Mmm, it is a lovely 54 degrees outside today, yess~ (Well, the computer claims 54. My thermometer claimed 59, but either way, it was less than sixty when I left this morning.) I hope this continues! Pleeeease~ (Of course, it's supposed to be back in the 70s/80s by the weekend... I hope the forecast lies. D:)

I totally feel like it's Monday all over again. o.o; Probably because yesterday was the weekend I'm not going to get this weekend. XD; I totally meant to get up and do stuff, but alas, I got up just before Diana called at 3pm. (For the record, my dream appeared to include both Chad Dylan Cooper - WTF XD - and Ny Vollen. And Hannah Montana. Clearly I need help.) I did get some laundry done, though? And I went running! Buuut that's really about it for productive things yesterday; I don't know where it all went. D: I did go to bed before 2, as well, and I even managed to get up at 9 this morning! (Well, 9:10, but that's close enough!) Sashi actually seemed miffed and wanted me to stay in bed and stop getting up to turn off the alarm. XD;

Anyway... I should get back to finishing my cluster stuff so I can make sure I have enough labs printed and email people about getting stands for the lab on Saturday. I should also go take a tour of campus later to make sure I know where we're going for this scavenger hunt. XD;; Also, must talk to Vicki this afternoon - I found a postdoc that I might actually be good at, but the application is due in... nine days! Eep. o.o (Also must remember to register for AAS and get plane tickets to D.C.! And get a hotel at Disney. AND FIND A CATSITTER OMG. D:)

EDIT: Also! JAYNE HATS FOR TURKEYS! You know you want one!

You know what I need? this. XD

Well. Almost as much as I ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY NEED THIS. Now I just have to work up the nerve to order it, because hey, I don't have a sleeping bag. But it is kind of expensive... and I think even if I miss the preorder, there will be more...? But I waaaaaant it!

Okay, back to writing. I fear I may actually finish another chapter today, which somehow makes me feel less productive, not more. XD;

So far I am disappointed in this tropical storm everyone's been talking about. All it's done is made it HOT all over again when the weather was just getting nice! Boo. D:

This week is going to be totally crazy; the buses aren't running tomorrow for the holiday so I think I'm going to try to work from home. But I also got in late today (stupid pest control - or, well, stupid me, I really need to learn to not go back to bed even if I still have 20 minutes before I need to get up) so I'm going to stay late tonight to catch up, since I don't have to run. I had this weird dream this morning though, which I can only partly remember, but I think it involved Jake from Hannah Montana. Like, we'd accidentally body-swapped or something, and we kept trying to get back to our own bodies but nothing we tried worked. XD; That's pretty fail, brain.

Friday and Saturday is STARS (including a scavenger hunt and ahaha, I don't know my way around campus! ::diiies::), and Sunday is Disney. I'm actually really just looking forward to going to Epcot, plunking myself down in one of the countries, and sitting for a nice long while with a coffee or something. Since I'll likely either be by myself (or hopefully with violet_lane), I can take it easy and just enjoy the atmosphere, which I really want to do. :D Especially since I get in for free! And then hopefully I will get home in time for Venture Bros. XD

Also, to all you NaNo people posting snippets, I keep meaning to read everything you've posted up so far and I haven't gotten to do it yet! But I will! It probably doesn't help that all my spare time is spent plugging away at my own crazy epic PJO fic or reading 501st, which I am about halfway through and really don't want to put down. I'm going to be so sad when it's done (but at this point I am still hopeful that there will still be more to come!). Also, it really makes me want to write a clone fic. You know. In all my spare time. >>; (But seriously. I <3 Niner. Niner needs more love. Lots more. <3)

Okay, off to enjoy a few more minutes of "lunch break" before getting back to work. I want to have some final-ish tables by tonight, I can do it!

Wow. First of all, Clone Wars? I really have to hand it to them tonight. That was a fabulous episode. Not to mention hardcore. I mean, people were dying all over the place. There were larty gunships going down all over and Geonosians carting troopers off and plenty going down to blaster fire. Plus, they're usually fighting tinnies. I wonder if parents are really cool with kids watching troopers use flamethrowers on Geonosians. They may be bugs, but they're not robots, either. D: They've really stepped it up; I'm really excited for next week now!

