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In other news [Nov. 6th, 2009|09:51 am]

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Apparently I'm not the only one having Large Hadron Colllider continuity headaches. The CERN team themselves are having them!

Of course, we know the real problem is aliens trying to get through and bloody Torchwood keeps shutting the thing down by "reversing the polarity," though at least not of a neutron flow.

Really. Pharm exam. Now.
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Snagged from half my flist [Nov. 6th, 2009|09:26 am]

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Funny. I would've expected the "dork" rating to be about the same as the other two, given my perceptions about my own social ineptitude (look, I even have a tag for it!), though apparently this test doesn't care so long as all are above 50% for this result.

Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...

Outcast Genius

83 % Nerd, 87% Geek, 52% Dork

For The Record:


A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.


You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.

( Cut for lengthy analysis and links )

In related news, I let myself get talked into going to a party tonight for my coworker's son's 40th birthday. The one other coworker that I knew was going to go has now hurt her back and may not be going. Me in a room full of people I don't know other than the guest of honor's mother is probably not a great scenario. Especially since I'm still working at midnight and can't really be drinking. There should at least be dancing, but again, if I don't know anyone, not likely to be doing much of that.

Meanwhile, I'd best get cracking on my pharm exam, considering I've only got until midnight to log in and get it done. I hear from those who've already taken it that it's tougher than the last one. Considering that one was a bloody cake walk, I suppose that's not saying much, but apparently most of the questions and their answers aren't to be found in the first sentence or two of any given appropriately-headed section of the book this time. *shrugs* I thought that first one was a bit of a gimme for an open-book test. Considering my level of apathy over grades this semester, it's no surprise I'm not terribly worried. Except, possibly, about the apathy itself, which should probably take down my "nerd" rating a few notches, but oh well.
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an IJ note [Nov. 6th, 2009|04:31 am]

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depending on measure (that is, using the "size:accounts" measure as opposed to the "userinfo:total" measure), InsaneJournal passed DeadJournal to become the 3rd largest LiveJournal-based site around Thursday, October 8, 2009.

(At a rough estimate, IJ will pass DJ to move into the #3 spot based on the "userinfo:total" measure in about 2-3 months.)
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Happy November Birthdays! [Nov. 3rd, 2009|08:26 pm]

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According to LJ, IJ, and DW, the following people were born in November: [info]larksdream, [info]lyadann, [info]mcfly85, [info]larilee, [info]duniazade, [info]jaxinny, [info]hpstrangelove, [info]ferporcel, [info]pokeystar, [info]beer_good_foamy, [info]severely_lupine, [info]sl_podcast, [info]alabastard, [info]ozarque, [info]opaljade, [info]saltwaterpearl, [info]nefernat, [info]odogoddess, [info]nimrod_9, [info]chyara, [info]snegurochka_lee, [info]antennapedia, [info]jitterbugclock, and [info]yanagi_wa.

Whew! Happy (belated in a couple of cases) birthdays to you all!

If you would like an original or fannish drabble (story of 100 words) or ficlet (less precisely worded but still very short story) as a birthday gift, please comment with the fandom and character(s) or pairing you'd like it to be about (obviously not quite applicable for original fic) and some sort of prompt, and I'll do my best to get it written before your next birthday! (A lot sooner if I can help it.)

If you're wanting a rundown of what I will/won't write, I've got a post covering the basics here on LJ and here on IJ, though I should add that just because I haven't written a fandom or pairing before doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy a challenge (assuming I have a clue). And if you're wondering how to prompt for something non-fannish, there are some suggestions here on LJ and here on IJ.
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Panaia [Nov. 2nd, 2009|05:59 am]

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Wow, I'm actually dressed and ready for clinical early! Must be the "extra" hour thing. So a quick post.

Had Panaia (aka Pan's birthday) at HTAZP yesterday. Record attendance with 8 adults and one teen. Said teen may have been moderately traumatized by the life-sized statue that had been created, but it's not like his father and he hadn't been warned what to expect. The draw-down was intense. I ended up doing the drumming for it, which I think ended up being a slow Ayoub but I'm kinda rusty to be sure. I was just pleased to actually hold a rhythm except when trying to speak at the same time. And of course, the answer to my question was exactly what I should've known it would be, that being rather the opposite of what I was hoping for.

Me: This story You've been talking to me through since the Feast of Fear, is there something specific that I haven't understood that You're trying to tell me?
Pan through Priest-Dude: (condensed) No, you pretty much get it. Now do something with it.
Me: (out loud) Thank you. (inside) Oh crap.

So that was ... interesting. Shall have to figure out precisely what "something" entails. I have a clue. Should strap a bit of steel to my spine and just go for it. Declined a card reading later because I didn't particularly want to see a Tower card confirming what I already know is likely to happen if I do locate said steel.

