"If one's previous diversions have been extreme, be prepared to make a public apology" -IChing

kurukami, I've been lazy. Sorry. Several of you, check your inboxes, I sent you the most recent viral marketing clip since you've been having trouble d/l them. Oh, and saw on whedonesque that the dude who died in the first one is Joss as well.

I would really like my head and my back to stop conspiring. I fear I'm getting sick the way I've been feeling w/ this gorram sinus drip that is followed by a headache that gets progressively severe post-6pm. Caused me to not do laundry again last night (which means my laundry situation is reaching critical mass). And the experiment that I've done this past week causes me to do some arm movements that seriously pisses off my back. I mean, really badly. It's impossible to work out on days I do it if I want to refrain from crying while I'm holding the tubes at the specific angle. And then it causes the muscle to be so sore and annoyed that I'm worried about doing anything to cause it to spasm. Last night it was particularly bad as it decided to play w/ my headache and have the ache begin to creep from under my shoulder blade up my traps to where it inserts on my head...in time with my headache. Using my massage stick helped somewhat but I finally broke down and took an asprin. It's still tight and twingey this morning, but much much better. Still not going to do a work out cause I don't want to set it off again. Maybe tonite.

neroli66, where are you??? You didn't inform us that your week of vacation meant you'd be awol:P:P:P Hope the packing and move is going well. I'm assuming you packed the computer first to ensure you could do the rest w/out distraction.

Also, thanks to everyone for the CD playing help. poisontaster is forever greatful!

10 years meme -- tagged by poisontaster

I rarely rarely join in on these, but what the hey...

1. Ten years ago: 1995...I was starting my first (junior year of HS) year at the Oklahoma School of Science and Math, reveling in being away from home, even more reveling being away from my podunk high school, detesting my vanilla obsessed born-again christian roomate, and feeling generally lost in Precalculus III (our pretentious name for Trig). Wow, scary to think that next year will be my 10 year HS reunion.

2. Five years ago: *cries* I had been living in Philadelphia for a month, was waiting for graduate school to start in one more week, and generally feeling homesick for the first time in my life because I was lonely as hell and lost in the "big" city of philadelphia. Oh, and had still yet to figure out my corn allergy so I vacilated between depressed, sleepy, hungry, and bitchy as moods.

3. One year ago: Had thought that I'd hit the absolute bottom of depression, but didn't know what the winter was to hold. Had finally adjusted to platonic relationship w/ B .... and was adjusting to getting used to sharing a lab bay with him. Yep, one year ago was his transition to hell lab with me.

4. Yesterday: Went to work reallllly early for me to make a meeting w/ the boss and medical fellow Sonicated my cells resulting in the expected back ache, but I didn't screw up the experiment this time. Observed to myself on the way home from work, that grad school isn't quite so bad when you have a boss to actually "consult" on your project with. Oh, and wrote more meta-crack.

5. Today: Woke up at my normal time and lazed around as I enjoyed the absence of pain...especially since this is boss's clinic day, so I don't have to feel as guilty about going in late.

6. Tomorrow: I'll steal from poisontaster -> Is another day.

7. Five snacks I enjoy: Turkey Hill Philadelphia Style ice cream, trader joe's hazlenut chocolate bars, trader joe's truffles, the Wow smoothies that Trader Joe's used to carry, and I still miss my hot chocolate addiction.

8. Five bands (or artists) I know the lyrics of most of their songs: Yeah, here is where I confess that I can't memorize lyrics of songs.

9. Five things I would do with $100,000,000: *goggles* Maybe I should reconsider about playing the lottery. 1 Pay my parents back for all they've done for me. 2 buy a kick ass house and ensure that it had at least one room with separate ventilation system so B could have his dog indoors. *grin* 3 Never ever work at anything other than writing ever again. 4 buy a TV station to create a channel dedicated to quality TV (ie anything by the farscape writers, Joss, Tim, Jane epson, with the occasional good comedy so the viewers don't all kill themselves. 5 Travel.

