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In a world without limitations

Good morning, lovely LJ.

Today is my last day of classes as an undergraduate! Wow. Pretty huge. I've got one last lecture for my Africa class and then I'm done! Never will I have to sit in a classroom again, listening to a lecturer go on and on and on...

Wait a second. I'm going to graduate school! /o\

Haha, regardless, this feels kind of intense. I'm finishing at F&M! But I'm also very ready to be done and move on, so I think the next couple weeks are going to be okay as I say goodbye to everyone and everything. Today I have pizza with the other chem seniors, then a reception for chemistry at a local restaurant (they're kind of unrelated things.... don't ask), and then ~~Senior Surprise~~ in which we all gather on campus and they bus us off to locations unknown! Wooooo! I think it's just going to be a fancy dinner someplace, but I'm not sure. Most of my friends are going anyway so it should be fun.

Yesterday I got an extremely, extremely depressing non-result for my research. Submitted a sample and got zero signal from the instrument, after running overnight scans. That is.... bizarre and inexplicable and scary since that's the method we hoped to use for the entirety of the rest of our project. I don't know what to do. :( So I'm trying not to think about that since it makes me nauseous, and also renders invalid all of the data we're publishing next, but WHATEVER. Not thinking about it not thinking about it.

I've been having some weird stomach pains for a couple days. For the last two days, I've had issues with perpetual hunger - I'll eat a good dinner, then I'm still bloody hungry. I'll resist for a while, but then I'll eat something more, an in an hour I'll still be kind of hungry but also nauseous and weird feeling. I haven't started my period so I don't think that's it. Then last night, I woke up at 6 AM in a whole lot of pain, my whole lower abdomen pretty crampy and gross. I assumed I had gotten my period, but apparently not, and I still haven't this morning, but my stomach still feels really gross. I don't feel like puking or anything - it's more of a muscular pain, low in my gut, just above my hips. Any ideas? :(

Last night I stayed up way too late reading tutorials on vidding for Macs, and I've got the whole setup now! I've got Mac the Ripper for ripping DVDs, MPEG Streamclip and a $20 codec from Apple for converting to an iMovie friendly file, and iMovie itself. I tried it out and iMovie deals with these files SO SO fast, whereas in the past I'd tried to use straight up mp4 files with iMovie. Apparently that was incorrect! So now I've got all the tools at my fingertips and the only question is - what do I vid??? I'd love to do that BSG idea, but I think I'd need all the DVDs and that's not happening any time soon. So I gotta think through what I own. But it's very exciting!! :D

Now I'm going to go get ready for my last day of college! :O Love ya flisties!

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Don't say you're not afraid when you know you are

*pokes at the internet* *poke poke*

So I guess none of y'all are too interested in miss Minka Kelly. That's alright, I just think your lives are thus a little less sparkly.

I have been powering my way through my FNL S1 rewatch. It's just so damn GOOD. Even upon rewatching I've got tear tracks on my cheeks at the end of every episode. The characters capturing me the most are Lyla and Timmy and Smash. And Coach. And Matt. And Julie. And Tyra. And Tami. And Jason. And oh wait everyone! It's so interesting to press rewind on these kids' lives. Lyla and Tyra in particular change so fundamentally between the beginning to the end of S3, and to see the start of their journeys is just fascinating. I appreciate Tyra's depth more this time through, even though it's subtle, because I know what it burgeons into. And Lyla - well. &Lyla;!

Today my mommy arrived for a weekend visit! She's here for the awards ceremony which is happening tomorrow. Today got up to 90 degrees, it was kind of insane. There's a Spring Arts thing that was happening on campus, which basically meant live music and free (shitty) food, so we wandered through that. But it was so damn hot that we actually just wanted to get inside so we went to the mall, haha. My mom is pretty loose with the credit card when it comes to her daughters and the mall, so I had a lot of fun! :P I got a new gorgeous summery dress, an awesome denim patchwork shoulder bag, a pair of jean capris, and some fancy black dress sandals for graduation. It was a most successful trip! Then we went to dinner at the local creperie, om nom nom nommmmmm, where I had "The Capri" which consisted of melted fresh mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, basil, and olive oil. YUM YUM. I followed it up with a brown sugar and butter crepe. TRIPLE YUM. Hee.

