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[sciatrix]

things I should be doing:

• asking facilities to take away the corpse freezer from the animal rooms
• asking facilities to take away the undead -80 freezer we are inheriting from a lab that is retiring
• asking facilities to do other ancillary things like find out why the heat doesn't work in this crappy basement or repaint our "dry erase" wall, swiftly becoming a dingy grey wall from which nothing erases
• assembling quizzes for students whose class starts in two hours
• grading quizzes for students whose class starts in two hours
• eating actual meals
• the dreaded manuscript

things I am actually doing:

• my beautiful sunshine collaborators told me there was a whole book about how in the Renaissance there was a lot of outrage at the idea that flowers might actually be having sex, and I found it at the library and now I am trying to wrench it from a crummy PDF into a nice readable ebook
• listening to the Moana soundtrack on repeat
• furiously updating my twitter and occasionally watching my Metafilter account in case this dude comes back and flounces entertainingly again
• talking to all of y'all

I ought to do one of those December posting memes for content and discussion, but I've forgotten where to find them and I'm pretty overwhelmed. If I can find one, maybe I'll play with that.

Comments

[sebenikela]

oh my GOD that guy is like a caricature of himself! If you wrote that character in fiction it would be too on the nose, like at least give him SOME self-awareness humans aren't REALLY that dense, are they?

i'm not surprised, honestly, of course that fucking happened, but at the same time, oh my GOD dude just stop

[sciatrix]

Man, it got even better than that: he flounced (which the mods deleted) by huffily quoting a ROMAN POLANSKI FILM at me.

I shit you not.

[sebenikela]

........W O W .

I just.... /gestures vaguely at the world

[sciatrix]

mmm-hm!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm glad you got to see that nonsense just for the gloat fuel, and I'm glad that the mods prevented him from derailing the thread.

(Is there a backchannel-MF-comm here on DW?)

[sciatrix]

You know what, I'm genuinely unsure. I should look into that.

sorry for giant list

[brainwane]

I saw a post-every-day prompt list and thought I'd share it in case you wanted to pick from it:

first day: picture of your face
December 02 → your holiday wish list
December 03 → talk about movies this year
December 04 → talk about television this year
December 05 → talk about books this year
December 06 → talk about food this year
December 07 → talk about music this year
December 08 → talk about games this year
December 09 → talk about art this year
December 10 → a photo of you taken over ten years ago
December 11 → talk about volunteering/charity this year.
December 12 → talk about this year in medical news
December 13 → talk about hobbies this year
December 14 → something that made you proud this year
December 15 → something that made you laugh this year
December 16 → something that made you sad this year
December 17 → something that made you happy this year
December 18 → your favorite photo this year
December 19 → what you learned this year
December 20 → a picture of you taken over 20 years ago
December 21 → your favorite websites this year
December 22 → new items you’ve added to collections this year
December 23 → travel you did this year
December 24 → Something which caught your interest this year
December 25 → a photo of you and your family
December 26 → talk about politics or current events this year
December 27 → 3 goals for next year
December 28 → your plans for New Years Eve
December 29 → talk about things you are excited for next year
December 30 → a list of what you got for your winter holiday
December 31 → best moment of the month

Re: sorry for giant list

[sciatrix]

ooh! Thank you, I actually really appreciate that. I can't promise to pick up with it, because apart from nothing else I have massive holes in my memory of what I did this year--no sense of time, I'm afraid--but I might borrow some of the ideas.