stuff what is good

[jinian]

(It's just that I am exhausted 100% of the time. Dear friends, next time I yell at you for doing too much while convalescing, you may give me the beady eye and a link to this.)

Tuesday:

1. Crosshatched shadows on the trail.

2. Lab meeting went very well for feeling like I am getting fuck-all done lately. A little good discussion happened, and I seemed on top of the material.

3. Oh, right. Workplace bonding is also letting my coworkers comfort me. Really good conversation with new tech C.

4. Afternoon outing to find a great dress and hang briefly with a capygirl.

5. Bring It On has the typical problem of musicals, i.e., not enough music, but won my heart by closing on outtakes and Toni Basil. (Also Isis is HOT.)

Wednesday:

1. People in costume! One person had very nice tall, wavy, rainbowed horns that I'm sure are associated with no particular fandom whatsoever.

2. My hair is PINK. REAL PINK. And the hairdresser was happy to get to do it.

3. Halloween decorations! Skeleton cutout in someone's window is holding forth on a topic of interest to it, possibly while stoned. (Also good: taking a photo made the bus move in traffic, hence the blur.) Also, a lighted inflatable trailer from which Death periodically peeks out.







3. Janelle Monáe is the best performer working today. She is my Michael Jackson and my Elvis Presley.

4. We wore outfits.




There was only the one white top hat, and it was in coat check most of the time. :) Look how interesting my dress is though!


Thursday:

1. More outfits at the lab Halloween party.




So I wasn't in season. Oh well.



The flowers are paper cutouts I slit and slipped over my existing bobby pins.


2. CONSUME ALL PEA PODS

3. People are being Janelle Monáe for Halloween and she's retweeting them all, it's so great.

4. When you believe in science and magic at the same time, the world is amazing.

5. Last day of antibiotics!

Comments

[skygiants]

Wait, am I reading that right, did you see Bring It On: The Musical?

[jinian]

Not on stage, no, but the movie is itself a musical of sorts. If I'd remembered there was a proper musical I'd have been more specific.

[oyceter]

PINK HAIR! Best!

[jinian]

Hee. :) There were some wonderful reactions. Japanese postdoc was extremely dubious about the whole thing, but PI was the funniest. Every time someone would arrive at the party, she would say, "and THIS WOMAN dyed her hair, that's not a wig!" and go on about it trying to get them to express appropriate amazement. Until one of the staff from the granting agency showed up, and was all nonchalant, "Oh, cool, I had my hair that color once. In like 1983," immediately earning my eternal loyalty. :) She complimented me quietly later too. Counterculture represent!