more positive things

1. Slept almost all night, woke to DJ silliness and "Nightswimming". Mouthed off to the radio.

2. Saw The Fork Lift of Boats. Actually, that article is incorrect, because part of the greatness is that it's merely *A* Fork Lift of Boats, other shipyards have them too.

3. Today's bad interview was HILARIOUSLY bad, like, you will be reading about my part of it on Mansplained.

4. And we hired the good one! She starts very soon... after she gets back from Burning Man. :) So you see the good one is also hilarious! (She clearly felt awkward that I figured it out, which, M-pig is the one who figured it out really, so I made sure to come out as queer to make her feel more comfortable.)

5. Emoting got me onto a bus! The bus was early, I was frustrated, I stopped and pulled out my cell phone and made annoyed wtf shrugging motions... and she stopped at the crosswalk, motioned me to come get in, and said, "quick, before anyone sees me!" I thanked her and she said, "I saw that expression, I thought, I bet she wanted this bus!" So, you know, I didn't hassle her for being three crucial minutes early.

link time

People who should always sing Adam Ant songs include Gwen Stefani and Janelle Monáe. (Red-haired girl loses to Bleu Finnegan.)

Online Dating Ipsum and the Autostraddle thread thereupon taught me that people try to come on to horse_ebooks. WHAT.

Street harassment in an ideal world comic by Mallory Ortberg and Matt Lubchansky

grouchy friday

GRUMPY:

1. Why do people think any software except Sequencher is acceptable for evaluating sequence data? IT IS NOT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS, BUY ME THE GOOD ONE.

2. Heart of Thomas is so boring, people. So, so boring. I gave up.

3. I am at the stage of ongoing gut badness where I'm like, I already feel sick as hell, I'm going to eat whatever the fuck I want. This is obviously not a great idea... except for the part where sometimes I feel completely better after I do that. Intermittent reinforcement argh.

4. Terrible things happen that make people I love feel bad, and I can neither protect nor avenge.

5. My grumpy items' importances are all out of scale with each other.

Happy:

1. Cool caressing morning with the lake like metal. I love that.

2. I was taught that Plantago lanceolata was wind-pollinated (though note that that paper actually says its own thesis is not well supported). Well, life will find a way, because I've seen honeybees on it the last three days.

3. Finally got to see Pacific Rim at Pacific Place last night! But why in this movie are everyone's lips so very pink? It's not the presence of a dimensional portal for alien invasion; that lipstick would clash with the Iron Man suit terribly.

4. I am a POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR whose diploma was mailed today.

5. One girl at the bus stop was reading Le Guin, one was reading Best Science and Nature Writing. I made sure to stand colinear and equidistant as I read my own rather pulpier SF novel.