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that old cosplay bug
Sep. 27th, 2004 04:35 pmIt might be about that time of year again, or else Halloween is inspiring me, because the old itch to put together a new cosplay is back. Maybe it was that fun convo with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fireceremony about Samurai Champloo and how she'd be a perfect Jin and how I'd been thinking of putting together something for Fuu anyway. My pink kimono would work well, but there's that creativity aspect of making it just so with the flowers stencilled onto the sleeves. But oh how fun it would be to get a big boufy hairpiece and work all that out.
The other potential cosplay that's bugging me would be Sister Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade (her nun's habit, not the slit-up-the-leg thing, which would make ppl run in terror from my out-of-shape legs.) The costume looks comfortable and fun, and not too common yet. It would be the most complex work to date, but it would be fun to pose with the guns as props.
Of course, it might be nice to get started on Annette's quilt for her baby boy. Argh! Someday we'll have a real house, or a larger apartment, and I can leave my machine set up for when these whims strike!
fireceremony about Samurai Champloo and how she'd be a perfect Jin and how I'd been thinking of putting together something for Fuu anyway. My pink kimono would work well, but there's that creativity aspect of making it just so with the flowers stencilled onto the sleeves. But oh how fun it would be to get a big boufy hairpiece and work all that out.The other potential cosplay that's bugging me would be Sister Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade (her nun's habit, not the slit-up-the-leg thing, which would make ppl run in terror from my out-of-shape legs.) The costume looks comfortable and fun, and not too common yet. It would be the most complex work to date, but it would be fun to pose with the guns as props.
Of course, it might be nice to get started on Annette's quilt for her baby boy. Argh! Someday we'll have a real house, or a larger apartment, and I can leave my machine set up for when these whims strike!
Conference recap
Sep. 23rd, 2004 10:39 amIt was a very nice day yesterday until I got home, but that's another story.
We all attended the J&J Chromatography Symposium yesterday, which isn't very exciting (series of unexciting talks and a poster session) but as anyone who's ever attended a trade show knows, the best part is wandering around amongst the vendor tables and picking up free swag. Certainly there isn't as wide a variety as one might get from a large gathering like an ACS meeting, but I'm pretty happy.
The goodie count:
- 12 pens (Nicest pen: Thermo; best pen: Waters; worst pen: Hudson)
- Clip-on blue LED flashlight
- Calculator
- Luggage tag
- HPLC column tag
- Handfuls of candy
And my favorites...
- Charlie the Chameleon, the mascot for Dionex's Chromeleon system (I'm buddies with the sales rep)
- A dorky T-shirt, light blue with "Chromatographer" printed across the chest (woo, won something in the raffle!)
We did hit the bar before dinner before our boss suggested that we might want to actually attend the dinner, since one of our number was being honored. Despite his grumping that he didn't know what to say, the honoree spoke very well, I thought - he said that his true definition of achievement was to be a part of the technology he'd seen develop over his 28 years with the company, and to help it along. He made me think a lot about my reasons for going into science, and it was good to hear from someone who understands what it's really all about - not profits or personal gain, but pushing back the frontiers of science. While that's a very idealistic goal, it helps to keep one on track, because in the end all we have is our integrity.
Then I went home and was so pooped that I took the wrong exit. >_<
At home, my Cocteau Twins CDs and This Mortal Coil CD were waiting, and that made me happy, so that's the end of the story. Then things got shitty but it remains to be seen whether I want to post about that.
happy birfday to me. ^_^
Sep. 20th, 2004 09:55 pmYou know? It was a good birthday this year. It really was.
It turned out nicer than I expected, and anyone who knows me at all knows I don't like having a big fuss because I have a complex about getting older. Still, it's nice when people remember that you're having a birthday, though I never take offense when they don't because I'm shit at remembering that myself.
( Birthday babble )
It turned out nicer than I expected, and anyone who knows me at all knows I don't like having a big fuss because I have a complex about getting older. Still, it's nice when people remember that you're having a birthday, though I never take offense when they don't because I'm shit at remembering that myself.
( Birthday babble )
A new addition to the dictionary
Sep. 20th, 2004 01:52 pmCourtesy of my husband, who coined the term this weekend.
Crapulated: Made crappy where it wasn't crappy before by messing with it.
Used in a sentence: (on watching When Star Wars Ruled the World on VH1) "Oh, that's the crapulated version of Star Wars, not the original."
(in the crapulated version, Greedo shoots Han first. Which is not what happens, at all.)
Crapulated: Made crappy where it wasn't crappy before by messing with it.
