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My lab on the 15th got postponed until fall, which is in many ways a bad thing (e.g. it seems I spent the last week planning and plotting and creating clever exercises to do with fluid dynamics for nothing), but is mainly a good thing because I have two ficathon pieces due the next day. Whee!

I have been feeling an overwhelming urge to participate in Script Frenzy this April. I... haven't written anything script-related in ages and ages. It would be something fannish and probably in the vein of a radio drama, since the last thing I did write was a forty-five minute adaptation/condensation of a particularly bizarre novel (what was it? it was cracktastic and had lots of bits about "aquiline features") as a radio play, which I then recorded and dolled up with a few friends until it was all prettyful. Also, I love radio. Love it.

100 pages in 30 days definitely seems possible, though.

I'm just gonna. Yes. There is a reason I went around all day with a stare even blanker than my usual vacant fare, and that is because, through some fluke of neurons firing and and who knows what else, I've managed to get the top mark in the class for the Computational Physics midterm. He wrote "outstanding" on my paper and everything! This continues to freak me out.

And it's time for the badfic meme! Because it's hilarious!

The Badfic Meme

The thing is, when people look for stories, they always make it sound like badfic. Now, often that's because it really is badfic, but sometimes it's good and they just suck at describing the story.

So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to summarize badly any one (or more!) of my stories and I'll try to guess which it is. You could even pretend you don't remember the pairing or fandom to make it harder to guess.

This should be amusing, considering I went to check on a possible glaring mistake in "Argumentum Ad Metam" and had completely forgotten how it ended, so I had to read it again. Someday I will actually remember the plot of something I've written! Someday! :D

And! Bonus!

The Flist-Lovin' Meme (stolen from paranoidangel42)

Reply to this post (or to the previous meme, whatever), and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe/Probably more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love.

All finished the labs - it was great fun, the kids were awesome as always, and even the volunteers lightened up a bit more. One group of girls really sort of got attached to me, since they finished the lab half an hour early and so we could just sit around and chat - they kept asking what I wanted to do "when I grew up more" (I was flattered - one group yesterday called me "old"), so I got to tell them about wanting to be a professor and such. And one of them got all excited at the prospect. Hee!

Have done my homework and discovered that the rooftop observatory on campus will be open to the public this evening for viewings of the lunar eclipse (and bonus Saturn!). Looks like a super-warm night, so I'll be there! (Anyone in the area who could watch and geek out with me? From 7:30-9:00PM? (nice timing hereabouts) No? Oh, well. I'll go alone!)

I shudder to think of the light pollution we must have, here. At least campus is close to the river valley, so there's a bit of a natural buffer there - no giant office buildings thereabouts.

EDIT: Double-checked my provincial voter's registration and am good to vote on the 3rd! I am being productive today.

First off, since the vast majority of my f-list is American (though I think there are... at least seven other countries represented, which is all kinds of awesome), happy thanksgiving to you all! You know I'm thankful for all of you, right? *grins*

I had my last-ever chem lab today! Ever! Aw. It totally snuck up on me, too. And the chemicals we worked with/synthesized today were, in sequence: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. It took us forever to notice that. Oh, you wacky lab coordinators! What will you think of next? But then my buret was clogged so I was the last one to leave the lab, and for some reason everyone just wandered out at exactly the same time (including the instructor?) and so I got this nice little introspective moment where I could be alone in the big lab and just sort of look at things and possibly sigh wistfully from time to time. It was dramatically appropriate!

Also: full(ish) moon today! Fun fact - when I was a kid, I would talk to the moon! It was my very best friend (my first word was actually "moon", according to my Mom). I read a lot of books on astronomy as a really teensy kid, so I knew full well that it was just a big ball of rock that was incredibly far away, but it was still a pretty awesome conversationalist. "What are the haps today, moon? You don't say!" Is how those conversations never went.

(You should've seen my face the first time my Mom said "Oh, she likes to talk to the man in the moon." It was a very confusing time, because I was quite sure there couldn't be a man up there as there was no atmosphere to speak of. I think that's when my parents realised that I might just have inherited the freak science gene in the family.)

Speaking of science! My human geography professor has started singling me out and putting me into positions where I have to debate on the side of science, which is strange because I spend so much of my time justifying the arts to my colleagues. But hey! If it means sparking debates (read: debates that I can win), I'm all for it! (I mean, yes, you need to take societal and cultural effects into account when discussing resource management. Obviously. But nobody's gonna take your policy decisions seriously unless you've got the data to back them up!)