Then we went to see the student choreographed dance show because my friend was in one of the dances. I'll be blunt - I do not get modern dance. A bunch of people mucking about on a stage, doing random things that only sometimes seem related to each other, with odd music or sound effects or even NO music. I just do not understand it in any way, and it doesn't usually even trigger my aesthetic beauty buttons. I just watch with my head tilted in confusion. A couple of the pieces were neat though, and I particularly loved a big African piece with a whole bunch of girls and two drummers, and the piece my friend was in, which was a gorgeous fusion of traditional Chinese dance and Western dance. Those were lovely.

Aaaand then we wandered over to Battle of the Bands which was going on in the center of campus, and saw a couple songs by this incredible duo - a dude on guitar and a girl on drums and vocals, and that's it. They were damn talented and could certainly jam, but their songs very much subscribed to the very long and unstructured tradition. They were entertaining though.

Then we came home and I watched more Friday Night Lights. You're shocked, I know!

Tomorrow it's supposed to be 80s again. I'm going to wear my pretty new dress, (which you can see HERE, I got the blue one!) go to brunch at a friend's apartment, be given three awards, and go out to dinner at a fancy local brewery. It's gonna be a good day! I hope you're all enjoying your weekends too. ♥

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Dollhouse: intentionally creepy!

Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, and the Strange and Difficult Path of Feminist Dudes: Some Thoughts - This is a truly excellent blog post about Dollhouse and why it works. It's an excellent perspective on Dollhouse as a show entirely about consent, and discusses how in order to deal better with nasty issues, the metaphors necessarily have to be uglier. Also contains an interesting thought on how Topher may be a self-projection of Joss himself, in that it is his job to hire beautiful women and make them do what he wants, and how that's sometimes a little creepy. Well worth a read, particularly if you dismissed Dollhouse because it creeps you out or something.

I really hope this show gets another season! Same with Castle.

I saw Jeremy today for the first time in a couple weeks! I missed his faaaace. We have coffee plans for Friday, yays. \o/

I graduate from college in just over three weeks. o.O

I don't really have anything else to say! I just wanted to share the Dollhouse link. Hope you all had a good Hump Day!

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Tell me your top five favorite movies! I'm trying to find things to put on my Netflix list. I know there's a lot I need to see, I'm just drawing a bit of a blank, so help me out!

I just finished my last class-related-lab ever here at F&M. :O Kind of mind boggling. How is it almost May?! It was short and kind of silly, and now I'm home early and planning on going to the grocery store. Sweet.

I also just got my tax rebate check from the IRS - $450! Hell yes! I'm pondering how to celebrate - Threadless tshirt? BSG season 2.5? New shoes? The possibilities are endless! :D

Anyway, movies! Go!

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Let it go, let it go sunshine

Michelle and I watched Castle episodes 3 and 4 last night. It is SO SO precious!!! We squeal and clap frequently with delight. Nathan is, of course, an absolute vision of goofy adorableness and sass. Any other actor would be pretty obnoxious as that character, but Nathan makes him endearing and hilarious instead. His FACE! Our other favorite part is his daughter, who sasses right back at him. Their relationship (plus the grandma) gives the show a really fun unique twist on other cop shows. The plots are kind of hilariously twisty, but they're fun to watch. And the woman who plays Beckett is really growing on us - she gives as good as she gets from Nathan most of the time, and she has some truly awesome skeptical faces. She's also written quite well, I think - strong without being overly "butch," occasionally girly, snarky and smart. I also love the other cops - Esposito and Ryan, I think. They have such a bromance going on in the background, it's hilarious! Basically I love it and I really really hope it keeps going. NATHAN!

I also watched Chasing Liberty, that movie with Matthew Goode and Mandy Moore, this weekend. Um... it was terrible. I can't remember the last time I willingly subjected myself to such truly awful writing. And Matthew and Mandy were both overacting, probably a combination of trying to give a totally empty script substance and a bad director. So, uh, even their combined pretty absolutely could not save it. I mean, of course I appreciated shirtless Matthew and tight-tshirt Matthew and wet Matthew, of course I did. ;) But that doesn't change that that's 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back! Ha. Oh well.

