Nachos and stuff

I got Taco Hell for lunch. With nachos. Nachos rule. There are, actually, places to get good burritos around here but TH was close and I was in a hurry.

...Brian (grad student in the lab) just walked by and said "pretty good one-handed typing, there" - I'm eating my burrito. And I am, indeed, good at typing. I could've made some obscene joke but I didn't.

I lost 2 1/2 hours this morning to a meeting and listening to people's presentations. The presentations were cool but now I have all this crap to do. There's a lecture this afternoon that I would've liked to attend but that ain't happening. The PCR failed for, like, 1/3 of the individuals I was going to sequence. Meaning I'll probably have to dig up the blood and re-extract the DNA. I don't know if we even have blood for some of them. Grr. Monkey no likey.

But I feel better having eaten. I think I just get hypoglycemic, or something. I have to eat regularly or I get in a really crappy mood. Like yesterday, I didn't eat anything till noon and then even after I ate, I was all depressed. The whole frikkin day was shot. I didn't even bother to stay up and watch QAF. I have a new Snape theory but I'll have to re-read most of OotP to verify it. I could've done that yesterday! Arrg! And I'll have to take some time off work this week to stay home waiting for maintenance to fix my washing machine. And dishwasher and sink, which have had ongoing problems. So I was planning on doing extra today to make up for it. The way things are going, that was probably going to happen anyway.

But Heavenly opens this weekend (for snowboarding). I'm there, dude. Just for one night, because I can't take kitty!Snape with me and I don't want to leave her longer than that. My mum's coming with me. She doesn't snowboard or ski or anything but that means I don't have to drive! Even if I were going by myself, I'd have to borrow her car; mine won't make it up there. Maybe with snow chains but I'd rather not risk it.

Maybe you all can help me with the Snape theory: I need examples of Snape being outdoors in OotP. And I don't want anybody deducing from that what my theory is and trying to steal it! Or they'll incur the wrath of the pirate monkey! Yaaaar!

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I went to that talk after all. Everyone else went so I was like 'screw it, I'm going.' I just got back to the lab from a party at Dr. H(a faculty member)'s house. Pretty sweet. They fed us dinner and everything. I didn't really talk to the guest speaker. But he told some stories about seeing monkeys and stuff, to which I listened. I could go home now. But I thought I may as well update my journal now, since sometimes it's hard to use the computer at home with kitty!Snape around.
( stuff you probably don't want to bother with, unless you're really into anthropology )

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I had a pretty good time at the party. I hadn't really met Dr. H before. He had a bottle opener attached to, I'm not kidding, a kangaroo's scrotum. Which, fortunately for all concerned, was not still attached to the kangaroo. He also had a penis bone on his book shelf, from either a dog or a raccoon is my guess. Yes, some carnivores have penis bones. And I know what they look like. I didn't ask but that's definitely what it was. Pfft. Anthropologists... Darn tasty food, anyway. I skipped TKD for it. I might not have gone, but I'd never really met Dr. H before, as I said, and this seemed like a good opportunity. I heard that his wife is Jimmy Stewart's daughter. Huh. I heard that in the car, on the way back to campus. But I would've felt weird bringing it up at the party anyway, so it's just as well. Am I overusing the word 'anyway' here? Aw who cares? I had some wine. I have no tolerance for alcohol at all. I had, like, half a glass and I'm a little buzzed. Just a little. But that's as drunk as I get. I never drink to get drunk, you know? Just socially. Ok, maybe I'll go home now.