i'll paint the stars

Woo, apparently I had $25 in change sitting around my house and the office. I finally got myself to bring it into the grocery store and toss it into the Coinstar machine and then I went on a mini-Amazon shopping spree~ I may or may not have bought Brother Bear 1 and 2 on DVD. XD; Well, okay, I did. But they were just SO CUTE.

Also, after two tries, I have finally gotten ahold of the person in the Astronomy office responsible for travel reimbursement and she says she'll work on mine tomorrow. This is good, because my checking account is the lowest it's ever been and it might be due to the, oh, $1500 they owe me from Rio. >>; Thankfully I will have that soon. Or, at least, sooner than I would have if I hadn't bugged her, I'm sure. Next up is registering for the AAS, but at least I don't have to pay for that one.

Aaaand now I am off! To clean or write. Perhaps clean then write. Or maybe just write. XD; Even if I think I'm going to scrap the scene I had with Annabeth and throw Thalia in there instead... uh. Someone really needs to explain to me why I don't like Annabeth overly much, because really I should. :x So why don't I? ;_; (I suppose that if I'm sad I don't, that's at least a sign that there is some hope?) Actually, she's really great for fics, because she's the smart one. She gets to figure everything out! Except for this one. No one will see this coming. >D

:D I am alive! And showered. Feeling much cleaner and more awake. It's totally time for lunch. (I'm an hour ahead of FL and it's almost one! And "breakfast" was at seven or something on the plane.)

8 hour flight plus the flight to Miami; a few minor mishaps that I wrote down in a notebook and shall be transferred here later. Happy Friday, everyone!

You know, I think the more mortal peril Percy is in, the funnier he is. XD Just saying. I'm, like, terrified to keep turning pages, but every time I do I just keep cracking up out loud. XD Well, I mean, it's sad too, because people are dying. But Percy is still pretty hilarious. I also heard the Lightning Thief trailer might be showing before the Half-Blood Prince? That would be made of WIN. :DDD Though then I read that they might be scrapping one of my favorite scenes... I hope not, that would make me sad!

Brazil visa mailed, yay. $160 later, ugh. D: (Plus the $7 for the passport photos in which I look rather tired and unhappy because you are not allowed to smile.) Man, I wish I could get reimbursed before the conference. I didn't get my title transferred yet, but in my defense that's because I didn't fall asleep until at least 5:30 this morning. That was sad. I kept watching Adult Swim hoping Venture Bros would be on, but alas, no. Maybe it's only on on the weekends. In any case, I was tired but just couldn't sleep, so naturally I was not willing to get up at 7 this morning and opted for 9:40 instead. I'll aim for title-transferring tomorrow.

In the meantime, today is X-ray flux map day. :D And no NGN, so there will be running and writing and possibly Ahsoka-starting. I need to get working on costumes! I also need to go fabric-shopping, but I feel poor after dumping $1400 into Brazil that I won't get back until probably after D*C. Ah well.

I bought an armadillo! He is very cute and he has a cowboy hat and a bandana. His name is Sam Armitude the Luptidillo. :D (No, seriously. Don't ask. XD)

I'm sure there was more I was supposed to write here. We went to P.F. Chang's and we let slip to the very awesome waitress that it was Valerie's birthday and Valerie got CHOCOLATE CAKE. She got a lot of chocolate cake with strawberry sauce and it was very, very yummy. Everyone should go to P.F. Chang's on their birthday for this cake. XD (Our waitress had lived in Florida, which was cool too. She was very nice.) Also, it was kind of awesome to be able to pull out chinese food and chocolate cake in the middle of a plane flight to finish off our leftovers. XD

The trip home was all right - plane ride went smoothly, as did the drive back. Maaaan, I need to not eat out for at least a week. D: Tomorrow I am going to go to the grocery store, Linens n' Things, and Borders. The latter two only because I have gift cards, I swear! I want to get a TV tray-thing so I can work on my laptop while sitting on the couch so I can sit next to my cat~ :D;; Yes. Really. And then I am going to work on my paper because sdafidngaiugnr due Wednesday.