Also, Ben 10? Finally found some good writers. Thank you. That was actually in-character, possibly for the first time this season that did not involve losing someone's left hand (because let's face it, that was ridiculous). XDD Kevin was so, so priceless~ ("Hey! No one knocks him around but me!") Though their "sneak peek" at Alien Swarm was a total bust - they showed the whole clip in the commercial announcing there'd be a sneak peek! Laaaame, Cartoon Network. Lame.

Oh, but speaking of Star Wars, I'm about 130 pages into 501st. It's like... nostalgic or something, because even though it's obviously a new book, I'm remembering sitting around the house last Christmas and reading Triple Zero for some reason. (Well, of course, it also makes me nostalgic for the good old days when certain people were not dead and there was no Evil Empire. D:) But I'm really enjoying it thus far, even if things are just kind of coming together after the setup, since a number of things changed when the Emperor took power. Plus, I just love Niner all that much more. And I really want to go back and read Hard Contact again. It makes me want to wear my Boba Fett hoodie around. XD And it's starting to get into temperatures where I can do that! Woo~ (Also? Carlyyyyyy, you need to read these Republic Commando novels. After Percy Jackson, of course~ ;D)

Plans for this weekend involve avoiding the football game (or, well, campus during the football game), getting a new futon cover and some stuffing for the pillows I'm making, because I only had enough to stuff one. XD But yay for $1.50 Wal-Mart fabric? I also need to take another look at job listings, and hopefully figure out this variability stuff that's still giving me issues. Oh, and read papers on cluster interlopers. I can't forget about those. I would also like to get the next chapter of PJO stuff out, because even though I only have the end of it written, I have plenty of stuff to fill in. Maybe I'll work on that in a bit. There are some contest entries that also need to be looked at. And apparently STARS is next week (Friday and Saturday, but thankfully not Sunday so I can still go to Disney~) so I have stuff to do for that, but nothing that can't wait 'till next week, I think.

Guh. That was probably pretty boring, but. Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to day 3 of November and the end of DST! I just love watching the clock go from 1:59 to 1:00 over again. There's something very... master of space and time-y about it, maybe. :D;It does, however, severely limit my afternoon sunlight, which is distressing since it means I have to rush home earlier than 5 if I want to run four and a half miles before darkness descends. At least the weather finally seemed to figure out it was FALL, PEOPLE, and it's a lovely 71 or so outside right now. Oh man, I'm so excited. I really hope it doesn't get hot again. ._.;

So! Good luck to all those doing NaNo; I would be with you if I wasn't suddenly trying to finish up a PhD this year (because between writing and astronomy? We all know which I'd rather spend my time doing XD;). Although I'm beginning to think that despite the fact that I'm not doing NaNo, I may end up writing just as much this month. XD; I finally figured out how to do this interim scene in my PJO fic (ahaha, completely differently than it was originally supposed to go, and of course I figured this out as I was almost done with it so now I have to go back and rewrite it all). And as soon as the middle stuff is done, we get to the GOOD STUFF. >D I'm really curious to see what readers will think. There are at least a few people who leave consistent reviews over at fanfiction.net and I really look forward to seeing their reactions. But hopefully by GOOD STUFF I mean that I know mostly what's going to happen already, and I'm really looking forward to writing it. I mean, a big long scene between Percy and Hades? Total win~ Plus, Percy is turning out to have a lot more thoughts on things than I originally thought, and I really like that. Things I hadn't even thought of end up tying together ever-so-nicely, it's really pretty awesome. (Seriously, if I put this much energy into The Dead Prince it'd be a whole series of published novels by now. ::fail:: I really need to get working on that.)

At least I've also got a number of contests lined up for this month, and I want to get working on some original stuff for those as well. One of them even involves Greek mythology! And another I can totally garner inspiration from Firefly. That's not cheating, right? It's just inspiration!

As for the weekend, I spent my Halloween watching way too much HGTV and now I want to redecorate my entire apartment. ::dies:: Actually, the worst part is I may be actually thinking about it, albeit more along the lines of moving out some of the anime stuff and putting up some of the nicer stuff that's been sitting in my closet for years. I fear I may be ::gasp!:: acquiring a somewhat more grown-up sense of taste. I don't know what to say. XD But never fear, even if I were to undertake such a task, the number of Ryomas in my living room would likely only go down slightly. I mean, come on. Some of them would need to stay! It's really too bad I probably won't be here long enough to bother painting; my mom's been trying to get me to paint the place for years, but with the actual real possibility that I may be leaving within a year, it's likely not worth it. Still, now I'm inspired to paint my future place! Though the inspiration may not last until I next move... XD;

Then Sunday was Star Wars in Concert with Nathan and Scott, and that was really pretty awesome. That screen was HUGE! Plus, during intermission this woman came around and offered all of us pretty awesome seats on the first level not far from the stage, since that section hadn't sold out. Who were we to say no? The concert was really enjoyable and there were all these little kids and the exhibit was pretty awesome too. Then we had dinner at Outback and after we got home Nathan ended up stopping by around midnight for Venture Bros, which was a very... special episode. XD; Man, it's so weird to watch just one new one a week when I blew through the first three seasons like crazy!

