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persephone_koreList of Reasons to Friendlist Someone:
1. I felt like it. This one covers the rest pretty well, actually.
2. Nosiness. But not excessive, or not rudely so, since they did post the stuff on purpose, after all.
3. They wrote something interesting.
4. I wander past their journal often enough for this to be more convenient.
5. I have determined that their journal is interesting at least for occasional visits, but I can barely read it due to the unique color scheme.
Probable Reasons Not to Friendlist Someone:
1. Lack of interest
2. Lack of compatibility
3. Actually appears capable of pushing the new paid-account post limits on anything approaching a regular basis.
4. Strange feeling that I am not altogether sure I want to risk the temptation to enter more regular conversations with another skilled debater. (This one makes no sense, I admit.)
Random confession: I find historians intimidating. But not all of them, all the time. Nobody (except perhaps other structural biochemists) finds structural biochemists intimidating. Wah. ;)
Other random note: It is SO weird to read back through old posts where some people I know were first getting into LJ and fretting over whether it was polite to read other people's online journals!
Can everyone tell yet that I just felt like rambling at you all?
I want to write something. Now, granted, at the moment I'm in lab and am writing this journal entry in between poking at a rather curious physically impossible RNA conformation and trying to figure out whether I can correct it.::wiggles a dihedral angle and frowns thoughtfully:: But I have been being decidedly unproductive at home lately and while playing happily in AU-not-really-for-posting universes is something I've previously multitasked pretty well during, and I've gotten the actual homework like my Spanish essay and assorted strange drawings done, I really need to stop putting off grading the homework for the biochemistry class I'm TA-ing. (OK, so I'm actually only a few students away from finished on one batch and I refuse to try to give it back on a day when there's a seminar Right After Class -- and I do mean RIGHT after class, as the professor rarely stops the lecture quite on time -- and to my delight I actually was given an answer key for the next one, so finishing up by Monday really shouldn't be a problem even WITH recruiting weekend.) I also have a few thank-you notes. High school friend sent a wedding present after I thought I was done with that lot. (Except for the mystery people whose address I still need to find.)
Anyway, I find it curiously difficult to be productive in a hobby sort of way while I know I ought to be being productive in a non-hobbyish sort of way. Procrastination reaches the point of absurdity when one finds oneself putting off the fun stuff in addition to whatever one would normally be procrastinating.
I also wonder whether my husband and I could get in to see Daredevil on Valentine's Day. Can't cut out of lab and try early, unfortunately, as my program has its usual peculiar timing for recruiting weekend and I have a student to shepherd around tomorrow.
Let's see. Stuff I have to do. Grade the homework, covered that already. Write thank-you notes. Make hotel reservations for a friend's wedding in Columbia. (Their wedding is the day before our first anniversary. I am amused.) Taxes -- I think we're still waiting for a document from one place.
Somewhat more immediately: figure out something to say to the seminar speaker who's stopping by in about half an hour. He's also applying for a job with the department. This should also be good practice for Saturday, when as part of recruitment weekend we will be showing student applicants around the lab. It's a slightly odd setup, since everyone applying seems to have wanted to see our PIs -- who will both be out of town until around noon Saturday. It will get very interesting indeed if their flights are at all delayed.
I also need to become competent with R and AWK so I can manipulate our new database and figure out how to do the clash-filter -- and sort things so we can get an idea of what conformations actually go together. I'm thinking a sort of tree structure, since plotting things in six dimensions would be a bit much.
Maybe do something in the way of applying to Graduate Research Day. I'm technically already late, but then, I have received an email stating they'd probably take late applications, and I think they did last year. I have an abstract around here somewhere.
Er... let's see. Also laundry, assorted varieties of decluttering, and some account-shuffling.
For fanfic...
Chapter 6 of "Worth a Thousand Words" is done except for putting it on order and proofing. Much of the rest of the story is in a similar state, though some of it needs to be slightly rewritten.
Chapter 4 of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is probably about done. Redhawk thinks it's too abrupt, but I don't think that's actually so much a characterization objection as a structural one.
I could probably finish the "Tapestry of Fire" sequel soon if I'd just get down to it. That would be nice. Of course, I still don't have a title.
1. I felt like it. This one covers the rest pretty well, actually.
2. Nosiness. But not excessive, or not rudely so, since they did post the stuff on purpose, after all.
3. They wrote something interesting.
4. I wander past their journal often enough for this to be more convenient.
5. I have determined that their journal is interesting at least for occasional visits, but I can barely read it due to the unique color scheme.
Probable Reasons Not to Friendlist Someone:
1. Lack of interest
2. Lack of compatibility
3. Actually appears capable of pushing the new paid-account post limits on anything approaching a regular basis.
4. Strange feeling that I am not altogether sure I want to risk the temptation to enter more regular conversations with another skilled debater. (This one makes no sense, I admit.)
Random confession: I find historians intimidating. But not all of them, all the time. Nobody (except perhaps other structural biochemists) finds structural biochemists intimidating. Wah. ;)
Other random note: It is SO weird to read back through old posts where some people I know were first getting into LJ and fretting over whether it was polite to read other people's online journals!
Can everyone tell yet that I just felt like rambling at you all?
