fishpatrol

1. I hope everyone who was in the direct path of Hurricane Sandy is okay! The power (along with the water and heat!) went out in my building on Monday night (twice, even /o\) -- but it was only my block that was affected in the area, so. :| (My friend who lives south of campus was all, "That wasn't a storm! There was just a bit of wind and rain!" And I was all, "OMG, DUDE, I THOUGHT MY WINDOWS WERE GOING TO BLOW IN." Granted, she lives in a low-rise, surrounded by taller buildings and I live in a high-rise, the tallest building on the block.) I had no idea the water and heat would die with the electricity and now I'm worried about potential power outages in the winter. \o\ I guess I should stock up on blankets!

2a. My Halloween plans consist of eating leftover curry and livestreaming SPN.

2b. In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.).

3. It's not yet noon and I already want to take a nap in my office...

1. I chipped the corner of my front tooth! On what, I have no idea! D: One second I'm licking at my front tooth (idk) and I'm thinking there's something stuck on it, and the next second I'm like, OMG PART OF MY TOOTH IS MISSING. I have nightmares about my teeth becoming loose and falling out. :(

2. My mom, trying to compliment me on my life choices or something, idk:

MOM: You're like a bomb that's still heading up in its trajectory while other people are heading down [makes hand gestures]
ME: ...did you just compare me to an Angry Bird?
MOM: XDDD

3. I thought my brain was completely fried because I just could not edit the damned paper (like, not a single thing; not even re-arrange the paragraphs), but it turns out I just reeeally don't want to work on that particular paper. I made a teeny bit head-way on a separate project and jotted down a few ideas and a few papers that I need to look up tomorrow (which, yay, every bit counts...or something). But...that still doesn't resolve the issue with the other paper. It ain't gonna edit itself and I have a meeting about it on Wednesday, ugh.

4. I refuse to leave this post on a depressing note, so, here, have a meme that's been making the rounds:

Leave me a comment with the corresponding number(s) and I'll tell you:

1 Five ways to my heart.
2 Something I feel strongly about.
3 A book I love.
4 Things I want to say to an ex.
5 Five pet peeves.
6 What I ate today.
( 7-26 under the cut )

Be forewarned that my answers for some of these might be on the ridiculous side, especially if I'm coming up with the answer on the spot. ;;;

1. I keep writing up LJ entries in my head, but I guess they are of very little use if I don't post them. ;;; postingwhore kindly nudged me to remind me that I haven't posted in over three weeks. I want to post more regularly, but I keep getting distracted by other things! Also, school is still kicking my ass, big time. If I posted more regularly, I suspect my entries would be filled with things like: "And today, I tried reading fifty million articles and write up a paper in one go and I realized that it was a Very Bad Idea."

I did my Presentation of Doom back in April and I thought that was going to be the major hurdle. It was a pretty massive hurdle, but now I'm inundated with all the work I've neglected and I have supervisors and collaborators emailing me with stuff like, "Where is the data/write-up/analysis/study design" and I'm all, "D: D: D: *hides and procrastinates more*" My way of dealing with stress is to read fic and let me tell you, that is a terrible coping method.

2. MEME!

1) Comment to this and (if you want) I will give you 3 (fictional) people.
2) Post this meme to your LJ with your answers.
3) Provide pictures/text descriptions and the names of the 3 people.
4) Label whom you would shag, marry and (push off a) cliff.

postingwhore gave me: Dean Winchester (SPN), John Sheppard (SGA), Atobe Keigo (PoT)

These were tough choices! But it did give me an excuse to go through my SPN/SGA/PoT picture folders and ogle at all the pretty. I also realized that I have very few pictures of Dean (if Jensen were on this list instead of Dean, I suspect my answers to this meme may be very different...).

( ...and onwards! )

3. The keynote speaker at last week's conference talked about some really interesting research about the psychology of scarcity and how people can be "money poor" or "time poor". ( ... )

4. The topic of marriage comes up more frequently now that I'm often with people who are several years older than me. One of the fifth year students expressed her surprise when I told her than I'm not particularly invested in the idea of marriage for myself. ( ... )

5. So, despite my antisocial mannerisms, I had a lovely, brisk walk with cantarina1 around the neighbourhood. That was a particularly efficient and healthy way of "hanging out" (as opposed to huddling together in front of a computer screen, as we often do ;)). If we make this a regular thing, perhaps I'll be able to shed a layer of padding around my middle that I've picked up during my semester of thinking-about-going-to-the-gym-but-never-actually-going.

6. Now for something completely different: so, the other day, I came across a discussion about the importance of technical quality in stories posted online. Some of the people involved in this discussion were appalled that some readers would completely skip over stories that had grammatical mistakes and other errors. "The authors are writing these stories for fun!" they said. "They're even posting the stories for free, you entitled readers!"

As for myself, I have three general rules that I use to decide whether or not I will read any particular story (I would've sworn I'd written about this at some point in time, but maybe it's one of those in-my-mind!entries that I'd never gotten around to writing out and posting). I developed these three rules-of-thumb back in high school, during my Harry Potter days, when I realized that there was more fic being posted than I had time to read.

( cut for length. i haz ~opinions )

Tell me about what makes you click the "back" button!

