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1. I work at the SCIENCE MUSEUM. and today I was paid to help someone put on a show about bubbles, and to play with boats and water while talking to a boy about evolution. It was fantastic.

2. Housesitting for Paul a couple of weeks ago earned me two bottles of wine. And this is good wine.

3. Deadshot. Floyd "Deadshot" Lawton makes me happy.
( Scans under the cut )

After a conversation with

kali921 I got to reading 1980s Suicide Squad, and hot-damn I love these amoral 'get-the-job-done-and-fight-a-lot bastards. Every last one. But, mostly, Deadshot.

( I really wanted my happiness to contain a comics post, but after this week's GA/BC, I couldn't make it about current comics...)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Southgate, N14

The following contains twittering:

11:45 *grits teeth* the nearest relative we have in picture form to pterosaurs is a dinosaur. I'll use that pic, BUT I'M NOT HAPPY. #
12:32 Hallowe'en approached me under the radar this year and so I have no plans. Other than to prepare for NOVEMBRAT eeeeeeeeeeee #
14:08 after a freezing cold walk to the comic shop and sandwich place, I got free chocolate and biscuits from Christians. Woo hoo! #
15:21 anger management: M.A.D.L.E.S.S.: Motivation; Attention; Diffusion; Learning; Empathy; Story substition/supplimentation; Speaking. #
19:34 SANDI TOKSVIG FOR DOCTOR WHO #
19:41 OK, now I'm knitting, listening to Radio 4 and *talking*at the radio. Anyone need a grandmother? #
22:48 Watching Poltergeist; the clown and the boy just made all 3 of us scream and freak out the cat. #
22:50 is a leeeettle bit freaked out by the changes mindfulness has wrought in me. Holy Zen awesomeness, Batman! #
22:56 For all my awesome zenness, Palin still makes me cry #
23:45 Othat was a little bit drunker than I intended to get. *hic* mmmm Mulled Wine #
08:43 oops, it appears I had a lot of red wine last night. #
09:16 O, I give up. Someone find me Captain Hammer icons? #

Courtesy of Twitter and LoudTwitter

Guys guys guys guys guys

Screw the alleged fuel shortage. This afternoon I have caught a glimpse of a potential situation much more damaging to the British Way of Life.

A Pimms shortage.

Stock up now, or don't say I didn't warn you.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Southgate, N14

So, is today the only day lesbians can get engaged? Or do arbitrary rules of crapness not apply to the gay? Because the Leap Day/Ladies Day thing has always seemed crap to me.

I'm feeling bloody good about things right now. This is partly because of things that have happened in the last few days:

Wednesday Afternoon was spent at a workshop about science communication organised for PhD students at the museum, for half of which I was the only attendant, so I spent most of the time talking to the organiser (who I knew through other routes) about my career and how to personally be a good communicator, and I came out with confidence and direction and more enthusiasm for my career I've had for months.

Thursday Lunchtime was a lunch meeting with the supervisors, who were as always supportive and encouraging and exactly what I need to stop stressing so much. I just have to stop getting anxious about this crap and get on with it. So more frequent meetings. Which, yeah, I should have sorted out long ago. NEVER MIND, eh?

Thursday Evening I didn't go to the blogging event, because

dopplegl is more important, so there was pizza and chatting instead. I think he got the plane today, but we'll know when he lands, hmmmm?

Today I had a chat with the InnerRents and determined to try and volunteer for experience.

I may or not be working tonight - I'll find out soon enough, I guess. Otherwise Winchester?

( What I've been blogging about picspam. Anti-choice images may be triggering )

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: The Daddy Issues Song- The Phantom of the Opera

Given the content of my last post, I'm sure it won't come as a great surprise to anyone that this morning was pretty much a complete loss. On the bright side, though, I have yet to have anything worse than a general malaise and disorientation. I've had much worse hangovers.

In the shower I went through the "OMG I'm 27 and not doing anything with my life and complete failure!" stage, the panic attack, and came through into the feeling better and having things to do phase - uh, mostly. Post-drinking and post-birthday blues are sort of winning over quiet confidence, but I've got it to go on.

Today is Darwin Day - the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, who you might remember as the author of On the Origin of Species and co-proponent of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

Next year will be his 200th birthday, but this year is important as well, for July 1st will be the 150th anniversary of the presentation to the Linnean Society of On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace - a co-presentation because these two men had arrived at virtually identical conclusions entirely independently of each other, and the discovery of this fact led them both to publish quickly and together.

I had always planned to write something big and important today, but ol' Jack Daniels last night saw that nothing coherent was going to come from my brain today, so instead I'll just raise my glass of squash to the old man and be grateful for what he did for biology.

