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asimplechord1. I thought more than once about extending my visit to NYC when I got the NDP notice and then the pre-sale code for the Discos' show at the Bowery, but I seriously cannot spend that time off without consequences - the day and a half I'm taking are being made up by working MLK Jr Day and the thirteen hours I spent in lab on Tuesday. (As an aside, J is going to be in town that weekend too. Cling-time! :D :D :D)
2. New post-doc arrived. SO TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS. It would be okay if it were just her, but I have literally spent hours the last three days showing other people how to do things. It's not like I have, you know, shit of my own to do.
3. I keep thinking about writing something, anything, but by the time I get home from work, I can't be bothered to think straight.
4. Almost through S2 of The West Wing. It's funny in a sad way how a decade after these episodes aired, NONE of the issues they confront have altered significantly. (And I still love CJ like burning.) [ETA: The more I watch, the less I care for Bartlet. To me he comes off as a predictable, pompous ass who relies on a bottomless well of useless trivia, his own opinion, and the bible more than anything else.]
5. Rise Against's new album comes out the same week as GD's Awesome As Fuck? Good music week. Actually, I think that's the week of SXSW, so it'll be a FABULOUS music week. :D :D :D (Also, did I ever flail here about Another Station; Another Mile? My heart eyes over them, I can't even explain.)
6. I was earwormed today by Wisdom, Justice, and Love. First when Tavis Smiley & Amy Goodman got into it on Democracy Now this morning (and wasn't that a total lovefest?) and then when my iPod kept cycling through A Thousand Suns. [There was a thought somewhere about violent political rhetoric and the long war and the political assassinations of the 60s, but I'm too tired to connect the dots now.]
7. A reminder from J had me all excited: the new Mercy Gunderson novel is out! And Amazon said that my copy had been delivered. But there is no package on my doorstep, in my mailbox, or in my neighbor's house. The USPS is not being particularly helpful at the moment, but I suppose that's because it's after hours. *sigh* I guess I'll keep slogging through Aftermath and Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife in the meantime.
8. Fuck yes! (PLEASE, BILL WHITE, RUN FOR HER SEAT.)
9. 30Jan shows of American Idiot are/will be sold out b/c it's BJA as St. Jimmy and it's most likely Michael Esper's last show, y/n?
10. Fanta orange soda + Dripping Springs vodka = A+ supper choice
2. New post-doc arrived. SO TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS. It would be okay if it were just her, but I have literally spent hours the last three days showing other people how to do things. It's not like I have, you know, shit of my own to do.
3. I keep thinking about writing something, anything, but by the time I get home from work, I can't be bothered to think straight.
4. Almost through S2 of The West Wing. It's funny in a sad way how a decade after these episodes aired, NONE of the issues they confront have altered significantly. (And I still love CJ like burning.) [ETA: The more I watch, the less I care for Bartlet. To me he comes off as a predictable, pompous ass who relies on a bottomless well of useless trivia, his own opinion, and the bible more than anything else.]
5. Rise Against's new album comes out the same week as GD's Awesome As Fuck? Good music week. Actually, I think that's the week of SXSW, so it'll be a FABULOUS music week. :D :D :D (Also, did I ever flail here about Another Station; Another Mile? My heart eyes over them, I can't even explain.)
6. I was earwormed today by Wisdom, Justice, and Love. First when Tavis Smiley & Amy Goodman got into it on Democracy Now this morning (and wasn't that a total lovefest?) and then when my iPod kept cycling through A Thousand Suns. [There was a thought somewhere about violent political rhetoric and the long war and the political assassinations of the 60s, but I'm too tired to connect the dots now.]
7. A reminder from J had me all excited: the new Mercy Gunderson novel is out! And Amazon said that my copy had been delivered. But there is no package on my doorstep, in my mailbox, or in my neighbor's house. The USPS is not being particularly helpful at the moment, but I suppose that's because it's after hours. *sigh* I guess I'll keep slogging through Aftermath and Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife in the meantime.
8. Fuck yes! (PLEASE, BILL WHITE, RUN FOR HER SEAT.)
9. 30Jan shows of American Idiot are/will be sold out b/c it's BJA as St. Jimmy and it's most likely Michael Esper's last show, y/n?
10. Fanta orange soda + Dripping Springs vodka = A+ supper choice
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 03:05 am (UTC)I would love to see them, but staying that much longer would essentially be two entire days, and I'm supposed to be saving vacation days for an actual vacation this summer. :/
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:09 am (UTC)I'll go if someone else is going. I miss them, but I am also REALLY WORRIED about what the new album is going to sound like. I am counting on Butch Walker to make it sound good, fingers crossed.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:17 am (UTC)I'm really hoping that they'll play SXSW. And that their tour will spend some time in TX. WE HAVE PINKY SWEARS ON THIS SUBJECT, DAMMIT. Actually, my original hope was that they would tour with Butch Walker, and he completely skipped TX last tour so he'd probably swing through this time, but rumor has it that Gold Motel will be opening for him on his next tour, so. We'll see.
