one more miracle

Just for the record, this is what has stolen me away for the past month:



Those are my beautiful Mainz boys, Lewis and André, who are talented and tiny and perfect and the hugest BFFs. *sighs and chinhands* (Lewis is the one that's allergic to clothes <333) Sadly they're BOTH leaving my team next year, and they're not even going to the same place, so that's a little bit heartbreaking. But I love them, and I love them for bringing such a perfect year to my team, and I will continue to love them wherever their paths may take them.

I just wanted to share their cute little bromance with you. You're welcome. :D

Life is mildly crazy right now. I went from being only in charge of my own self to being responsible for training two new students in the lab! *flails hands* The high schooler is doing great - I've had her a couple weeks and she's really caught on fast, she's a sharp cookie. She also just graduated so technically not a high schooler, but still never worked in a lab! I'm very impressed. The other one is weirdly more tough; even though he's an MD-PhD student who knows his shit, I'm teaching him something he's never done and I've only done two YEARS ago, so we're kind of the blind leading the blind, oops. Also my boss isn't around right now and it's tough to figure out exactly what he wants when he's not, you know, here. So that's an adventure. Luckily he's a good humored dude with a sharp tongue and we spend half our time cracking up, so I think we'll at least have fun while we're mucking about.

Josh came over last night (Sunday) even though he had had a long tiring weekend with his family - I told him he didn't have to and he told me not to be silly. :3 We just cuddled and watched Serenity (his first time!!!) and it was amazing. \o/ That movie still makes me gasp and cry, it is my favorite in the whole wide 'verse. He really enjoyed it too, I am happy to report. :D Even though I sent him home at a reasonable hour I didn't get much sleep and was basically a zombie today, oops, and since he's a princess who needs 8 hours of beauty sleep he probably was worse off. But you know what? 100% worth it. And I may or may not be seeing him again tomorrow. (Can't stay away, omg.)

As for the OTHER man in my life - my daddy, hee - we just made plans to go out for a daddy-daughter dinner on Thursday! \o/ I'm treating him for Father's Day of course, and since it's Restaurant Week I get to REALLY treat him, yay. I don't know if I ever mentioned it here but my dad moved here last fall to live with his brother (lost job, lost house... yet he's happier than he's been in a long time) and it's amazing to have him around all the time. I love my daddy ever so!

Err that's it! Just trying to get back into this regular posting nonsense. And also trying to get back into the rhythm of flist reading! It feels really good to dip my toes back into your lives again! I'm really looking forward to rejoining this community, as much as I can. ♥

'Ello darlings! Just popping in to say that everything is going peachy. I love my Michelle muchly ♥ We spent yesterday in my bed watching The Mighty Boosh and the Big Fat Quiz of the Year, during which Michelle became entirely smitten with Noel and Russell, AS YOU DO, and then we ventured into the yucky rain to go to Laura's birthday, which was quite a lot of fun, even though the place was very hot and the music very loud. Niall and Sinead and Paddy and that whole crowd were there, so yes, good times were had.

Today we walked around the city for 3 hours just so she could see what there is to see. I love my city. The sun even deigned to come out and it became what could almost be termed warm, which was just shocking. And very nice. Good show, Dublin :) I bought a pair of flats from Penney's for 6 euro, they are SO ADORABLE. They have comic panels on them! I rather adore them. Then I got sucked in by a stand of pretty skirts at a tiny little shop, and I bought this long jean-and-dark-tie-dye patchwork skirt which is just gorgeous, I'm so in love with it.

Then we returned home and planted ourselves on the couch and proceeded to finish both Big Fat Quizzes and watch the cast+Joss commentary on Serenity, which was so joyful. (One of my favorite things about Nathan is that he loves the Tams and their love just as much as I do, and always rambles about it at length. Siiiigh Tams.) I also forced her to sit through the videos for I'm Not Okay and Ghost of You, as well as the making of INOK, just so she could be at least a little acquainted with the loves of my life :) I realized I have not seen her since BEFORE I got into bandom, which was FOREVER ago. I have missed her so desperately. This weekend was essential for both of our mental healths. And I get her for two more days still! Yay!

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, ho boy! The sci fi guys are gonna let us into campus so we can watch the parade from one of the campus buildings which will give us a great view overlooking the streets, without having to fight with the massive crowds :D Very exciting. This will be followed by epic drinking sessions - not sure to what extent I will participate, but I plan to at least get pleasantly plastered! \o/

Tuesday I get my daddy and my sis! Yaye!

Life is good :)

OH PS!!! I downloaded the leaked Hushies album and it is AMAZING!!! I'm clearly going to buy it when it comes out, but I couldn't resist. It's just gorgeous!! My favorite song is totally Not Your Concern already. Or Honey, but I already knew that one obviously. YAY HUSHIES! I hope I get to see them live some time in the near future!

I am practically combusting with joy and flail. For two reasons! Both of which were brought to my attention by the very lovely _sin_attract!

ONE: The cover of the next Buffy comic IS POSSIBLY THE HOTTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY WHOLE LIFE. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAITH!

TWO: There is a Serenity screening in DC in two weeks that I CAN GO TO! And I was going to go to DC to visit MONA anyway and now I can do BOTH and we can go see the BIG DAMN MOVIE together and it's pretty much THE MOST EXCITING THING EVER EVER. EVER.

BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

*twirls until dizzy*

(Also, I am reading Danny/Rusty fic. It is GLORIOUS. Thank you to those who provided links ♥♥)

I just had a realization! I'm reading Brave New World, and the Savage, John, keeps quoting Shakespeare, and The Tempest in particular - "O brave new world, that has such people in it!" And he mentions that Miranda is the character that says it (I've never read the Tempest, so I didn't know) and I bet that's the reason the planet is named Miranda in Serenity! How cool!

*loves on Whedon*

3.5 hours!!! *beams*

I must preface this with: I love my family, I really enjoy being with them for the holidays a lot, and I'm aware that Christmas is not about presents but about being with the people you love. I totally get that.

But scrolling through my flist, people listing what they've gotten, makes me sort of realize what an economic nosedive my family's taken, heh. I suppose it's that whole paying for college thing.

There's also apparently this thing that happens when you turn 18, where you suddenly have so few presents that you can no longer be in the "rotation" with the cousins and sibling but instead wait quietly, taking pictures, until they happen to dig up one of yours. It's just such a weird, sudden shift.

That said, I got a DIGITAL CAMERA - which is excellent, but needs both a set of rechargeable batteries and a big memory card (I used up both in half a day). Finally I'll be able to take pictures at college!

Also of note are SERENITY and Dark Angel S1. Both from my aunt, who is seriously the best present giver, um, ever. She's just... fantastic! Always knows exactly what everyone wants. Even the camera didn't make me beam like Serenity did. And Dark Angel, while I've heard of it, is nearly a mystery to me, but I've heard it's got Jensen Ackles, and it looks very intriguing - I'm excited!

Also, sort of a Xmas present to me from me, Boondock Saints *should* be arriving in the mail tomorrow from Netflix. I've been going craaaazy not being able to watch it!

Oh, and seriously one of the best presents, Sara (zeispunim) wrote me a absolutely gorgeous Firefly ficlet. It's River centric, but with a brilliant touch of Simon/River right at the end which makes me endlessly squeeful! Any Firefly fan should go read it, seriously! I LOVE YOU SARA!! *huggles madly*

And HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone on my flist!