So while I'm sick, it seems like the PI has decided that rather than publishing what we have now, he'd want the interaction data after all. This is extremely frustrating and not a little confusing. I am baffled and so are the collaborators. My appointment with the office of grad studies for my exiting paperwork is on the 22nd so I'm going to have to explain this situation as that I doubt my PI will let me go until we get the manuscript accepted for publication. The manuscript that hasn't even been sent out yet. Augh.
In the meantime I'm much recovered from my bout of cold! Actually I thought I was done with it since I didn't cough at all Thursday and Friday, and then I went to the dojo today and realized that the lack was coughing was because I haven't had to take deep breaths while in lab and spent roughly a third of class coughing. This prompted my classmates to ask me things like if something got into my lung and if I've been taking my medicines. One of them suggested cod liver oil. Apparently Sprouts sells mint flavored ones which is both fascinating yet gross (and also no, just...no). In the meantime flu shot's being offered on campus again so hopefully that'll put an end to a repeat of this.
Updates on my cultural experiments: have finished MORTAL EVIDENCE while home sick and started and finished AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL (by A. Christie), which is very fast read. I've liked her MR. QUINN book but not every single book she's written. This book, however, is a good reminder of why she's like, the Grand Dame of murder mysteries. Bess Sedgwick is now in competition for my favorite lady villain of all time and Miss Marple is a dear (if I can say anyone is a dear in a mystery novel's typical cast, I'd say that about her). Starting DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES by WR Maples & M Browning next week, to continue my education in forensic science and learn about helpful things like stipping and foamy fluid in lungs.
I watched OCEAN'S ELEVEN the weekend before I got sick. It was an interesting experience in that I loved the heist itself, the pacing, and the cinematography but didn't like any of the actual plot or characters (lady why would you go back to your known criminal ex-husband why?? I mean even if your new boyfriend is a jerk there are other men out there and some of them may not actually require you to keep track of release dates from prison). Last weekend Annie and I watched another ep of STAR TREK (TOS) (and she got to hear me hack at her, what fun) so now I can officially say I know where the "mathematically sobbing" thing came from and understand what people mean when they refer to Sulu as a "fencing space botanist" (still coolest job ever yes?). NOZAKI-KUN finished and it is one of those rare creatures where every ep in the season is excellent and I still would rec it to anyone who likes OURAN. Also finished the first story arc of SAILOR MOON (original anime) while sick and was confused by some of it, so I went and skimmed the (thankfully relatively short) manga pages that corresponds to it. The manga answers a lot of questions and gets rid of a lot of plot holes, though it does introduce other things I'm not so sure about. On the whole I really like how the characters, especially the villains, are a not more fleshed out in the anime (Zoisite & Kuzite are epic and the bickering / hair pulling between the villains is amazing), but the anime also introduces a lot of dieting / body weight comments that makes me side-eye it a lot. Not to mention in anime the people seems to be spectacularly face-blind. We'll see what the next story arc brings: so far it seems to involve a giant floating space chlorosplast that turned into a giant space tree of doom. Though it probably isn't technically a plant as it doesn't appear to be photosynthetic and appears to live off of energy stolen from people. I...don't know either.
Mostly drifted through a haze of anime opening songs in the mean time. They're just so catchy and remarkably romance-free, all things considered. Some of them sounds like they're about to take on the world, which as you might imagine is exactly what a girl needs while sick at home (it's hilarious). The new SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL theme is growing on me, though I'm not really sure about the "shiny makeup" line. I have a hypothesis that it's like the "bishoujo senshi" part, which English translation tends to refer to as "pretty guardian" but the kanji is more... . "Bishoujo" is like, "beautiful young lady/woman" and senshi is more "fighter / soldier". So in a cultural context the Kanji has a lot more connotation toward the superhero genre than what I think the English version has. Similarly "shiny makeup" makes me wonder if they took what they wanted to say in Kanji and translated to English because it sounded cooler but the Kanji and the English has somewhat different connotation in the western world. I can take a guess at what Kanji "shiny makeup" was from and there's a combination that can translate into "shiny makeup" but can also mean "shining transformation", which I find a lot more appealing. But who knows. I'm hypothesizing with basically zero data.
Android. The virtual simulator keeps on crashing, which I know is not due to my app because half of the time it crashes before I even ran anything. It just...randomly, halfway through startup, decide that it doesn't do up. Most frustrating. Mostly this means that I'll have to go search for the USB to connect my tablet to my laptop to see whether or not my textfields are working like they're supposed to.
Next up: Polish Festival. There's one this weekend about four blocks away from where I live. There's one there every year and in the five years since I've noticed it I've never been. This year, I think, is the year to rectify that.
Random: I'm reconsidering lj and dreamwidth right now because as I get older I'm...increasingly more paranoid about stuff I post online and blogspot's lack of friendslock. I mean especially in grad school there are occasionally a few things I was considering mentioning and then I realized that if I published it in blogspot everyone can see it and then I'd reconsider. I mean with the current series of updates there is no longer that much difference between the UI of blogger and lj anymore, and I haven't had the time to look at webdesigning since...around 2007. The main question, I suppose, is figuring out how many of the people I know still have an lj account so people who are actually my friends can still see it.
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