there she goes, she's airtight

Re: this post:

FUCK YES.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GUESS WHO HAS A JOB

ME, THAT'S WHO

Here, have some YouTube videos that have been making me grin at the computer tonight. (These are the ones I liked, anyway; there are a fuckton of carbon cone ones, and a lot of them make me yell GLOOOOOOVES at my computer instead of grinning.)


Obvs from a class somewhere.


FUCK YEAH THERMITE.


This is the only one I've never actually done myself. It's super-cool, though, and I wish I had.

I feel like I start half of my entries nowadays with "and then I didn't post for (insert ridiculous amount of time here)". Probably this means I should post more, especially since I have a habit of composing posts while I'm showering; somehow I just never type any of them up.


BUT.

Today was my very first full day of I NEVER HAVE ANY MORE CLASSES EVER IN MY LIFE. It was awesome -- I woke up to an alarm, mostly because I had plans with twistomatic to go spend my meals in the campus center, so that was sort of lame, but the rest of the day consisted of finishing season 5 of Criminal Minds (well, up to what aired tonight, which I need to hunt down tomorrow at some point), watching a bunch of random stuff on TV (including ANTM, the elimination for which pleased me this week, much like last week's did), and then deciding to embark on a re-watch of Dead Like Me.

I feel these were all very good life choices. I also crocheted some.


One of the things I was considering posting was a poll so other people could help me decide what to read next, but then I remembered that I've had A Wizard of Mars sitting underneath my pile of hoodies where it couldn't distract me since it showed up in my campus mailbox. So actually I'll be reading that. The poll will probably be along shortly, though, since I could feasibly just read all day. MAYBE I WILL.

(That prospect is actually incredibly exciting.)

When I got into lab today Chris was off TAing a genchem lab (as happens on Tuesday mornings), but there was a mask sitting on my desk. This was mostly awesome because I knew where they lived in the lab once but have since forgotten. So I went and turned the computer and the instrument on and let the program start to boot, put my gloves on, fumbled my way into the mask, and took a deep breath and went to go pour myself ~40ml of pyridine.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the mask made it worse. Hello, noxious fume that's trapped around my mouth and nose, how are you today?

Luckily, at some point during the day yesterday, I mentioned that I had 12 solvents, and then amended that to 13, and Chris said if I wanted I could just not do one of the polar aprotic ones and make it an even twelve.

So guess who doesn't have to work with pyridine for the rest of the year (or the rest of her life, if she can swing it)?

WHY YES THAT WOULD BE ME.

Okay, short version of my reaction to tonight's Survivor --

I LOVE MY FUCKING SHOW.


There was too much awesome to focus on anything else. I love my show. The end.

*floofs off to watch Project Runway be awesome also*

parcae: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnUMOrd_ANI
bookelfe: *headtilts*
bookelfe: qu'est-ce que ce'est?
parcae: :D?
bookelfe: WOW
parcae: I KNOW RIGHT
bookelfe: *staring at performance*
parcae: is that not totally awesome
bookelfe: it IS =-O
parcae: he makes me go *___*
bookelfe: he reminds me of someone looks-wise
bookelfe: and I can't think who -
parcae: oh?
parcae: huh.
bookelfe: - *chokes*
bookelfe: I KNOW
parcae: ...?
bookelfe: for some reason
bookelfe: his face
bookelfe: reminds me of Data
parcae: ...
parcae: WHAT
parcae: WHAT.
bookelfe: I DON'T KNOW
bookelfe: BUT NOW YOU CAN'T UNSEE IT
bookelfe: CAN YOU
parcae: AHHHHHHHH
bookelfe: SORRY
parcae: CANNOT UNSEE
bookelfe: CAN'T READ DATA'S POKER FACE
parcae: I DO NOT APPROVE OF THESE SHENANIGANS
parcae: ;___;
bookelfe: he has unexpected talents!
parcae: ... data or johnny weir?
parcae: *wary*
bookelfe: BOTH

I HAVE A POWER CORD AGAIN. HURRAH.

( the SAGA, or: an account of my train ride, and the fail therein )

ANYWAY. I'm super-behind on the thirty-one in thirty-one thing, so I think I'm just going to post a whole bunch of songs on Friday. (Our plans for Friday are as follows: get up whenever we wake up, have Cinnabon muffin thingers from OUR OVEN, thank you freezer section at Wegmans, shower etc., go out and have Chinese at the buffet somewhere around here for lunch/dinner/thing, and go see Sherlock Holmes. I am excited, and also will obviously have time in the evening, so.)

Also, my mom drove me to the downtown library today and I walked out with I think five DWJ books, so I believe I am going to go make myself a bagel, take some Excedrin, and read for a while. And put band-aids on my thumbs. (Aaaaargh.)

Yes Meghan:

I am willing to offer you Virology as an ISP if you wish
to allow you more time to complete your MQP in C10.

To register for an ISP, you download an ISP form from
the registrar's homepage (Forms link on the left side), fill
out the student information at the top, and get the form
to me for my signature. There is no rush to do this, so
long as it is done by the start of C10.

Dave


AWESOME.