I'm really really curious about the new album. I definitely enjoyed Fever more than Pretty. Odd, and I'm hoping the new stuff will be a mix of the two - you know, less twisty-lyric'd but not as mellow as P.O. And yes, hopefully Butch will work his magic and make it awesome. (Is it just the name, Butch? Because Butch Vig = awesomest producer ever. Butch Vig + Dave Grohl is one of my OTPs.)
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:23 am (UTC)I am also worried about it being the first show in like, years. Because Brendon gets nervous and weird on stage, and I LOVE that kid, but he's already a little squirrely. I don't know. It's very watching-through-your-fingers for me.
The couple reviews we have say it's more like the first album, right? I think PO was more Jon and Ryan's sound, and Brendon and Spencer are a lot more rooted in pop music. I hope, anyway. Butch will use the magic of his name to make it awesome.
Hey, can I ask you something about the Foo Fighters, since you know way more than I do? I was a fan of their music and then someone pointed me toward the AIDS denialist shit they were raising money for/handing out info about at their concerts a while back, and I was like, OH WELL. >:( Have they stopped that, so I can go back to listening to them again? Because I remember thinking they were pretty much the shit.
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Date: 2011-01-15 12:27 am (UTC)AmFar is definitely the best for research (they're the ones working on the Berlin patient thing, I believe) (and also their social media coordinator is super nice, I met him in Vienna, small world). If she wants to donate directly to care services, there are organizations all over the country and she should be able to find one near her -- we also run asofinder.com, and basically all ASOs are desperate for money right now.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:41 am (UTC)I love CJ! She is still one of my all time favorite characters.
Yay for new Rise Against! They kept coming up on my Pandora this week at work, and I always forget how much I like them til I hear them, y'know?
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:48 am (UTC)Oh man, Tabby, their most recent DVD. It's them recording their last album, spliced in between performances, like them at Lolla. In one of the fests, maybe Rockamring? they have the biggest circle pit going that I have EVER SEEN. (Then again, maybe there are bigger ones that I just can see from the ground when I'm at a festival, who knows?) and seriously, I just want to hug them all. TIM McILRATH and his quote of Howard Zinn's "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" makes me ♥_♥ EVERYTIME. And then they segue from that into Hero of War. (See? I get flaily and incoherent about them EVERY TIME. If I ever met them I'd be incoherent.)
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:53 am (UTC)I may have to check out that DVD. :)
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:57 am (UTC)Just sayin'.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:49 am (UTC)*hugs and good luck*! <3
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:56 am (UTC)Dude, my patience is worn so thin. I signed up for 2.5 hours in the tissue culture hood because I needed that much time, and coming and talking at me, asking me if I could let someone else use the hood for just 15 minutes? Um. NO. Fuck no. The sign-up sheet was there for a week and no one else signed up. Sorry, go away. >:/
Good luck to you, too! Have you heard back about the paper you resubmitted? Are you allowed to submit a thesis chapter that is the equivalent of a paper, or does it have to be completely re-written b/c of copyright/IP issues? [The latter is true at UT, which I find ridiculous. It de-incentivizes paper-writing until after the thesis. Which is shitty for grant-renewal and fellowship application purposes.]
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Date: 2011-01-14 04:05 am (UTC)I'm training the techs because the only one left who a) knows enough to train them and b) is actually there! Our lab is like, really tiny right now. :/ The last one was fine, but she ended up with some research job studying ... snails, or something over in the evolutionary bio department, which, well, whatever. Our new tech is making me want to bang my head against the freaking wall ... she almost made us tetrazolium plates, instead of tetracycline plates. Ugh. At least she's bright enough to ask questions before going off and doing these things, so there's one plus!
Our paper got rejected at the second journal as well ... two days before Christmas, lol. It's definitely going to be chapter one of my thesis (I can just paste it in, though I'm going to add a couple of results that aren't in it for whatever reasons) ... it just needs to be accepted somewhere so that I can start applying for fellowships. :/
We're going to try appealing to the journal because the reviewers praised the science and rejected it for really crappy reasons, but if that fails, I guess we'll go to PNAS. I should stop being such a spoiled bratty child and acknowledge that PNAS is an okay journal, but it feels so much like settling and ridiculousness and, I don't even know. I read the most fricking ridiculous paper for journal club this week and it was in PLOS Genetics, so I don't even know. It's all ridiculousness, and one shouldn't be bitter about it, I guess.
Time for another glass of wine, anyhow, lol. :)
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Date: 2011-01-14 06:24 pm (UTC)*facepalm*
The thing about the hood is that there's always been a weekly sign-up sheet - it's not like that's a new phenomenon. And I didn't just go in at 8:45 and sign out 9-11:30; I checked with people, and then signed up the afternoon before.
PNAS is decent. IDK, I find the quality variable because it's such a "who you know" journal, some papers are awesome, and others make me wonder how they got in. The longer I'm in academics, the more convinced I become that success at research is based 25% on work, 25% on intelligence, 25% on luck, 25% on who you know.