Diana and Kevin had invited me to the Disney Halloween Party that night too, but with the ending time of the concert and the time it would take me to get to Orlando, it really wasn't quite worth it since I wouldn't be able to make the whole event. I would have really liked to go, but I think maybe it was better that I didn't spend the whole concert freaking out about when it was going to end and how I was going to zoom out of there and still be late, because that would've probably lowered my enjoyment of the whole thing. Next year, guys! Because clearly I have to go to the Halloween Party for the rest of my life~ <3 I may even try out the Christmas Party this year!

Speaking of Disney, I should check and see if the Food & Wine Festival is still going on; I think I'll go to Epcot for my birthday regardless, but that would certainly be an added bonus! And also totally randomly, Tyler and Valerie have decided we're going to Canada in May, so this should be exciting. At least it means I'll get to see pergamond! :D (I could probably fit my PS2 in my baaaag~)

And finally, because this entry is getting absurdly long, I don't know what I did but I must have slept really, really wrong because my neck is killing me today. All I want to do is go home and steal Sashi's heating pad. :x Ouch.

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EDIT: Who did not tell me that the Imperial Commando book is already out? D: I believe a trip to Borders tonight is required.

Dude, it's 10:30. Why is the only other person I've seen in yet Conor? Where is everybody? D:

Somehow I drizzled 3 our of 4 positions for one cluster; I don't know how I even figured out variability on that last one with no fake epochs, but. XD; I'm doing that now, and remembering the PAIN that is Multidrizzle. Why is it when I give it an output file name, it just ignores it? DO WHAT I TELL YOU ALREADY. D:

Watched the new Tinkerbell movie last night; it was pretty cute, and Terrence is much cuter in the movies than he is in the book (literally XD). He looks kind of like a loser in the book. D: Though I really have to wonder... in the normal Peter Pan movies, Tink is just shedding pixie dust everywhere, right? So it never really made sense to me that they have to resupply every day and that they can run out. Tink certainly never seemed to run out, unless she was sneaking off to Pixie Hollow every night while people were asleep. >>; (Clearly I think about things way too much. XD)

I also got new running shoes, which were much more expensive than what I usually pay for shoes but they were SO COMFY. I kept trying to find something cheaper but every time I tried on ones that felt awesome, they were always the more expensive ones so I just decided heck with it, they're the only equipment I need anyway and I like my knees in functioning order, thanks. I'm looking forward to trying them out today; they should last me through the half-marathon. Now if only it would get less disgusting outside again, because last weekend was almost perfect (just a little warm) but then this week it turned AWFUL again. I really, really want to walk outside and not get drenched in sweat just walking from the bus stop to work. Apparently that's too much to ask. D:

... Wow, I sure do have a lot of D:'s in this entry. I'm actually doing just fine. XD; I even went to bed early last night! (And read a book! I don't like The Cronus Chronicles as much as Percy Jackson, but I am still thoroughly entertained. And I think the second one is better than the first, despite the first taking place in the Underworld.) But then Sashi was cute this morning so I didn't get up until about 9 instead of 8:30 like I planned. But that's okay - clearly there's no one in anyway! Where's my science officer? Scott and I are totally doing the matching Starfleet shirts today. XD He better show up!

Oh! Here he is~ Woo, office of Starfleet awesomeness!