Current Mood: overhung
Current Location: Southgate, N14

Happy Birthday Bridget!

Back from Caticon (finally), which was wonderful. Hungover (

rowanberries's fault) and sad/angry (which warrants a later post).

avariel_wings is a king among women and bought me a nautical clock. My hand is now officially a mutant hand, and I'm sure it will erupt into something cool soon enough.I'm hoping for Wolverine claws. Meanwhile it's distracting with the pain.

Millibrits are the best, and anyone who says otherwise is jealous because they're not one.

Current Mood: post con
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: First Suite in E Flat - Holst

Happy Birthday Madb and Bethan and Alice!

It's midnight-ish, so it can be everyone's birthday if I decree it so, and I do.

Today I panicked over Northern Rock, saved an old lady's life, and ponced around Dundee dressed as Dread Pirate Turner, and was generally reminded about how much I love people.

an example:

rowanberries: who would you rather sleep with, Beckett or Barbossa?

innerbrat: For just sleeping with? Not working for or having a relationship with or associating with at all beyond the sex? Beckett, easily. He's got the consonants, the youth, the shorter fingernails, and he's less likely to give me syphilis.

wonderwhatif: I dunno, sometimes syphilis is hard to detect in its early stages.

avariel_wings: Oh, maybe that's the mark Jack left on him!

innerbrat: ...

rowanberries: ...

wonderwhatif ...

djcati: Rule 34, dudes, Rule 34.

Kate wants me to add this:

I disclaim all responsibility for this, and point out that the others have been drinking a lot of rum.

Current Mood: drunk
Current Location: Dundee
Current Music: The Princess BrideWedding scene

This morning I couldn't wake up. And when I did I couldn't find the energy for anything. So I set about working from home and watching Hook. Neither of which I've had the attention for, I feel miserable.

But I have to go in anyway because college is recalling all - all- of my library books today and I can't afford the fine. And it's
sunflowerkits last hoorah tonight, so I will try and have energy for that.

The IB should never be allowed to live alone, you guys, even with a loving and affectionate kitty to curl up next to me.

And hey - you know when Rufio and Peter are exchanging insults, Rufio calls Peter a Muggle-Lover. In 1994.Funny old multiverse, innit?

Current Mood: morose
Current Location: Southgate, N14
Current Music: Hook end credits

Happy Birthday Jeri!

I'm not sure if I have content. Um. Data is data and I may have substance for another chapter soon.

ms_ntropy's plumbing is almost better. Jasper's plumbing likewise, although he's having one of his fangs out next week. We're about halfway through season 1 of Supernatural and it's still just as good. RPwise, I'm back to activity in

fandomhigh, plots for both Will and Mel are coming along, and I even have active threads in Eden and the Rabbithole.

Pub tonight?

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Schoolhouse Rocky

Happy Birthday Ikonthehologram

Whose actual name fails me right now.

But I change subject now! Look, I'm writing about more than one subject in an LJ post, I do that sometimes! Look at the actual (well kind of) content of the post.

mrsneeze, I'm looking at you. Just because it's someone's birthday today doesn't mean you can't claim I didn't post!

Or rather, I think all Nodnollians are heading to a beer festival tonight, ce n'est pas? I won't be playing 'cause my tummy doesn't let me drink beer. And also at some point there is likely to be a Greek returning to the flat and I should clean for him.

Also,

ms_ntropy was taken into hospital last night to pass a kidney stone. So if she's back by this afternoon, I'm going to be at home abusing Skype or AIM at the least. So there.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: The Proposal - Jane Eyre

Yesterday
Die Schwester came into Nodnol and I escorted her to a number of shopping places: Bravissimo because she's built far more like Bing than me in that department, then Harrods and Paperchase looking for photo albums for her wedding pics. Me, I just got shampoo and Buffy from Lush. Oh! And a four-person Pirates game reduced to £10 from £40 which I will be bringing along with me to Dundee-con, along with Milliways Cluedo.

Who's going to that, BTW? And would you like for me to organise cheap but very early-morning flights for us all?

Today
I am doing Nature Live. I don't know why I just linked you to the webcast. Hopefully no one will be around to watch it.

The trouble is, my contact in Learning was supposed to email me with the kind of questions she was going to ask me so I could prepare, and she hasn't,and it's terrifying. I'm going to babble and be unintelligible, I know it. *whines*

Tonight
There will be Sin City-ing to celebrate the fact that

snapesbabe is in town. They're going to see Avenue Q beforehand, but the rest of us are to be in the ~~Head of Steam~~, ~~Doric Arch~~ Winchester from reasonable time onwards. Insert accusations of quadrangility here.

