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[sean]

Dear blog thread,

*ahem*...

FUCKING EXAMS!

i apologize if i wasted your time.

[Reed]

Dear fellow blogites,

Apparently the guy I commute with forgot about me and left. He's not answering his phone. I had to call my ex to come pick me up. She's west of Hartford, and I'm in Storrs. This means I will have been in lab for about 12 hours today. I'm hungry....and bored. Maybe tomorrow will be better?

Thank you for your time.

[ViolentDove]

Dude eat some agar to tide you over.


(P.S. What are you working on? I work on antibiotic resistance in S. enterica, E. coli, and V. cholerae, and mobile genetic elements 'n stuff)

[Jimmy the Squid]

When my brother and I first moved into our flat we were amazed and intrigued by the electric stove top we had. We'd only ever used gas before then and so we both had a nasty habit of forgetting to turn it off because we always just assumed that if we can't see flames then it is off. One day I left the stove top on and forgot about it, later when I was making a sandwich for work the next day I left the roll of plastic wrap (gladwrap/saran wrap/whatever) on the element. A couple of hours later I was playing video games and noticed a weird burning plastic smell, I looked around the whole flat before checking the kitchen where I found the entire box of the plastic wrap had turned black and was starting to glow at the edges. We threw it out onto the balconey and when we looked at it a few hours later all we had was a grey plastic tube. Plastic wrap is expensive damnit!

[jhocking]

tommy, I just noticed that you drew white cotton around mai's entire silhouette, and not just the edges of the fabric. tsk tsk

[Jimmy the Squid]

In addition to your role as Lecherous Moses, you are also Lecherous Job.

[Inlander]

In addition to your role as Lecherous Moses, you are also Lecherous Job.

I await the near-inevitable lecherous nativity play with a horror approaching fascination.

[jhocking]

I play Joseph! I stand around watching with a shocked expression.

[Inlander]

Your avatar is particularly fitting at this moment.

[KvP]

Yesterday was my last day of employment and now I find myself with nothing to do. I am incredibly bored. And when I'm bored, I go a little bit insane.

[jodizzle]

I love birthdays so much!

[ViolentDove]

Uh... is it your birthday?

Because if it is, then Happy Birthday!

If not then um... happy Wednesday!

[StaedlerMars]

I made a mix today! i watched Part of The Weekend Never Dies and thought "hey dance music long time no see"

Code: [Select]

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=e3782ce7eb56bf6691b20cc0d07ba4d26e1e87e797020fdd

Ah man, soulwax live is the bomb. I had no idea such a movie existed. Must watch it now.

[jodizzle]

Yes it is my birthday! Thanks Nick.

I got a text from jimmy and a phone call from Ali.  I love these forums <3

[Reed]

Dude eat some agar to tide you over.

(science stuff)

Funny you should mention that. Last week one of our undergrads was making some media and he turns to me and says "Have you ever been tempted to eat the agar? Sometimes it looks like it would be tasty and it's hard to resist"

I work on catabolite repression in Sinorhizobium meliloti, specifically mediated by its weird PTS. Lately, my PI has me trying to isolate cellulolytic bacteria from beetle feces (he won't tell us why, but our post doc thinks he wants the lab to get into biofuels).

[Jace]

Sam, I want you to know that there are more than a handful of people here who are past just thinking about liking you.
Also, they aren't pretty much 12.

[Inlander]

I am currently workshopping liking Sam. At first the focus group thought that the idea of a trans-global relationship between two previously heterosexual men, one of whom is twice the age of the other, was a little creepy, however we sent the relationship back for a re-draft and after changing the ending and making a few pertinent but essentially cosmetic adjustments to Sam's character, the studio feels that this project could soon get off the ground.

The bad news, Sam, is that you're now a 25-year-old woman. The good news is that you're still in Texas (the group felt this added some much-needed dramatic tension to the scenario).

[Emaline]

I don't know if Sam would be an attractive woman.




Anyway, Blog Thread, thank you for your kind words about my uh...life situation. It hasn't really gotten better, except now I think my parents feel bad about essentially leaving me homeless, and are being really nice to me. Like many things in my life, I don't know what to do about this.