Used in a sentence: (on watching When Star Wars Ruled the World on VH1) "Oh, that's the crapulated version of Star Wars, not the original."
(in the crapulated version, Greedo shoots Han first. Which is not what happens, at all.)
The music post
Sep. 16th, 2004 05:38 pmssilverfish and fireceremony, you'll like these. ^_^Andain - You Once Told Me
Starsailor - Four to the Floor
From the Chillout 05 album.
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Sep. 16th, 2004 11:53 amOh it's been a good morning.
Kacy and I rocked the world in our meeting. We'd been arguing for days that putting her mixing study in with my material change was just NOT on the same timeline, and Laura finally came to understand that it wasn't going to happen and thank god but Jonathan kept his damn mouth shut. Also he stopped fighting us on the 6-month expiry and that makes my job one hell of a lot easier.
I AM THE WOMAN HAHAHAHAHA!
Also I went last night to pick up my patch prescription and because OMP makes it, it's FREE. Working for J&J kicks so much ass that way and it's in your face for that last post I made about the "conscience clause" - MY COMPANY MAKES BC BECAUSE they make money on it and THEY UNDERSTAND THAT BABIES SHOULD BE WANTED AND BEFORE YOU GET ALL "OMG DEVIL COMPANY" PLZ NOTE THAT WE MAKE RHOGAM AND ALL THIS BABY CRAP TOO KTHXBYE.
Oh yeah what else.
Last night, the following conversation took place with my beloved husband:
Me: Are you going to play hooky tomorrow during the second session of the conference?
Him: Yeah, Matt and I are going.
Me: Are you going to go wine-tasting?
Him: No, we thought that was too fruity. (my husband is a metrophobe, let's move on.)
Me: So where are you going to go?
Him: San Fransisco, and we might visit Alcatraz.
Me: OMGWTF. And that is less fruity how?
Him: Shut up, it was Matt's idea.
Kacy and I rocked the world in our meeting. We'd been arguing for days that putting her mixing study in with my material change was just NOT on the same timeline, and Laura finally came to understand that it wasn't going to happen and thank god but Jonathan kept his damn mouth shut. Also he stopped fighting us on the 6-month expiry and that makes my job one hell of a lot easier.
I AM THE WOMAN HAHAHAHAHA!
Also I went last night to pick up my patch prescription and because OMP makes it, it's FREE. Working for J&J kicks so much ass that way and it's in your face for that last post I made about the "conscience clause" - MY COMPANY MAKES BC BECAUSE they make money on it and THEY UNDERSTAND THAT BABIES SHOULD BE WANTED AND BEFORE YOU GET ALL "OMG DEVIL COMPANY" PLZ NOTE THAT WE MAKE RHOGAM AND ALL THIS BABY CRAP TOO KTHXBYE.
Oh yeah what else.
Last night, the following conversation took place with my beloved husband:
Me: Are you going to play hooky tomorrow during the second session of the conference?
Him: Yeah, Matt and I are going.
Me: Are you going to go wine-tasting?
Him: No, we thought that was too fruity. (my husband is a metrophobe, let's move on.)
Me: So where are you going to go?
Him: San Fransisco, and we might visit Alcatraz.
Me: OMGWTF. And that is less fruity how?
Him: Shut up, it was Matt's idea.
are you fucking kidding me?
Sep. 15th, 2004 09:37 pmFrom CNN:
'Conscience clause' grows in health care
A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.
Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.
'Conscience clause' grows in health care
A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.
Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.
I've read through this article a few times now and I'm still appalled.
China executes bank staff for fraud
Quote:
Legal experts have proposed what they call a "kill fewer, kill carefully" policy for nonviolent crimes.
China executes bank staff for fraud
Quote:
Legal experts have proposed what they call a "kill fewer, kill carefully" policy for nonviolent crimes.
Red Cross shout-out
Sep. 13th, 2004 09:56 amHello everyone out in LJ land,
Hurricane Ivan the Terrible is on its way out of the Caymans and bearing down on Florida.
The pictures of the devastation in the Caribbean islands are heartbreaking.
Most of these small islands are very poor, and they don't have the resources the US does to rebuild. With the decline in sugar cane farming in this region of the world, the islands probably rely on tourism for income (which of course is going to be difficult, since many areas have been blown to kingdom come.) For disaster relief, places like St. George and St. Lucia and the Caymans need organizations like the Red Cross.
A lot of Americans became disillusioned with the Red Cross after the WTC, because their money might not be used for WTC victims. The point of the Red Cross, though, is to supply relief to a disaster.