ALSO. Gundam SEED on DVD pretty. *_* Too bad we're already past episode 25 on our weekly watching party! Maybe the Complete Collection II will come out before we finish...

Mrar, I wonder where my Gundam SEED Destiny Complete Best went. Probably still on Zero System. >>;

There was definitely something luptitudinal I was going to say, but Valerie wrote it down so I don't have it. I'm sure no one cares. XD;

Look, Valerie's famous! :DD

And Tyler won a Chambliss Award. :DDD

I... got a scrolling nametag. Three guesses as to what I made it say.

Ahhhhh orals are scary. ._.;;;;

I can has internets yay! :D They're only charging us for one computer per day even though we've got three. So win!

V. tired now. Bed early. ^^;

Message frm the v-bird: Tyler found his spoon!

Managed to catch that on the plane on the way home yesterday; apparently it's the brightest comet in quite a while~ It's visible just after the sun sets and right before it rises, in the west (evening) and east (morning) just below and to the right of Venus~ More pictures here if anyone's interested, though they're not the greatest in the world.

Uh, speaking of pictures! *Most* of the pictures from Seattle are up (with Tyler-made captions) here. More to be added soon, I think. You know. As if those aren't enough. ^^;

... Wow. I keep trying to type an update and then keep getting distracted. ^^; I would update about Seattle in detail, but I think I really don't feel like it any more than I'm sure any of you want to read it. ^^; So, uh, suffice to say, the meeting was pretty awesome. Very big, but that wasn't so bad. Went to some awesome talks on Stardust and Eris and extremophiles and saw LOTS of five-minute talks (that were obviously twenty minute talks crammed into five minutes ><;) on semi-relevant things, though AGN variability was not really a big topic. >>; The poster went over well and lots of people talked to me (including one guy willing to give me redshifts, whee~!) and the banquet was yummy and we got to watch a movie on Palomar which was really quite good. Seriously, telescopes are such marvels of technology that when you stop to think about it, it really makes you go @.@; We also nabbed three pounds of free stuff (calendars, bookmarks, postcards, posters, mugs, FLASH DRIVES, LASER POINTERS, etc. :D;) and there was a full-scale mockup of the JWST that we walked around~ Very cool! Aside from the conference, we visited Pike Place (and the surrounding market), the Space Needle, the Science Fiction Museum, and lots of yummy restaurants. The beds at the hotel were SO comfy. :D And it even snowed a little! And didn't rain so much! (Ahaha, though normally at conferences, they give you a bag or something with your registration. This one gave us umbrellas. XD; I was amused.)

... Also. Seattle must be the abstract art capital of the world. I swear. (You know, aside from being the Starbucks capital of the world. Because we counted a bajillion of them. Wow. o.o;)

Okay, uh, so much for being concise. ^^; I tried. I hope that wasn't too boring. In any event, it is awesome to be HOME (Sashi agrees) and now I have season 2 of Dead Like Me to watch. (Oh, yes. Also. We watched The Princess Bride today and how did I not know Rube was in it? With a mullet? XD; I laughed~)

asdahaoijkf I want the whole version of this song. D: [/notastalker]

Though the flights were scarily bumpy at times (booo on the scary weather over Atlanta), we've arrived safely in Seattle! We're only allowed one computer per room, apparently, so we're using Tyler's computer; I may not be able to check my flist a ton, but I will still be checking email pretty darn regularly~ ^^ (We have the access, we plan to use it. XD)

It is raining and cold - seems pretty Seattle to me. XD; We're going to do some exploring tomorrow morning, before Tyler has an undergrad orientation thing at 5 or so, and then there's some reception (free food!) after that. Then the conference begins in earnest on Sunday, so we'll be busy on and off until Wednesday afternoon. Then it's another whole day of flying back to Florida Thursday, and back to the department to get in our reimbursement forms Friday. Whee. @.@;

Er, okay, that's really it for now. ^^; My head thinks it's 11:39 and Seattle thinks it's 8:39 and I really have no idea what to do with myself. Eheh.