In continuing my SPN nostalgia kick, I just watched Everybody Loves a Clown. Omg Winchesters! ;_____; Dean's woobie little lip! Sam's busted up face and truly awful hair! The minivan! "Apparently clowns kill!" ELLEN AND ASH AND JO!!!!!!! I can't even express how much I wish they had kept them around. Their story (even Jo's crush on Dean!) feels so so much more organic and true to the world of hunting than Ruby or Bela ever did. Ellen and the Roadhouse set up such a fascinating connection to the whole of the rest of the hunting world, not to mention another person who remembers John Winchester. She was such a warm, gritty, motherly figure in their lives, and I really wish they had kept her around to keep them grounded. I just wish the show had kept that tone in general - Sam and Dean as part of an underground community of outcasts who trawl the dusty roads of America laying waste to evil sonsabitches.

I hate that I've become sad/bitter about our show. It's not how I approach anything, ever, but my love affair with the early Winchesters was so passionate that I can't help but feel their loss acutely. But I am truly enjoying going back and reliving their story, both through the episodes and fic. Sigh, SamandDean. I love you so. ♥

Happy Monday, flist! It's cold and rainy here, which after the 70+ sunny weekend we had is quite a rude shock. Garfield would be entirely unsurprised - Mondays hate the world! I am exhausted, so I'm going to go into lab, hopefully finish early, and then come home for a NAP. This prospect excites me greatly. <33

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Feel what you feel as long as it's real

Hi flist! Hi!

I am so ridiculously behind on LJ, because it has been one nonstop weekend! My dad and my sis were here the whole time so I've been doing this and that with them, and basically had no time to keep up with the internets. In the short bits I've caught, I've seen 1) SPN fangirls being crazy, 2) Misha being a darling dork who slashes J2 FOR us, and 3) Gerard being really beautiful in a totally random JPop video. What else have I missed?

Quick recap! On Saturday morning we had the Intercollegiate Student Chemists Conference here at my college, and I gave a presentation in the biochemistry division. It was actually sort of a competition, and I ended up winning first place in my division! Against only 6 other people, but still, that was pretty awesome. :) Then I had a looong dress rehearsal for choir. After that, it was in the 70s and sunny (!) so me and my dad and sis wanted to enjoy the sun. We spotted a baseball game going on near my school, and found that it was my college's baseball and softball teams playing games right next to each other! So we hung out for a few hours in the sun and it was really lovely. The girls were losing 2-0, but then they had an amazing inning in which they scored 6 runs and my friend Jess hit a home run! It was so great and a lovely way to spend the afternoon. Then we went to dinner at a local creperie and UNF UNF it was soooooo delicious. Peach mango strawberry smoothie and chicken caesar crepe and brown sugar/butter crepe, om nom nommm.

Then today, I sang in my choir's big semester performance, and it was kind of a big deal: ( The choir invasion! )

It was a really amazing experience, and a great note to finish my time with the choir. We have *the* most incredible director - he seems to live and breathe music, and the way he coaxes it out of us is so beautiful. And he's just a really sweet, caring guy. It's been a blast singing with him for the past four years. It's definitely something I'm going to miss about college!

While I'm sharing photos, I thought I'd post some really gorgeous ones I've had sitting about for a while. These are mostly from my flight back from San Francisco. It was a beautiful, sunny, clear day, so I had the most beautiful views of the Rockies and a lot of lush grassland. There are also a few pictures from around campus on the beautiful days we've had recently. I hope you like them!

( The beauty of spring )

Well that's it for now! I should do some laundry and try to get caught up on LJ. Mostly I want to read SPN fic (I know right?!) and/or watch old SPN eps and/or old FNL. I'm on a nostalgia kick.

Which! Speaking of! Me and my sister watched Hunted, Playthings, and Nightshifter this weekend. ♥____♥ Season two, you are forever first in my heart!! "We're not workin for the mandroid!!" <333333

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Word, Frankie

There's this girl in the chemistry department that I don't like very much. It's one of those things you can't explain, she just rubs me the wrong way.

Today she's wearing a TEAM EDWARD t-shirt. Complete with sparkles.

Clearly my people radar is in tip-top shape. :P

PS. My Africa exam went pretty well! And with that - I am done with normal tests in college! :O So bizarre. And today it is sunny, warm, and beautiful, and I want nothing more than to be sitting outside reading. Instead I am in my lab writing our manuscript. My life is awesome.