Board Game Night must have been awfully wacky last night... Scott and Nathan have yet to show up. XD

Also, there is talk of wearing costumes to work tomorrow. I'm thinking something normal-clothes-ish, like Penny or my Star Trek shirt. Hm. Suggestions? :O Camp Half-Blood shirt? XD;

Okay, back to making my numerous little IDL programs into ONE BIG IDL PROGRAM OMG. I can do this! Then it's off to re-examine my variability criteria and confirm my optical-x-ray-IR matches. I want to have a giant table of awesomeness (or maybe twelve little tables of awesomeness) by tomorrow! (I'd actually really like to be writing, but since it's only 12:55 and I have at least five more hours of astronomy before I can feel good enough about myself to go home, guess I better put that one on the backburner. XD)

Dude. Frank just sent me this, which he saw on the way to the airport. Stealing billboards is totally legal, right? Because if that's still there when I go home for Christmas... well, all I'm saying is that it might not be by the time I leave. ;D

Squee~

Clearly today is not my day. I got up nice and early (8:45!) and proceeded to make myself a lunch even though as soon as I finished I realized I still had a lunch in the fridge at work. Oops. Then I COULD NOT FIND MY STUDENT ID. I have no clue where it is. As in, it is not where it should be and there is pretty much no way it could have gotten anywhere else, even though I looked everywhere else, too. I mean, I got on the bus to go home on Friday. Clearly I had it then. I'm guessing it must have fallen out of my bag when I went to put it away after showing it to the driver.

So then I had to hunt down $1.50 to get on the bus to go to work, which took a while because I have no singles except in my car for tolls, apparently. So half an hour later I managed to head out the door for the bus, only to see it pulling away from the stop. (This happens to me an awful lot. I think they have radar and they see me coming and book it. >>;) Also, it is back to being utterly horrible outside. Is it possible to have google percent humidity? Because we DO.

SO here I am, earlier than normal but still later than I would have been, and I have to head down to ID services later and get myself a new card (and pay them $15, boo). Too bad I think it costs extra to have them redo your picture, because my first picture is atrocious. XD And now I need a new card holder too, because wherever my ID is, my adorable chibi Ryoma ID case is with it.

If I go home and find it this afternoon hiding under something, I am going to be so horribly sad. XD On the slightly plus side, I did find the writing notebook I thought I'd lost. It was in my bag the whole time, ahaha. I just don't use that pocket, uh. Ever, apparently. XD

Also, I tried to tape Venture Bros over the weekend and apparently it was not on at the same time that the premiere was, oops. XD; At least I found it on the internets eventually! Gonna watch that tonight, I suppose.

Anyway, Vicki moved our meeting today up a bit, and I was so exhausted I never made it in yesterday, so I should get to work (the whole reason I tried to get in early) so I have something to show for myself. Pictures and a weekend update coming, probably later! Happy Tuesday!

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EDIT: Hey, they did take a new picture! At least I've got a slightly less atrocious one now. :D;

So... this shall be a rambly entry on probably nothing useful whatsoever. XD; It has been a fairly busy week, what with my dad visiting over last weekend (which bled into Monday, which also included 7.5 miles of running, Heroes, and The Dark Knight) and pergamond and me trying to date random tennis players by asking them questions in a language that we do not understand. XD (Yesterday we made it all the way to the festival, and we totally got Ryoma to ask for our phone number! That was fabulous~ And then we started again at Rikkai, and Niou made us clean out the storeroom and we fainted - GO US - and it was hilarious because Niou came back and was all, "OMG I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT YOU OOPS". But at least it got us points with him. ;D) Today is a short run (3.5 miles) and an attempt to eat dinner with very little food in my house, and then early tomorrow morning (like, nine ;_;) I have to leave to get Frank from the airport in Orlando. Then it's a weekend of Disney, woo!

So don't get me wrong, I've had a fabulous week and am really looking forward to this weekend. But I am definitely also looking forward to next week when I should have a few days to sit around and do nothing but write in the evenings. XD The Ties That Bind is a bit behind, but I should have the next chapter out early next week. I had to sit down and think about this one scene I was writing, because at first I realized it showed nothing new (and was not required) but then got this inspiration to make it actually useful, which is good, but now I've got to figure out just how I want to do it. And after I've managed to pass enough time in-story, we get to the good stuff. >D I'm really looking forward to that. I also really need to write my Halloween entry for the fic battle, which I haven't really touched since Sunday when I was jotting stuff down in between downs. XD I'm still not sure whether there is actual conflict in the story, but we'll see. Maybe it can be just a meandering piece or something... Must think on that!

Aaaand I think that might be it for now. Gonna get some work done in the hopes that I really can graduate next year. We're going to assess where I am in December and make a more final decision, but as for now I'm going to work like I can graduate next summer. Plus, we just actually got some GTC data! Here's hoping it actually helps. XD

BUT FIRST. WHAT is up with the episode synopsis for Alien Force tonight? Dear God. XD We already did this on Venture Bros, people. ::dies::

adfjaofja Hubble Fellowship applications are due Nov. 5th WUT? I'm not ready to think about jobs yet. REALLY. I'm NOT. ;_; WHY.