I want to write something. Now, granted, at the moment I'm in lab and am writing this journal entry in between poking at a rather curious physically impossible RNA conformation and trying to figure out whether I can correct it.::wiggles a dihedral angle and frowns thoughtfully:: But I have been being decidedly unproductive at home lately and while playing happily in AU-not-really-for-posting universes is something I've previously multitasked pretty well during, and I've gotten the actual homework like my Spanish essay and assorted strange drawings done, I really need to stop putting off grading the homework for the biochemistry class I'm TA-ing. (OK, so I'm actually only a few students away from finished on one batch and I refuse to try to give it back on a day when there's a seminar Right After Class -- and I do mean RIGHT after class, as the professor rarely stops the lecture quite on time -- and to my delight I actually was given an answer key for the next one, so finishing up by Monday really shouldn't be a problem even WITH recruiting weekend.) I also have a few thank-you notes. High school friend sent a wedding present after I thought I was done with that lot. (Except for the mystery people whose address I still need to find.)
Anyway, I find it curiously difficult to be productive in a hobby sort of way while I know I ought to be being productive in a non-hobbyish sort of way. Procrastination reaches the point of absurdity when one finds oneself putting off the fun stuff in addition to whatever one would normally be procrastinating.
I also wonder whether my husband and I could get in to see Daredevil on Valentine's Day. Can't cut out of lab and try early, unfortunately, as my program has its usual peculiar timing for recruiting weekend and I have a student to shepherd around tomorrow.
Let's see. Stuff I have to do. Grade the homework, covered that already. Write thank-you notes. Make hotel reservations for a friend's wedding in Columbia. (Their wedding is the day before our first anniversary. I am amused.) Taxes -- I think we're still waiting for a document from one place.
Somewhat more immediately: figure out something to say to the seminar speaker who's stopping by in about half an hour. He's also applying for a job with the department. This should also be good practice for Saturday, when as part of recruitment weekend we will be showing student applicants around the lab. It's a slightly odd setup, since everyone applying seems to have wanted to see our PIs -- who will both be out of town until around noon Saturday. It will get very interesting indeed if their flights are at all delayed.
I also need to become competent with R and AWK so I can manipulate our new database and figure out how to do the clash-filter -- and sort things so we can get an idea of what conformations actually go together. I'm thinking a sort of tree structure, since plotting things in six dimensions would be a bit much.
Maybe do something in the way of applying to Graduate Research Day. I'm technically already late, but then, I have received an email stating they'd probably take late applications, and I think they did last year. I have an abstract around here somewhere.
Er... let's see. Also laundry, assorted varieties of decluttering, and some account-shuffling.
For fanfic...
Chapter 6 of "Worth a Thousand Words" is done except for putting it on order and proofing. Much of the rest of the story is in a similar state, though some of it needs to be slightly rewritten.
Chapter 4 of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is probably about done. Redhawk thinks it's too abrupt, but I don't think that's actually so much a characterization objection as a structural one.
I could probably finish the "Tapestry of Fire" sequel soon if I'd just get down to it. That would be nice. Of course, I still don't have a title.
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Date: 2003-02-13 10:54 am (UTC)And what's wrong with historians? Oh, wait, nevermind. People like myself make people very frightened of my profession. I'm beginning to think we do it on purpose.
Horay for the 6th chapter of WaTW. I'll finish the cover of WWA next lecture (notes? what in heavens are notes?)
And last but not least, have a wonderful Valentine's Day Massacr-er, holiday.
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Date: 2003-02-13 12:09 pm (UTC)Hmm. There's a thought, thank you. :)
And what's wrong with historians? Oh, wait, nevermind. People like myself make people very frightened of my profession. I'm beginning to think we do it on purpose.
My goodness, another one? ;)
Seriously -- I didn't say there was anything wrong with them, just that I find them intimidating. *grins* Sometimes. Usually, I think, due to the feeling that they can produce more past examples for a debate or for timeline-building than I can, and examples from history are usually a lot more relevant for normal conversation than, say, what constitutes a physically possible molecular conformation for a nucleic acid. And I tend to feel that I should know more about the subject than I do, which does not help. (Yes, I also know I could always do something about this.)
I'll finish the cover of WWA next lecture (notes? what in heavens are notes?)
I'm torn between going "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh...." in anticipation and scolding you for implicating me in your not paying attention in class. ;)
Hrm. I am weak, and shall stick with ooooh-ing.
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Date: 2003-02-13 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-13 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-13 08:29 pm (UTC)Nobody (except perhaps other structural biochemists) finds structural biochemists intimidating.
Um... I find structural biochemists intimidating...
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Date: 2003-02-13 09:13 pm (UTC)But does it really come up in debate that much?
(And I know you beta for Angua, but I confess that's about it.)
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Date: 2003-02-13 10:26 pm (UTC)No, it doesn't come up in debate, but then, neither does a fear of historians... nor do historians really come up in debate either... so maybe it's just me? I don't know. Either way, structural biochemists are intimidating to me, as is their job, and all they deal with. Science isn't my forte.
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Date: 2003-02-15 07:03 am (UTC)It's not that either historians or fear thereof are commonly the topic of debate. It's that historians' area of interest is commonly relevant to assorted topics of debate, and I tend to feel despite having my own area of study that I ought to know enough anyway to verify or challenge them. But I don't.