Bowling with the chem department was fun. I lost. Repeatedly (Also, I lost the game!). People kept laughing at my "Fall down because the shoes are slippery and the momentum needs to go somewhere" approach to bowling. :p

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Apparently William Hartnell died exactly 10 years before I was born. Other people who died on my negative birthday include William Wordsworth, Shakespeare (knew about that one :p), Brian Boru and Saint George. :p

And a music meme (because I love those :p) from lusciouspandora
( Wherein we ask my media player questions. Yes, MY media player. :p )

So, I apparently accidentally sent Ryan's grandmother the blank cardstock used to mark off the bundles in the package instead of a wedding invitation. Oops?

At least she figured out what the envelope was SUPPOSED to be. :p Go me. :p

Wouldn't have happened if Ianto were helping!

I thought that episode was going to be rubbish, but it wasn't! Hurrah!

( Doctor Who spoilers as usual )

Terribly productive day. They moved my staff health appointment up a day and it took far longer than it needed to. And the report is in such an accusatory tone! It's all "admits to working with benzene" and "denies any exposure to mercury". You'd think it was a criminal investigation or something. It also took a while because they offered to do a hearing test. Apparently I have perfect hearing... as long as I'm in a soundproof room listening to beeps on headphones. :p

Changed pump oil. It was disgusting brown sludge. Then there were talks all bloody afternoon. :p

I was planning to go to the reception for the schmancy lecturer, but Ryan had already bought movie tickets, so that didn't happen. But, Iron Man!

Okay, movie theatres? LESS COMMERCIALS MORE PREVIEWS! There's a difference! Two yeses and two passes in the previews. Indiana Jones and The Dark Knight= umm, YES. Guru something and some Adam Sandler movie= I'm pretty sure we just saw every decent scene of the movie there.

( Iron Man spoilers )

Apparently I don't have the original of Iron Man. Just cracktastic Europop covers. :p

Weather is WEIRD. It was nice out, so I decided to walk home as usual. I made it across campus and it started to rain. Since I was at the stop for the 9, I decided to hop in the shelter and take the bus. I make it home... and the rain stops. It apparently rained only the length of the bus ride? WEIRD. :p

So, umm, wow.

( Spoilers for The Poison Sky )

So last night I had a really weird dream. For some reason Han, Leia and Jaina were in the last two parts of The Ribos Operation instead of Four and Romana. They got along a lot better, obviously, but conmen, catacombs, Binro the heretic? All there. Except for some reason Binro didn't die. Possibly because I liked him dangit. Though if that was the case, you'd think Anakin would have been there and alive. :P I can't help noticing Jacen was Sir Not Appearing in This Dream. Best thing he ever did. :p

Seriously though, wtf. Is it because all my icons of Dream are mean? :p

There were MYTHBUSTERS! On CSI! THAT WAS SO AWESOME! Best cameo EVER. :p The episode was on crack, incidently. :p

I also remembered to actually watch Grey's. :p

( Grey's Spoilers )

There was a paper in... one of the chemistry journals today, and the title started with "The Bip Method". Cue me very happy I was alone in the office, because THAT would have been an adventure to explain why it's so darn funny. :p

Ryan and I watched the first serial of the Key to Time saga today. I totally heart Romana. And the way the DOctor is all "I don't want you along, whippersnapper" and Romana is all "You have ISSUES and I intend to sit here and DIAGNOSE them." :p Also that Fred is preferable to Romana. :p

And the Doctor has a DOG WHISTLE for K-9! How cute is that?

Is it bad that when Four said "By the Rod of Rassilon!" my immediate thought was "Is that what they called Tiemcock back then?" :p

Got a 93 on my essay (WOW Dr Usselman marks fast :p). It pays to be a scientist who knows how to structure a proper paragraph. :p I totally have my parents to thank for always emphasizing that scientists REALLY need to know how to write clearly. :p

People have started to get their invitations, it makes me happy. :D

Is this really all I have to say? Wow, my life is dull. :p Oh, we had a party yesterday to celebrate Yun's thesis defense, that was fun. Though of course we wound up talking chemistry, much to the confusion of the assorted significant others. :p

We took some glassware to be repaired today. Glassblowing is SO COOL! It's really amazing what they can do. We arrived in the middle of a lesson, which the student declared to be "art day", and it was so neat!

