Holiday! Celebrate!

He heh...got that terrible Madonna song in your head didn't I? :P
Very shortly J and I will have a long weekend together with nice people and good music. I am worried I may nap the whole time of come down with some hideous plague once my body takes time to relax, but I cannot wait to get out of here and just relax down to the very marrow of my being for the first time since, well, Christmas really. Having a wig out session from stress on the weekend has shown me how close to the edge I am with all I'm doing...apparently I'm ahead of a lot of *regular* grad students time wise. All I know is, I'm looking forward to be done.

I normally bake up a storm and bring tasty goods along camping, but this year I'm not stressing myself out about it. If there is time tonight then so be it, but we have enough food, and clean clothes to get by.

J's family who come back to Toontown for the Jazzfest every year are here and will be taking care of our critters while we are away. Went out for Thai food with them last night and I am still full...it was good to see them. I also do not think I need to eat for a week or so with all the delicious Thai food we had...I have leftovers for supper. Bwaha!

And so, I must be off. It is a struggle to be awake, but today is my last day of work for a week, so I will be good, head home for a nap and then try and start my relaxing...

In order to get that terrible song out of your head that I put there - here's a better Holiday - Billie. Have a lovely day everyone!

geeks love free books too

eeek!
Book purge from the library - I picked up The Selfish Gene by Dawkins, a pathology reference book, the Molecular Cloning Handbook of methods and a molecular biomethods handbook for free.

Yipadee!
Now to find time to read them...

And my topic for today is...

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Ah - I just gave my 6 month update speech to go with my report I handed in last week. It went well. I was up until 2 finishing it because of time spent friday and saturday putting on our party, but I have to say - it went well. We sold out, covered our costs and everyone had a great time. Bar proceeds go to CFCR...everybody wins. My speech today went OK too. Not perfect, but it was constructive and I will be able to start really crunching my data now. They didn't laugh or make me feel like I didn't know what I was doing...a good sign. I have direction and remaining things to do...I even met with my supervisor on saturday morning before the party and we hashed out a lot of details...it was one busy awesome weekend.

I'm looking forward to a few naps...some relaxing. And a long weekend off with no data.

I am giddy at the thought.

Gone to seed

I really need to mow the lawn.
In my defence I have been really busy...then it keeps raining when I'm not.
It has been long enough that it has gone to seed. And we have random daisies blooming in it...personally I like it. I think it's lovely. I've never liked mowed manicured lawns. One of the reasons I like our house is the front yard is all gravel and a zillion virginia creepers (and a few weeds ahem). This overgrown back yard and poorly tended front does however add a touch of "desolate and abandoned" to an otherwise rather charming house.

Yes, I have really understanding neighbors...:)

Shoot me now...more jello please

This weekend we, together with some great people, are putting on a thing. A good thing. Live music and DJs in a nice venue, good people, nice decor (enchanted forest) and even sammiches cupcakes and coffee at midnight. :)
Yours truly is in charge of the bar, and because I luv them, besides the good local draft beer and hard liquor with mix I'm gonna have jello shooters. Peach ones. And so I'm looking on the interwebs for recipes as I can't decide between what liquors to put in them...and I stumbled across this website:
My Science Project.
Yowza.
I love these people. Specifically...theirgreat and exhaustive efforts and experiments at making a zillion types of shooters, seeing how strong you can make them...with many liquors...even dessert and pudding ones.
Oh yes.
My mouth is actually watering at all the different ideas. Yum.
Just had to share it with you...I'll let you know how it all goes.

Any ideas for a name for these peach shooters? I am undecided...

Slip of the tongue

In an email to my supervisor I mistyped my thesis as Mt thesis.
And so it shall be named henceforth and forevermore :)

Yes. Quite.

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ROAD TRIP!

1 more sleep. I use the term sleep loosely. Altho I am exhausted from lack of sleep, and still have much typing to do, I still cannot stop thinking about it.

Tomorrow I head out bright and early in a car with 3 friends to go to the Comic Expo in Calgary. Meep! Even though I have to cut out early by a day to come home and work on school stuff (sadly I just won't get it all done in time) I don't care. 2 whole days of geeking out...I. AM. SO. EXCITED. The girls and I have planned this for over 6 months and it is time to run amok amongst the friendly beautiful crazies...ah!
After so much hard work...it will be SO. COOL.

I plan on seeing a great many things, hopefully meeting Colonel Tye, Delenn, and perhaps Summer Glau...giggle at Riker and maybe catch a glimpse of George Romero and Bill Shatner (god I hope they don't let him sing...)J gets to be there with press passes, lucky sod. He won't see me much...but he will get to interview a lot of cool people. I love people watching and a gathering like this screams out for it :)
I hope to pick up an autograph from Elvira mistress of the night for my brother for his birthday (I know I know...he'd pee with joy tho) and maybe find me a nice pair of goggles. If I had time I'd have pulled together a costume, but as it is, I will just go and enjoy. My Tank Girl costume just doesn't work in crowds...:)

daytripping

Last night at about 3 AM I went over my first draft of my damn report that is due monday that I had to give to my supervisor this AM (and will come back early from comic con to finish if I'm not done before I go...). It's not too shabby. Needs some filling out, but it will do I think. My mountains of data (literally 3 inches of printouts of data and graphs...meep) is hard to wade through so I may keep that discussion superficial in the report and keep a bit more info for my talk on the 27th when I've had a few more days to go through it all and build it up logically. Nothing is worse than flinging data wildly at people...
I looked at my watch at 3AM and saw Wed June 15 on it...and I was very confused...thinking tomorrow was thursday...but that the paper was due wednesday...and how did I skip a day...and then I made the link, shook my head and finished my draft to go off to bed. I slept in this morning and had a good, albeit tired, work day. I'm on a constant low sleep this last 8 days, so it's getting easier. I know what to eat and how to keep my body fueled. Oddly, exercise helps, even when exhausted. I skipped the morning workout to sleep, but stopped by a class on the way home on a whim and I feel all the better for it.
Now for a bit of supper and another go at some revision...and bed time of a real human being!
Joy :)

"Hear me baby hold together"...

There is simply not enough time in the universe to do all that I need to do. I am trying my damndest, but I, mere mortal that I am, can only do so much.

I will slog on. It's taking WAY longer than I thought...I have to try and finish summarize this freaking mountain of data tonight so I can write up my report over the next day or two for my committee progress report. Much as I dearly want to I can't just throw a huge pile of printed out data on the table and go "read this if you want to know what I've been up to!". It angers me to have to justify what I've been doing over the last period of time. To have to be able to clearly explain all my data when I'm still figuring it out myself...like I could possibly do any more than I am now...

On the upside, I have tickets and a room for comic con in calgary this weekend with a few girlfriends and I'll be damned if I give that up (like I have so many other social things lately). Even if I only go for a day. I'm going.
Nyeah.

I just have to keep going...3 hours of sleep and a pot of coffee and I'm on a roll for yet another ridiculous day.
Not much else I *can* do but keep going really. The slog will end eventually.

On a side note - if you paid $17.50 for a sunday brunch (it was damn good) would you be annoyed at the coffee being an extra $3? I know I was. It seemed petty...I wasn't sure if it was me being overtired and grumpy or not. It was worth it to see my Dad for an hour or so. Not long enough...but such as it is nowadays.

I must go before I mope all over the floor. I have much labwork to do here today at work and if I keep moving I won't fall asleep.

Later taters. :)

Jiggy

I am Tired.
But it is friday. Thank frog.