WTF, weather, WTF?
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For those who forgot or never knew, here is a handy reference guide. Note: a caption does not weigh 100 grams, so take this with a grain of salt.
Also, Karin LowacheeMARRY ME PLEASE a.k.a. "interrogating masculinity in science fiction" (I would add "in military science fiction"), is putting out a new book called The Gaslight Dogs. Her previous three books have put Lowachee firmly on my "read first, ask questions later" list. Apparently Scalzi has flagged her, so maybe this series will fare better. I am still holding hope for the Warchild books to continue someday.
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For those who forgot or never knew, here is a handy reference guide. Note: a caption does not weigh 100 grams, so take this with a grain of salt.
Also, Karin Lowachee
Stuff I Did Today
Mar. 11th, 2010 04:49 pmI officially know jack shit about electricity and I need a proper catch-up before attempting to listen to the lecturer again. Sitting in class reading online newspapers? Not productive. Alas, I only have a week before my chemistry test and two weeks before organic chemistry, so this may get postponed to passover.
On the plus side: statistics exercise was totally quick and painless.
About two weeks ago it was cold and pouring rain. This week was sweltering and very dry. On my way home today I was considering skipping lunch because hot weather demolishes my appetite. Now that I've cooled off and I'm out of the sun, I'm ravenous. My body, it is a wondrous strange machine etc. etc.
Since shipping is no concern, I may get some new books, even though I swore I would polish off my ready stack first. The problem is, my stack contains such light, breezy spring holiday reading as The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and The Rings of Saturn. Hmm.
On the plus side: statistics exercise was totally quick and painless.
About two weeks ago it was cold and pouring rain. This week was sweltering and very dry. On my way home today I was considering skipping lunch because hot weather demolishes my appetite. Now that I've cooled off and I'm out of the sun, I'm ravenous. My body, it is a wondrous strange machine etc. etc.
Since shipping is no concern, I may get some new books, even though I swore I would polish off my ready stack first. The problem is, my stack contains such light, breezy spring holiday reading as The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and The Rings of Saturn. Hmm.
In Timelining
Mar. 9th, 2010 07:27 pmNext week: Chemistry second date exam.
Week after that: Organic chemistry first date exam.
This weekend: Acid-base equilibrium hell.
Tonight: Yehudit Ravitz concert and no school thoughts at all, on pain of soul-devourment.
This morning: Alarm clock fail, missed genetics.
Three weeks from now: PASSOVER OMGYAY. *FLAIL*
Week after that: Organic chemistry first date exam.
This weekend: Acid-base equilibrium hell.
Tonight: Yehudit Ravitz concert and no school thoughts at all, on pain of soul-devourment.
This morning: Alarm clock fail, missed genetics.
Three weeks from now: PASSOVER OMGYAY. *FLAIL*
Psychobiology Today
Mar. 3rd, 2010 02:18 pmI am now reading an article that uses the phrase "negatively valenced hedonic tone". Still trying to figure out exactly what that means, but so far, as near as I can tell, it means "it makes you feel bad".
From Cell to Organism, lesson number three: the lecturer, whose name I can't remember, demonstrates the specificity of proteins' tertiary structure by explaining aspirin's mechanism of action.
Lecturer: Arthritis has afflicted people from time immemorial. It's an inflammation that doesn't stem from infection, and it basically affects only old people.
Me: HAHAHAHA NO! Except not out loud, you know.
Then I was like nodding along about the aspirin, and the COX-2 inhibitors, because COX-2 is a bad, bad thing.
Lecturer: Arthritis has afflicted people from time immemorial. It's an inflammation that doesn't stem from infection, and it basically affects only old people.
Me: HAHAHAHA NO! Except not out loud, you know.
Then I was like nodding along about the aspirin, and the COX-2 inhibitors, because COX-2 is a bad, bad thing.
*Headdesk*
Mar. 2nd, 2010 11:19 amRe: Electricity and, allegedly, optics.
Dear Dr. I,
You, dear sir, are living in a movie.
No love,
What the hell are you talking about?
P.S. I am leaving you for Walter Lewin of MIT.
Dear Dr. I,
You, dear sir, are living in a movie.
No love,
What the hell are you talking about?
P.S. I am leaving you for Walter Lewin of MIT.
Am I a Girl?
Feb. 28th, 2010 03:56 pmApparently I turned into a girl when I wasn't paying attention or something, because I just exfoliated. My face smells like pink grapefruit.
