Month: November 2006

Thanks to everyone who attended the gathering I hosted at my place yesterday. I truly had a great time and got to meet some of your awesome-seeming friends! I'm really happy to be seeing more of you all these days, and hope that that will only continue with time. That said, I'm also quite glad… Continue reading Thank you and comments on a great gathering!

I turned the radio on minutes before 11am this morning — this the llth day of the llth month… and listened to our National anthem, and taps and of course respected the moment of silence that I know that many people do not respect (although many people do). War is now such a presence in… Continue reading It's Remembrance Day… time to remember

Raw evil score: 33.33% Meh… 🙂 Who knew it? 😉 And my folks always said I was born in the wrong decade… this is yet another quiz that supports that claim! 🙂

You Are Rogue You're reluctantly special. In fact, you long to be normal. You consider your powers to be a curse, and something you can't control. Powers: absorbing other people's memories and abilities, weakening and killing people with your touch Which of the X-Men Are You? Okay, so as much as Rogue is my favorite… Continue reading Some memes and my reactions

As a reminder here's the details on the gathering I'm hosting at my place: Who: All my friends who feel like attending — or who are in the area — and who are available to attend. What: A casual get-together. I'm not known for organizing terribly complicated affairs or anything. I'll have hopefully a bunch… Continue reading Reminder: gathering at my place Saturday! 🙂

So you probably already know that I'm a huge Bob the Angry Flower fan http://angryflower.com well, thanks to this wonderful essay I'm still writing (it's almost done, honest!), Stephen told me about this excellent online comic: http://www.phdcomics.com Now I know that I've seen this comic before, but I never quite realized how awesome it was… Continue reading the joy of PhD comics… yet another fun online comic!

So while I was chatting with Mike and Doug yesterday I learned two things: 1. it's one incredibly small world sometimes which was further supported by the fact that Mike met a prof through this event we were at that he had previously heard speak… and 2. When Doug gave me the url to his… Continue reading Strangely small world it is….

Your Lucky Underwear is Blue You are caring and extroverted. You've made relationships your number one focus, and your lucky blue underwear can bring some balance to them. You thrive in one-on-one situations. You are a good listener and a natural born therapist. Sometimes you let the concerns of others become too important in your… Continue reading Luck?

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Aleksandr Borodin. Son of a 19th Century Russian prince and a…non-royal…mother, I went to medical school and became a biochemist. Most people, however, (and probably my twenty cats as well) agree that they'd trade all of my scientific discoveries for another set of Polovetsian Dances.… Continue reading If I were a Dead Russian Composer…

Okay so technically I really don't have all that much on my plate, and yet I feel rather stressed this week. Makes very little sense. Anyway, Halloween was fun (cold but fun!). I was a black cat (again) and went out for UNICEF. We ran into some rather interesting-seeming parties in our travels, and saw… Continue reading Why do I feel stressed?