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April 8th, 2009
07:46 pm
Wow, I haven't posted in a while! And now I'm trying to post over a Loki in my lap. <3 kitteh!
My laptop stopped working. I'm pretty sure it was the power supply, but I've been lazy about yanking the hard drive. I'm borrowing my advisor's old laptop for stuff that absolutely must be done at home. But really, I'm not missing it much. I just do more work while I'm at work, and then actually have a life in the evenings! And since I put the grant in yesterday, I actually do have time!!
*pets the Loki*
Oh, I got new glasses! For long-distance. I used to only wear them at the computer. I picked them up today! Everything looks farther away, and every time I walk around wearing them I can't stop laughing because I feel so tall. =D
Huh. I am actually happy with my life, so I don't have much to say. =)
Current Mood:  content
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April 3rd, 2009
04:43 pm
YES
YES
YES
YES
MY DATA
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL
MY HYPOTHESIS IS SUPPORTED
IT'S NOBEL TIME, BITCHEZZZZZ
Current Mood:  margarita time!
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March 14th, 2009
02:24 am
 aerodiver, entropius, faye134679
We've been friended by one of those Russian bots. This one's journal is named "cbriju."
The bots make a profile and copy-paste some random crap into it.
I just reported it, but keep a look out for more of them.
Nobody's really sure what the bots do... they think it's data mining. It's a fresh warning, though, to never post anything remotely personal outside a friends-lock. The bot gets access to all your public entries, and those of your friends. (It has been noted that those "porn-star name" memes are rife with info that most people use as their security question... mom's maiden name, street you grew up on, etc. Go lock those.)
More information here.
Current Mood:  irritated
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March 5th, 2009
06:01 pm - Writer's Block: Deal or No Deal
What's on your list of dealbreakers when it comes to romantic relationships?
I don't date smokers or Republicans.
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January 30th, 2009
05:53 pm - Happy Hour Ahoy!!!
Holy mother fuck!
I can't say I just finished the thing. But the draft is done, and it's off for revision. I'll likely spend all day tomorrow and Sunday revising. But revising is easy... writing is hard! And the hard part is done!!!
I shall have something special at Grad Student Happy Hour this evening. Usually I get a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat and call it a day. Or do I want to save the something special for my birthday? We will be at Mad Mex after all, home of the $5 Big Azz margarita!
Away, to happy hour! Maybe even team trivia!
P.S. Cherry Coke Zero is nasty. I needed caffeine and it was the only thing available... I am regretting it. It is awful. It's like artificially-flavored ass cherries added to flat Coke, with that horrible aspartame aftertaste. (I thought it was sweetened with sorbitol, but alas! Now I shall have an aspartame headache on top of the caffeine spaz!)
PHENYLKETONURICS: You're not missing anything!
Current Mood: bouncy
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January 26th, 2009
02:48 pm - This'll be boring
( For My Own EdificationCollapse )
So weird to think I might actually finish someday. It makes me tingly. Or maybe that's just the caffeine. I had ONE CAN OF COKE, people. Why am I spazzing the fuck out?
I got to pimp my own paper today! I'm in a grant-writing class, and one of my fellow students (who is going STRAIGHT from here to a faculty position, how cool is that??) is looking at interparental conflict and the effects on the stress reactivity of infants. And I was all, "Hey, I just happened to have written a paper on a similar area..." I am so smooth.
A few months back, one of the professors in my department asked Adam and I to teach her and her fiance to swing dance for their wedding. In the process we met her teenaged daughter, who is an awesome fun geek girl. We sat with her and her friend at the reception and talked about video games and Internet memes. (Also, she bribed the DJ to play "Never Gonna Give You Up.")
I just checked my mailbox in the main office... in it is a note: "From Rachel - she found this at Setsucon last weekend!" Pinned to the note is a pin - a Companion Cube with a piece of cake.
If I knew I would have a kid like this one, I might actually consider having one. =) (Assuming, of course, that she sprung fully formed from my forehead and started life at age 12.)
Current Mood:  working
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January 24th, 2009
02:28 pm
Man, what is it about California?
Initially, I thought all my potential post-docs would be in Pittsburgh or Chicago. Being a huge fan of not freezing to death, I've been looking into other options.
So first I find UC-Davis. There's a high-level researcher there that I've actually worked with. We'd be using primate models, which is kinda meh, but doable. And then I found this program at UC-San Francisco! Much better fit, and there are a number of high-level researchers there that I have met in passing. I shall schmooze them at the PNIRS conference this summer. And today! In cleaning up my desk and surrounding pile of crap, I came across a document I picked up at PNIRS last year: a call for applications to the Cousins Center. It's at... UCLA. UCLA looks cool, but it's in Los Angeles. I'd be studying own immunology as I slowly hacked my asthmatic lungs out.
I still think UCSF is perfect. The sun came out from behind the clouds as I typed that, so I shall take it as a sign! The campus is dedicated to health sciences, three awesome faculty I want to work with are there, and one of their current postdoc fellows is a woman I drank beer out of a plastic boot with last summer. =D
K. Paper, writtens, orals, NRSA, write paper, conference, teach, proposal, run study, run more different study, conference, teach, write diss, defense, graduate. I'm on it! Looks like I won't finish until 2011, though... Mom will be unhappy. She's looking forward to having an excuse to go to California. I am down with this, as it keeps her off the topic of grandchildren!
Current Mood: working
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January 14th, 2009
04:27 pm - O Come All Ye Faithful
For my friends who do not read  metaquotes:
http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6994557.html?nc=70&page=1#comments
chicklet73 attends a church concert.
D: Have you ever played that game with the Protestant Hymnbook?
Me: ...game?
D: Yes. You open it to a random page, and read off the title of the hymn, but like with a fortune cookie, you add "...in bed" at the end.
Me: *delighted*
Me: *tries*
Me: Ohhh. HEE.
D: I know. Go on.
Me: *reads* 'I Need Thee Every Hour...'
D: Go on.
Me: ..In Bed.
Us: *snicker*
Me: *flips pages*
Me: *reads* 'Hold Fast Till I Come...'
Us: *SPORFLE*
And so we sat and read various things like 'He Will Hold Me Fast...In Bed', 'Lord and Master of Us All...In Bed', 'When He Cometh...In Bed', 'Trust and Obey...In Bed', 'Come and Dine...In Bed' and giggled our heads off until
Me: *reads* 'Christ, You Are My Fullness'
Me: ...
Me: *closes book*
My favorite from the comments?
'Savior, Sprinkle Many Nations'
Current Mood:  going to hell!
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January 1st, 2009
02:42 am
Happy birthday, 2009!
May you kick way more ass than 2008 did.
...good god, I can't believe it's 2009.
Current Mood:  distressed
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December 20th, 2008
02:42 pm - To get you in the holiday spirit...
People are just as likely to torture now as they were in Milgram's 1960s experiment.
The difference in this experiment is that not only were people asked to shock a protesting "subject," but at one point in the experiment, a volunteer would come in and refuse to continue, in front of the participant. And... 63% of the participants continued anyway, even when given this example.
Now, I'm off to my aunt's house to bake cookies! =D
Current Mood:  thoughtful
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