All this rambling is mostly because I have a terrible sore throat (owing more to the cold I'm getting than the poisonous fumes of whenever-that-was, I hope) and can't ramble any other way. It is the Law of Conservation of Rambling: if one cannot ramble verbally, one must ramble in a fashion suitable to one's capacity at the time.

This post was brought to you by SCIENCE! It's what's for dinner!

From the experimental procedure of my chem lab manual:

"You will share an ice bath with the student beside you."

How... intimate. And who says science isn't fun? Heehee.

I dug up my old lab coat and giant, scratchy lab glasses and am geekishly excited for tomorrow's lab. :D

Little late, but then it was a particularly busy weekend!

Things I did this week that come readily to mind:

1. Wrote a terrifying Differential Equations quiz. When you have something that's worth 10% of your mark, you don't expect to only be given fifteen minutes to do it. And when the test consists of one page with precisely one line of text at the top ((dy/dx)xsin(x+y) - xsin(x+y) = cos(x+y). Solve for y.) - brrr. Somehow managed to get the correct answer though, and therefore live to fight/differentiate another day!

2. Didn't pick up my mysterious Inter-Library Loan. I should do that today, since I haven't a clue what it is. And there is a faint chance that it could be one of those Big Finish scriptbooks I ordered, oh, two months ago?

3. Pestered my Dad into ordering the Emma Peel Megaset of The Avengers, because that show is such crack and, despite having been a rabid Avengers fan since the age of, oh, six, I haven't seen all the episodes! When I was a kid, I so wanted to be Emma Peel. Scientist, fencer, spy? Well, two out of three isn't bad. Yes. Two out of three. *shifty eyes*

4. Watched "Stranger Than Fiction", which was considerably better than I expected. And, of course, reinforced my hopeless girlcrush on Emma Thompson. I mean - look!

5. Made plans to go home over Thanksgiving, which means that if Amazon ships quickly, I should be able to steal myself the aforementioned Avengers boxset then. Mwahaha. Also - noticed that I haven't had Thanksgiving dinner with my whole immediate family in almost three years.

6. Wrote two - count 'em, two - fic(let)s set in the Third Doctor's era, one of which may be making an appearance here next week. :D Since it seems like there are about a trillion canonical potholes for me to unwittingly fall into, anyone interested in providing a quick glance-through, just to make sure I haven't made Bessie fluorescent orange or anything? There will be Internet-cookies involved!

7. Hey, if memes can skip numbers, so can I.

8. Started brainstorming for three ficathons that I will be entering - and keep reminding myself of the one fic I still haven't written, because my brain is silly. And also got some work done on WF, but it's slow going.

9. Drove our smaller minivan, which was much easier than attempting to learn to drive with The Tank. I expect that, if I ever get behind the wheel of an actual car, I may actually become competent at this! (Well, that and speed by mistake.)

10. Started looking at new... *coughs*L-A-P-T-O-P-S*coughs*. *pats current laptop reassuringly* It's lovely, but when I can't so much as run Microsoft Word every time the Virus Scan comes up... it may be time for a change. Also - no more battery life + tendency to overheat given more than an hour in the same place. And the campus electronics store has special discounts for students, so that sounds good to me!

Yes, well. In my whole huzzah-symposium fervour, I neglected to take into account the effects of waking up too early, four morning lectures, a bad cold, midterm-like things of the tomorrow variety, and my brain generally going kersplot.

Hopefully I'll be able to make it tomorrow!

Yes, I'm overusing the LEARNINGS icon.

I had my stupid foot (as opposed to the clever one that doesn't die when walked on) bombarded with HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION!11one! today, which was much fun. I'll find out tomorrow whether further action is necessary - my doctor seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing, though. "If the films come back with nothing and if it still hurts in... say... two weeks, hey, I'll take another look at it." I can deal with this! Pain's going away but it's looking much less pretty. My poor footsie.

( In other news, CLASSES! )

Tomorrow? My lone Arts course, Issues in Human Geography, which I have at eleven tomorrow morning. And then I can go home at 12:30. A slacker am I! :D

Hey, megoobie posted early.  I can, too!  :D



Whew.  That was rambly.  Ramblier.  Than usual, that is.  :D

EDIT: Also - unexpectedly appropriate icon!

Now, because I've friended quite a few new people in the last few days (*waves*), and possibly also because I love being all meta, I'm gonna write up a bit of an update on what's going in IN ZEE MIND OF ME.  In other words, this is my blog: the abridged version, for those of you who'd rather not sort through the mess.

TV-Announcer voice: Previously, on eponymous_rose:


(Gosh, this post was easy to tag. :D)