I don't really feel much anymore, and I guess that is fine and well. Well, it is sort of a lie. I think I've lost the ability to worry about things. I don't know. Except in my sleep! I keep having strange dreams. One involved an elephant, one involved sending dirty text messages to someone I don't like, in one I turned into a tree(!!! This is actually a huge weird fear of mine)and in another I did not exist! I was a figment of my own imagination. It really stressed me out in my dream. I went to my not really apartment, and was quite distraught to discover some guy living there. Then I found myself in my bedroom, laying on the bed, but I was blurry and not quite there. In my dream,  I said "Oh Emaline..tsk tsk." and went to readjust myself out of blurriness, but screwed it up somehow, and instead of coming in sharp and clear, I disappeared. This shocked imagined me, and I worried that I wasn't really, and ran out of the apartment, which was now the center of a swanky party. But soon I disappeared as well.

My dreams have all been mildly upsetting.


But I have been keeping to myself more(which is easy since all my friends have ditched me), and instead of being even more depressing, this is exciting! I have read two books in the past few days, and finished a few art projects, which is something that I have been meaning to do. I need to focus more on my art so I can get better, and go to school, and become a great hermit artist! This is sort of my life plan.

[Fenriswolf]

Gah, I would be somewhat worried about the lack of caring as this is often a symptom of the onset of depression. I wish I had something to say that was useful.

[Gilead]

Tomorrow I go for a big interview at the international film school sydney, then fly off to melbourne for two weeks of hanging with my sister, amazing food and coffee and pretty melbourne girls. It is a good Christmas.

[Inlander]

pretty melbourne girls.

Depends which part of Melbourne you go to . . . Remember the golden rule: north of the river good, south of the river fake tanarrific!

[IronOxide]

Why the hell would you have a fake tan in Australia? I am to understand that that place is bathed in so much sunlight and cheerful atmosphere that a pasty-skinned deviant such as myself would spend a mere five minutes outside before having two layers of my skin burned off.

[Inlander]

Skin cancer rates in Australia are highest [sic] than anywhere else in the world. It is the most common form of cancer in Australia affecting all age groups from adolescents upwards.

[pen]

Maybe so they don't have to bathe in the sun for hours,  or maybe they're fat and don't want to expose their body to the world while sunbathing?  Maybe they work really really long hours and don't come out until night time but must have a tan to show off at parties... hooray skin cancer!

Yesterday, I saw 3 friends I hadn't seen in a really long time. It was really exciting!

[Gilead]

pretty melbourne girls.

Depends which part of Melbourne you go to . . . Remember the golden rule: north of the river good, south of the river fake tanarrific!

I'll be chilling with the hipster crowd mostly, no fake tans for me.

[jhocking]

Annoyingly, my gis for "australian vampire" was highly colored by the fact that there is an Australian naval vessel called a Vampire.

[Slick]

Your oven can go down to 200? That's kind of impressive.

It's just barely above the "low" setting

See, the joke was I said "330K" which is like 60ºC. You usually assume, if no metric is given, that you are using the same units as the person you reply to, hence the claim "That's kind of impressive", which was then the joke because there is no way your oven can hit -70ºC, unless it has a direct-transference portal to antarctica. Which would be kind of impressive, by the way.
I have been drying lots of fruits to take home for christmas.

[Gilead]

Guys I cannot sleep, what is this shit.

[fatty]

maybe they're fat and don't want to expose their body to the world while sunbathing

if only.

[Reed]

See, the joke was I said "330K" which is like 60ºC. You usually assume, if no metric is given, that you are using the same units as the person you reply to, hence the claim "That's kind of impressive", which was then the joke because there is no way your oven can hit -70ºC, unless it has a direct-transference portal to antarctica. Which would be kind of impressive, by the way.
I have been drying lots of fruits to take home for christmas.

Wow....I'm dense....I guess you can see how it's possible for me to leave my oven on for a little over a day

[Slick]

Clearly it was not that good of a joke if everybody missed it, don't worry.