On a totally unrelated note, I walked past this kid with a cast on his arm today. Written on it in big, green sharpie letters was "FML". I kind of snickered. Well, it's appropriate?

... Sorry. I really do seem to be posting an awful lot, lately. :x Hope everyone is having a lovely Thursday! And now I'd better get back to IDL. Meeting with the advisor unit at 1:30!

Went to a rather interesting talk today on the nature and possible manifestations of dark matter, which was pretty awesome~ Cosmology is fantastic, and I think I will always love it. :D (Especially when you get to go to talks featuring WIMPs, MACHOs, and the all-new WIMPZILLAs!) I have also achieved IRAC color-color diagrams of my galaxy clusters, which made me feel rather accomplished. Alas, I have to wait 'till next week to get ACIS-Extract and its associated programs installed, but that gives me a chance to ignore X-rays for yet another few days~

This evening I set to work getting Penny ready for this weekend, which I am happy to say only took about an hour to an hour and a half total. I love easy costumes! (Granted, I had the black shirt already, and I bought the pink shirt and black shorts from Goodwill. All I had to do was make the pink shirt smaller and cannibalize two pairs of leggings into one pair of stripey ones. Dude, I measured those stripes and made them proportional! Cosplay math FTW.)



( Two more here! )

I don't think I'm going to wear anything horribly costume-y for the race, mostly because I don't have anything. (I could always run in Videl, but that's so obscure it's not worth it. XD) Maybe I'll come up with something I already have before Saturday. In the meantime, I just have to make sure I remember to bring Bolt this weekend, along with a lightsaber for Frank. And I need to tape Venture Bros!

So! I would say welcome to a real update, but I don't know that anything I'm going to update about is actually useful to anyone. XD; But here it is, nonetheless.

Sunday was made of football (woo!) and Venture Bros (double woo!). Although I must say, the Bears totally self-destructed and it was horribly embarrassing, alas. I mean, they kept false-starting and it was just ridiculous. Sigh. Then it was time for the season 4 premiere of VB, which did not disappoint. It was crazy! ("Oh holy crap, you're Nazis!" XDD) I think Dad was somewhat confused, seeing as I'd only shown him two episodes from season 1 and the last two of season 3, and then the premiere wasn't exactly told in chronological order and the only thing we had to go off of was Hank's hair, which is fine when you need to tell short from long, but then there were varying degrees of long and yeah. XD; But this season is certainly looking epic. Or something. Yeah. XD

Monday after dropping my dad off at the airport I came back and did my longest run yet: 7.5 miles. It took me about an hour twenty, which averages to 10.6 minutes per mile. The 13k is only 0.6 miles longer than what I ran, so I can totally do this. :D My legs are a little tired but not too bad, and I took today off. I think maybe tomorrow I'll do 4.5, and then 3.5 either Thursday (probably) or Friday, and then Saturday night's the race! (Hm... perhaps this means I need to remember to go to bed at a reasonable hour on Friday.) Also, I need to finish my costume (tomorrow) for the Halloween Party. And speaking of Halloween, the short little thing I was writing for pjo_fic_battle is going to be longer than I thought. And may only be peripherally connected to Halloween, but I'm trying. At least it should prove to be interesting... I just hope I have time to finish more than one prompt. XD And I also need to work on The Ties That Bind; I'm a little stuck as to what I want to put next, since I need to pass some time in-story, but I'll figure out something. The next time I have a chance to sit down and write... uh. Maybe Thursday? Not tonight, that's for sure.

pergamond is back in town for the week; this afternoon we broke out Gakuensai no Oujisama and had ourselves some fun. XD It's so much more entertaining to make the story up as you go, which is pretty much what we have to do, given our horribly incomplete understanding of the Japanese language. We first attempted to join Hyoutei, but after being totally snubbed by Shishido for Ohtori (well, no surprise there...) we restarted at Seigaku, which seemed to go much better. Momo totally loved us, and it took a while to win Ryoma over but we were totally getting there! It was also our mission to annoy Tezuka as much as possible. I am happy to report we were totally succeeding. XD Also, Fuji tried to feed us jalepeno sandwiches. Thankfully I think we ran away with Ryoma. (I'm not sure, but at least we survived, either way?)

