Comments | spectralbovine: Jacksonville, the Most Boring Place on Earth: AMWA Edition

spectralbovine

Jacksonville, the Most Boring Place on Earth: AMWA Edition

Nov 07, 2011 21:45

Oh, is it time for the AM WA Annual Conference again? Oh, do I no longer have time to write epic posts, even with the help of Gerald? Are lists less time-intensive?

alternating between reading The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, working on my play, and preparing for my workshop on the long-ass plane ride from San Francisco to Charlotte
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thetheatremouse November 9 2011, 01:10:05 UTC

Dude, there a lot of desserts that are a bummer but still edible when they're not great, but bad key lime pie...disappointing is exactly the word that comes to mind.

Now I want key lime pie.

spectralbovine November 9 2011, 01:12:43 UTC

It was like half whipped cream and strangely bitter instead of tart.

thetheatremouse November 11 2011, 01:40:29 UTC

What a waste... I bet someone tried to put zest in and added a bunch of pith or something. That shit is bitter.

silveronthetree November 9 2011, 01:11:43 UTC

Your conferences always sound a lot more exciting than the ones I go to. We don't usually have things like plays.

soundingsea November 9 2011, 02:30:12 UTC

Where *do* drug names come from?

Hopefully Sacramento will have a lot more to do than Baptist Everything (and nothing else).

watching white dude after white dude be allowed to go through the metal detector but being randomly chosen to go through the Miscalibrated Radiation Dispensing Machine

I always get randomly chosen too. Blonde, female, mid-30s, busty. I think they just want to look at my pr0no-scan. (I let the gruff female TSA agents grope me instead. This mostly works out okay, except for at JFK, where they have a serious crotch-punching habit.)

spectralbovine November 9 2011, 03:43:10 UTC

Where *do* drug names come from?
I did know that there were all sorts of suffixes and roots for drug classes (more than I knew!), but there are other rules like the fact that the name can't imply that the drug does something (Cancer-Away!) and other caveats. You also have to watch out for names that sound or look like other drugs to avoid medication errors, which can be fatal. There are actually companies whose entire purpose is to come up with drug names to sell to drug companies.

ashfae November 9 2011, 16:02:52 UTC

Ahhh Jax. Chamblin Bookmine is a thing of supreme awesomeness, but other than that, meh. Can't say I miss living there. Except for Chamblin. Oh god I miss Chamblin.

spectralbovine November 9 2011, 16:05:13 UTC

Is that the giant bookstore downtown near the art museum? We heard about it but didn't visit.

ashfae November 9 2011, 16:08:32 UTC

It's a used bookstore that specializes in rare, out-of-print, and non-existent items. It's the biggest and best used bookstore there is. Yes, I've been to both Powell's and the Strand, and they just did not compare. It's huge and wonderful and has everything and I want to live in a corner of it. Can't remember there being an art museum nearby, but I probably wouldn't know! If you ever go back to Jax, GO THERE DO NOT PASS GO JUST DO IT.