one more miracle

This morning, two guys were doing maintenance on our cell culture hood. I squeezed by them to get my dish of cells out of the incubator. One of the guys made some comment about that looking cool or something, and I said "Well, it's breast cancer!" and he was like "Really??" and I laughed and showed him under the microscope. He thought that was so awesome, and that they looked like ceiling tiles or something. He said "I'm gonna go home and tell my wife, 'Guess what I saw today honey? Breast cancer!' And then I'm gonna have to answer some questions." HEEHEE. He was so precious. And it made me feel like a Real Scientist! :D Kind of a necessary boost since last week made me feel like a Shitty Scientist, so ya know.

And that's my fun story for the morning.

Oh, random thing. brightedelweiss tagged me for the 7 quirks meme, but I don't think I can think of that many. However, there's one that I feel like sharing: I feel so much more uncomfortable as a pedestrian than I ever do as a driver. I have short, stumpy legs and I'm out of shape, so I'm not a very fast walker, and I get VERY PARANOID about holding people up. I also just get super super uncomfortable when someone's walking close enough behind me that I can hear them at all. It's like being tailgated, but even worse. I start to get all nervous and out of sorts and wondering if they're looking at me and hating me for walking slow, and as they near I'm just chanting "pass me pass me pass me" so that I can stop being supremely stressed out by walking in front of someone. I also get stressed out by whether I should walk across the street in front of a stopped car or not, and all kinds of other neurotic things. On the other hand, in a car I'm completely 100% confident and self-assured.

Yeah, I don't even know.

Good morning, lovely flist. How are you? :)

I've spent the last few weeks rewatching the whole of Band of Brothers in 720p HD (unfff) and capping the shit out of it in preparation for what may be an epic picspam if I ever get my act together. I really have spent far too many waking hours on this project, but you know, it's really not hard on the eyes, so I haven't exactly minded. ;) I was talking to my best friend, who has watched the first few episodes, and she mentioned how she still doesn't know who the heck anyone is, so I offered to do a primer picspam of the characters. I was just gonna email them to her with the character names, but I started going through and realized, oh right, there are over 20 characters I love in this series! That would make for a good picspam! Before I knew it, I had 68 caps on my hands. *facepalm* So here is what may be considered several things - a primer for anyone who hasn't seen BoB (it's NON-SPOILERY), an exceedingly pretty overview of the cast for anyone who already loves it, and a simple delight for the senses because let me tell you, some of these caps are stunning. God bless 720p.

So if you like pretty men, particularly ones in uniform, have I got a treat for you. Twenty-six of them, to be precise.

Also, the caps are BIG. None of this namby-pamby shrinking and recoloring bullshit. They are big (1000x625 px) and hi-res and unadulterated. PLEASE use them for icons or whatever you want, and if you want the FULL full size (1440x900) of anything, let me know!

Disclaimer: This is by no means comprehensive. I can think of at least 6 guys I left out, and I know some of them are beloved by others. My only defense is that if I had capped every character thoroughly, I would have twice as many caps as I do now, and that's a lot. Please forgive me!



( We lucky few, we band of brothers. )

Whew, that was fun! I hope you enjoyed it too. <333 There's more to come, if there's interest! I have >4000 hi-def caps, so um. Yes. MOAR. :D

I promise you, this series is worth your time. This is a beautiful piece of storytelling and character building, simple as that. Also, though, it's fascinating and moving and educational about a very important time in the world's history. You won't regret it!

Best night EVAAHH! Saw Mark Rose and Lucas Carpenter at Beat Kitchen. They were DARLING. Spoke to them and Danny Rose and Mark's guitarist Nate (omgggg so pretty) and everyone was super sweeeet. Photos to come i spoe? Too drunk fro coding and stuff. HANGING WITH THE AWESOMEST musictoyourlips!! We are drinking raspberry vodka with iced tea and it's FABULOSOOOOOO. DOOT DOOT DOOT.

We just watched DAMIAN LEWIS in THE BAKER in which he gives up being an ASSASSIN to be a BAKER and there's a GAY DUDE stalkgng him and being VERY GAY and lolololol. LOLOLOLOL. DELIGHTFUL. Damian is THE BESTEST GINGER OMGGG. He was BRITISH and DARLING and DAMIAN and ahhhh.

And now we're singing along to Hushies. I CAN"T WAIT TO SEE GRETA TOMORROW YAAAAAY.

PS:

*SQUEAKY NOISES OF GLEE*

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie

( The future )

I always think about this one for a few seconds, but my answer is always the same: Serenity. You all know that I bow at the altar of the Whedon, and I love everything that man has ever created, but I think Serenity takes the cake. I can still remember how it felt to experience it for the first time in the theater, and then how difficult it was to go back a second time, how thoroughly gutting and cathartic and all-consuming it was both times. It felt like a true film, sweeping and cinematic in every sense, packed to the gills with characters I loved and dialogue that made me laugh and action that put stars in my eyes and drama that made me sob until I thought my lungs might come out of my chest. I will never tire of this film. If I had the time, I would gladly watch it every day. I think my favorite thing about Serenity is something that wasn't even on screen - in Joss's commentary track (which is delightful and hilarious and moving the whole time, and it's just him! &Joss;), he says that in the climactic scene, when Simon is down and River kneels by his side, Summer was crying so hard during Sean's take that they had to stop filming to give her time to collect herself and film her part of the scene. Since the Tams are easily my favorite part of Firefly/Serenity, that gets me in the heart, just as much as the scene itself does.

"My turn."

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This weekend, I got a start on my holiday shopping! I felt like such a grownup. It's really nice to actually have money to do this with, because then I can get substantial gifts. I only knocked 3 things off my list, but it was a good start! I also did something I've been meaning to - I got more winter gear. Especially BOOTS. I got the most kickass black winter boots, and I of course have to show them off. ( SHOEZ )

Re: my current music, I just made Mad World into a ringtone and it's the most soothing thing to wake up to EVER. Glambertttt. <333

Who is the anonymous darling who sent me a snowflake with hearts?? THANK YOU! It really made me smile. :D

Today I spent 6 hours being taught how to be an ~*ethical scientist*~. I had to get there at 8:45. On Saturday morning. You can imagine the vastness of my displeasure. However! I magically lucked out with an intelligent and lively group of students who actually carried out an interesting and thought-provoking discussion. I met some new folks and generally had about as much fun as you can at a marathon ethics course. Yay for transmutation of expected evils!

This evening I went to Francisco's with Steffen and Kate and we all drank beer and ate Indian food and watched Star Trek. It was, all in all, the best idea ever. I'm so glad I found them here. ♥

Hope you all had lovely Saturdays!