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persephone_koreWe got the paper finished yesterday. My PI did NOT strangle me for looking over her shoulder in an effort to decipher unfamiliar program-menus in the process and periodically mumbling the process even for simple operations, which to be fair I do to myself too. The mumbling, anyway. Looking over my own shoulder and typing at the same time would be awkward and possibly painful. They were going to drop the copies going through FedEx to the grant people off there and then go to dinner before hashing through the online submission process, so I went home. I didn't get any phone calls about disasters, so I assume this went reasonably well. On the other hand, having said that, I suddenly feel the urge to check the answering machine, because right after I got online last night, I got pulled away to help fix dinner (note: two pounds of frozen salmon filet at 375 for around an hour apparently comes out very nicely -- not that I'm much of a judge, but the more salmon-experienced party pronounced it good) and go on a minor grocery run that ended up taking longer than planned. (Sorry, Drea. :( Got back right around 10.)
I did not dream about the lab work last night. At least, I don't think so. I did have a rather odd dream involving some sort of hike through what may have been a touristy-type park, and several moments of panic over forgetting my pocketbook. This may have something to do with lab, actually, since I kept jumping between computers and sections of it and was everlastingly having to go back and get it because it had my pens in it or the lab was being invaded by people trying to do their homework for the class one of my PIs is teaching and while I don't really think any of them would do anything, I don't like leaving it lying around.
I also dreamed something extremely confusing about an outside-canon Young Wizards novel called Step Wizardry, which seems to have involved Nita's parents having split up and Nita (or was it Dairine?) having problems with whoever their mother was dating afterwards. (I have the feeling this wasn't quite the main plot, or no more than in the sense that getting Nita's pen back was the main plot of SYW, but I'm not sure what was.) I think it fell after A Wizard Abroad (and obviously before Dilemma) and had probably been written during the intervening years, though I'm not quite sure why. It wasn't an unofficial fanfic, it was published in hardcover and available in the library and look-upable in databases and everything -- I know because I did look it up in the dream, and another thing I'm not sure about is why my subconscious not only came up with this, but assigned authorhood to Robert Jordan.
Right. Well then.
In other news, FAP now has 13 new Nifflers, and my application must have counted because I am one.
I should go play in comics fandom some more, too. Of course, I did post a couple of things lately. I really shouldn't neglect Ashes so long again, though.... and Guess Who is nudging my brain....
My bees seem to be doing all right, though they don't have as much food stored as I'd like. The tree they really liked earlier in the year may be having a second bloom -- weird, but cool. (No, I don't know what it is.) My parents have been checking them for me, though -- aside from this past weekend being occupied, I'm in a gap between one health insurance plan ending and the next actually getting back to me, and last time I got stung I developed hives, so I am advised to wait until the new one kicks back in before playing with them.
The really pathetic thing is, the bee didn't even sting me on purpose. I put my thumb down firmly on a dead bee that had gotten stuck tail-up between frames.
I did not dream about the lab work last night. At least, I don't think so. I did have a rather odd dream involving some sort of hike through what may have been a touristy-type park, and several moments of panic over forgetting my pocketbook. This may have something to do with lab, actually, since I kept jumping between computers and sections of it and was everlastingly having to go back and get it because it had my pens in it or the lab was being invaded by people trying to do their homework for the class one of my PIs is teaching and while I don't really think any of them would do anything, I don't like leaving it lying around.
I also dreamed something extremely confusing about an outside-canon Young Wizards novel called Step Wizardry, which seems to have involved Nita's parents having split up and Nita (or was it Dairine?) having problems with whoever their mother was dating afterwards. (I have the feeling this wasn't quite the main plot, or no more than in the sense that getting Nita's pen back was the main plot of SYW, but I'm not sure what was.) I think it fell after A Wizard Abroad (and obviously before Dilemma) and had probably been written during the intervening years, though I'm not quite sure why. It wasn't an unofficial fanfic, it was published in hardcover and available in the library and look-upable in databases and everything -- I know because I did look it up in the dream, and another thing I'm not sure about is why my subconscious not only came up with this, but assigned authorhood to Robert Jordan.
Right. Well then.
In other news, FAP now has 13 new Nifflers, and my application must have counted because I am one.
I should go play in comics fandom some more, too. Of course, I did post a couple of things lately. I really shouldn't neglect Ashes so long again, though.... and Guess Who is nudging my brain....
My bees seem to be doing all right, though they don't have as much food stored as I'd like. The tree they really liked earlier in the year may be having a second bloom -- weird, but cool. (No, I don't know what it is.) My parents have been checking them for me, though -- aside from this past weekend being occupied, I'm in a gap between one health insurance plan ending and the next actually getting back to me, and last time I got stung I developed hives, so I am advised to wait until the new one kicks back in before playing with them.
The really pathetic thing is, the bee didn't even sting me on purpose. I put my thumb down firmly on a dead bee that had gotten stuck tail-up between frames.
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Date: 2003-09-09 11:42 am (UTC)My wordplay-loving brain came up with a rather amusing mental image for this.
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Date: 2003-09-09 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 01:57 pm (UTC)For Nifflering, may I recommend Jelsemium's gorgoeus work? It's all fabulous and I don't think it's ever been Niffled before, a crying shame if ever there was one.
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Date: 2003-09-09 02:03 pm (UTC)I've got twelve recs to work with, I believe. Four per month, for three months. I'd have to check whether we can do extras; I could always put more up elsewhere of course, but still.... I have a few in mind already....
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Date: 2003-09-09 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 08:07 pm (UTC)