Also, I finally made the second necklace for Him and wore it yesterday. I'm not entirely thrilled with how the flowers came out, but this was my first time trying to do something like that, so ... *shrugs*

( Cut because it's technically NSFW, even though the pic is a bit too blurry to tell. )

Okay, running out the door now. Have a great Monday, all! {{hugs}} to whomever wants and needs them.
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Timey-wimey headaches and Welsh and radio plays, oh my [Nov. 1st, 2009|06:36 am]

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Actually, the timey-wimey headaches have a lot to do with the radio plays. ( Cut for fic wittering about timelines and such. Mild spoilerishness for Lost Souls, I suppose. Not hugely spoilery for TFTWSD, but a little. )

*stabs fic yet again*

*watches it gasp back to life yet again*

*sighs*

And yes, I really am this anal to obsess over timelines on a fic that I still question whether it should ever see the light of day. All the more fun because this one gets to have two.

Those of you who play in TW fandom, what are your thoughts on the "when" of the radio plays? I've not actually seen many fics that incorporate them at all, so even outside of wondering how to make this fic fit with them, I'm curious.

What about Welsh? Again, this is probably me bringing expectations in from a different fandom, i.e. Firefly, but I'm forever surprised to find full sentences of Welsh thrown into fics with no translation offered. Sometimes there's enough context to work it out, sometimes not. So here's my suggestion/request on behalf of readers who don't speak Welsh: pretty please, with sugar on top, throw in a footnote with a translation? Because you know what you meant for Ianto (mostly) to be saying far more than any of the online translators that spit out mostly rubbish.

Also, I need to clean up my tags. The ones on DW are more organized than LJ or IJ, but when I xpost from DW at work, the DW ones are what carry over, making LJ and IJ even more of a mess than they already were. *adds to list of things to do someday*

Next year, I need to remember to take this night off. Working third shift on the "fall back night" makes for a looooong night. I'm sure I've said this before, possibly numerous times, and yet here I am. Silly.
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Blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween! [Oct. 31st, 2009|05:18 pm]

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And possibly Blessed Beltaine to any folks Down Under who observe it now.

Wishing you all a wonderful day, whatever it is to you, even if it's just "Saturday."
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In other news [Oct. 30th, 2009|12:14 pm]

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My classmates are insane.

The grade range on this last exam was from 50-90 with a record high number of failures. I've been approached multiple times through the week with people asking for study tips, and I haven't had anything approaching an answer. Because they're all already doing what I (used to) do, such as using the online or CD-ROM quizzes that come with the textbooks, doing practice tests out of NCLEX books, and the like. The only thing left, which is what I finally have just started saying is, "Step away from the bloody PowerPoints. Don't print them and definitely don't use them as a note-taking crutch. Just download them and refer to them to fill in any gaps, but take your lecture notes as if they didn't exist." Because seriously? That's the only thing I do that's any different than anybody else. And frankly, this last exam pulled more from my experience as a patient care tech on a surgical/ortho floor, years past though that may be, than on anything I got out of lecture.

This complete lack of ability to help anybody pulll it together (barring the one who reallyreally isn't getting any more help out of me after MultiFailDay a couple of weeks ago) hit me way harder than I was expecting. Apparently "tutor" is an even more integral part of my identity and self-esteem than I'd realized, because after having several of these conversations yesterday, I found myself bawling my eyes out, first in the bathroom, and then when I went home on our lunch break. (I'd forgotten some paperwork I needed for after the afternoon lecture, so I went home to fetch it. And then did everything *but* fetch it. *facepalm*) That actually isn't the crazy part yet.

The crazy part is that we also had a "peer recognition award nomination" thing, and for some insane reason, they nominated me. Um, what? The people I nominated make way more sense: the class president really does have great leadership skills and uses them well to organize the class, classmate L is a vocal patient advocate in clinical, and classmate P frequently shares news articles and current events that relate to what we're studying in the discussion area on Blackboard with commentary that really helps tie theory to reality. Any one of them would make oodles more sense than "person who gets good grades without half studying and is no help to people who are honestly trying and are asking for help."

This isn't to say I'm not grateful. Depending on what happens next in this process, I'm potentially eligible for a scholarship of some kind, which would be awesome. So I'm hugely grateful to even be in the running. But I still want some of whatever the rest of them are smoking, because clearly, it's damned good.
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Hee! This is great! [Oct. 30th, 2009|11:24 am]

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I've heard a bit about Castle. Haven't watched it, and I'm still probably not about to start, but this particular bit is just hysterical. Because, really, Castle does need to dress up for Halloween, right? And he would have this costume handy. *giggle* Thanks to [info]lechatnomade for the link.