Brought to you by the fact that it's still pouring rain and so I can't go grocery shopping.
Brought to you by the fact that it's still pouring rain and so I can't go grocery shopping.
My Week, by Hazel
Feb. 27th, 2010 02:15 pmI finally cracked and got a set of science toys super-serious grown-up molecule modeling kit. I did this after looking at the semester break exercise in organic chemistry and realizing I had no idea how to form a Fischer projection from anything, my 3D preception is crap, and if I didn't do something about it now I would fail the test for certain. So tonight (hopefully) and tomorrow (definitely) are sanctified to organic chemistry and no slacking off. Monday was supposed to be sanctified to the second B&B exercise, but Dr. R still has not authorized any of the articles we chose. The deadline is distressingly soon, I really think he has not thought this through.
Social psychology was hilarious. Psychobiology was okay, it was about sleep and I know some of that, but I took pretty good notes. I am fascinated/obsessed with the idea that in a decade or two, psychology might be moved to Givat Ram and officially become a natural science (in addition to being a social science, not unlike geography). Genetics: the first lecture was totally awesome, the second was mysteriously bad, and I can't wait for the first lab because it's supposedly bacteriophages. The basic biology class is apparently for the benefit of people who took a science other than biology in high school, but hey, it's been eight years. How much do I really remember? Also, there is no lab, so I won't be dissecting a dogfish shark. Woohoo! Physics was duller than I could imagine, and also I did not understand a thing. Back to the MIT videos it is!
The comics are still missing, and the mail-order guys haven't answered out e-mail from last week. You guys I need my Wonder Woman fix. This is unbearable.
I am reading the first Scarpetta mystery, apparently with excellent timing, since they are making a movie and casting Angelina Jolie. It's been so long since she was in a movie I really liked that I forgot why I love her as an actress. I quite enjoy it so far, although I'm waiting until I finish it to be sure. The best part is I got it for 5 shekel at the Aguda's second-hand book stand. Second-hand books, they do the body good. Mysteries especially make good bus reading.
I am getting increasingly addicted to silly Facebook games.
Social psychology was hilarious. Psychobiology was okay, it was about sleep and I know some of that, but I took pretty good notes. I am fascinated/obsessed with the idea that in a decade or two, psychology might be moved to Givat Ram and officially become a natural science (in addition to being a social science, not unlike geography). Genetics: the first lecture was totally awesome, the second was mysteriously bad, and I can't wait for the first lab because it's supposedly bacteriophages. The basic biology class is apparently for the benefit of people who took a science other than biology in high school, but hey, it's been eight years. How much do I really remember? Also, there is no lab, so I won't be dissecting a dogfish shark. Woohoo! Physics was duller than I could imagine, and also I did not understand a thing. Back to the MIT videos it is!
The comics are still missing, and the mail-order guys haven't answered out e-mail from last week. You guys I need my Wonder Woman fix. This is unbearable.
I am reading the first Scarpetta mystery, apparently with excellent timing, since they are making a movie and casting Angelina Jolie. It's been so long since she was in a movie I really liked that I forgot why I love her as an actress. I quite enjoy it so far, although I'm waiting until I finish it to be sure. The best part is I got it for 5 shekel at the Aguda's second-hand book stand. Second-hand books, they do the body good. Mysteries especially make good bus reading.
I am getting increasingly addicted to silly Facebook games.
- Physics has not gotten less boring. I had a really decent nap in the first half of this morning's class, and woke up feeling quite refreshed.
- Mmm. Pizza for lunch. Better yet: last of the soup for dinner.
- Dropping chem lab (until next year) leaves my Thursday afternoons free for doctor's appointments. The upside of a five hour class block.
- Emoticon is my new favorite xkcd.
- What shall I dress as for Purim?
I have been convinced to stick through with Genetics A. It's an 8 AM start twice a week, including today. This better be interesting, otherwise I will be sad. :(
ETA: OMG you guys! You remember that thing about 99.8% of the genome being identical between individuals? It's not true anymore. I LOVE SCIENCE.
ETA: OMG you guys! You remember that thing about 99.8% of the genome being identical between individuals? It's not true anymore. I LOVE SCIENCE.
We Know Better
Feb. 22nd, 2010 03:43 pmSeven minutes into the first class in "Social Processes", I have already had a thank-heavens-I-didn't-crack-up-laughing moment. Apparently, lately "things have changed" in Israeli society, because it used to be that something like the Kitty Genovese case could never happen in Israel. Oh, Dr. R, you are adorable. My mother would love you.
