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Things that made me :DDD in the last 24 hours:

1. MCR (as seen pretty much all over my f-list). THANK YOU. I was beginning to fear that we'd NEVER get the new album. Mikeyway working the blond! Geeway and that fuschia mess (if ever there were a hot mess, he is it in the vid)! Frankie's all long-haired and hot again! (NGL, I totally would've lost Iero sex-chicken while he was in Leathermouth mode, but apparently becoming a daddy of twins is working out well for him.)

2. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

3. BRMC released a live session at iTunes. (Also, I get to see them twice this week.)

4. Luuuuuudo in less than one week.

Things that made me :D then :(

1. The Dear Jack Foundation First Annual Benefit Concert was announced. This is a charity that I definitely support for a variety of reasons, and both Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate will be performing so I'd love to go, but it's in LA, on a date that I absolutely cannot travel.

Things that made me >:/

1. Work. Dear Tutorial Grad Student: I should not have to tell you to put some damn gloves on EVERY OTHER MINUTE. Also, if you've weighed something out and it's too much, DO NOT put it back into the reagent bottle, especially if it's touched a surface you touched with your bare, naked fingers. And FYI, that thing you just weighed out is a neurotoxin in high enough quantities. I WASN'T KIDDING WHEN I TOLD YOU TO PUT ON SOME EFFIN' GLOVES.

2. Work. Yes, I'm listing it twice. Because I'm just that annoyed by the introduction of a new student for me to guide on a project that does not dovetail with mine AT ALL, at a time when The Chief is pushing me to finish the last replicates of experiments so we can get another paper out before the end of October.

3. I'm taking the Snowflake for service (again) tomorrow. More $$$ unbudgeted. The air-conditioning is blowing hot air. Which wouldn't be a big deal except this is Houston in September, and it's still supposed to be over 90F for the next week, at least.

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+ Joan Massagué gave an outstanding lecture today on the genetic approach his lab is using to elucidate the mechanisms behind metastasis. It was one of those lectures that made me glad I work in this field.

+ The guys in the lab down the hall? Spent two hours outside my lab talking in extremely loud voices about Dude #1's internet dating experience. He's convinced that his most recent date is only doing the whole internet dating thing to get free meals. Because - and this is a direct quote - "Men always pay for the meal. Women have it easy." These are the same guys who once spent the afternoon debating whether it was better to fuck tall chicks or short chicks. I feel my blood pressure rising and my brain cells dying when they open their mouths.

+ I was going to flail about AAR's cover of Womanizer again. More. I just. Chris looks like a leprechaun - something about his beard and sideburns and the hat and overalls. Mike's leather pants! Tyson is fighting William Beckett for sharpest cheekbones and hips! I'm even charmed by Nick Wheeler sitting there with his bare feet hooked over the stool, his flipflops on the floor beneath him. How did this happen? I have a foot phobia! I used to not even able to look at a photo if the feet in question were bare. THIS IS ALL JWALK'S FAULT!

ETA:

+ ♥ Jon Stewart re: the use of disappointment vs. mistake in the Shrub's exit interviews/press conferences

Am busy flailing.

Over the election results.

And over Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on screen together again.

John Oliver.

Brian Williams.

I don't think I could laugh any harder than I am right now.

TDS and TCR RETURN(ED)!

YES!

I might have been suffering withdrawal. Slightly. Rebroadcasts just aren't the same. How many times can one watch Barack Obama being bland and Republican-Lite, after all?