[0bsessions]

Okay so, I feel like this is such a regular part of my life now that I should comment on this for posterity. As some of you may recall, I spent a week or so in hospital after having surgery on my nose and sinuses about a month ago. One of the many side effects is that once every other day, all of the blood clots and gunk which is somehow being produced by my closing wounds escapes in one completely hideous mass. Tonight the gooey, blood-soaked mass was literally two inches long of hardened mucus and scabs. They tend to discharge randomly during sneezes or when I blow my nose but tonight it caught in my nostril at about the half-way mark and I had to literally pull the rest of it from my nostril one agonising millimeter at a time. The top of your nostrils is quite small and it feels rather like giving birth to a little unwanted scab baby. It's certainly the most disgusting thing I've ever had to do on a daily basis and even worse is the fact that obviously I have to try to keep this action as discreet as possible, despite the fact that it often happens in public.

I hope you saved it for next year's Secret Santa.

[Stryc9Fuego]

Firstly, I just want to see that I would totally see a group called Lecherous Job. A group that Bad Things happen to all the time, but they get plenty of play, so it all evens out for them.

"Aww man, our drummer is in rehab again, but check out that blonde eyein' you, dude! ~HOTTT!~"
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Now on to more serious issues. I'm joining the ranks of people with cat troubles... though in comparison, mine aren't that bad. My wife and I got Harley shortly before we were married 11 years ago, and lately he hadn't been eating. At all. This had obviously been making him very tired and lethargic. In addition, he would vomit up whatever he would try to drink. Needless to say, we took him to the vet. It turns out he is having a problem with his thyroid and they gave us some pills to give to him (Have any of you cat owners ever had to give a pill to a cat? Not fun!). In addition, they gave us a kind of "food syringe" so we can mix wet cat food with water and force-feed him. He had lost 3 pounds in 2 days. Not bad for a person, but a cat going from 15 pounds to 12 pounds, it's a bit alarming.

It's been a couple of messy, messy days, but Harley is starting to eat on his own again, so we think he's through the worst of it. He's also a lot stronger and more alert. I would have posted this earlier, but I thought you guys would appreciate one of these posts having happy ending.

[McTaggart]

Dammit Sam now I want to go clubbing again but I'm working all weekend and today was wednesday.

[pwhodges]

Clearly it was not that good of a joke if everybody missed it, don't worry.

Aww!  I enjoyed it, though.

[Edith]

You are actually awesome at math, since math itself is super-lame.

[celticgeek]

Hey!

[celticgeek]

Probably so, but I just couldn't let it pass, since "we all use math every day". 

[Metope]

Congrats Jens, I'm sure you did just fine.

Bogl Trehad,

We've had a lot of snow over the past few weeks, but yesterday it started to rain and the snow is now melting really fast. It continued today, and it is supposed to continue until Christmas at least. WHY NOW?! Will I ever see a white Christmas again? This is exactly what happened last year and the year before that, and I'm sick of it.

Kris

[ViolentDove]

Bloggy McThread,

Today I am getting my first ever radio piece as a sciencey-journalist played on the radio. I'm pretty happy about this, even if it is only community radio. It's a story about how scientists need to re-assess the language they use when communicating with the media and general public, and is based on coverage of a few speakers at a recent climate change symposium.

[abadname]

Funny you should mention that. Last week one of our undergrads was making some media and he turns to me and says "Have you ever been tempted to eat the agar? Sometimes it looks like it would be tasty and it's hard to resist"

Agar as in the gelling agent from seaweed that i have about a pound of?  I fuck with my friends drinks all the time, put their OJ in the microwave with the agar stirred in then when they come back from the bathroom it is about halways to being completely hard.

But it's pretty useful stuff.

Also Dear Blog thread,
I asked my (now ex) Humanities teacher on a date, she is 23.  She said yes, this is a pretty good day for me.

Fixed a word because it was probably wrong.

