And the silence of the shining stone
like the shattering crystal of the poet cries:
"I the enigma undefined,
the error of my age;
the players and the play defamed
that tread a timeless stage.
Ay! both hero and the rake,
of tragedy and of comic parts;
the dirge at many a wake
and the wit that veins the farce."
Oscar Wilde
This layout is an Act of Clawed.
Saturday, October 20, 2001
Ah, to be even semi- productive... I cannot forget to finish my chem homework, or my essay. But, got shopping, etc. done, so I suppose that's something. Now - food.
::giggle:: game was fuuuu~un... especially when one draw from the deck of many things took Evan from a first lever character to a fourth level character in one draw... and then when he got cornered by an amorous young woman while climbing through her bedroo window... or when Tunk went running around the manor house dressed in white fog being chased by most of the garrison... or when they both got duped by the bad guy... oh, just go read the syonpsis when it's up!
::giggle:: eeevil plans for my poor players tonight... eeeeeevil... especially with Lora gone home for the night, and thus Eponlora out to recouperate in the woods somewhere...
::clawed:: *shoves GM* Away with you! ::points:: to bed! no more computer games tonight, even if you did return to us in the non-CGI world for dinner and hilarity! Sleep, girl!
Bird, hopefully I will see you after class in the morning, no?
mmm fun. Went to pick up Flyboy (Shaila's boyfriend) from the airport, then wound up in Denny's with the two of them, Tunk, and Olowado. A fun time. except now I'm cold again.
Silence, still, out of our little feathered friend? Bird, I'm seriously beginning to worry about you, and if I don't find you tomorrow, I'm seriously going to come knocking down your door.
off to bed with me, for what passes for early for me. Still dead, still haven't got enough sleep but I haven't even gotten around to unpacking yet, and I am not going to let it go another hour, and have too many things to do tomorrow.
today was... interesting. got virtually nothing done, and yet got things accomplished... my brain still hasn't come back from this weekend, I think... either that or it wants to go back...
Edited the quotes - post down below... still can't get my linking - thingys to work properly. Bird, if you need help, call me... I will be here for most of the night but probably not on AIM, and I've done chromosome mapping.
And thus does fallout from September 11th come to me in a very small, personal-space kind of way...
As if the world doesn't know, NAU is home to a biology department, in which we do research. And part of that research involves - yes, folks, it's true - ANTHRAX. And Dr. Paul Keim, who has been in the news once or twice of late - and my semi-advisor/scholarship-check-signer/ex-boss. Until about the first week in Sept, I worked in his lab (the decision to switch labs would be made just when things got interesting) as a "gofer" type research assistant. We both felt that this was not what I wanted to do, and so I am in the process of changing labs. Until this morning, I was still in posession of keys to the lab, and my lab coat, notebook, and disks were in my lab drawer.
Today I went to retrieve my personal property and give back my keys... to discover that the second floor (where the lab is located) is blocked off in any way possible and that one must be escorted around if we wish to even get up there. Now, this I could agree with, and I understand their reasoning - after all, there is anthrax there - except for a few points:
1. Up until about two weeks ago, this security never existed... and we never had a problem. What would they have done if the labs existed in the old building, near the second-floor classrooms?
2. All of the Doctors who have offices on that floor are also Professors... with classes.... ever heard of "Office Hours??"
3. Because of how the building is set up, any one who may need to, say... use the autoclave or other important machines, or get on that floor, or clean, has a key... I will have a new set before long myself.
4. Every room on that floor has huge windows.
Translation: This is a university... we're not talking top-secret government research-type station. Security is pointless... and the next person who startes ranting about Anthrax to me, or starts complaining about "I didn't even know there was anthrax in this state!" gets pumched in the face... or thrown through the Keim lab's plate-glass windows....
Not to mention that one can no longer sit in the hallway between the chem building and the biochem building... in the nice, sunny windows... I'm sure Bird will have a similar statement about that new little restriction...