Yubsie's Yammerings

"The Doctor's Daughter" is just as delightful the second time around. I adore Jenny. Then again, it's hard not to. :p

The Torchwood finale is slightly less traumatizing. Slightly. I still hate Tess for it though. :p D*MN YOU TESS!

Also, musical madlibs are BRILLIANT. Absolutely brilliant.

QotD

Me: Anakin's three (AND A HALF) at this point
Jello: someone should tell him he dies in the future because his name is confusing
Me: THat wopuld make him cry
Jello: Del Rey is a name parents use to to make their kids behave
Jello: "Go to bed on time or Del Rey will get you!"

Today I actually started a reaction for MY project. My very own research! Sure, it's currently a bunch of steps to get to a known compound, but it's MY starting material, not someone else's. At least I finally defeated the reference recursion and made it to the beginning of the synthesis. There is nothing more annoying than looking at an experimental section and seeing "Starting material germawhatsis was prepared using standard techniques" and a reference. :p Well, I suppose that phrase and NO reference, but anyway. :p

I forgot to mention yesterday's brilliant "Other boot" moment.

Monday is TA day, which means I'm pretty tired by the end. Especially yesterday when things ran late and I was nice and let the students finish their write-ups in the hall instead of making them hand in an incomplete report. (They lost performance marks, but less than the value of the questions they hand't finished) So by the time I went up to my office (by "my" office I of course mean the office I share with eleven other people :p) to get my bag, it was almost six. The buses get a lot less frequent after six, so I figured I'd be waiting for a bit. I had my buspass in my hand and decided to get my MP3 player out while I waited. This meant that I had to go into my backpack to get a new battery.

Fast forward to the bus arriving and me reaching into my purse to get my buspass. Which isn't there. So I started taking everything out of my purse looking for it, but to no avail. I decided that I might have dropped it in my backpack when I was getting the battery, but it's not there either. By this point that particular bus had left and I was starting to panic a bit about whether I'd left it in the office or dropped it somewhere. Add to this worries about having to walk home in the pouring rain if I couldn't find it, and it wasn't fun. That was when I figured out where it was.

MY POCKET.

Really, the only way it could have been funnier is if it had ACTUALLY BEEN in my boot. :p

So Sims? Are kinda hilarious.

I decided to try to move more Sims through university, so I loaded up Billy Washburne's house. Things were going normally enough until Billy got back from class and ran to the bathroom to throw up. He did the little "Pacifier?" thought bubble that sims do when they have morning sickness.

I was rather confused, since I was pretty sure he was NOT pregnant. IT's not exactly easy for male sims to get pregnant, requiring either alien abduction or using some sort of cheat. I knew there hadn't been any sort of cheat, since I never have SIms DELIBERATELY get pregnant in university (Carrot's Views and subsequent offspring aside :p). And an alien abduction is something I would have remembered. More to the point, something HE would have remembered. The only abduction in his memories was way back when he was a teenager.

Still, there was no denying that Billy was pregnant by Pollination Technician #34. Apparently Sims who have previously been abducted will sometimes get abducted again out of the dance sphere. I've never seen it happen, but it's possible. So my best guess is that this happened when he was on a community lot I was visiting with another family.

However it happened, the point is that Billy gave birth immediately after returning from finals his junior year. A little boy that I named David because we were watching New WHo at the time. :p David reached toddler before Billy graduated, which I've realized is the WORST stage for moving out with. He got left behind repeatedly, even after I started cheating him to child so I could tell him to get in the blasted cab. :p

But they did eventually make it back to the main neighborhood. It was a good thing I had spent all their uni money on loading their inventories, because the house I picked for them ate most of their starter money. Billy quickly married his beloved man maid Remington, who brought lots of money with him so they could have LIGHTS. :p

Remington's LTW is to marry off six children. So this means a combination of aliens, adoption and cheaty MPreg. :p I was surprised he was a family sim. :p But hey, more grandchildren for Zoe and Wash. Because clearly the eight they already have aren't enough. :p

Hilarity when my sister grabs my computer and starts talking to Jello!

( LONG hilarity )

First off, yesterday's Order of the STick made me die laughing! Titanium elementals! Because SOME of us got a passing grade in chem.

Umm, yeah, hopeless chemistry geek here!

I actually did my presentation this morning. I think it went well. I correctly predicted the first question I got asked! "Why does your question slide say 42?"

Because I'm a huge GEEK, that's why. :p

Also, I'm horribly addicted to foreign language musicals. I downloaded Les MIserables in Swedish last night, and it's so awesome. :p

Also awesome are the shows Tess sent me the soundtracks of on Monday night. Zombie Prom, which sounds a lot like Grease, with a dash of Footloose in the plot. ANd of course zombies. Everything is better with zombies. :p

The other one is an off-Broadway production called [Title of Show], which I knew just from the TITLE would be awesome. It's a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. :p So I'm going to go through my favourite songs now! :p

Opening Song: This song starts "A, E, D, F sharp! Those are the first notes of our show" Yeah, this is about where I fell in love, why do you ask? :p

Two Nobodies in New York: Starts "What if this dialogue were set to music? What if these things could be said in a song? Hey that's pretty good, I think we can use it. Music in a musical, how could we go wrong?" (Have I mentioned I love songs ABOUT musicals? See: "The Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot. :p)

Die Vampire, Die: The vampires in question are everything that tries to squash creativity. Thus they need to die. :p

Secondary Characters: I LOVE this song. Probably my favourite song EVER. I've been looking for a song like this ever since I made that Sailor Star Crack EP last November. :p It's the secondary characters singing about how they don't often get a chance to be in the spotlight. Favourite line? "The secondary characters are singing a song, while the stars are snacking off stage!" I think this is getting incorporated into the House Cup as a Ravenclaw song. :p It ends with the leads coming in and being all "Umm, wtf are you doing?"

I am SUCH a musical geek. :p