i'll paint the stars

So! Uh. Today was pretty productive, kind of? I was on the roster for closet clean-out duty for an hour with Jorge - they're trying to scrape up as much office space as possible because there is no room in the Astronomy department, so they're cleaning out anything and everything that they don't need. Apparently there was a LOT of junk sitting around. So that was an hour of sorting papers and whatnot, but it wasn't hard and it went pretty quickly~ Then I actually got to meet with Vicki, and I get to start dealing with Chandra data soon, which is a little scary but it looks like I can use SExtractor, so that's promising?

Then I came home and ate and immediately went out to get a flask for Lucy - I found something close at Michael's for a dollar, yay! - and then I got fabric for Pippi, which was a bit more expensive than I'd hoped, but not too bad overall (about $40). Then I decided to go see Hellboy II. :D; I was one of probably five people in the theater, alas, but it was actually a pretty good movie. I mean, it's Hellboy so of course it's going to be campy, but it was fun campy even if the plot was a bit see-through. I guess that's kind of what you get from comic book-based things, though, especially when they're like Hellboy. Things you forgive in comics seem a little more obvious in movies. But yeah, it was good, and points every time he gets to use the prehensile tail~ (I'm dumb. XD)

And then I came home and packed for AFO, which is going to be uber low-key but should be fun nonetheless, and involve as little walking in high heels as possible~ XD But I get to wear C.C. again, and I'm bringing Tenma, Setsuna, and Mulan as well. So hopefully I'll get pictures of the latter two, becasuse I have NONE. So I will be gone most of the weekend, leaving tomorrow afternoon and getting back Sunday night. Geez, I'm home for a week and I have to turn around and leave again. XD; Such is my life~ And I get to leave again in - OMG - two weeks for Dragon*Con. At least most of the time my grandma is visiting we'll be here. Now I just have to find a Sashi-sitter, because everyone I might normally ask is leaving! At least I got the rest of the wigs I needed, for about $10 apiece, which is very yay~ And Lucy's shoes arrived today! That was hella fast, but definitely no complaints here. :D

And for the rest of the night I may try to get a bit of writing done, or work on an app for the PJO RP I found. Because as soon as I realized it existed, a nymph and a half-blood decided to show up and demand attention. Geez. XD; But I am excited nonetheless~ Now to decide the half-blood's parentage... I was thinking Aphrodite, but I'm not so sure about that unless it was an atypical Aphrodite kid, which kind of defeats the purpose... Maybe Apollo. Or a scrawny Hepaestus kid. XD; That could be cute~ I keep picturing some weird mix between Alby and Nico. And I want to name him Xander. :D;

::shuts up now!::

Oh! But I forgot to mention the other day, but I have an amusing astronomy story. :D; When the new postdoc was moving stuff in, he asked me what our general hours were. So basically I said something like, "Well, most of us are here from 10 or 11 until 5 at least." And he said, "Ah, so you're morning people then." |D Ah, I love astronomers. Apparently I should no longer feel bad about showing up at 11. Well okay except I should. But I really did not want to get up today. :x

And now this song is stuck in my head. I suppose it's better than "Carrying the Banner" though. Man, that has been stuck in my head for days.

Woo, Multidrizzling. Ah, the familiarity of a fruitless task. XD; I have apparently totally filled up my backup external harddrive. I have no idea how I did that already. o.O; I suppose I should go through and delete stuff...

Apologies (if they're in order, I suppose, though it's likely they're not?) for totally falling off the face of the earth. Last week was rounded out by finishing C.C. and heading off to Metrocon Friday through Sunday. It was a lot of fun, mostly just hanging out with Diana, Karen, and Monique. It was pretty chill, and the major plus was getting a staff badge in exchance for working the costume contest on Saturday (which saved me 65 bucks, which was major yay in light of this Very Expensive Trip I'm taking in a few days XD). I actually had quite a bit of fun helping out, so maybe I'll do it next year, too~ I mean, what's better than sitting around as C.C., eating Pizza Hut and trying to keep obnoxious drunk guys from leering at the underage girls? (Okay, well, you could take the obnoxious drunk guys out. There was some other event taking place at the convention center on Saturday as well, and there were drunk people all over the place. No, you cannot touch my hair, no, you cannot have my food, please go away and stop bothering us. :x) At least the guy helping me man the door, Chris, was pretty awesome too. And we kind of matched, since he was Hijikata from Gintama. Black costumes with gold bias tape FTW!

