I could post about how job-hunting is terrifying, and so is trying to make sure I have/will have done everything needed to graduate by the appropriate deadlines, or about how I have forty students in my class and the next largest section only has 30, but instead I'm going to pretend like life is all frivolity and happy butterflies and ask for ( Read more... )

• The refreshments at the math department holiday party included bear meat. It mostly tastes like roast beef.
  
• I have finished my schoolwork for the semester, to one extent or another, and now can think about other things. Such as actually making the various family Christmas presents that I had brilliant ideas for months ago, and now realize I need ( Read more... )

Rather than subjecting you all to an incredibly long rant about the algebra review class, I'm going to post some character questions before doing homework. That's not to say the rant won't happen eventually. Just not tonight*, if I'm ever to get the homework done.

The characters:Serge Aliri-Keran - totally not a shaman. Nope, he's not talking ( Read more... )

An (admittedly not exhaustive) reread of various of Tamora Pierce's books not having come up with anyone in "contemporary" Tortall that I have both a vague physical resemblance to and any particular interest in dressing up as, my current plan is to come up with a Beka costume, and to see if I can reinvent* my Sandry costume from Hallowe'en . . . ( Read more... )

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Hey, look, robots!

As I am drowning in midterms (again. There are only two-ish weeks left in the semester, by the way, which is a terrifying thought), I may have misrepresented the likelihood of an actual ConBust post containing actual content. But there are pictures here.

Does anyone know what that fabric that's different colors from different angles is called, and do they make it in things other than just solid colors?

I read Blindsight. And yes, it was hard sf with vampires, as advertised. I'm just . . . a little unsure why there were vampires. Did some Laurea-analogue rogue geneticist just decide "Hey, you know what I could do? I could clone some VAMPIRES!" and then do it, and then people realized they were useful and things escalated from there ( Read more... )

So, Victoria basically tells Jamie to shut up when he suggests that she wear a mini-skirt. Of course, this is the episode after she wears . . . well, let's just say it's not a Victorian dress. And she's wearing knee-breeches during the conversation in question ( Read more... )

While Scotch tape does work as masking tape, it's a nuisance to get off (although I like the lack of weird glue residue that you'd get from real masking tape--clearly most of my masking tape experiences involved leaving it on far longer than you're supposed to). I am, of course, pulling this stunt because I haven't got any real masking tape ( Read more... )