At Some Point
I will actually type up con report in the form of: "these people rock!" and my pictures.
Question to those using

millipics: is there any reason the pics can't be posted under flock in the journal itself. That way we don't have to go the long way round to view them?

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Barbossa is Hungry - Klaus Bedalt

Happy (belated) Birthday, Kate!

And on that note, there will be drinks on Friday, and I nominate the Penderel Oak.

So we will be meeting primarily at Holborn Station at 5.30 to pick up

chlorrel and her friend, then on to the pub.

I'd say something about the travesty that is the Olympic logo, but much of it has already been said. It's ugly, naff, took far, far too much money to make and looks like the kind of worthless vandalism that taggers put up on walls after London Transport has whitewashed over the Banksy murals.

Ken (who is making it really hard for me to continue to like him) has said: The new Olympic brand draws on what London has become. Which, as it's ugly, naff, overpriced and looks like worthless vandalism, I guess is kind of true. I just wish it wasn't.

Personally, I'm surprised that it wasn't produced by Foster and Partners. They excel in this kind of ugly cock-up. The one good thing to have come out about this is B3TA getting Goatse on BBC News.

IB-wise, I've been seeping into 'being' ever since PotC3. Maybe this is because suddenly the fantasy world is really attractive right now. (It's not a spoiler to say Dread Pirate Turner! is it?) But I'm doing OK pulling myself out of it, mostly. Although I have been having anxiety attacks when I go to bed. :-\

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Water Bowl (Awakening) - Cirque du Soleil (Zumanity)

Right, Nodnollians, and other British type people.

A week Saturday (the 2nd)

avariel_wings and I will be going to see World's End at a cinema to be determined. And the day before is the Pirates vs Ninja flashmob event at St. Pauls. I hereby call PIRATICAL shenanananigans! Who's with me? (This means I need to find better Will socks and a better Will shirt, doesn't it?)

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~~I'm trying to get in touch with rowanberries about The Three Musketeers. Does anyone know where she's gone. WHERE IS YOU AMYLOVE?~~

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~~When is the Old Boys picnic? I keep being drunk when we organise it.~~

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What else is coming up?

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: The Daddy Issues Song - Phantom of the Opera

Happy Birthday Mike!

I haven't quite decided whether I will be at the College Arms or not before Sin City. The problem is I'm demophobic and like high heels, so a pub in which I can barely get to the bar without being groped by an undergraduate, let alone actually sitting down? Maybe I'll catch you inna Ballroom.

Meanwhile, I'm still less geeky than

djcati:

74% Geek

See?

Also,

trelali has broken me from the funny already, with this AtLA video:
Prince Zuko in the Angst.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Uninvited - Alanis Morrisette

Happy Birthday Todd!

Ahahahaha, Amazon.co.uk just recommended to me an Engineering book called Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and Components: Methods with Applications, because I had bought other books by the same author, a one "Douglas Adams."

What are the chances of that happening, eh?

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Don't ever tell

trelali or

weaverandom your ideas for fic that you really shouldn't be writing. They are both rubbish at discouragement. (Note: when the main reason not to write something is that only three people will care, don't ask two of the three people to stop you from doing it).

Tonight I will be mostly dancing like a fraggle to celebrate the fact that

davegodfrey is still older than me. I don't know what time I'll be sexy at, so I'll phone you then to find out where you are, mmmkay?

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: The Writ - Black Sabbath

Happy Birthday (deep breath) Ashie, Emily, MJ and Heather

I fully intend to get out of my pyjamas at some point today. Just... not now. Because while I was busy sorting out my iTunes genres (I'm down to 190 out of an initial 310 - that's for 2954 artists there), I actually select all --> "Gothic Rock"ed, not when iTUne was displaying the "Goth" genre, but when it was showing all 12080 songs. Um... ooops?

Luckily I caught it early enough, and now just undoing it.

Last night, I met

snapesbabe. You're jealous, I know. Try to contain it. There were other people there, but I've met them already.

Keep your eye on

tubediary for the next couple of days. There was a man taking surreptious photos of me on his cameraphone on the tube. Obviously for a fun net-based purpose, and not for his own perviness. I hope. It's not like I wasn't completely covered from the neck down, after all.

The queue outside Sin City surprised us by being full of Indie kids. A little bit of hardcore research (sending Siv to ask the bouncer) established that it was in fact Fill-Camden-With-Indie-Kids weekend. A quick check of the BBC news website suggests the area didn't get bombed. Waste of an opportunity, although at least it wasn't chavs.