PPS.

butidigress has an upload of the VENGANZA! video included with the USB key, which is their performances of Three Cheers stuff in Mexico. YAY. Go download!

♥

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Lumumba and Kasavubu and Tshombe, oh my!

Ack, this test is ENORMOUS. It's past midnight and I haven't even finished reading through (and summarizing) my notes for the FIRST time. *facepalm* We're covering a huge swath of time and places - going straight from precolonial through colonialism and all the way into decolonization in East and South Africa. Big focus on Kenya, Congo, and South Africa, but other places poke their heads in too - Tanganyika, Uganda, Ethiopia. So many places and names and themes and ack, I am so overwhelmed! It doesn't help that my teacher talks so bloody much and I am a very thorough note taker, so one day I had 9 single-sided pages of notes for 90 minutes of class. O__O You better believe my hand was killing me afterward! Meep.

I haven't even gotten to his list of short answer questions that we should be able to answer to be prepared for the essays. I'm not optimistic about this test being a 99 like last time! >.<

It also doesn't help that I'm bloody exhausted. I just fell asleep over my notes for the second time. Sigh.

Er, on the bright side, this is my last non-final-exam test in my entire college career? \o/?

Oh, on an actual bright side, I got another email about another award! This one's called the Rawnsley Science Prize, and "is presented to a senior(s) who, by her or his actions and attitude while a student, will use the scientific knowledge he or she has gained to best advantage." I think I'm most touched by this one, because that's something I really pride myself on, the desire to do something meaningful with my skills. So the fact that they're giving me an award for it is really wonderful and validating. Also, "prize" to me implies money, which is always yay. ;)

Back to the books....

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Lumumba and Kasavubu and Tshombe, oh my!

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We'll kill monsters in the rain

Things!

- I gave blood today! \o/ For the first time since before I went to Dublin! I loved giving blood sophomore year, did so about 4-5 times (and have the scars to prove it), but then I went abroad and got a tattoo so that put a kibosh on things for a while. But now I'm finally eligible again and I have successfully sucked a pint of my life away! I know, it's weird to enjoy giving blood, but at least I'm doing a public service right?

- I got two emails that I thought were repeats of each other, but instead I was being notified that I've been awarded TWO separate awards by the college! One is the "Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Prize" and the other is the "American Institute of Chemists Award". I'm more than a little blown away. I'm not lying at all when I say I completely didn't expect anything like this - as far as I'm concerned, there's much better scientists in my class. But um, someone (my department!) disagrees, and I'm humbled and flattered and so pleased. Yay.

- I've found a house that I'm very seriously interested in! It's a four-bedroom beautiful old house right near downtown Ann Arbor. There are two guys living in it already, one from Germany and one from Poland, and they've got a girl from Arizona confirmed to move in for next year. I've been talking to the German guy a lot, and he seems really awesome, very down to earth and interesting - he's a math major and he biked from Germany to Nepal! Crazy! The bedroom that I would get is up on the top floor of the house and looks pretty damn huge, with a peaked ceiling and really nice natural light coming in. The rent is even lower than I was hoping to spend, AND includes all utilities, which is pretty rare and important for Michigan winters! I emailed one of the guys' old roommates, and she sounded very positive about the place and the guys, saying "I cherish very warm memories of the friendships I formed with Florian and Simon, who are sly, funny, very sweet guys." I think it would be a whole lot of fun to live with them. (European guys for the win!) There are a few minor drawbacks. It's not in the exact area of town that I wanted to be, but it's still close enough. It doesn't start until late August, so I'd be living with my uncle for almost two months. I exchanged an email with the girl that will be moving in, and she seemed... shall we say, flighty? You obviously can't always judge a person from their email tone, but it gives me some idea what she's like. We might get along but I don't think we'd be super close. All that said, it sounds like a really great place. Florian's going to call me this afternoon so I think after that conversation I'll be maybe more ready to make a decision? If I'm leaning towards yes, I'll post the pictures to get your opinions!

- I watched some of LOTMS today. Ugh, BOYS. Still my favorite piece of canon EVER. I love all of them so ridiculously much.