They really, really need help right now. They've raised $35 million for hurricane victims, but that's not nearly enough.
You can help in two ways:
1. Donate money to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
2. DONATE BLOOD. There is a critical shortage of blood in the US right now, and healthy donors - esp. O-type blood - are needed more than ever.
Please help!
Hurricane Ivan the Terrible is on its way out of the Caymans and bearing down on Florida.
The pictures of the devastation in the Caribbean islands are heartbreaking.
Most of these small islands are very poor, and they don't have the resources the US does to rebuild. With the decline in sugar cane farming in this region of the world, the islands probably rely on tourism for income (which of course is going to be difficult, since many areas have been blown to kingdom come.) For disaster relief, places like St. George and St. Lucia and the Caymans need organizations like the Red Cross.
A lot of Americans became disillusioned with the Red Cross after the WTC, because their money might not be used for WTC victims. The point of the Red Cross, though, is to supply relief to a disaster.
They really, really need help right now. They've raised $35 million for hurricane victims, but that's not nearly enough.
You can help in two ways:
1. Donate money to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
2. DONATE BLOOD. There is a critical shortage of blood in the US right now, and healthy donors - esp. O-type blood - are needed more than ever.
Please help!
the lament of the NY fan
Sep. 12th, 2004 08:43 pmOh Giants.
You stink.
You are finding new ways to stink, and through it all, like a bad relationship, I love you. Even though Kerry Collins (who I liked) was replaced by Kurt Warner and Eli Manning (who I don't like), I am holding out my faith for you.
And Tom Coughlin is an asshole and it makes me sad to think of Jim Fassel still commuting to Baltimore from Ho-Ho-Kus and driving by the stadium and missing the team.
It's going to be a long long long season.
You stink.
You are finding new ways to stink, and through it all, like a bad relationship, I love you. Even though Kerry Collins (who I liked) was replaced by Kurt Warner and Eli Manning (who I don't like), I am holding out my faith for you.
And Tom Coughlin is an asshole and it makes me sad to think of Jim Fassel still commuting to Baltimore from Ho-Ho-Kus and driving by the stadium and missing the team.
It's going to be a long long long season.
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Sep. 7th, 2004 08:46 pmI normally don't post these things, but a lot of the random assignments fit.
Look,angstymcgoth, you're the loner goth kid. Who'd a thunk it?
Look,
angstymcgoth, you're the loner goth kid. Who'd a thunk it?Random scribbles and anime
Sep. 7th, 2004 01:09 pmOverall, the weekend was pretty boring, except for a visit with fadingembers and a visit with Matt and Tracy on Sunday. But Sunday was a happy day, because I went with Tracy to her stable so she could exercise her horse Melanie. While there, I met a kitty!
It was a very nice kitty, grey and a little bit orange with big green eyes. I knelt down to scratch her head, and she hopped up into my lap.
Then we sat together for a WHOLE HOUR. This kitty was also very much okay with being carried around, and once I had her back end supported, she was happy to lie with her head and paws in the crook of my elbow.
WANT A KITTY WANT WANT WANT!
Okay, so what else.
I watched a bunch of Fruits Basket.
( FB rambles )
fadingembers and a visit with Matt and Tracy on Sunday. But Sunday was a happy day, because I went with Tracy to her stable so she could exercise her horse Melanie. While there, I met a kitty!It was a very nice kitty, grey and a little bit orange with big green eyes. I knelt down to scratch her head, and she hopped up into my lap.
Then we sat together for a WHOLE HOUR. This kitty was also very much okay with being carried around, and once I had her back end supported, she was happy to lie with her head and paws in the crook of my elbow.
WANT A KITTY WANT WANT WANT!
Okay, so what else.
I watched a bunch of Fruits Basket.
( FB rambles )
3 out of the last 4 of my 3-day holiday weekends have been ruined by someone else's wedding or birthday party not-close to where I live. Stephanie's wedding doesn't count because she had the good grace to hold it on Friday night.
So, I have spent the weekend at the inlaws', catching up on my anime-watching because that's about all I do there besides go shopping.
In a little while we'll head off to see Laurie for her 30th. Knowing Paul, he'll want us to stick around after the party, but we'll have to see how that works out. I can't imagine that Laurie's whole family won't be there, and spending off time with her sisters isn't in my interests.
Tomorrow we'll go to Bordentown to spend time with Matt, Tracy, and the new MG. It'll be a play date for the boys and the S2000, and Tracy and I can hang out. Definitely will be the high point of the weekend - no kids and good fun with friends.