I really wanted to post some pictures of C.C., but alas I did not get any. I took ONE whole picture during the con, of a Lelouch staring angstily at my Lelouch plushie. XD; At least that was awesome. PLUS OMG. Diana is awesome. Because now I have Mickey and Jack Harkness on my desk. XD It's officially a party. Not to mention Luke Skywalker is trying to take out the Empy Child on top of the bookcase. She brought them back for me from AX, plus the holy-crap-so-awesome Tardis USB hub. XD I totally coveted that thing, I'm so excited~ Though I think that one may have to stay at home where I have more use for it.

Anyway, I've been djfafjaifaof-ing busy, trying to get my D*C costumes started before I leave for two weeks starting Saturday. I have Lucy fabric and the underdress is mostly done, and the outer skirt can probably get finished tonight. More on that later, I think. Plus I have a bunch of RP stuff to catch up on, and I'd like to get tags out tonight where I owe them in the HP-verse and such. And Jesse and Scott are coming over tonight to watch Cool Hand Luke. Because everybody needs to see that movie.

Speaking of movies, there are a whole bunch I want to see. skuldchan, are you interested in seeing either Hellboy 2 or X-Files while I'm out in LA? I'm guessing that without Valerie, I'm going to have to go see Kit Kitteridge on my own. :D;

I really need a costumes tag. I think I'm just afraid to go back through ALL my previous entries and apply it, because I bet I have a billion entries that would need tagging. D:

HEY WAIT. Someone moved my action figures around. XD Win. Though I'm not sure exactly what Ron is planning to do to Mal... >>; Aw, it's almost like having Valerie back.

Happy Pi Day~ (Also don't forget it's Talk Like a Physicist Day. :D I think by defualt of being a physicist, I shouldn't have to try hard to do this. XD)

And as long as I'm sharing pictures, here are some from Megacon:

Invisible weapon fight!
D: I AM SHORT
Rena~!
Satoko's only a little evil...
This was just an awesome shot XD
Lookit the cutest time lady ever~!
Ron says: Don't hurt me!!!
A step up from the Kimmunicator...
Scott is badass with a sonic screwdriver.
Con loot~ :D

The rest are up here, should anyone want to view them. :D; Lindsay, if you want more/bigger pictures (like the ones I took of your front and back for cosplay profiles), just let me know and I'll send you the link. :D

Off to eat lunch~

Okay, not much point other than I got Dan's pictures today YAY!

( WHEE it's us with famous people! :D )

Yep, that was all. Ahhhhh I don't know if I can make it to midnight. ::dies::

OMGWIN. Nathan Fillion. And Matt Parkman!

FX Show, ILU.

Yay, the AFO report! I'll keep it short and simple, because really, AFO consisted mostly of hanging out and talking to people and missing the events because of said talking. ^^; We did go to Opening Ceremonies and the checkers match, as well as part of the Cosplay Contest, but I think that was all we made it to, other than the Ouran Panel (which was very warm but there was tea~!). I met some of Daisy and Diana's friends, Lindsay and Darcy (I hope I'm spelling that right :O), who are both utterly, utterly awesome. Hanging out with Daisy, Diana, Darcy, Lindsay, and Persimmon is what made the weekend fun! I took a whole bunch of pictures (all of us XD) and got to run around as Keiichi and Harry Potter and Haruhi and there was much fun~ Also, would you believe I wasn't Ryoma once the whole weekend? :O I blame Higurashi for that. ^^;

... Yeah. I said it'd be short. :D; Anyway!

Because I am feeling daring (or, er, something), I'm going to actually put the pictures in the post instead of linking to them. So there are a lot of pictures coming up. Therefore, a cut:

( Pictures under the cut! )

Okay so... I've been meaning to update, I guess, though I don't really have anything exciting to update with. Just... you know. Here~ Metrocon was fun - mostly because I got to hang out with Jen, which is what really mattered, of course! Harry Potter was fun too - went with Valerie, Dave, Lauren, and Tyler & Co.; the only drawback was by Tuesday night I'd randomly come down with some evil cold, so I was kind of sniffly and watery-eyed through the movie. But! Valerie was my hero and gave me a ride so I didn't have to drive. <3 Yesterday I kind of slept all day, mostly because when I tried to get up and function I kind of failed. Today was better, though - got into work late, but I did get in! Looks like I'm getting a new desk tomorrow, actually - Ji has one of the stupid tiny desks, and Catherine wants to keep Prof. Gottesman's desk in the dept. and I have space for a slightly bigger desk. So yay? I think?

I... want to make icons. But yet I don't want to make icons. So I suppose I will leave that for another time. ::kicks Animation Shop::


Okay, mister floaty alien, just because I'm sick doesn't mean I'm that kind of sick. D: Can't you just have little bubbles over your head or something?

