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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2008-07-23 12:54 pm

slightly dispiriting realizations

1.) I think my laptop is not long for this world :( :( :( The spontaneous crashing/OMFG OPERATING SYSTEM CATASTROPHE/YOUR BIOS IS FUCKED UP, MAN!!!/BSOD messages have been coming faster and faster since they started a few days ago. I've uninstalled everything I've put on in the past month, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. This sort of thing characterized the last days of my old laptop, so I am not very hopeful at this point.

2.) I have no butt. I put on a pair of new jeans today and looked in the mirror, and they fit everywhere, except my butt, where instead of a butt there is something approaching a concavity. Why? Why? I am curvy almost everywhere else, except there, and you could use my butt to rule straight lines on a wall. Typically I am not very body-conscious, but this bothers me for some reason.

3.) Three days in a row it has rained.

4.) Dissertations do not, in fact, write themselves. Not to torture the poor word, but... Why? Dissertations have been around for hundreds of years; you'd figure they would have evolved to the point where they are sentient, and instead of writing one, a doctoral student would have to hunt and capture the wild dissertation, and then fend off the committee that tries to steal it. If the student can defend the dissertation from thieves/predators/committee members, then the doctorate is awarded.

5.) The word "frankly" really really bothers me. It's probably my most-disliked word ever and causes my spine to go all weird and hackle-y when I read it. "Frank" isn't much better; "Frankish" makes me squirm. I don't even like typing them.

On the other hand "salacious" is a fucking fantastic word. Salacious.



Salacious.

[eta] Although my all-time favorite word, for the record, is "sloth."
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I had! I LOVE it.

See, sloths move very little, but meanwhile their brains are focused on the right (salacious) thoughts. And when they move it is purposefully!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
So that's what youthful!Rodney is thinking about when he's lounging on his couch, pretending to be reading for his dissertation!

I know that's what I think about :>
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
same here. *kicks masters thesis*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
This is why there needs to be more fic with youthful!Rodney pretending to read for his dissertation but actually

a) musing on the hotness of his roommate, John Sheppard
b) musing on the hotness of his topology professor, John Sheppard
c) musing on the hotness of John Sheppard in any capacity
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh, oh, john as a topology professor; I approve!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
You just know that John talking about compactness and connectedness makes Rodney all sorts of helpless, but he's really gone when they start talking about topology as it applies to wormholes.

Rodney's in big trouble, I think.
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig trouble. entire afternoons' worth of dreamy mentally salacious slothy moments on the couch! no work done! Weird erotic dreams with wormholes rippling around naked john!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Sitting through seminars are hell. Sitting in John's office going over his reading... oh god. Torture like that hasn't been invented, inside hell or out.