Should probably get ready to go soon. :P
So, I have spent the weekend at the inlaws', catching up on my anime-watching because that's about all I do there besides go shopping.
In a little while we'll head off to see Laurie for her 30th. Knowing Paul, he'll want us to stick around after the party, but we'll have to see how that works out. I can't imagine that Laurie's whole family won't be there, and spending off time with her sisters isn't in my interests.
Tomorrow we'll go to Bordentown to spend time with Matt, Tracy, and the new MG. It'll be a play date for the boys and the S2000, and Tracy and I can hang out. Definitely will be the high point of the weekend - no kids and good fun with friends.
Should probably get ready to go soon. :P
Waiting in vain
Sep. 3rd, 2004 12:34 pmI have a really kickass idea, inspired by waiting 1+ hours for a checkup that took 15 minutes.
Okay. You know those beeper things that restaurants hand out to tell you when your table is ready? Why not adapt those for the doctor's office, so that you know when the doctor is actually going to see you! Instead of waiting over half an hour in those embarrassing exam robes that are highly indecent! And the only way to entertain yourself is to read posters that describe Things That Could Be Wrong With You.
It has also been suggested that waiting rooms could be improved by the addition of a bar. This is also something I could support. Or at least new magazines, instead of "Smithsonian" from 2002.
Okay. You know those beeper things that restaurants hand out to tell you when your table is ready? Why not adapt those for the doctor's office, so that you know when the doctor is actually going to see you! Instead of waiting over half an hour in those embarrassing exam robes that are highly indecent! And the only way to entertain yourself is to read posters that describe Things That Could Be Wrong With You.
It has also been suggested that waiting rooms could be improved by the addition of a bar. This is also something I could support. Or at least new magazines, instead of "Smithsonian" from 2002.
Ganked from gojiraeight
VOTE CTHULHU 2004
Where the candidate stands on important positions
Honestly, the way Indecision 2004 is going, I think I will vote for Cthulhu. It would be an improvement.
gojiraeightVOTE CTHULHU 2004
Where the candidate stands on important positions
Honestly, the way Indecision 2004 is going, I think I will vote for Cthulhu. It would be an improvement.
Another $40 down the tubes
Aug. 30th, 2004 09:18 amIt is disgustingly easy to order DVDs and CDs from Deep Discount DVD and CD.
But. I haven't been writing. If I listen to Cocteau Twins, I can write. There's only so many times you can listen to Blue Bell Knoll in one evening. So, I had to buy more Cocteau Twins, and $9.97 a pop isn't bad at all. And I've been aiming to get This Mortal Coil's "It'll All End in Tears" for a long time.
It was a weekend to do nothing, and nothing is what I did. It's still very strange to have to do that soft reset and tell myself that there is no more work I have to be doing, for my thesis or otherwise. The thesis is done, four copies bound and turned in; the cd version was delivered impersonally to the bossman by mail. God help me but I never want to see the fat fuck again.
Anyway.
Today's word is: SOVEREIGNTY. Can you say that, boys and girls? Do you know what it means? Our Fearless Leader is having a little trouble with it.
ymiinjersey sent me this scary, scary file. (Windows media file)
Pres. Bush on Tribal Sovereignty
But. I haven't been writing. If I listen to Cocteau Twins, I can write. There's only so many times you can listen to Blue Bell Knoll in one evening. So, I had to buy more Cocteau Twins, and $9.97 a pop isn't bad at all. And I've been aiming to get This Mortal Coil's "It'll All End in Tears" for a long time.
It was a weekend to do nothing, and nothing is what I did. It's still very strange to have to do that soft reset and tell myself that there is no more work I have to be doing, for my thesis or otherwise. The thesis is done, four copies bound and turned in; the cd version was delivered impersonally to the bossman by mail. God help me but I never want to see the fat fuck again.
Anyway.
Today's word is: SOVEREIGNTY. Can you say that, boys and girls? Do you know what it means? Our Fearless Leader is having a little trouble with it.
ymiinjersey sent me this scary, scary file. (Windows media file)Pres. Bush on Tribal Sovereignty
Rick sent this to me. Send it to someone you love!
You are an Idiot
And,ramothhe sent this to me a while ago and OMG CAN'T STOP LISTENING
Magical Trevor
One of these days I'll have something to say, but suffice it to say that we loves the KitchenAid for its powerful ability to stir things.
You are an Idiot
And,
ramothhe sent this to me a while ago and OMG CAN'T STOP LISTENINGMagical Trevor
One of these days I'll have something to say, but suffice it to say that we loves the KitchenAid for its powerful ability to stir things.