Also, at work today I totally got IDL to do fancy things with errors and chi-squared and I think I may actually have gotten something approaching reasonable results for my IR power-law galaxies. ::squee:: I mean, I've got some overlap with optical variables and X-ray point sources - that totally means I'm doing it right, right? XD; Hopefully tomorrow I can finish that up and then I can get ACIS-Extract up and running and get those darn X-ray fluxes so I can move on with my life, eesh. And speaking of moving on, I finally got the paperwork signed on my Rio reimbursement. Here's hoping it goes through quickly. I could really used the nearly $2k they owe me! Because Delia's has the cutest star t-shirt and some kickass hoodies.

And finally. I went to Wal-Mart this evening and procured myself a copy of Revenge of the Fallen, because I had a gift card for almost exactly the right amount (I love how movies are only $20 the day they come out, even the fancy 2-disc special edition I snagged). ( Cue Transformers babble below. )

valeriebean, I know I owe you a phone call. I was out 'till late yesterday (I made the mistake of reiterating that I hadn't seen The Dark Knight after Heroes and so it was immediately and impulsively watched) and I should head to bed within the hour, but I should have time tomorrow since there is no NGN! Also, I don't know if you'll even see this, but link621, I've been thinking of you all day. <3

I don't have too much time to update; spent most of the day at the Gators game (which they won with nine seconds to spare, but we feel it may have been more about luck than talent in this particular instance...). Also apparently someone has been listening to my pleas, because it is actually BELOW SIXTY right now and it feels fabulous!

Then we went to Blue Highway for a delicious birthday dinner for my dad. :D Then it was back here to watch The Red Badge of Courage (I think I must have seen it before, after I read the book forever ago) and a bunch of History Channel stuff on JFK, and soon to bed. Tomorrow is the Bears game and Venture Bros, yay! And I will catch up on my flist for real on Monday afternoon, I think. :D;

Anyway, I just wanted to wish an official Happy Birthday to bucket_shot! <3 :D

OMGGG~ More RAM makes Freedom run SO MUCH BETTER. Why didn't I think of this ages ago? ::fail::

Firstly, a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to perfectassassin and genderblender! <3 I think I may have missed kriski's, so a Happy Belated One to you! And Happy Almost Birthday to bucket_shot, in case I forget! <3

Anyhoo~ Dad is in town for the football game tomorrow (well, today, I guess XD) and apparently it's Homecoming as well, so it should be quite EPIC. At least it FINALLY got cooler! (Well, whereby "cooler" I mean it was in the 70s this evening... which felt positively chilly after the craziness of the past few weeks.) I've shown him a bit of Venture Bros, which he seems entertained by, and we also watched Flags of Our Fathers, which was amazing. (Because I'm lame and have never seen it.) Also, Bento's was showing Mulan this afternoon and I was pretty excited about that. :D;

Also, do you know what would truly be EPIC? If I could get this as a poster. HOT. <3

That is all~

Okay, all you Transformers fans. You have to see this because it's awesome. Scott found it this afternoon and I just had to share.

Uh... I don't know if I really have much else to say. XD; Extragalactic-ph in half an hour, which will hopefully go okay since I re-read the paper this morning and finished taking notes on it last night. Now it's back to trying to figure out why my power law isn't a power law. Because it should be. I SWEAR THE MATH IS RIGHT. D: Natural logs, why have you failed me?

(Also, for the record, I now own a TeniPuri dating game because pergamond is even awesomer than those Autobots up there. XD I look forward to flailing around and hitting buttons because I have no idea what anyone is saying. |D Although I admit I am hard-pressed to figure out which is more entertaining: potentially sparkly Ryoma or the Japanese astronomical toilet paper I also received. XD)

And because I have nothing else to say, T-minus 3.5 days until VENTURE BROS SEASON 4! I wonder if I can get my dad addicted by then...

Back to work!

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EDIT (3:11pm): I THINK I GOT THE POWER LAW TO WORK. afhaufnaui Finally!

Also, Scott is listening to some AOL Anime radio channel. I can just barely hear it through his headphones; it's kind of entertaining, like name that tune! XD

Also also, Jim randomly showed up this afternoon. XD Apparently he's in town for the Homecoming Game. So random! I was like, "Wait, this isn't Rio..." :D;

There is a GIANT (like, as big as I am) stuffed killer whale hanging from the ceiling in the office across the hall. I am extremely entertained though I admit I will be moreso if it falls down....