Castle's Halloween Costume

Watch a bit beyond the opening sequence to enjoy a couple of other pop cultural references, too, one from the Whedonverse and the other not.
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5 for five [Oct. 28th, 2009|09:29 pm]

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No one's more shocked than I am that I've made the [info]5_for_five goal every week for the past two months.

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week 9

week 10
week 11
week 12


Now, if I could just convince The Fic That Wouldn't Stay Dead to let me have a a furlough to write some other stuff for a bit ...
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So we've found my limit [Oct. 28th, 2009|03:24 pm]

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I'm one of the most patient tutors you could ever have, but even I have my limits. Here are ways to find them.

Show up in the last week of October saying that you missed the first four classes (which started in August) and are still lost on that material, therefore do not understand anything since then, which all builds on it. Bonus points for having no specific questions and thinking I can re-teach you the entire past 10 weeks in an hour. (Granted, that still puts you one up over the ones who pull this crap in December, but still!)

Bringing your kid if you can't get childcare is okay, so long as they can behave. Allowing your toddler to scream his lungs out because he objects to being told to apologize to me for throwing my own pencil at me (which he'd already chewed beyond all recognition ... mechanical pencil, mind) is really, really not. I get that you need to ignore the tantrum, but not in a tutoring center full of stressed-out students trying to learn stuff. I shouldn't have had to tell you that the sane thing to do was take him outside to get him calmed down before I'd even try to continue.

Thank the Gods my 3pm appt no-showed. I desperately needed the break.
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The answer to my "mini-research project" [Oct. 28th, 2009|05:36 am]

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After finding nothing in any of the e-journal databases, I broached the subject with my med-surg clinical instructor, whose husband is a urologist. She actually pulled out her phone, got him on the line, and relayed my questions to him. ( Not terribly detailed discussion of urology and sexual function in men with benign prostatic hypertrophy. )So yeah, over-thinking and under-thinking, all at the same time. *facepalm*

In other news, I had my OR rotation this week. Saw an arthroscopic shoulder repair, a mastectomy, a lumpectomy, and a subcutaneous port removal. No passing out and I only contaminated myself once, and that towards the end of the day. I may, however, go back to being vegetarian for a bit, at least until I can get the smell of the cautery out of my nose. *shudders* Also? Surgeons have way too much fun tormenting students. Next week, pedi, and then back for the last three weeks in med-surg.
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Note to self [Oct. 27th, 2009|05:40 am]

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Dear self,

First, while it probably is safer to transport any DVDs in flimsy envelopes that are going to be shoved in your book bag into a hardcover book, it is probably not the best idea to select a library book for this purpose.

Second, always check library books to make sure you haven't stuck something in them before returning them. Especially when they are interlibrary loans.

No love,
Me

Have left a message for the librarian and am hoping they get it before the book is shipped off to Mansfield. Otherwise, well, if they don't catch it, then I hope whoever next checks out Barrowman's Anything Goes enjoys the bonus DVD of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." *facepalm* And that somebody mails it back to Netflix eventually. It is, at least in the mailer.
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Squeeage! [Oct. 26th, 2009|03:20 pm]

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The winners have been announced for Round 2 at the Absence of Light Awards, and Marked Men took runner up for Best Slash Angst:


Also, the sequel, Almost a New Friend was the runner up in the Unique Universe category in Round 11 of the Fang Fetish Awards:


I'm actually kinda shocked these are still being read, never mind winning stuff, but I'm thrilled to bits. Squee! Thanks to the mods for running these and to whomever nommed and voted for these, and big congrats to all the other winners!
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So, finally watched Caprica [Oct. 25th, 2009|03:56 am]

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Interesting backstory on the origins of the Cylons. The clash between the dominant polytheism and nascent monotheism alternated between intriguing and annoying me. Given where things ended up by the end of BSG, annoying sort of dominated. Not sure I'll sustain enough interest to watch more of it, if it gets picked up. Considering I can't even be arsed to see if it's been already, probably not.

Was amused to see the cigarette-smoking man from the X-Files as Minister of Defense. Was more amused that throwing "cigarette-smoking man" into the search box on IMDB was enough to turn up his profile and confirm it was the same actor.

*looks @ other DVD that was brought to work*

Maybe it would've been a better idea to watch "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" before the rather more modern and high-tech sci-fi stuff rather than after. *facepalm*

Then again, aside from the occasional "Wait! *rewind* Was that a useful canon fact I actually might want to know?" moments, I'm finding that at least this super-early DW stuff is mostly background noise while I do homework anyway, so I suppose it doesn't matter.

Oh, yeah. Good thing I did show to work tonight. The blurry stuff inside the box that had been drawn over my initial on the schedule did not, apparently, actually indicate that someone else was working after all. Still no idea WTF happened there.
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