[ViolentDove]

Yeah, that agar. Agar is routinely used in microbiology as a medium for bacteria/fungi/whatever to grow on. You mix it with the appropriate nutrient source and let it set in a petri dish... some of it smells pretty tasty, like the potato-dextrose agar I used to use in the fungi lab.

Also what? How does someone get to be a professor at 23?

[abadname]

Maybe professor was the wrong word, but she was the person who was teaching me about art and stuff.  I ended up talking to her about music mostly..  And I just sat there and thought how cool she was.

[Lines]

It's possible to be a professor at 23, if they were kind of young when they started college/finished in a short amount of time and went straight to grad school.

Dear blog thread,

Today we made about twice as much money at work than we usually do. It was kind of weird just how much money was in the drawer when I closed this evening.

I'm debating about which is better: buying a car or getting an apartment.

Also, I hate it when people take the news literally for the weather, especially when they don't leave the house. The 3 major networks kept insisting that there was a winter weather advisory when there was NO SNOW ANYWHERE IN THE AREA. It snowed for about 2 hours, but then it stopped and the roads were fine. Two weeks ago, people were fish tailing all over the place because some roads hadn't been plowed and they said nothing about that. We have winter ever year around here and yet people still freak out. Holy crap, people.

[Ladybug]

We've had a lot of snow over the past few weeks, but yesterday it started to rain and the snow is now melting really fast. It continued today, and it is supposed to continue until Christmas at least. WHY NOW?! Will I ever see a white Christmas again?

This! It's been really really cold and wintery here for a couple of weeks now, and now all of a sudden there's a little bit of ice left and some snow where no one ever walks, and that's it. It's making me sad, and I just hope there'll at least be some snow at home (there seems to be some left in the photos that have been circulating online newspapers lately due to the murder that happened), but that'll probably also disappear before I get home.

Also, blog thread, in 54 hours I will be on my way home for Christmas! I have 1 exam left, and while 2 out of the 5 I have had have went straight to hell, and the one on Friday most likely will as well, the other three have gone better than expected (I think, no grades yet), so I'm not sure what to think. Failing things sucks, but I guess maybe failing some things and having to retake them and doing better on other things is better than getting Ds or Es in all the classes? Maybe? I hope so. Anyways, this goddamn hell is almost over. I can't wait, and I don't care that it means 10,5 hours on a train in the middle of the day.

[Eris]

Hey blog thread!

I am sick! somehow I got a cold and yesterday consisted of me sitting around half asleep and blowing my nose basically all day in an attempt to breathe. Today, however, I am feeling much better, as I have delicious cold pills that let me get a good night's sleep (albeit filled with strange dreams), and now I am able to breathe fairly well. I am starting to lose my voice, but I might be well enough to not be a party pooper when I go to a farewell dinner on Friday. The pills are making me a little fuzzy, but last time I took pseudoephedrine it was much worse, and I doubt i'll be going anywhere today, other than maybe the supermarket, so I'm sure I'll be ok. Thanks for listening, blog thread, you're such a good listener.

[RedLion]

My girlfriend and I keep making plans to go to Chicago for christmas shopping, and we keep getting foiled by the weather. We were originally going to go on Thursday, but then snow was forecasted for Thursday. So we decided to go Friday instead..and the snow was switched from Thursday to Friday. So, we just switched back to going on Thursday. THEN, of course, it became clear that it was going to snow on both Thursday AND Friday.

So, shit. (I don't want to drive to and in Chicago in the snow.) Maybe we can go on Wednesday...

edit: hahaaaah, I mean Saturday! Because today, actually yesterday now, was Wednesday. ass.

[Alex C]

An NFL player has had his name legally changed to Stylez G. White, a Teen Wolf reference. I am absolutely delighted. This takes us one step closer to my dream of Dwight Howard or some other NBA player just saying "Fuck, it, I'm changing my name to Sho'nuff." I included this on the blog thread because sadly enough, this is the highlight of my day.

[Reed]

Now someone on another team needs to change their name to "Tacky Q. Black"

...the battle would be epic

[Alex C]

I'd feel pretty bad for Tacky in that case. Stylez G. White is not a small man.