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Cause you protect me from all pain

You know, having the answers to the physics problems I'm studying for my test tomorrow in a PDF file that I have to read on my laptop makes it REALLY hard to focus. I keep clicking over to Firefox and poking aimlessly at the internet, even though I'm basically entirely caught up with everything. LAME.

The studying's going okay though. I'm not particularly worried about the test, just annoyed that it's at 8 AM. Rar.

Have you all seen the pics of the Obamas with the NEW PUPPY? Or reading books to kids for Easter? CUTEST FAMILY EVER Y/Y?! The fact that they live in the White House and that the daddy is one of the most powerful people in the world continues to completely blow my mind.

Have there been any significant developments regarding #amazonfail? I've caught wind of a few different trends in the conversation, but Amazon hasn't said anything else yet, right?

When I got to work this morning I told my (gay, awesome) boss about the Amazon fail, and he hadn't heard about it. Within half an hour he was completely caught up and we talked about it for a while. We then shifted to gay marriage, and he talked about how he and his partner, Ken, are worried because Rick (my boss) is so much older, and therefore likely to pass away first, but he owns the house and because they're not married, Ken would have to pay inheritance taxes. It was just really moving to hear about the difficulties of inequality directly from a person I know quite well, and makes me even more staunch in my gay marriage position (if that's possible).

I really should get back to the books, rar. Next up: the Death of Classical Physics! \o/

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Let's poke at the internet and see what happens!

Hi flist! I have a favor to ask of you.

My roommate and bestest, Michelle, is an awesome anthropologist. She has an assignment for a class called "Language, Power, and Society" and after we tossed things back and forth, she decided to do her project on the power structures in online comments, particularly blogs. She's going to draw from blogs of famous people, "famous" people, people with a tenuous grasp on fame at best (i.e., niche genre authors), and some people who are "famous on the internet". So I want to ask your help in two ways. First, do you have any thoughts to contribute on this phenomenon? From what I gather, she'd like to look at things such as patterns of replies (as in - more fame means no replies to comments, or only replies in subsequent posts, while less famous people often interact more directly, and similar authority dynamics within purely internet communities) and volume. She's really interested in any perspectives you guys might have, as seasoned veterans of the blogosphere!

I'd also love if you'd recommend some blogs that you think might be useful. We're thinking of things ranging from Pete Wentz to Lynn Flewelling to Markos (DailyKos). Any recommendations you might have would be great!

Thanks guys! ♥

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No, you listen.

I got essentially zero accomplished this weekend... but I'm pretty much okay with that. I went to see Watchmen AGAIN tonight - yay! With my friends Fei and Rob, who hadn't seen it yet. There are still parts I can't watch (severing hands... *shudders*) but Adrian just gets more and more fabulous. I hope there's more of him in the extended cut though. Rob likes to refer to him as "the gay one" now. :P The movie definitely wears well - I still find it fascinating the third go round, but I am looking forward to the extended cut, for even more depth! (And probably even more violence - thanks, Zack :P) The sex scene, however, never gets less hilarious. I'm completely positive now that my favorite scene is when Dan punches the shit out of you know who and he just takes it. *sniff* Rorschach is the most relentlessly compelling character, though. I'm just bored of Jon and Laurie at this point, and Dan is cute but I'm not terribly invested. But Rooooorschach. I love when his little flashlight won't work, n'aw. And JDM is just perfection as The Comedian. The perfect love-to-hate character!

Tonight I also filed my taxes and am going to get $449 dollars in a few weeks. Scooore. That is so going towards my Dublin trip.

Speaking of my Dublin trip, Expedia did it again - I selected a flight, and when I got to the confirmation screen it said "We're sorry, the price of this flight has changed [by FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS]." What the actual bloody fuck. >:(

A couple tentative leads for apartment hunting... this guy who rents out the house next door to his called me to tell me about the place. It sounds interesting, in terms of the facts, but location-wise it's much further from downtown than I want, and now that I've seen pictures I'm really kind of eh about it. But I did get an email from a girl who's looking for roommates, and I'm kind of intrigued because... she's a world-class figure skater. Like, she skated at Worlds this year and there are loads of videos of her skating on youtube (Caitlin Mallory, if you wanna take a look). She's really bloody good. She's almost exactly my age, but still a senior at Michigan because she's going to school part time due to skating, and she studies neuroscience. She seems really nice - not a fangirl or a geek, but friendly and liberal. Definitely someone I could live with, I think. I emailed her back, and maybe we'll talk on the phone sometime. Having someone to look for places with would be a big help I think.

