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Had a great time at the grad student retreat last weekend. Highlights include playing all the parts in Rock Band, making pancakes for everyone, nightlighting (baaaaby octopus, plus amphipod and isopod, and many fine swimmy worms), and plant reproduction (salmonberry flowers, some bright-yellow tiny Apiaceae blooming, and moss gametangia). Also apparently the first- and second-years are a bunch of sluts. Why couldn't my year have been a bunch of sluts?
Yesterday I skipped the last pottery class of the quarter to indulge my introvert-hangover from the weekend. Awesome, yes, but left me with a major energy deficit that made me super cranky as well as legitimately tired. No migraines, at least. I retrieved most of my last round of items today. Sadly, I never did find the stuff I made from closed forms and posted here pre-bisquing. I'll try to do a photo roundup of this quarter's remaining stuff when it's all safely at home; a couple of pieces are really great.
If I'd been thinking straight I'd have realized that going to a concert this week when I'm leaving for a conference again tomorrow was not a good idea. But it was DEVO. Openers The Octopus Project (send them baby octy video? y/n) were pretty good electronica with the most precisely played theremin I've ever seen. Devo are in fact about 50 now, but they change into as many crazy costumes as ever and jump around pretty well. They started with a mini-set of new stuff, then a mini-set of old stuff, both with great background animations cleverly projected on a metal grid for a pixely look. After that they were into covers and more old songs. If you'd asked me to identify ten Devo songs before tonight, I would've floundered, but I knew a lot more than I thought. I would've included "Working in a Coal Mine," though, which they did not. Good concert; need earplugs next time; they should customize their zooming-in-on-the-world animation for each concert city because it's rather obvious that we are not in Mexico.
Still have to finish getting my talk ready for the conference; PI wants me to practice tomorrow morning before we leave. It's nearly done, just fine-tuning the videos and fluorescence intensity data. I got a lot of good feedback from the seminar I beta-tested it on two weeks ago, which I've already incorporated. In a form of mild self-control, I will not be playing Okamiden until the talk is over (probably on Friday; wouldn't it be nice to know by now? but no) -- but the DS is charging RIGHT NOW.
Yesterday I skipped the last pottery class of the quarter to indulge my introvert-hangover from the weekend. Awesome, yes, but left me with a major energy deficit that made me super cranky as well as legitimately tired. No migraines, at least. I retrieved most of my last round of items today. Sadly, I never did find the stuff I made from closed forms and posted here pre-bisquing. I'll try to do a photo roundup of this quarter's remaining stuff when it's all safely at home; a couple of pieces are really great.
If I'd been thinking straight I'd have realized that going to a concert this week when I'm leaving for a conference again tomorrow was not a good idea. But it was DEVO. Openers The Octopus Project (send them baby octy video? y/n) were pretty good electronica with the most precisely played theremin I've ever seen. Devo are in fact about 50 now, but they change into as many crazy costumes as ever and jump around pretty well. They started with a mini-set of new stuff, then a mini-set of old stuff, both with great background animations cleverly projected on a metal grid for a pixely look. After that they were into covers and more old songs. If you'd asked me to identify ten Devo songs before tonight, I would've floundered, but I knew a lot more than I thought. I would've included "Working in a Coal Mine," though, which they did not. Good concert; need earplugs next time; they should customize their zooming-in-on-the-world animation for each concert city because it's rather obvious that we are not in Mexico.
Still have to finish getting my talk ready for the conference; PI wants me to practice tomorrow morning before we leave. It's nearly done, just fine-tuning the videos and fluorescence intensity data. I got a lot of good feedback from the seminar I beta-tested it on two weeks ago, which I've already incorporated. In a form of mild self-control, I will not be playing Okamiden until the talk is over (probably on Friday; wouldn't it be nice to know by now? but no) -- but the DS is charging RIGHT NOW.
