes for you due South folks who would like to know...

Life on Mars

( Or was it that he couldn't see them? )

My computer crashed. I treated this as a sign.
catherinehaines has seen this one before, but the rest of you haven't. So enjoy.


( Never met a Someone before )

I'm late, and I'm sorry. edited for the calendar again though.

From the Adventures of Al and Robbie

( Art!, dammit. )

Today, I need to
Hand in my old work uniform (I'm FREE! Free, I tell you, dammit!)
Write at least 1000 words for due South Seekrit Santa
Write up today's Disaster
De-pack the suitcases and bags I've got for moving.
Burn CDs for a belated birthday present
Finish dealing with Harry Johnson's Bartenders' Guide
And finish loading 'The Last Days of Krypton' onto this computer's iTunes

Wish me luck!

Star Trek

Modified from Harry Johnson's Bartenders' Manual, 1900

Large bar glass or goblet, built

1 tablespoonful of orchard syrup
¼ of an orange;
1 squirt of selters water; dissolve well with a spoon; fill with fine shaved ice;
1 ½ wine glass of good claret wine;
Stir well with a spoon
Garnish: orange, pineapple, and lemon slices, in a tasteful manner.
Serve with a straw.

No, this isn't a Disaster post.

I think I'll start off with this:
http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_sucks/511586.html


Okay, for those of you who read my class notes on spousal abuse (which, I admit, really really sucked), here's a few point I'd like to highlight:

Occurrence
Reconciliation
Honeymoon
Tension building

This is the cycle of spousal abuse.

Occurrence
The abuse happens. The abuse may be emotional (I hate you/Your cooking is atrocious/You only want me for my money), threatening (If you do not do this then I swear I'll cut myself/If you don't do this then I will hurt you.), physical (directly with a hit, etc, or indirectly with an object), psychological (insults to a person's intelligence, or involving behavioural conditioning, forcible confinement, and so forth), or financial (controlling of assets, not necessarily directly monetary).

Reconciliation
The abuser makes overtures to win the victim back. This typically includes the usual 'apology flowers & chocolates', etc, and is easily mistaken for standard courting or 'I'm sorry I said that about your mother'. This phase lasts until all hope of any reconciliation is lost, or a reconciliation occurs.

Honeymoon
The abuser is highly attentive to the victim's wants and needs. This phase may last as little as a few hours, to as long as several months, possibly years.

Tension building
Also known as the 'walking on eggshells' period. The abuser is gearing up for another attack, and the victim is doing his or her best to avoid any situation which might set off the abuser's temper.

Occurrence
And the cycle begins again.

As spousal abuse is stereotypically viewed as a male-to-female issue, there is less social acknowledgement of other versions of the problem, such as male-male, female-female, or female-male. I can think of precisely one instance of female-male spousal abuse in popular culture: Jim Carver of The Bill and his relationship with his first wife.
Battered wife (or rather, battered spouse) syndrome is comparatively a very recent legal defence, in the instance of an abused partner finally seeking revenge upon his or her abuser. It rarely results in acquittal or similar, and attempts to use it may result in ridicule.
Up until fairly recently, many 'modern' western countries kept laws that permitted a husband to beat his wife, and also permitted spousal rape. Some laws provided provisions for beating with an implement. From those laws we get the 'rule of thumb' - the stick used to beat the wife may have a diameter no thicker than the husband's thumb.

Let's get one thing very clear here:
Spousal abuse is under no circumstances acceptable in any society. It should not be tolerated, nor regarded as 'normal', or a way of professing 'true love'.

Thank you for reading, and we shall now return to our normally scheduled fic and drinks recipes.