Yubsie's Yammerings

Moving out today. Somehow. Every time I think I'm getting to the end of packing, I suddenly realize "Wait... I own THAT too, don't I?" The next step is to wash up all the dishes and pack them.

Oh, and I have one grade in so far. An A in Japanese, which makes me happy. Should help balance out some of the classes I'm worried about. (Also, it's fun that for this brief shining time, my GPA for this term is listed as a 4.0. It won't last, of course, but it's nice to see briefly. Haven't seen anything like THAT since first year. :p)

I wrote my last exam yesterday, which went fairly well, I think. Khash's exams are usually pretty manageable, even if the course material is sometimes brain breaky. He's still an incredibly sweet prof. He brought us muffins and juice to keep us going while writing the exam.

I sent my thesis to be printed today. It's hard to believe that the monster I've been working on since May is actually completely finished now. It was a bit of an adventure making sure it was the right file, since the USB key also had the copy I saved as a Word document to send to my second reader. Not only does that copy not have the changes I made based on Glen's suggestions, it also has formatting completely EATEN by the document conversion. They printed the first copy out while I was there to make sure it was the right one. The first time they tried, the bookstore people started teasing me about "Wow, did you have to be so WORDY?" I commented that "Hey, it's only 35 pages, since I barely had any results!"

That's when they realized that the wrong thing was being printed. It was a Canadian Studies thesis. :p About as far as you can get from me and my chemistry and my never having taken a Canadian Studies course in my LIFE. :p

As soon as I wrap up the last question for my last overdue computational assignment, I am DONE with Mount Allison. Which is really strange.

But right now, we're trying to get the house clean for our landlord to come by tomorrow morning. We're making great progress! Sam and I cleaned the bathroom, I cleaned the kitchen and the living room. Now I need to clear out my room so I can vacuum it, and then move all the boxes from the hall into my room so I can vacuum the hall.

I'm now moving out on Saturday. Which is also really strange. What happened to the last two years? :p

Been a busy couple days. Yesterday I went to Moncton with Ryan and his roommates. I'd debated not going, but it wound up being really fun, so I'm glad I went. I only bought one book at Chapters, that's a wonderful bit of self control, right? It's a fun looking anthology.

I spent a bit of time in Chapters talking to the bookshelves. Looking at the Pratchett and declaring "Ha! HA! You can't get any more of my money right now! HA!" (This would be much more triumphant if the reason wasn't that I already had all thirty plus books :p) Glaring at Melanie Rawn's books because "You're never going to write book three of that trilogy, are you?" (I read books one and two in middle school :p) And a very melodramatic "I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU!" to the Star Wars EU. :p

We had lunch at a Thai place, with a very cool waitress. I had yummy fried rice with shrimp and lobster meat. Mmmm...

After that, we headed down to Gamezilla. I was good and resisted Lucifer! AND the Order of the Stick collection they had! I did by The Dead Boy Detectives, but I had been trying to find that for AGES! It's SO cute! :D

Then we had sushi and went back to Sackville. Where I stayed up until 3:30 AM finishing my computational paper. :p "Fun" times that. :p

Today, Vicki finally gave me and Sam our Christmas presents. They're teddy bears with "uchi" written on them in hiragana, which is the Japanese word for "house". She has one of her own too, and the three together are "house house house!" one of our running jokes. :p SHe also gave me a birthday present, this ADORABLE elephant hat. I was totally wearing it around inside all day. :p

My mother came up to help me get a start on moving out. SHe took back three boxes of books and one of fabric. And that's not all the books I have here. Ooh boy, packing will be an adventure this week. :p

Other than that, today was a SIMS D*MMIT day. :p Highlights: Jayne's alien son Sue is now a teenager and madly in love with Delirium. DEATH desperately wants to get engaged to Death. Death is too busy being a sorority girl and a popularity sim to actually roll romantic wants. Dream inherited a lousy party when he moved into a random off campus house at the university.

I'll probably do a massive picture post of doom in the near future. :p

Japanese lab was interesting today. Sam and I are both in the same session now. Some of you know where this story is going. I don't think Oe-sensei called either of us the right name once the entire time. We just kinda looked at each other and giggled after a while. :p And talked about our exciting lives of "Last night, I had rehearsal. Rehearsal was in Con Hall. I had rehearsal with my friends." Later, we got to have a conversation. Mine was basically "What are you going to do tonight?" "I am going to work on my thesis tonight." "When will you stop working on your thesis?" "At 7:30." "Then what will you do?" "I will go to Con Hall." "What will you do in Con Hall?" "I will have rehearsal."