Memeage (Epona)
Feb. 21st, 2010 11:45 pmSo, approximately eleventy billion years ago (read: ten days) ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
marina made up a new meme.
THE MEME
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
marina gave me the prompt: "Scientific-mystery-of-the-week, any genre, set somewhere outside North America (including outer space or whatever)."
The End (no teaser image because I fail at photoshop), an extraterrestrial scientific exploration drama/psychological mystery:
( I have mastered epic procrastination (this might have taken more than three hours). )
marina made up a new meme. THE MEME
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
marina gave me the prompt: "Scientific-mystery-of-the-week, any genre, set somewhere outside North America (including outer space or whatever)." The End (no teaser image because I fail at photoshop), an extraterrestrial scientific exploration drama/psychological mystery:
( I have mastered epic procrastination (this might have taken more than three hours). )
Happiness Picspam
Feb. 19th, 2010 01:48 pmThere's a post on ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
linkspam I want to read, but I'm so tired from the stuff that does not bear mentioning that I thought I'd do a preemptive linkspam:
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I got lost in the zazzle store's unicorn section after an Image Google search led me there.
linkspam I want to read, but I'm so tired from the stuff that does not bear mentioning that I thought I'd do a preemptive linkspam: ( Read more... )
I got lost in the zazzle store's unicorn section after an Image Google search led me there.
As it turns out, not one but two comics packages were lost in the mail, which means I was missing an issue of Buffy, which explains some of my confusion. My criticism of the art still stands, though.
I have statistics first thing Sunday, and I still need to figure out if I'm dropping genetics ASAP, because it's the difference between two 8 AM mornings and four.
I have statistics first thing Sunday, and I still need to figure out if I'm dropping genetics ASAP, because it's the difference between two 8 AM mornings and four.
Comics and Such
Feb. 17th, 2010 02:59 pmI put up a "what are you reading" post on fantasy, because that comm is pretty cool and could use a little extra activity.
A comics package came, but not the right one. It had a Buffy issue in it that was frankly mediocre, plus four other issues with a gap from the package that never made it. Now I have to decide if I want to read Wonder Woman, Supergirl, The Unwritten and X-Factor out of order.
( Thoughts on Buffy S8 #31 )
I want issue #8 of The Unwritten. I like it much better, and I don't want to read it out of order.
fantasy, because that comm is pretty cool and could use a little extra activity. A comics package came, but not the right one. It had a Buffy issue in it that was frankly mediocre, plus four other issues with a gap from the package that never made it. Now I have to decide if I want to read Wonder Woman, Supergirl, The Unwritten and X-Factor out of order.
( Thoughts on Buffy S8 #31 )
I want issue #8 of The Unwritten. I like it much better, and I don't want to read it out of order.
What to Read
Feb. 15th, 2010 07:18 pmI have been thwarted I'm searching through B&N and I can't find the least mention of The Dragon Keeper having a paperback edition. There's a UK paperback coming out sometime soon, but it doesn't appear to be available through B&N. I was relying on a paperback showing up by summer, when I'm making my next big book order.
Grr. How long will I have to wait? I'm practically salivating after than book as it is. Not that I don't have fifty other books on my TBR list, but Hobb is the one writer I know I'll love, even when other fans roll their eyes at her. Everyone hated the Soldier Son trilogy and I ate it up.
Grr. How long will I have to wait? I'm practically salivating after than book as it is. Not that I don't have fifty other books on my TBR list, but Hobb is the one writer I know I'll love, even when other fans roll their eyes at her. Everyone hated the Soldier Son trilogy and I ate it up.
End of Semester
Feb. 15th, 2010 12:06 pmLast exam today. I'm almost too tired to be excited. I have four of my grades back already, and it will be two weeks before I get the last grades in; even after that, I can't lay rest to this semester because I have to retake two tests. I mean, conceivably I could satisfy myself with a passing 60 in chemistry, but it's havoc on my already awful average.
Next Sunday I start with statistics at 10:30. Then I have a host of new classes, which naturally makes me horribly nervous. Anyway, I have to get some breakfast and then make my way to school for that last test this afternoon.
Next Sunday I start with statistics at 10:30. Then I have a host of new classes, which naturally makes me horribly nervous. Anyway, I have to get some breakfast and then make my way to school for that last test this afternoon.