My traditional non-sequential Doctor Who flails!

( Spoilers for The Sontaran Strategem )

The air conditioning in the building right now is really excessive. I brought a coat today... to wear in my office. Outside was nice and warm, but my office was bloody FREEZING.

Exam tomorrow. Hopefully it looks a lot like the midterm did. More importantly, hopefully it looks nothing at all like assignment 10, because that thing was made of EVIL.

TERRIBLY exciting birthday. :p Had to catch an early bus so I could go to my friend's PhD defense. Then I spent the morning adding the citation into my essay. (One of these days I'll learn to cite as I go :p), and fighting with stupid Word 2007 about adding page numbers. It wasn't broken, why did they decide FIX it? IN the afternoon I tried to distill some chemicals, but apparenlty didn't stopper my apparatus properly, so that didn't work. Also, studying, since I have a final on Friday morning. And group meeting, which no one thought to tell me about, oops. :p They also didn't know it was my birthday and were sad we'd missed an excuse to go out for lunch. :p (Of course, to them I'm still twelve :p)

Things were a bit more exciting when I got home. :p Ryan gave me a fedora (possibly because I always steal HIS :p) and the two Phoenix Wright games that I didn't already own. (So now Vicki can has her copy of the first one back) We went to East Side Mario's for supper. MAN restaurant portions are filling. :p I only managed a teeny bit of the cake Ryan made (yummy!)

My family called while we were out and sang Happy Birthday very off key on our answering machine. So I got to talk to them. :p

H. C. Brown may have been a Nobel Laureate, but he was also a STUBBORN MOFO. :p

Sometimes, the students blow my mind. I had to proctor the blasted intro chem midterm this morning (EW). It's a 9 AM exam. And yet... some of the girls were in cute little Friday night dresses. They were DRESSED UP. For a 9 AM exam! Honestly, DRESSED for a 9 AM exam is an accomplishment. Definitely nothing about the "studying clothes". :p

We also kinda sorta maybe forgot to tell them to turn off their cellphones when they put their bags at the front of the room. Apparently none of them have any common sense, because the blasted things were ringing the ENTIRE TIME. I was so close to actually ANSWERING one. :p

The new student in our lab got here today. We're still working on pronouncing his name. He admits that it's a tricky name for anglophones. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon, because I fell bad about not being able to pronounce his name.

EVIL INVITATIONS OF DOOM ARE MAILED! FINALLY! NEVER AGAIN! NEVER NEVER NEVER!

This paper starts out so logical and sequential and then it hits the point of "Ooh! I should have a paragraph about this!". Downside to longhand drafts. But it's all typed up now, so I can edit it tomorrow morning. Yun's defense is in the afternoon, so I'd like to have it mostly done by then, since the paper is due on Wednesday. Exam on Friday for my other class. Then just research!

Uh, Karen Traviss?

( Minor Revelation spoilers )

Whee, putting address labels on envelopes. This seems DISTINCTLY like something for the con where I'd help by not touching anything. :p Some are a bit crooked because static decided they were going on THERE. :p I don't suppose Ianto will do this for me?

Oh that was great.

( Planet of the Ood spoilers )

I think Revenue Canada scoured the country to find the most boring voiced person to do their automated menu. And tell me my call is important to them. :p But I did eventually get through and managed to change my address so I can actually deal with that tax filing thing. :p

It's occurred to me that the paper I have due on Wednesday really needs to be done by Tuesday. Because Yun is defending her thesis on Tuesday, so that will invariably mean going to the bar afterward. :p Oh well, I have a fair chunk already written. :p

The new student in our lab gets here on Monday. He gets to meet me in zombie mode because I have to proctor the intro chem exam that morning. Getting up early to do nothing for four hours, good times. :p

My legs hate me from the knee down. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon scrubbing the floor in front of my fumehood with acetone. Because it was STICKY from various fallout from last week's spill and it was driving me crazy. It didn't clean up easily, and I was crouching because kneeling on the lab floor seemed like a really bad idea. So now I'm in pain but have a non-sticky floor in front of my fumehood. :p