Rehearsal was a bit annoying, actually. I walked all the way to Con Hall, and they only actually needed me for like ten minutes to work out a set change. :p

And today's BIG adventure was the dishes. Doug and I did almost every dish we OWN. When I let the disgusting dishwater out, it wound up all over the kitchen floor. At first I thought the water on the floor was just melted snow, since we come in the back door and track boots all over the kitchen. Then we realized it was FLOWING and coming out of the cupboard. I figured there must be some sort of leak, so I opened the cupboard.

It wasn't just a leak. The sink wasn't connected to the pipe at ALL. :p No clue how it happened. :p Doug screwed it back in by hand, but we're going to get Rick to come in and fix it properly. Because he wasn't JUST at our house yesterday to take down a hazardous lighting fixture, fix our smoke detector, get the water back on and try something to fix our fridge. :p

I'm getting a sewing machine. ramenparty just got a new one, so she's selling me her old one. Which means no more hand sewing entire costumes! This makes me RIDICULOUSLY happy. :p

We put up our Geekmas tree yesterday. :p We call it that because it's decorated with thecleric007's RP characters, the Endless and this year we added some cute Final Fantasy stuff. And of course, it's topped with Yuto. :p There's really no word for this thing except Geekmas tree. This year we have the fun of informing Elphaba that it is NOT in fact a toy. :p

We also watched Elizabeth, which was a pretty cool movie. ANd of course, I worked on my quantum paper, which I am DETERMINED to finish today after the spec party. :p (In this case an actual party, involving going out to brunch, as opposed to it being our silly term for getting the class together to do assignments ;p) I'd also like to get a good chunk of the spec paper done. Other home on Wednesday!

Apparently, my brother is now 5'8" and thus taller than my mother. Oh BOY is he going to be insufferable over the break. :p

Oh, and I must say that this whole Flan thing makes me feel a little better about all my Animaritime worries. At least I know that however many headaches we may have with the new venue and trying to get the room block filled and trying to get people to respond to emails and trying to get everything together, the convention will actually HAPPEN. :p Good to know that there are conventions that have been worse. :p

So yesterday I got to perform first aid on a guinea pig. That was an adventure. Afterwards, I went to read about clipping guinea pig nails so I would actually know what I was doing next time I had to treat such things. :p

Still no word on my elusive chemical, but Steve has me trying a new reaction while we scour. :p It takes five days, so the long weekend seemed the logical time to start. I almost got locked out of the lab WITH chemicals and had to chase after Francis (Steve's post-doc) because I have the wrong key. :p I'm thinking I should get the RIGHT key on Monday. :p

Today we watched When Harry Met Sally. Well, watched isn't QUITE the word. We listened to and occasionally got to see images. :p The tape was old and resisted all attempts to fix the tracking. But the movie was definitely hilarious. :p

This may be the last you hear from me until Sunday depending on where we're staying, incidently. Because thecleric007 and I are off to Toronto to see Wicked! And I get to meet akeyoftime

I made pancakes this morning... well, this afternoon. :p They were all yummy and chocolate chippy! I'd never made pancakes before, though according to Sam, that may not entirely be true. We apparently made them at Guide camp at some point, and from the sound of the story, I had been REPRESSING that memory. These ones turned out great though. My 1950s copy of The Joy of Cooking has never let me down yet. :p I was also reminded that when Snippy claims she doesn't eat something, that is subject to change if I put chocolate chips in it. :p

Someone needs to remind me to check the length of songs BEFORE I decide to parody them for the House Cup, incidently.

Work continues to go well, though the solubilities of my compound are starting to confuse me.

Vicki's back, so we watched the video of one of the musicals her church put on. Then we watched Sailor Moon. Nephrite is TOTALLY joining Mamoru in the Special Hell, incidently. :p

I've also come to a conclusion. There are pairings that squick me more. There are pairings that are more brain breaky. But nothing manages to WEIRD ME OUT quite like Mal/Zoe. :p

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MI!

I do the dork dance to celebrate your birthday!

The chemistry conference was fun. ARe all fields of academia this drunk? Besides the partying, there were some really interesting presentations. Some exceedingly dull ones too, but c'est la vie. Altogether it was a blast though. :D

Vicki skipped town early and left me with a pile of dishes. Luckily, Ryan showed up at the door, so I put him to work. (He got cookies for his trouble) We watched the Little Shop of Horrors musical movie, which is great fun. :D

After the conference, I got to play "hope I read the bus schedule correctly" because Acadia is STUPID and didn't update their "leave from here to go here" thingy. So I had to click through multiple schedules to figure out which route Sackville was on and then hope I was right. I made it home, at any rate. :p

I made my brother and sister watch The Princess Bride. BJ didn't think he'd like it, but I sure showed him. :p

How to get strange looks from my supervisor: Have a stack of CDs, the visible one labelled "Each Fish Sang a Different Song"

How to annoy thecleric007: Balance Firefly on your head. Grin. Keep this up for five minutes without any explanation.

She thought there was a deeper meaning to this. Because she's an English major. There totally wasn't. :p