La la, sleepytimes. <3

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Oh don't you mind the war tonight

Today has been profoundly... blah. My head hurts and my eyes are tired from crying. Both of my roommates were gone all day, so it was quiet and lonely. A friend came over and watched the two latest SPN eps, but other than that I was totally alone. I put up some posters in my room, I watched most of the SPN S2 ep "What is and What Should Never Be" (holy crap that EPISODE), I sort of ate some food (grocery trip necessary...), I watched The Lookout (with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Matthew Goode - quiet and powerful, I recommend it for fans of either actor), and I fought with my mom. I just feel like crap.

I might go watch an episode of Friday Night Lights to make me feel better, and to celebrate its being picked up for TWO MORE SEASONS YAY! I still don't understand why not every single person on my flist loves this show, but in another (futile?) attempt at converting, I'll link you to a pimping list. Please look at it? I promise, PROMISE you won't regret giving this show a chance.

Ten Reasons to Watch Friday Night Lights

Seriously, guys. Seriously.

I'm going to go continue being blob-like.

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My face looks vaguely like Matthew's in expression, though not hotness quotient

I just took an almost three hour nap by accident. *blinks at the world* In that time, I got zero emails, and my roommates aren't out in the living room and I don't see evidence of them having made dinner. Also, I'm not hungry even though I didn't have a real lunch and I only ate some Ramen when I got home.

It's like the world stood still (except for the sun setting and all that jazz). I am confused and groggy and dnw.

Luckily, I have Gerard and company as a balm for my soul. Imagining Mikey Way in the backseat while Gee and Bob test drive a Dodge Challenger is maybe the best thing that happened to me today. :D

I lied about the no emails - I got one, from that professor I want to work with (I think I'm supposed to call him Jason already...) in response to my question about what he might like me to work on. This is what he had to say.

My current favorite idea for you is: explore the mechanisms by which small molecule inhibitors of Hsp70 control the fate of tau in cell-based models of Alzheimer's disease. This would involve measuring affinity by a couple of newly developed methods, doing some structure work (NMR), developing in-cell Western blots and running protein re-folding assays. Once you get your schedule worked out, we can discuss these ideas in more detail.

*blinks at that for a while* That's, um. Wow. That's a lot! In only two months to boot! It's deeply exciting (I have not done ANY OF THOSE THINGS before, not even a Western) and exhilarating but also terrifying. It is however pretty much exactly what I want to do, and if all of that is what he'd like me to do in two months, I think it would be so fun to work for him for four years.

I repeat - Wow! O.O

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So apparently a tornado has been sighted 30 minutes from here. Heading for the College Center basement.

o.O

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This is cracking me up so I had to share. The interviewer's awful, but when Matthew is asked what's attractive about Jonathan Rhys Meyers, he launches into a veritable laundry list, declaring that JRM's "basically a woman." Heeeee. Starts at 1:30.

Good morning my dears! It is Saturday and I DON'T HAVE TO FLY ANYWHERE! Amazing. :D I lolled about in bed for a while, and now I'm going to have breakfast and watch last night's Dollhouse! YAY!

I did in fact watch the new Supernatural. For 99% of it I was rolling around with glee, but the last 5 minutes made me want to throw something. So in the future I think I'll just stop the episode there :P But EEEE SAM AND DEAN. That made me miss seasons 1 and 2 soooo much. It was so much fun! ♥

ETA: Seen Dollhouse now, and WOW, that was phenomenal!!! Such a Whedon episode, with the horrible danger that you can't help but crack up at because everyone's so SILLY. Reminded me of Tabula Rasa. I am falling so in love with Topher, and Boyd is darling, and I loved the side of Adelle we saw this week. And Eliza - oh, Eliza! *smushes her* My girl :D Yaaaay Dollhouse!

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

THE USED IS PLAYING IN MY CITY IN MAY IN THE TINIEST VENUE EVER!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

*LITERAL KICKYFEET OF JOY* IF IT WASN'T TWO AM I'D BE RUNNING AROUND YELLING MY HEAD OFF OMGGGG.

