Someone needs to burn my recent musical mindvirus out of me with fuming acids - I can't seem to stop listening to The Pretty Reckless. Damn you, Little J!

However, you can preserve my newfound fanaticism for The Vampire Diaries. Especially Nina Dobrev, Kat Graham, and Candice Accola ( Read more... )

The release of Mac OS 10.7 reminded me I never quite bothered with upgrading to 10.6. And that's why we have the Apple Store with an upgrade CD. I won't be upgrading to Lion until I know that all of the software I use or plan on using is supported for Lion. Should be running Snow Leopard by the end of the month ( Read more... )

So, I am actually making writerly progress on both manuscripts I want to publish with the graduate school advisor. The weekend was not a total bust! (Need to also gear back up for actual work this week, but no worries there, as I picked at that here and there. I did also get a fair amount of cleaning and organization and laundry done, so there's ( Read more... )

I would complain about research, but there's nothing to do but to keep at it. Progress is being made, slow and agonizing it may be ( Read more... )

Note to self: when people don't seem to get it even after you lay it out in reasonably clear and detailed prose, it is not that you suck at explaining. The more likely reason is that they suck at learning and can't be bothered to think it through themselves.

That will be all.

There is enough cuteness behind the cut to make up for the fact her dad is Phil Collins and she's starring in a movie with that werewolf guy from those awful movies.

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Apparently humanity finds itself incapable of waiting for the return of its true King. As such, a false pretender has arisen.

( Weep in horror! )

1.) Really, one of these days I am just going to work with proteins I can buy in gigantic quantities for cheap from commercial suppliers. But not any time soon. Alas.

2.) Hope Solo - future consort of the royal House of Telcontar! :)

3.) Bought A Dance With Dragons the other day (along with Biopunk, a non-fiction book on DIY-bio). Given that ( Read more... )

So, in no particular order ( Read more... )

( oh frak )