So off we decamped to Rock at the ~~LA2~~ Mean Fiddler, which was... fine, if you like pop-punk and emo and can cope without Alice Cooper for a whole night. The most important discovery being that

steely_glint can dance better in 5" heels than I can in flat trainers. However, even when I'm in trainers and he's in heels, my arse is still nicer.

Trufax.

Anyway, it's half one and I haven't eaten breakfast, though I have had a glass of champagne. If you're going to become an alcoholic, at least be a posh one.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Southgate, N14
Current Music: The Song That Don't Go Fast - S.O.D.

"You see, Buffy didn't have episodes about fmeale 'empowerment' or how misogyny was bad. BUFFY DID IT ANYWAY."

And this episode comes not 3 episodes after "That old gang of Mine", a Very Special Episode of Angel which informs us that racism is bad, mmmkay?

And the best part? These are a relief from the ongoing 'plot' in which occasionally people do bad things for no reason because the audience like a 'dark' character.

Oh, Joss. Why did you let this series happen?

And yet I continue to watch because it's set in my fandom universe and surely there has to be a reason people like it, right?

And because apparently I know nothing about other people's iTune habits, I rephrase the questions:

[Poll #966632]

Current Mood: tipsy
Current Location: Southgate, N14

Tonight the frabjous and wonderful author of this fantastic original fic (Look, two pimps in two days, get me a hat and a cane!) is coming to Nodnol.

I work fifteen minutes away from where she's coming in.

I get kicked out of the museum fifty minutes before she comes in.

SO. Who's up for a pint in the Shakespeare in Victoria from fivish onwards? Ga'wn. Ga'wn ga'wn ga'wn GA'WN.

Juggling the head voices of a sunny cheerleader, a snarky thief and a footy-mad soldier is hard, but not nearly as hard as writing literature reviews. Lucky it's fun as well, huh?

[Poll #959535]

Current Mood: bored
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Danger - AC/DC

Last Night.
Don't go and see Spamalot. It is a silly show.
OK, so it's hilarious. And fun. And enjoyable. And perhaps I was the only person who thought You Won't Succeed on Broadway is even more rubbish when transposed to the West End of London, which isn't noted for its Jewish population.
But really - it's cheaper to watch the movie, and you get the same gags.

This Morning
(This section of my post dedicated to

sumerianhaze)
This morning Jaspula, who is my cat and whom I love, woke me up with a constant stream of mewling wails from about 5 o'clock. Eventually, when my alarm went off at 6 I got up, noted the mysterious cat-related quiet, washed my face, went into the kitchen, poured out my cereal and gave him some milk.
As I was pouring the milk, I got to watch him take a dump in the middle of the floor. It's then, while cleaning that up, that I notice the puddle of cat piss right outside the litter tray.
Yeah, cat ownership is a barrel of laughs.

Tonight
[Poll #952265]

Current Mood: bored
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: The Demon's Whip - Manowar

Angela, oh Angela, she of the tiny blonde poly bisexual friend of Kestrel fame, I love her, and I completely understand her pain. This is what Sad Club is like for me these days. Sometimes.

Today I am working through my paper according to advice given to me. Maybe if I've got time I will start adapting it into a Thesis chapter too. At least in terms of headings.

Tonight I am going to a friend's going away party, as he and his boyfriend are off to live in Wallabyland for an open-ended period of time. Then I will hopefully be heading to Sin City for the prescribed dose of Fraggle Dancing.

On NOVEMBER 17TH, I plan to go to see Alice, Motorhead and Joan Jett at Wembley. But only if people pledge to go with me.
WHO'S WITH ME?

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Current Mood: busy
Current Location: The Natural History Museum, London
Current Music: Here I Go Again - The Hollies (0131 Hollies Original

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Advancing the Sum Total of Human Knowledge and Endeavour!

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Entries tagged with drinking

Eight Days of Happiness: Day Three

Brat Twitters

Oh noes!

Stuff and thynges

Evolve or Perish

Establishing homeness.

They may take our lands, but they'll never take OUR RUM!

Of course, it could just be a bug.

Is posting daily a compulsion?

And also, I'm doing work.

A thynge of the update-y type.

I like how everyone's trying to take credit for the Lisa Simpson reference.

Anne Bonny could kick Karai's C.G. ass any time.

Crunchie Day.

When Amazon spam mails are of interest, it's time to get out.

Jocks on the Tube! Towels around the neck are not a fashion accessory

Angel 306: "Billy"

I have nothing of import to say, so let's go down the pub.

How is it lunchtime already?

The subject line I was going to put here has me craving a Crunchy bar.