Also, I think I have achieved Spitzer photometry. Maybe. I might even have some power-law galaxies. Of course, I totally don't trust my code so now it's time to throw in some data from a paper and see if I get the same thing they did. I bet I won't. D: But I can hope, right? I mean, I wrote a code that figures out a power law index (in a horribly handwavy way) but I DID REAL MATH! I think. Oh man, I had to look up non-10-base logs because it's been so long. ::fail::

My plan to stay until 6 or 7 may fail spectacularly if this being hungry thing continues. :x

Here, have a Will icon. <3 I might need another, less OMG-y one. XD;

Oh my God, WHY IS IT SO HOT. ;_; Seriously. Apparently Florida is the sole target of global warming, and I am not okay with this.

In an attempt to make myself feel better (well, okay, maybe not XD) I figured I would show some more Dragon*Con pictures, because valeriebean sent me a whole DVD of them and she took some fun shots~

( Lewis, Caramelldansen, and Tyler the Greek monster? )

Also, I wanted to share the latest addition to my bookshelf, thanks to the fantastic pergamond! (I will be trading her an English copy of The Lightning Thief in a completely innocent attempt to get her addicted...)

( Percy Jackson, Nihongo-style! )

Finally, this is totally what our Monday nights look like. They're so high tech. XD


(See, normally Tiffany Skypes in to watch Heroes. I took this last week, I think, after the show ended and we started babbling on our end and looked over to see she'd apparently wandered off to get something. I laughed?)

For the record, Heroes could totally hire me to write. I see all their storylines coming miles away. It's always entertaining to go, "Yeeeeah, I figured," and have Nathan and Scott go, "Uh... what?" XD

Woo, apparently I had $25 in change sitting around my house and the office. I finally got myself to bring it into the grocery store and toss it into the Coinstar machine and then I went on a mini-Amazon shopping spree~ I may or may not have bought Brother Bear 1 and 2 on DVD. XD; Well, okay, I did. But they were just SO CUTE.

Also, after two tries, I have finally gotten ahold of the person in the Astronomy office responsible for travel reimbursement and she says she'll work on mine tomorrow. This is good, because my checking account is the lowest it's ever been and it might be due to the, oh, $1500 they owe me from Rio. >>; Thankfully I will have that soon. Or, at least, sooner than I would have if I hadn't bugged her, I'm sure. Next up is registering for the AAS, but at least I don't have to pay for that one.

Aaaand now I am off! To clean or write. Perhaps clean then write. Or maybe just write. XD; Even if I think I'm going to scrap the scene I had with Annabeth and throw Thalia in there instead... uh. Someone really needs to explain to me why I don't like Annabeth overly much, because really I should. :x So why don't I? ;_; (I suppose that if I'm sad I don't, that's at least a sign that there is some hope?) Actually, she's really great for fics, because she's the smart one. She gets to figure everything out! Except for this one. No one will see this coming. >D

Oh man, I have so many wavelengths to work on I don't know where to start this morning. I may have to come in this weekend, this week has been so unproductive (again, not for lack of trying!). I never feel like I have anything reasonable to show for myself at weekly meetings. :x I did start IR photometry (just playing around with some parameters in PHOT and re-making some mosaics at different pixel scales) and I am going to play with X-ray stuff probably today, and I need to get those photometric redshift estimates moving. Eek. ;_; Somebody stop the world, I think I want to get off for a while and be a writer.

... Actually, I think I may have dreamed about work. I think I might have been working on IR stuff. Except I was in Japan. Percy was possibly running around. (Damn, why can't I remember? If Percy Jackson is running around my dreams, I want to remember it!) I place any blame for the non work-related parts of that dream squarely on the shoulders of antistar_e, whose totally freaking awesome Percy/Nico fic I finished reading last night and now I am depressed I have no more to read. D: (Also, you have no idea how much better it makes me feel that I'm not the only person to have written over 60,000 words of Percy/Nico in one story. XD And by the way, pergamond, the instant you finish the last Percy Jackson book, provided you like them, I am sending you to read this fic. It made me miss Japan!)

Right. Okay, back to work. In the disgusting weather, because it is disgusting and only 78 degrees outside but I think the humidity is possibly a google percent. Yes, that's possible here in Florida. I wish it weren't.

Also, my power went out today three times in as many minutes. D: Talk about weird.

Right. Work!