I am now at the airport, having discovered wireless internet that works (as opposed to the first few times where there was supposed to be internet but there wasn't and I was very disappointed), and since I won't be boarding for a while yet, I'm going to update my blog.
The announcer just called for someone who apparently lost their rosary beads. Huh.
I haven't updated in a few days, so where should I start? I did go over to Lucy's last weekend and we had a double-birthday thing (since I didn't get to see her anywhere near her birthday) and went to the crafts fair and discovered a place called "Nick's Cafe" (if you don't get it, it won't be funny even if I explained it to you), thus providing us with both entertainment (more ways than one -- the kids next table over were hilarious) and food that is of higher caliber than what we would've gotten had we chosen to remain standing under the sun for the long lines at the concession stands. I bought stuff, of the sort that will eventually find their way to someone else but will nevertheless continue to make me grin every time I think about them. There was also cake because, you know, birthday. And cider which we kept on forgetting but Lucy got me tea, so everything was awesome. (The rosehip-cherry one resembles cough syrup, but the pomegranate one was good.)
In lab I -- well, my PI, mostly -- discovered that the homologue of my gene of interest that I cloned is the ancestral copy and not the derived copy (yeah there are two) and the PI has decided that the derived copy is much more useful. After some consideration, I had to concede his points and so I will be banging my head against the wall of cloning hypothetical proteins for a few more month. I've also heard him raise his voice for the first time, against a post-doc, when they were arguing a point. I find this startling given how often I talk back to him (note to self: remember to break this habit before graduating as that not all PIs will be so indulgent) and he's never once raised his voice, even when I interrupted him mid-sentence to argue a point (yeah, he's really tolerant). Conclusion: still can't understand why my classmates find him scary but he is impressive when frustrated. His voice carries REALLY well. (Note to self: avoid sitting next to the PI in lab meetings at all costs. Too loud.)
As for the thesis committee? Still waiting for approval. Wendy says she has no idea what happened, since it took her only one or two weeks to get hers approved. Our current theory is that the Graduate Student Council or whatever it's called is operating under less than full capacity during the summer, since approval usually goes much faster during the school year. In any case it looks like getting the advancement to candidacy exam over during the summer is out.
Nothing's happening with the two dating sites with the root word "intellect" in them (forgot the actual name). I will cancel my account there, as soon as I get around to it / find the time. Meanwhile Xylitol and I continue to have very good discussions.We've moved on to books now and I'm trying to get him to read Bradbury's From the Dust Returned. There were still a few random flags here and there from the two geeks sites, but nothing came of any of them.
On a totally unrelated note: I've been following the author "Pru" from her HP story "Delta", from back in the days when Remus Lupin was my favorite HP character ever. (I don't really ship Evans / Lupin but it made more sense to me than Potter / Evans or Black / Lupin.) It was exciting when I started watching Merlin and discovered that she was already in the fandom (though as much as I laugh at the slash dragon --on my God that dragon -- I never really got into the whole Arthur / Merlin thing and I still am disappointed that Merlin / Gwen is well...not meant to be from the start really, but I really liked the pairing.) Anyway, the point of this ramble is that I have just discovered that she's in Due South as well! Well it's one story and it's Kowalski / Fraser, but I laughed so hard while reading it that I thought I'd share. (Though as far as I know the people I know who watch Due South's probably seen it already.) It's a very sweet story. With no cactus nor logs and approximately the same amount of sanity as the show itself(read: variable, depending apparently on the alignment of Saturn with Mars and the amount of Turnbull involved).
Also? Forget Glee, I'm watching Avatar (the cartoon). It is awesome.
This post is brought to you by: SD International Airport.
And also by:
Yours truly, who is turning a year older today (or yesterday evening if you're like my parents and like to factor in the time difference). (Yes my parents do that. Explains a lot about me, doesn't it?)
Cheers.
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