Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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12:25 pm - random human interaction amusement
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Telemarketer on phone: you've been selected to receive 48 months of Cosmopolitan at the below newstand price of... me: EEEEEWWWWWW telemarketer: *gigglefits* Uh, what? me: ew ew ew. I'd never read that. telemarketer, who'd asked my occupation and got 'scientist' earlier: Uh, we might have a science magazine me: it's okay, I don't need one marketer: look, we have popular mechanics me: It's allright! You have a real good day now. *some more politeness and I hang up*
I love cracking up telemarketers by departing from the script.
current mood: accomplished
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
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1:25 pm - Allexperts Question / Ideal Gas Laws, Science Demos, and Pop Rocks
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
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10:48 am - Filed under: The More You Know! *ding*
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
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2:10 pm
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
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11:04 am - back in lab
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sneaking around using the HPLCs in lab. So far it's going well. Storing up samples to MALDI when those notables come back from vacation. :)
hugs to all! Oddly pensive today. Soaking some more wine bottles in Windex and soap pre-emptively so I don't have another MASSIVE BOTTLE CLEAN on bottling day. There was a tuxedo kitty sleeping in our back yard this morning. I think he's visiting because our neighbors are on vacation with their noisy dogs. We'll see if he sticks around. D and I named him 'John Casey' because he looks tough and spent ten minutes meowing complaints at Dan at lunchtime yesterday.
What's up with you? OK, off to fixing my Itunes library again and working on 3D collagens.
current mood: pensive
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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1:34 pm - life in bits
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Apparently my tweets have quit. I'll have to figure out why. Sorry about contributing to the quiet over here.
Let's see. I'm still in TX, I'm ensconced in the lab of a PhD Dentist, I get to continue my project. I recently got the reciept-of-manuscript from Biochemistry from one of my thesis papers, which means that Tony submitted it. (THANK GOD.) I had a good Solstice and I got to see the lunar eclipse with D.
D's pondering new projects and still writing. For Christmas we're having friends over and cooking a goose. I'm amused because my goose will finally be cooked. D's amused because this means he gets to have a boiled pudding for our faux-Dickensian Christmas dinner.
Before going to MA for Thanksgiving (which was awesome!!!) D and I started a home winemaking kit. Turns out that four weeks from the start was the night before Solstice eve, so rather than bottle on Yule we did that last night. It was fun, but scrubbing wine bottle labels off was a pain. Yes, I used dish soap, Goo Gone and a metal scraper. Yes, it had me pondering buying new bottles rather than being earth friendly. (Related - my back hurts.) Unfortunately we had a siphon accident during the bottling process that might have contaminated the wine. Sadface. I'm hoping that the extra sulfites I added for aging also nuke any possible contamination. We'll see. *crosses fingers* Either way, we'll try again.
I've been working on 3d models of collagens again. This usually makes me happy but has been a massive pain in the butt this time out. Wish me luck. My coding skills are improving; hopefully they'll improve to the point that this isn't so painful.
My efforts to get D a piece of home for Christmas have thus far been thwarted. Sigh. I'll continue the quest, but it won't be timely.
I get to have more adventures with TX bureaucracy soon. Oy.
Happy Festivus, all!
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
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3:23 pm
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I'm having one of those days My skin itches I want change, but how large? My feet twitch The path is waiting Where do I go?
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
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5:02 pm - Not Going to Florida.
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dark_towhead and I visited South Florida, specifically Port St. Lucie, last week. My current PI is relocating to a posh new scientific institute there, and has invited us to relocate.
Yeah, it's a posh new institute, a new branch of a CA group. The lab group looks great. The facilities are top notch, and the funding is strong for the next few years. Scientifically, it is very sexy.
It's also the only thing of note for miles around. Retirement communities? Yep. Golf courses? Check. But there just aren't that many people around. It's like moving to an impeccably groomed golf course with strip malls and a really low population density... a green ghost town waiting for a retiree zombocalypse crossover with Desperate Housewives. If D wanted to be the sexiest barrista in town, he'd have very little competition. Not much on the possibility of professional work elsewhere for me once my postdoc term was done, either.
The excitement level of the town known for 'culture' was lukewarm after getting used to San Antonio. (Michigan readers will understand the analogy that Jupiter, the 'happening' place, really looked like Sterling Heights, if Sterling Heights had beachfront property.)
So I turned down the sure thing, convinced that moving there would not be a move up for D and I. In fact, I'm rather convinced it'd be a move down, personally and professionally. (During the visit, D frequently said 'I just want to go home'. He'd look at me the same way I imagine mental patients do when they plead not to be put in the white van. I'd say that was a sign, eh?)
