anarchist_nomad | We Could Be Sitting In The Computer Lab, Four AM Before The Final Paper Is Due

Back in the office now -- yes, it is an exciting Friday night, I know!

Just got in a little while ago from the opening session of the Dark Side of Astronomy weekend. The introductory talk was interesting, even though it did not teach me much that was new in the way of physics or astronomy. I did learn what my audience will be like and what level I should be speaking to. And I learned that the astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard had really lived a fascinating life! (Previously, all I had known about him was his star and his catalogue of dark clouds)

Of course, I wouldn't be me if I finished writing a talk earlier than the night before I had to give it. Thankfully, I am close to finished... which means that I will sleep tonight. Probably. Just another couple of hours and it should be done. Anyone who finds themselves near a computer in the next few hours, please feel free to leave some sort of amusing comment to entertain me as I slog along. It will mean revealing yourself to be having as uneventful a Friday night as the one that I am currently experiencing, but the effort will be appreciated.

Actually, as talks go, I have had fun writing this one. If there is interest -- and last year, there was enough to pressure me onto the programme when I had no intention of doing anything -- maybe I will show it at P**T*** in October.

Meanwhile, let me just wish a very happy birthday to the charming

ms_redcat before I get back to work! Thus ends the few weeks of each year when we are the same age. I hope that you have a wonderful one, sweetie -- hard to believe I've known you for nearly ten years now!

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Date: 2008-04-04 10:32 pm (UTC)

From:

sanjibabes.livejournal.com

no subject

Tonight I have:
- cooked a stew with beef, carrots and potatoes
- chatted topless whilst on web cam with a gorgeous man
- watched Torchwood and cried
- got cuddles from another gorgeous man
- chatted with a bunch of mad writers online
- texted friends
- listened to Xbox combat things on some game
- done laundry

Not that interesting

Date: 2008-04-04 10:45 pm (UTC)

acelightning.livejournal.com

I'd be very interested in your presentation, come October. But you probably already knew that.

Let's see... tonight I'm about to go out and buy some random groceries and household supplies. Then I'll come home and cook dinner - I don't know what I'm going to cook, yet, because that's part of what I'm going to buy. Then I'll spend the rest of the night catching up on email and LJ. I'll probably take a break for an hour or two to make some kind of snack or "munchies" type of food; I've been making them, instead of buying them, because the budget is absurdly tight at the moment. (Right now, I'm thinking of cinnamon buns, but that might change.) And that's my exciting Friday night. Whee ;-)