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I'm still in China and still locked out of gmail. This would be less worrying if a) I had written down more information about my flight home and b) they didn't keep assuring me it would be up and running in 24hours. I can work the travel out, but I'm not sure how I will handle the terrible customer service upon return. Not everyone in China is ( Read more... )

Yay from China. I'm just going to say this now so no one remains offended by my lack of return emails: GMAIL HAS BOOTED ME OUT!! Yup, my gmail account has been disabled for a week now and their customer service sucks. Let's not even get into how many people I know who had their bank card shut off. I will say all business (except gmail) were alerted ( Read more... )

I don't think anyone else really reads the fine print from your credit card companies and banks, but they have recently enacted a confusing and protectionist piece of finance straight out of a close-the-borders wet dream. Universal Foreign Transaction Fees, which are 3% of the total purchase (minimum of five dollars in fees) that is charged on all ( Read more... )

allium and I are (finally) having a party! (quote from stolen_tea ( Read more... )

How to know when a lazy girl is trying to work.... livejournal posts. What's up with me? I'm working with a co-worker to convert our LC-ICP-MS set up for mercury to prove some the research I've been working on for inorganic speciation. We had a hilarious chemical substitution which ended up working out better than we ever expected. Like when you ( Read more... )

Ahh Seattle, you suck a snow. We got maybe an inch yesterday and this morning everything is covered in a slippery layer of ice that will take out our transportation like an SUV on a train line. I feel like I won 10 cents in the lottery, not enough snow to play with, just enough snow to make life difficult.

Yum, Meat! For those of you who thought that a ecological conference would be jam-packed with hippie vegans, much less vegetarians, ya'll are wrong. Environmental toxicologists like nothing more than a cold beer and some hot wings. I learned things; they're a secret for the moment. I'll tell you later. Or call me ( Read more... )

So it's been forever since I've posted. Probably about six months. Maybe more. Sooo I'm going to give a brief outline ( Read more... )

August has been madness. Good Madness! Thanks to jotbird and wildgreentide for visiting me, it was awesome!! Wonderful to see you. Thanks to tenshima to iniviting me to a crazy beach house trip, fantastic! Thanks to lagringa_girl and issy for planning me a kick-ass birthday! Yay! Sooo busy, I must clean my house, wash everything I own and get my ( Read more... )