I'm still uncertain about the future in general. I'm convinced more and more that by getting my PhD I need to craft my own job and then sell it to the US government... or something similar. I don't think there are off the shelf jobs for my skillset. Scary but true. This may be the dumbest thing I've done in my life.
On the upside, we're pretty happy here in San Antonio. It feels like home now. If I could just import my far flung friends, life would be just about perfect. Alas, I don't live in the Matrix. :)
current mood: determined
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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5:29 pm - random baking thoughts while I wait for the plate reader
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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10:49 am - more AllExperts fun...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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2:36 pm - Please help the crazy woman. :)
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I'm putting together a talk on artificial sweetners for ConTEXT. (Obviously I don't have enough to do.)
I'd really like it if you could ask me any questions you might have on this topic. The amount of information out there is huge, and I want to maximize usefulness and relevance for an hour long slot. :) With that in mind, I'd also appreciate it if folks would second/third/thumbs-up popular questions.
Thanks guys! Have at!
I'll also be certain to answer your questions in this forum as well. :D
current mood: curious
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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12:01 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 16:36 needs to remember to make time to read more science. I've been feeling like I'm getting dumber lately. #
- 10:14 Apparently not enough of my friends have heard this Beatles tune. I give you Maxwell's Silver Hammer to testify! tinyurl.com/ye85r9f #
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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12:04 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 12:05 is still working on kicking this deuced sore throat. Damn you, San Japan, and your hordes of cute teenager disease-laden vermin! ;) #
- 12:55 @DarkTowhead Wow, how long have you been stuck there? Maybe you could fill out an app for fun to see if they call you ;) #
- 14:26 @mattieflap You have an awesome house! You just also have chaos generators that live in it with you. Still, congrats on the cleanjob! #
- 09:10 @elenuial Hogan died? Eeek. I just met him at the last ConTEXT. Weirdness. He was cool, though. #
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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12:01 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 23:19 watched the pilot and first ep of Chuck and found them completely charming. #
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
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12:01 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 12:37 is freezing her buns off. And I don't exactly have bun to spare! #
- 16:01 learned today that her IPhone has a reply to all function for text messages. I have now embarrassed myself in public in a novel manner! :D #
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
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12:03 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 18:17 I wonder; can you give a Storm Trooper a wedgie? #
- 21:51 is watching The Matrix Revolutions with Dan for the first time. It is difficult to restrain the snark, but it has its moments. #
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
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5:08 pm - So that's how that feels.
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A confession.
I have very quiet shoes, and generally good hearing when the office is quiet. My hearing of soft sounds vs quiet is very good. Picking voices out of background noise? Not so much. I routinely scare the pants off my coworkers unless I'm careful to make noise when approaching them, though Enter Sandman on my headphones may not have helped.
My officemate just returned the favor, sneaking in on quiet shoes to ask me a question. EEEP!
There's a moment in The Killing Joke (I think) where Commissioner Gordon vanishes on Batman. And he remarks 'So that's how that feels.'
*laughs at self*
current mood: amused
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12:02 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 15:57 has sore legs from running. And an enzyme that's also being a pain. Maybe I should take the enzyme for a run. That'll show it. #
- 09:16 @GraceWelch Pug names from movie directors; Romero, John (Carpenter), David (Cronenberg), Takeshi (Miike), Hayao (Miyazaki), Coppola (FF) #
- 09:26 @GraceWelch Jean-Luc (Goddard) Akira or Kurosawa Woody (Allen) Fellini (Frederico) Sergio (Leone), Clint (Eastwood) Mel Brooks Wes Anderson #
- 09:51 @GraceWelch Sidney (Greenstreet), (Peter) Lorre, Algernon or Blackwood, Harlan (Ellison), Isaac (Asimov), Robert (E Howard) #
- 09:53 @GraceWelch ok not all movie directors but fun names. :D Hope you find something you like & keep us posted! #
- 10:16 @LucienSoulban I love it when a plan comes together! *chomp* ;) #
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
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12:02 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 12:23 @mattieflap *HUG* You can do eet! (I, too, am trying to work off the Jul 4 BBQ) #
- 12:36 @mattieflap Call it whatever, we'll work on it together then. 'Yay' for calorie counting and suchlike. ;) #
- 10:03 @Nayad @DarkTowHead SQUUUUUUUEEEEE! AWESOME :D :D :D #
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
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12:01 pm - I am shocked! Shocked! There are tweets in this establishment!
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- 11:21 is now back at work and trying to stick her science head back on. Too bad said science head is whack-a-doo from time changes. o.O #
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