It's a hodgepodge kind of day.

Caprica is in the shop. My brand-new fucking car has a leaky power steering rack that needs to be replaced. And something about a faulty O-ring, which makes me glad my car hasn't exploded. What the fuck, Mazda. At least they gave me a rental car. I'm zipping around in a Jetta ( Read more... )

It's the "25 Things" meme that's taken Facebook by storm! I feel that I must share them with you as well because you know me better. Or do you even know me at all?

( 25 Things, or: A Brief History of Polter-Cow )

Yesterday, I was explaining to a co-worker how I ended up in my current position. I reached the part where I walk into my academic advisor's office and tell her that I want to leave the doctoral program, the part I described as "one of those hardest things you ever do in life." And as I told her, I felt the tears beginning to well up as my body was ( Read more... )

So the cool thing about finishing my Master's? Relatives feel the urge to give me lots of money. And thus, I now have a Permanent Account! I figure the speed with which I became addicted was indicative of the putative longevity of my stay, and besides, it's much easier for me to take over the Internet now ( Read more... )

The thesis is done, folks. It now needs to make the rounds and be approved, but the damn thing is out of my hands. Give me my fucking degree, stat ( Read more... )

So, how about that Veronica Mars finale, huh?

What, did you expect something way more brilliant than that? Are you questioning your squeetastic love for the show? Haters got you down? (ETA: As should be evident from my tone in general, I don't mean to condemn the "haters" to hell or imply they hate the show and want Rob Thomas to eat raw squid. I' ( Read more... )

I just e-mailed my endocrine pharmacology final, which I totally bullshitted my way through. I only need to pass, anyway ( Read more... )

In honor of the fact that I'm finally making headway on my thesis, the thesis that will actually get me out of the lab, possibly forever, I present to you a Gilbert and Sullivan filk I wrote a few years ago. I included it with my grad school applications.

( I am the very model of a modern research scientist )