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Ugh, I'm so tired I almost can't see straight. X___x Have arrived safely in Salt Lake City, many hours ago after 12 hours of travel. (There are no airports within a decent distance, and I had a connection. Blah.) Me and my fellow chemists from F&M (we're at the American Chemical Society conference, if I didn't make that clear) went out to dinner and then went over to the evening poster session, mostly for the free beer. So I am now a little drunk on TOP of being so tired I might fall over. A happy consequence of the time difference is that it's only 10 PM so I'll get a good night's sleep, so I can face a very long day tomorrow.
The in-flight movie was TWILIGHT. I didn't bother to listen, but it's such a horrid LOOKING film, all washed out and blue, and the bits that I glimpsed were so ludicrous! One second they're practically flying up a tree trunk, and the next they're sitting at a piano together. ?! Later they're playing baseball and looking utterly ludicrous in their uniforms. I LOL'D. The most hilarious part though was the fact that the old man sitting next to me got out a headset and WATCHED THE WHOLE THING. I don't know how he managed it! I was boggling.
Instead I chose much better entertainment for myself. I read half of The Umbrella Academy (the first volume) because I've owned it for a while but never got around to reading it. After successfully making it through Watchmen the novel though I felt like I was primed for more comic goodness and I'm really enjoying it. I also watched half of Rachel Getting Married, which is a very difficult film to watch (hence only getting through half - I'm sure I'll get to the rest later), the Doctor Who episode The Idiot's Lantern, and the BSG episode Maelstrom. KARA ;_; That scene between Kara and Lee in the hangar deck is simultaneously my favorite and SO painful. The way he looks at her, with such open love and trust and confidence... it's beautiful, but it's totally the wrong thing to do at that moment in time. SIGH PILOTS WHY MUST YOU RIP MY HEART OUT.
Also, Leoben/Kara paint!sex is HOT.
Ok I'm just rambling. I'm bored on the internets recently because my choice of fandom has severely limited my sources of amusement. I don't even have the source (Watchmen the movie, obvs) at hand so I can't rewatch obsessively like I want to! There's only so many times I can watch the Rockstar trailer or Matthew Goode's Screen Test interview (though, HEARTS FOREVER). And the fic is extremely limited, particularly because it's not a pairing I fangirl so much as a character. CLEARLY MY LIFE IS HARD.
Oh the one nice thing from the poster session was that I met a lovely woman from UMich who's doing some post doc research on how to improve the graduate experience so as to encourage women to stick with science longer. It was really interesting, a lot of the stuff I've been thinking about recently, and she was very nice. I look forward to seeing her again when I go to UM!
Okay sleepy times. <3
The in-flight movie was TWILIGHT. I didn't bother to listen, but it's such a horrid LOOKING film, all washed out and blue, and the bits that I glimpsed were so ludicrous! One second they're practically flying up a tree trunk, and the next they're sitting at a piano together. ?! Later they're playing baseball and looking utterly ludicrous in their uniforms. I LOL'D. The most hilarious part though was the fact that the old man sitting next to me got out a headset and WATCHED THE WHOLE THING. I don't know how he managed it! I was boggling.
Instead I chose much better entertainment for myself. I read half of The Umbrella Academy (the first volume) because I've owned it for a while but never got around to reading it. After successfully making it through Watchmen the novel though I felt like I was primed for more comic goodness and I'm really enjoying it. I also watched half of Rachel Getting Married, which is a very difficult film to watch (hence only getting through half - I'm sure I'll get to the rest later), the Doctor Who episode The Idiot's Lantern, and the BSG episode Maelstrom. KARA ;_; That scene between Kara and Lee in the hangar deck is simultaneously my favorite and SO painful. The way he looks at her, with such open love and trust and confidence... it's beautiful, but it's totally the wrong thing to do at that moment in time. SIGH PILOTS WHY MUST YOU RIP MY HEART OUT.
Also, Leoben/Kara paint!sex is HOT.
Ok I'm just rambling. I'm bored on the internets recently because my choice of fandom has severely limited my sources of amusement. I don't even have the source (Watchmen the movie, obvs) at hand so I can't rewatch obsessively like I want to! There's only so many times I can watch the Rockstar trailer or Matthew Goode's Screen Test interview (though, HEARTS FOREVER). And the fic is extremely limited, particularly because it's not a pairing I fangirl so much as a character. CLEARLY MY LIFE IS HARD.
Oh the one nice thing from the poster session was that I met a lovely woman from UMich who's doing some post doc research on how to improve the graduate experience so as to encourage women to stick with science longer. It was really interesting, a lot of the stuff I've been thinking about recently, and she was very nice. I look forward to seeing her again when I go to UM!
Okay sleepy times. <3