asimplechord: (science!)
1. 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
asimplechord: (no sitrep)
:( Dropped J at the airport on my way to work. We were unable to cling as desired b/c a stern member of the security force was directing people to parking spots and ordering them on as fast as possible.

:( Also said goodbye to Aaron for the week, as he's got meetings in Austin until Friday. I am tempted to see if there's anyone playing Emo's or Stubb's that I'd like to see this week, and drive out to stay with him. I can work on figures and writing the experimental section of the paper from anywhere, right? Why, labwork?

:/ It is supposed to hit 79F today? With 95% humidity. UGH. This is November. It is Not Right.

:) Butch Walker and Brendon Urie quoting Leslie Nielsen jokes at each other on twitter? A+ distraction while sitting stuck in traffic.

:) PSA: Restrepo is going to air on the National Geographic Channel tonight at 9pm Eastern time.

WikiLeaks )



*sigh*

Got coffee.

Science to do. I'm on it.
asimplechord: (The Bloody Baron)
Because it's been pretty wretched.

My day got completely fucked when the sample elevator for the gamma radiation source got stuck. One experiment completely ruined, three more down the drain if it's not fixed by Tuesday. Which, what repair company is going to mess with engine parts that are down inside a cesium source? NRGH.

So I rearranged things, and I spent an hour discussing experiments with my boss before he left (for a two-week trip to France), and I'm trying to figure out this stupid cell/colony sorting software that is NOT intuitively obvious and came with a manual written by someone who is a software engineer, not a scientific end-user (re: not user-friendly), getting more and more frustrated that each time I ran the same data file I got different answers.

I finally shut things down and headed out to the train platform, only to get stuck in the rain. Without an umbrella. Awesome.

You know, I still don't understand: storms like this happen in Houston all the time, but people STILL don't know how to drive in them. ?

WHY YES, IT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA TO GO FROM 65 MPH TO 25 MPH WITH NO WARNING BECAUSE OF SOME RAIN. REALLY. AND TO DRIVE AT TWILIGHT IN MISTY RAIN WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS. VERY SAFE.

So I was in a FINE mood by the time I got home.

But. My copy of War was here when I arrived. And the internets gave me this. )

I am ordering a pizza so I don't have to cook, and I'm opening some wine or some cider. A lot of wine and/or cider.

Next week is going to be better, right? RIGHT.
asimplechord: (men in suits)
~ Bamboozle Left or Bamboozle? On one hand, Something Corporate. On the other, Weezer. Decisions, decisions.

~ Rafa continues to be the most adorable have the best smile in all of tennis.

~ I know this has probably been splashed across your friends list repeatedly since last night, but I can't look away when Cobra Starship are smokin' hot )

~ It's going to freeze here tonight! That almost never happens, and our neighbors are wigged out about pipes bursting. Just insulate them! Or, if the Home Despot is out of insulating foam, open the tap furthest from where your water enters the house before you go to bed.

~ Football time. Roll, Tide?

ETA: Co-headling tour for Cobra Starship? With "our boys"? Who votes for TAI? Who votes for Discos? Who else do you think it might be? ETA2: ATL?
asimplechord: (stupid people)
It has taken an hour to travel <3 miles on Alt90. Still inching along. D:

ETA: Ended up taking 2.5 hours. Not because it was flooded, but because the light at 610 was out, and people here are incapable of negotiating a fucking four-way stop.
asimplechord: (mad scientist at play)
There was flailing during my morning commute. TheBuzz DJs announced that the date, location, and lineup for BuzzFestXXI would be released next Friday at 5pm. I have this totally unreasonable hope that it'll be a spectacular list of bands I really want to see who aren't already coming to Houston, and that it'll be 26/27April.

Either way, if it doesn't conflict with a concert already scheduled, I'm likely to go. Even if it's at the Woodlands, which is a pain in the ass to get in and out of and they're total bastards about what they allow BuzzFans to bring into the pavilion in comparison to what they allow at every other concert.

Dude. Rodeo starts soon. Traffic around Reliant was snarly (as in, made me snarly after navigating it) last night and this morning, and there were trail riders with covered wagons on the feeder road of the freeway this morning. ONLY IN HOUSTON.

Joy. Three weeks of people who don't understand public transportation, think they can make a left turn into the parking lot from the far right lane because "the turn lane was backed up, I couldn't get into it", and cowboy hats and pressed jeans. Yay.

Today is Go Texans Day (or some such), so there are people at work wearing cowboy boots and hats and other rodeo gear. At work. In the med school and hospital. WTF? (No matter how many years I live here, that will always earn a WTF response. Seriously.)

eta: Also? TheBuzz aired an ad for HCT. Which makes me laugh, because TheBuzz? Never in a million years would they play Panic. Or The Hush Sound. But they are a ClearChannel station and Verizon is a LiveNation (aka ClearChannel) venue, therefore....

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