Before traveling ( Read more... )

Why is it frigid in lab?

I wasn't too keen on meeting the Cambridge exchange students last year, even after Teejana and Ashley got immediately and completely sucked into their lives.  They were only there for the year, so didn't seem like much of a point to me.  I'd met Dev at Teej's birthday party--and she's got this incredible social grace that made so much of an ( Read more... )

Some guy in my sf class came to me after class today--I've never talked to him before--and told me he was terrified of getting his story critiqued and would I look at it for him and help him figure out causal chain and character goal and stuff?  I thought that was pretty cool.  It's pretty good writing, too ( Read more... )

Meghana's entire family was in Boston today, and Meghana's mother made this Indian food for their family, family friends, Meghana's friends, Meghan's sister's friends.... all in our apartment.   We hung lights around the living room and everything; it was adorable.  I learned to cook poori.  A bit like having Thanksgiving with someone else's family ( Read more... )

I just got this message:  "You have been logged on for 9 hours and 45 minutes and will be logged off automatically in 15 minutes.  Save your work ( Read more... )

must have human contact 

I've made friends with them.  The MethA cells, that is.  They're really nice.  They call me The Great Provider of MethA Media, and they watch me work under the fume hood from their little glass encasement.

I've started to name them.  Todd and Abigail and Donald and Sanrita and Jacob and Emily and Madison and Michael and Emma and Joshua and Andrew ( Read more... )

Alone.  By my self.  In the subbasement.  For 8 hours, 5 of them continuous..

And I'm bored.

And alone.

And going insane. 

Yesterday I found that the front windshield of my car had been smashed with one of those glass beer bottles.  The window did that shatter-but-still-intact thing, and whoever did it left a huge handful of pennies and nickels on the car, on top of the broken beer glass (??)  Liberty Mutual will cover the damage, but I'm wondering if I need to find a ( Read more... )