*deep breaths* You guys. YOU GUYS. Seriously, if I could ask for ANY CONCERT AT ALL, it would be My Chemical Romance at the Chameleon. My second choice would be The Used at the Chameleon. GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I think I may actually have to brave barrier for this omg. And it's PERFECT because it's during my READING DAYS which means I will be ESSENTIALLY DONE WITH COLLEGE WTF so I can completely go like EIGHT HOURS IN ADVANCE and have Bert sweating and screaming RIGHT IN MY FACE EEEEEEEEEEE.

Will someone come with me??!??

wasoncedelight??? (May 4th here in Lancaster! THE DEETS. $17, doors at 6)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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G'day loves! In a much better mood than yesterday. It helps that the sun is shining and it's a glorious 60 degrees outside!

I'M GOING TO UMICHIGAN! *twirls* I got to tell my physics teacher all about it this morning and it got me all jazzed up again. Whee! I also got 100 on my physics test, so, you know, that was nice.

Michelle (my bestest) is off visiting UPenn today, where she got into their Elementary Education masters program. I'm SO HAPPY for my girl and I'm so glad we're both going places we love next year!

Random question for you Twitter folks - when you're subscribed to zillions of people, doesn't your phone go off every five seconds? Doesn't that get in the way of productivity? How do you ever keep track of who's saying what? The pure deluge of information in tiny bites that I cannot process properly really overwhelms me, which is why I'm not really on the bandwagon. I have one so I can Tweet at Gerard if the mood strikes, but that's about it.

bunnymcfoo linked me to a Pandora scrobbler for last.FM, so I used it at work today. Yay! No more music lost into the ether, sad and unscrobbled! (Yes, this matters, hush.) I've put together basically the perfect channel for myself on Pandora - the influences are The Used, Lostprophets, and Soundgarden, and it's AMAZING. Interestingly, I love what Pandora comes up with when I ask it for stuff like The Used, but not really for MCR! Odd. Also, listening to Pandora makes me realize that one of the reasons I love MCR and The Used so very very much is Gerard and Bert's voices. There are so many bands out there that sound fine right up until the singer starts. On the other hand, I could listen to Gerard and Bert for the rest of my liiiiife. ♥ That goes for Chris Cornell and his orgasmic voice as well, unf.

I really really loved Imagine Me & You, if you hadn't guessed. Here's one reason why:

His faaaaace. I'm planning on doing a big picspam over at the Goode daily comm later, I'll link it when I put it up! :D

I'm going to go venture into the world. I've got to go into lab for a while, visit the business office to ask for a refund on the $270 I spent on the SLC conference, and then sit in the sun and read! Huzzah.

Happy Friday all! <3

(If I'm not careful, I'm totally going to use this icon on every entry. His faaaaace!)

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Who'd have known, when you flash up on my phone, I no longer feel alone

'Ello loves!

I am safely returned from Salt Lake City. Today was a little miserable only because I couldn't afford to feed myself. Um. I had a complimentary donut at the hotel for breakfast, $2 peanut M&Ms and the complimentary cookies on the plane for lunch, and didn't have real food until about 6 PM. At which point I was literally dizzy and was so hungry that licking plain mayonnaise off my finger was like heaven. IT WAS KIND OF BAD. Hopefully there will be a paycheck waiting in my mailbox tomorrow so that that does not occur again. o.O

( Tales from a chemistry conference. )

Ever since my mom said she's committed to sending me to Dublin in June (!!!! :D) I have been thinking all the time about my Dublin loves. I thought a lot today about what it felt like that day I left. Holding and crying with Paddy and Lou. Breathing in Dara's comforting scent for the last time. Lying on my bed in Niall's arms, crying quietly. Kissing Kate's tears from her cheeks. Conor and Mark and Niall running up the street to say goodbye just before my bus left. Clutching Niall's hand and weeping for the entire 20 minute bus ride. My flight getting canceled and spending my entire evening in the hotel room calling Dara and Niall and Kate and saying calmer goodbyes. It was the hardest day of my life, but there's a sort of bittersweetness to it, because there were so many people who felt pain at my leaving, who cared that I was not going to be in their lives anymore. And now I get to go back to them, have the breath squeezed out of me by dozens of warm hugs, and feel so very loved again.

I simply can't wait. :)