Zoo-ropa and Mad Fax

[jenarael]

My PI bought me a printer because I rather needed a new one in my office, and it's a haul to the next building over to print stuff in my lab. Unfortunately, I think (despite switching from Mac to PC repeatedly in the course of a day, writing my own statistical analysis programs for my research, and even programming a DVD player) that I have fallen

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[gameshowfreak]

You don't want to wear your glasses? But...glasses are hot!

[wanderingoutlaw]

I hate wearing mine. They are more durable than I am(titanium is gooooood).

[jenarael]

Ah, but Andrew, you look good in yours!

[jenarael]

For a while I thought you would look awesome in black-rimmed emo glasses. But then I realized that it would be too cliche and mainstream for you to ever consider.

I miss you guys. I mean, I celebrated my birthday with my mom and sibs because I wasn't feeling up to throwing a party. What are you doing next weekend? We might drive down for a day or two to hang out... and Matt has seen every episode of the Simpsons. It kind of freaks me out sometimes.

That said, I need to get caught up on LJ reading. You've updated some! (Though all of us have gotten busy with PhD things, it seems..)

[arachnophilia]

i've become the techie, apparently, at one of my jobs that supposedly involves getting paid for photos. mostly, i just fix computers now, it seems.

one of our hp printers broke the other day (as in, a piece of it physically broke off) and i'd just had so much frustration with the damned thing messing up so often that i told them to just buy a new one.

not only did they come back with another hp, but with one of those all-in-one desktop abominations. the kind that's a little box with printer and scanner and a bunch of other shit we don't need, and does do any of those functions very well. and breaks frequently. not the gigantic mind-reading, coffee-making, satellite-launching kind. we'll see how long it lasts...

[jenarael]

You must miss the photography aspect, Jeff. I'm so sorry. :(

And yes: "shit we don't need" is the overall feeling I got. I really just wanted a printer. If I needed a personal assistant, I'd hire one that doesn't have an electrical cord coming out of its back.

When does Phyllis move??? When will you come visiiiiit meeeee?

Then I can show you the actual microscope hookup for our new camera.

[arachnophilia]

phyllis has already moved. not too sure when a visit would be possible. the only day i've had off from my three jobs in a few weeks was today, and that was because i was sick.

[brennakimi]

i moved last monday. i think. we're tight here for now, but we're gonna be getting a new place soon and we'll have a cocktail party you can crash.

[68024]

[jenarael]

Oh my gosh, Martijn! Your glasses look almost exactly like my glasses!!! Seriously.

I may have to swipe that picture for an icon, since I never take good photos with my glasses on.

[68024]

Hahah, that's great.

Of course you realize, this is my way of saying, glasses look good on you! Take that from someone who's had them for over 20 years ;)

[embryomystic]

My goodness, you're less than a year older than me? You certainly are accomplished.

[jenarael]

You are porbably far more accomplished than I in many ways:

At 24, I still cannot snap my fingers (though I whistle well!)
I am too short to reach the top shelves of all grocery stores.
I get drunk after two beers.
I've never been to Africa?

And my goodness; your hair has gotten long. How in the world have you been?

[embryomystic]

Well, I can snap my fingers, but I can't whistle particularly well, and only with inward breaths.

I get drunk after two beers sometimes myself. Two nights in a row, week before last, I went out for dinner all by myself, and got drunk on two beers. theempathogen sort of witnessed it, over the phone, the second time.

I've never been outside of North America. :/

You know, it's funny you should say that, because my hair is actually pretty short now. It was quite long before I cut it, though, yes. :D

How in the world have you been?

Up, and down, and all over the place. Living in unfamiliar places where I don't know anyone. Speaking French to Francophones and shocking the hell out of them (very few people speak French out here in British Columbia). I'm now preparing to move back east, and finally live in Montréal, as I've been meaning to do for years.

[chichibabin]

fascinating finding a southern hemisphere insect in GA. But if it escaped from CA, how did it get to GA? or do you think that this wasp is now all over the US, and your lab just happened to be the one to find it?

[jenarael]

For all I know, it escaped from our lab before I even worked there. Last week I found a single specimen about fifty miles south of where I currently live, and my PI has seen it in the Southeast (in other places) as well. So it may have integrated into many niches in North America. But, since it only develops inside the pupae of flies we consider pests, it's actually in many ways a nice addition.