10. Five locations I'd like to run away to: Austalia. California. Alaska. New Zealand. Greece.

11. Five bad habits: Procrastinating. Popping my knuckles. Procrastinating. Chewing my lips. Procrastinating.

12. Five things I like doing: Reading, writing, watching TV/movies, hanging out with friends, listening to music.

13. Five TV shows I like: Firefly, BSG, Farscape, Rescue Me, Supernatural.

14. Famous People I'd like to meet, living or dead: Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, Alan Tudyk, yeah...that's about it. I think meeting anyone else famous would crush my impressions of them and negatively affect how I view their work possibly. And no sense in tempting me to become a stalker.

15. Biggest joys at the moment: Making progress on my thesis. The reception Twin Regrets is getting, even if i can't write fast enough. The last gasps of the East coast's summer. Finding new foods I can eat.

17. Five people to tag: cassiee, luridmuse, almound, e_tsarran, _eb

is cranky

Okay...so how come all the recent interviews with Joss are spoiler laden???? *whines*

i realize now i should have been dumping them into memories so I could read them after the movie comes out. Oh well.

OOOOOOWWWWW!!!!

Okay, today is a day I shouldn't have got out of bed. Or at least shouldn't have left my apartment.

I've already almost cut my hand open, slammed my finger in a drawer twice, and spilled toxic chemicals on myself (though granted, I was helping someone w/ something and they didn't think to tell me that there were chemicals in the tube til it splashed). At least I managed to operate the autoclave without melting myself.

I'm sure I'll hit my knee on the desk soon..hasn't happened in a couple of weeks and the last bruise just healed.

Though I didn't slice open my leg when I shaved this morning, so I guess the gremlins are only in this building.

"Follow the example of the wild goose, and invite friends to share in your good fortune.

Confidence is built slowly" -I Ching.

Hmm...Really starting to be annoyed at the letter number limit in the subject lines. Oh well.

Just got home...which isn't as bad as it sounds since I didn't arrive at work till 11:30. So now to pop a turkey loaf into the oven and start my laundry! It must be done.

psst I don't have a headache!

in other news, ( very very gross stuff about a disgusting person )

In other news about B, the electrician that had been working on his bathroom for the past two days came by because he felt B should know that he didn't eradicate all the black mold behind the walls. Merely sealed it off (since it's probably impossible to eradicate since it's probably throughout the highrise with as little attention as the school maintenance pays to fixing leaks). Said that he shouldn't say he'd heard it from [the electrician]. Sadly, B doesn't like my idea of taking lots of pictures and suing the school after he gets his Ph.D.

So the moral of the story, boys and girls, if you know anyone that you care about that decides to attend the U. of Pennsylvania for any reason, do not allow them to live in campus housing at all. Even if they are undergrads. Oh, and girls, run screaming from any 6'2'' skeletal man with receding black [or brown, in case i'm wrong:P] hair that answers to the name Monty. Especially if he tells you of his dream to be president and how he'll use every thing he learned from SG1 to run our country.

keeping myself awake

Laundry is half way done.

I hate yahell. Technology shouldn't be this hard, seriously. I can't get the stupid Launchcast player to actually "display" the ratings options or the song titles etc despite an hour of fiddling with my firewall and internet settings.

And I have to stop since I'm tired enough that any more frustration will cause me to throw stuff.

Grr..ETA...okay, and changed stuff in WMP. Grrr...I'm not reinstalling shit for this. Ridiculous. Fortunately it's playing all good stuff. Would just be nice to see what the frig the songs are that I don't recognize. Especially since it seems much better than Window media player's free radio stuff.

ETA Success....and it only took me all night. Their faq for configuring Norton Firewall is woefully inaccurate. Auugh.

And I have dishes to do and last week's laundry to fold.

Ahh, now for the dryer roulette---will I pick the one that actually functions?? *gasp* Will it be the same combo as last week? Stay tuned!