7. I should post more often so that I don't end up spending 40 minutes trying to write up an LJ post.

8. Is Firefox 4 actually faster or does it just look Chrome-like, with no actual redeeming qualities?

eta: Adding more Lj-cuts because long entry is long. ;;;; [/spamming your flists]

Ugh, you guys, it is such a bad idea to not start on a research paper (on an area that I'm barely familiar with) until the day it's due. *facepalms so hard*

Entertain me as I slowly climb my way to 3000+ words? :]

Meme snagged from lemniciate:

Please post anonymously and give three hints about yourself. I will try to guess who you are.

(I forget how to turn off IP logging -- uh, you'll just have to take my word for it that I'm not checking IP? :D;;;)

eta: 50% done (I'm not writing the methodology until S comes home and walks me through a methods section of a neuroscience paper :|:|) Dinner + TV time :DDD

I was so convinced that ( reference to the ending of Inception ), that I didn't consider how awesome it would be for the team to stay together and continue to go on (less risky :P) missions. I read a fic earlier today that made a reference to the group sticking together after the Fischer mission, and I really like that idea. I normally stay out of movie fandoms (I need a continuous canon!), but some of you guys are so enthusiastic that I'm starting to get sucked in. ...just a teeny bit. ;) I'm also starting to be convinced of the idea of Arthur/Eames. X3;;;; (for once I started off being a non-shipper! But you guys are influencing me! \o\)

Stolen from cantarina1:
Pick a fandom and I'll tell you who I would...

01. Bake cupcakes for:
02. Trust with the keys to my car:
03. Put thumbtacks on their chair:
04. Have a crush on:
05. Pack up and leave if they moved next door:
06. Vote for President/Prime Minister:
07. Pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
08. Pair up:
09. Vote off the island and into the volcano:
10. Wheedle into fixing my MP3 player:

Okay, okay, going now (I must get to the study spot before cantarina1 >:D)

I was thinking of digging around for a meme that will let me ask intrusive questions without seeming like a nosy creeper (:D), and I came across this one that lemniciate (not that I'm calling lemniciate a nosy creeper or anything...! She just has good taste in memes...? :D;;) just posted:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes office supplies." I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this.

Tell me about the SPN/J2 BB that you read recently (whether you loved it or hated it)! Or ramble about your research interests (sorry, I just got back from a seminar this morning and it's kind of on the top of my mind ;;;)! Or just tell me something completely random! Especially you lovely new people and sort-of-new people and not-so-new-people-that-I-haven't-talked-to-recently! \o/

And now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go find something to eat and watch some SGA. :>

Screencaps from the Computer Spying meme:

( command+shift+4! I'll have to look into Skitch, though... )

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I just spent forever deleting over a hundred submissions from my old Y!Gallery and DeviantArt accounts. I don't see why they don't simply allow users to delete accounts and contents entirely, the way LJ does. :| It was interesting, looking at my drawings from six, seven years ago. Some of it was atrocious, but some weren't half bad, haha. Also, oh man, so much nostalgia for my Harry Potter days.

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After watching Iron Man 2 in the theatre yesterday, I watched Iron Man on my computer over dinner. I must say, I prefer the sequel over the original. Pepper was a bit too damsel-in-distress, but Natasha was awesomely cool, and I'm finding myself shipping Tony/Jarvis, just a teeny bit.

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Next week is going to be spent grading midterms. I hope I don't run into this problem, heh.

Hello, new friends! \o/ Welcome to my humble abode.

Here, everyone, have a meme:

Computer Spying Meme:

1. Comment with a request to see absolutely anything on my computer. My desktop, my documents, my bookmarks, my latest works in progress. Whatever you're curious about. Request it!
2. I will respond post a comment with a screenshot of the very thing you request.

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Overheard on the subway:

One teenage girl to another: "I thought he was sexy until I found out he was my brother."

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I don't believe in brunch (why would anyone cram two meals into one? D: And how will I manage to avoid starvation during the long hours between brunch and dinner? I would prefer to skip breakfast and simply wait until my usual lunchtime!), so what I will be doing tomorrow is having an over-sized late-breakfast, followed by a small late-lunch, and then a normal-sized late dinner. :> Between my late-breakfast and late-lunch, I will be watching Iron Man 2. I haven't seen Iron Man, but I do enjoy me some RDJ-on-the-big-screen, so hopefully it'll be fun.

Breakfast of champions. \o/

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Because scorpiod1 told me to do it:

Post a fandom of mine and I'll fill out the little formy thing below.

♥ OTPs:
♥ Canon Ships:
♥ DNW Ships:
♥ Guilty Pleasure Ships:
♥ Frysquint and Ponder Ships:
♥ Crack Ships:
♥ Non-Ships that Everyone Else Ships:

What the heck is frysquinting? Also, note that I have distinct shipping patterns and am generally predictable, with next-to-none cracky crack ships. XD;;

Fandoms that are fair game: Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, The Big Bang Theory, Community, Merlin, White Collar, Psych, Leverage, Chuck, Glee, Friends, Harry Potter, Super Junior, Prince of Tennis, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ouran Host Club, Kyou Kara Maou, and probably another handful of anime fandoms that I'm forgetting (oh, 2-D fandoms, it's been a long time!).

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If this definition of addiction makes it into DSM-V, then all of us would be diagnosed with internet addiction. Of this, I am certain. XD

1) Tagged by scorpiod1

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

( 7 things )

I tag everyone who hasn't done this meme because I am a nosy person with a healthy amount of curiosity.

2) What TV shows would you guys recommend to me? I need more shows to watch while eating lunch and dinner. :D (I could spend the time reading more articles instead, but that would just be depressing)

3) I don't know if I can finish my j2_everafter entry. D: My art muse has been dead like a dead thing lately.