Curse you, social life, for preventing me from posting!

[drakyndra]

Good Lord, I seem to have a social life at the moment. That's kind of scary.

Anyway, Tuesday evening meant another CHAS meeting at The Pancake Parlor. (Mmm, pancakes...), which was as entertainingly random as ever, especially when we discovered plans for next semester, and the astounding fact that we actually have money.

And then, afterwards, we went to the movies. To see The Da Vinci Code.

I am sure a few of you are aware of my opinion of Dan Brown's books. So I wasn't expecting much from the movie. To be brief, I will just say that it was a lot better than the book - not that that is actually hard. I always said it read like a movie novelisation, and so the movie fit the story better. No painful prose or blocks of exposition that just piss me off, or the oh-so-Sueified personal descriptions.

So, it was okay. Watchable, but not particularly good. The Pirates of the Caribbean trailer was awesome, though.

Then, last night, fa11ing_away had gone and arranged for a late Birthday dinner thing, so yay her! So fa11ing_away, punk_rock_nerd, altheas, lena_supercat, de_chel, knave_scurvy, bellmeister, ranorith and me went out and Mexican. Which is quite yummy and fun and all. Especially the part where I had rather too many margaritas.

And then we toddled up to The Croft Institute again (hurrah for weeknights and no entry charge!), which now official qualifies as Awesome^TM. Which was also yay fun. And Pink Grapefruit and Gin = yummers.

You know what? This social life thing, it is actually rather appealing. I can see why people go for it.

Also, My fandom is completely bonkers.

And The Cornfield and The HMS STFU have imploded somewhat, due to vanceone being a misogynistic wanker. So naturally, when I am not being outraged, I discuss Doctor Who with a cool mouse.

Oh, and Rob Shearman remains awesome.

Comments

[xwingace]

Ugh, sounds grueling.

I did an internship two years ago in one of my Uni's OrgChem departments. It happened twice that I had to run an ionic exchange collumn that always took me until late every evening, no matter if started early. Mostly because the compound I got out of it was so unstable it couldn't remain in solution overnight, and I was doing the column in H2O/EtOH so evaporating the solvent took *hours*.

XWA
Did that even make sense? I have this vague recollection that you did something chemistry related, but I might be confusing you with doona_rose

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense, I study chemistry (although I don't know that much and GOD will I be happy when I'm finished) and biology.

So yeah, that made sense. Didn' know you were 'one of us', too! :) EtOH alone is bad enough, but with H2O? gaaaaaah!
I actually liked my OrgChem time. Lots of free time to be on the net and faaar to much coffee. Same as now in the Genetics department when I think about it ^^

[xwingace]

A good, I remembered right :-)

That explanation wouldn't have made much sense to a non-chemist, though. (Maybe drakyndra can tell us if it does?). Not only did I have to evaporate H2O, I couldn't let the temperature of the heating get over room temp (that fun unstable compound again...) so yeah. Ten in the evening before I left, never mind got *home*.

I was in the OrgChem department, but apart from synthesising that one unstable compound, I was more working on physical chemistry (phase diagrams of surfactants and internal structure of microemulsions).

Still left me plenty of time to go on the computers, though, yes. Although I'm still not entirely sure that was that good a developement. I still haven't readjusted to doing some actual work in the times that I don't have classes...

XWA

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I don't quite qualify as a non-chemist, actually, because though I am not studying Chem at Uni, my Mum's a pharmacist, and I did Chem at VCE (and got a 42 for it, too)

[xwingace]

Just the right score for someone of your interests, I should say :-).

And more chem-savvy people just means we're all in good company :-).

XWA