HELLO, slowest-passing Friday in the History of Man. -_-; I think Vicki was supposed to be in today, but I emailed her and haven't heard back, so I'm assuming no? (I suppose I shoud walk downstairs and check, to make sure. :x) Aaaaanyway, uh, nothing much going on, just got finished organizing my data and am downloading some new stuff (woo~) and don't have much to do in the interim. ^^: I could read some X-ray papers, but. D: That's not very exciting. Though I'll probably take a look at them in a bit. ^^;

I think I'm still going down to Jacon for tomorrow - since Diana's a judge, she'll be locked away doing that all day, but I'm hoping to at least have (late) dinner with her! Persimmon! Do you know if you're going or not? If you're going, I'll come down in the morning and buy a one-day pass and we can hang out all day~ :D If not, I'll probably just come in the afternoon and not bother buying a badge and hang around waiting for Diana. I think I'm just going to bring Haruhi (Ouran) since it's nearly done and I can finish it tonight; bringing two costumes seems kind of silly but maybe if I go in the morning I'll stuff Ryoma in the car just in case. ^^; My car which now has fresh oil! Because I finally took it in. :D

Only slightly unrelated, I want to learn how to make buttonholes! I tried last night, for the Haruhi jacket, and the process eludes me. D: I can put the foot-thing on the machine and do one line, buuuut... I don't know how to do the rest. >>; Methinks I should dig out the video that came with it and see if that tells me more than the instruction book did. Or maybe just wait 'till Mom comes at the end of the month and accost her. She'll know!

Also, my right ear is clogged. ;_; It's starting to bug me; if it's not better on Monday I'm going to see if someone can take a look at it. And hope they don't laught at me too much.

Happy Friday!

EDIT: ... And the gym is closed. D: Through next week! THANKS, UF. ::kicks them:: Guess I'm running next week, eheh.

Um. So I'm finally done sewing/cleaning/packing/printing, etc. for Anime Boston! And I'm leaving at about 3:30 to make it to Diana's by 4:30 so we can get to the airport~! (You would think with all that early-ness we'd get to Boston before 1:15pm. >>;) In, uh, any case, I should still have email and internet (Jennie's bringing her computer :D) but I may not get to do much more than skim the flist at best. So if anyone really needs anything, just shoot me an email and I'll try to reply! I might do better about checking the muses' flists, because those are less frequently updated, but. :D; Will still be slow with the comments.

Anyone going to AniBos, can't wait to see you there! Everyone else, have an awesome weekend~! :D <333

I am down to my last disc of Dead Like Me. D: I don't want it to end, but yet I have to watch more! Damn, I'm going to be such an unhappy girl when I have no more Adventures of George & Co. to watch. D: Boo on Showtime for canceling it in its second season!

Um... so today was long, though relatively uneventful. Got up at 8:30 to get to a meeting at 9:45 about an alumni/public outreach night only to find it's the same night Valerie and I need to drive down to Orlando for Megacon, so, er, there goes volunteering for that. I really wanted to help, too, since it's at our off-campus observatory and I've only been there once. But I guess it's okay, no one cares about AGN anyway. ^^; I spent the rest of the day working on my referee's response for my paper and walking over to the career fair (with the intention of getting free stuff) only to realize that I didn't have my UF ID on me and apparently you needed that to get in the door. Oops. ^^; So at least I got a nice afternoon walk out of it. XD; Also worked out today (finally!) and finished my book, which means I am seriously down to the last three books Mercedes Lackey has written that have anything remotely to do with Valdemar. This also makes me sad. I want more! I think she should stop taking a break from them and write me more! Please? :D; Never mind I just bought my own copy of By the Sword so I plan to re-read that when I'm done with the new Ursula K. LeGuin one, Gifts. And then I sewed lots of tiny!clothes for plushies. :D; Now Mal and Zoe have shirts~

I also did my civic artful duty and watched The Magic Flute tonight! :D; Or at least the second half of it. My grandma mentioned it was on, and in English too, so I checked it out~ It was quite good. DAMN, that queen can SING. o.o; I did not know people could do that. I'm going to have to download that aria. It was amazing.

Um... in other news, I think I'm almost done with that MomoRyo omake thing I promised someone months ago, though I'm not quite sure about a few things. I like where it started, and I know where I want it to end, but it seems rushed because I don't want it to be more than a stand-alone thing. ::kicks it:: Why can't I write anything short? Lose. D: I also still have that one for which Jen sent me the beginning, and I know where it needs to go, just not quite how to get it there yet. Almost, though!

... Ack. I have a log to edit. :D; I should do that soon.

Also, I really, really like this song~ To whoever I downloaded it from, thank you so much. <3

Okay, sorry for taking up so much space. ^^;