Things I should be doing:

Finishing my JETs application
Writing one of my four assignments for either Techniques in DNA analysis or Bioinformatics (All due Dec 18th)

Edit: Progress report for self
DNA Processes 500/2500
Bioinformatics 607/2500
Gene Tech 642/300
Lab report 410/???

Studying for my Bioinformatics exam (Dec 7th)

What I am doing:

Posting on LJ
Finally using that dreamwidth code capncosmo sent me several weeks ago (thanks by the way)(I have the same username)
Watching stuff
IRC downloading
Procrastinating
Feeling queasy
Deciding if I want to participate in Toku Holidays this year and wondering what I want and what I'll offer to write

Damn, I hate it that two of my housemates cornered me when I was feeling yuck (third hasn't moved in yet), today they knocked on my door when I was feeling ill in my room and suggested shrinking the cleaning rota from Mon-Thurs to Mon-Tues because idiot housemate isn't in the house over weekends and should get to have time in a clean house when she is present. I said 'fine, whatever' and went to lie down again. Now I'm feeling a little better and realize how unfair this is. Why should we plan the cleaning rota around when she is present when I and other housemates (potentially) spend 7 days a week here, why should I have to come back after long a long saturday/sunday at work to a messy kitchen or bathe in a not properly cleaned in five days bathroom? Have to raise it at the next house meeting.

I finished my degree! After much stress, too much caffeine and headaches I have my piece of paper. I received Upper Second Class Honours in Forensic Science and Psychology. Parents are proud (to have bragging rights), brother thinks it's great. I have received lots of cards (and money).

And I'm straight back to take a Masters. I had been hoping to get a job but there is so much competition on the market that there is hardly anything for Graduates at the moment, no matter where I looked. Oh well.

Upside is though I do have more time on my hands, fewer classes so hopefully I can finish learning to drive, make a little extra money and generally be more productive in all areas of my life.

Here's to more hard work!

Some of you may remember my post about how my dissertation supervisor screwed me around a few weeks back.

I just checked to see if any results were in.

For my dissertation I got a first!

I am more relieved than happy to be honest though. And tomorrow I have to meet with my supervisor to discuss how my project could be expanded upon with his Masters student. Good fun.

So I received an e-mail from my supervisor yesterday. The entire text was:

Sorry, had to dash for airport, see you monday.

Exactly how does that answer any of my questions? What about my dissertation which I attached? What about my deadline being 5pm today? What about asking for another extension? I included my phone number and the woman who approves extensions contact details.

In the vain hope that he would actually do anything useful I went to see extensions woman who though sympathized with my position had not received anything from my supervisor and thus could not extend my deadline, especially since it was 'finished' (In the sense there was nothing more I could do without having further input). It was done to the best of my ability but my supervisor is stupidly particular about things and I'm worried that its missing something/something is not done the way he wants.

I have spent a year jumping through hoops for this, stressing myself out and probably contributing to my health problems and he cannot take the time to write me a proper reply. I have sat in his office for hours on end waiting whilst he writes carefully worded e-mails to other people instead of looking over the piece of work I stayed up till 3am to finish. I have sat outside his office, in foyers, taking time out of my day to walk to out of the way places just so I could have a meeting which he is always late to. I damn well deserve at least a 2:1 for this. The write up may not be exactly what he wants but that his is own fault, he himself said a few weeks ago at the project presentations I know what I am talking about (Got a 1st for the presentation, despite being so nervous I was shaking the entire time).

I am glad to have it handed in though. I just have a 90 minute exam Wednesday (Need to cram like no-body's business) and then I am finished.

Also since I missed lunch whilst he was dashing to the airport I went to the Japanese restaurant in town. It was good. I felt so much better for treating myself.

But I need to clear my head a bit.

( So here goes )

Skaletsky, H., Kuroda-Kawaguchi, T., Minx, P., J., Cordum, H., S., Hillier, L., Brown, L., G., Repping, S., Pyntikova, T., Ali, J., Bieri, T., Chinwalla, A., Delehaunty, A., Delehaunty, K., Du, Hui., Fewell, G., Fulton, L., Fulton, R., Graves, T., Hou, S., F., Latrielle, P., Leonard, S., Mardis, E., Maupin, R., Mcpherson, J., Miner, T., Nash, W., Nguyen, C., Ozersky, P., Pepin, K., Rock, S., Rohlfing, T., Scott, K., Schultz, B., Strong, C., Tin-Wollam, A., Yang, S., Waterson, R., H., Wilson, R., K., Rozen, S., Page, D., C. (2003). The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes. Nature. 423:825-837.

Planning a report with one person is bad enough but with this many? Must have been an headache.

Thanks Meg for beta'ing, I should hopefully have the edited version done in a few days.

( Things/People that have annoyed me recently: )

( Dramas; Zeni Geba, Mei-chan, Love Shuffle, Rescue, Voice )

( Toku; Shinkenger, Decade )

I now need to go finish my essay. Later!

I really should be doing something else (Dissertation, essay, reading). I'm having a fail at concentrating on anything important week. The only thing I've managed to do for days is wrestle with the University Library journal system (Which doesn't have access to half the articles that might be useful (Read: Make vague oblique reference to in literature review/conclusion to pad out reference list) or half the things that are actually relevant)

Anyways I finished up Go-Onger and Kiva. Watch out for spoilers

( I was disappointed )



Decade and Shikenger

( Hopes )



I'm interested in quite a few dramas this season. Love Shuffle and Zeni Geba don't have hardsubs out yet so I'll focus on Mei-chan no Shitsuji and Voice.

( I am such a tool )

You are listening to Motorhead at max volume and still manage to doze off.

Things that are great about working in a lab and owning a lab coat:

Instant Halloween Outfit

I live! And I bring fic, enjoy

[Title] The Object of Everyone’s Affection
[Author]awkward_as_heck
[Characters] This includes characters from Gekiranger, Magiranger, Kamen Rider Kaubto and Faiz as well as an OC, Nagasaki Nanase.
[Word Count] 3556
[Rating] Teen
[Spoilers] Episode 34 of Faiz and various minor plot points for all the other series
[Notes] In terms of timeline somewhere in the thirties of Gekiranger.
[Summary] A playful Miki ruins Retsu’s peaceful afternoon, unfortunately things only get weirder from there.
[Disclaimer] I don't own Super Sentai or Kamen Rider

Big thanks to megthelegend for beta’ing this fic and coming up with the title that had long eluded me. ( The Object of Everyones Affection )

Moving house is hard work.

But alas I am fully settled into my new place and am torrenting all the toku releases I have missed out on.

Soon I will be all caught up.

Yay!

Title: Box of Emotions 2/2
Author: awkward_as_heck
Character: Fukami Retsu from Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger
Word Count: 3722
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After Retsu has an argument with his brother he sits in a bar and muses
Warnings: Angst
Disclamier: I don't own Sentai.
A/N: Second five prompts from table two from 10_themes

( Box of Emotions )

Title: Box of Emotions 1/2
Author: awkward_as_heck
Character: Fukami Retsu from Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger
Word Count: 3845
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After Retsu has an argument with his brother he sits in a bar and muses
Warnings: Angst
Disclamier: I don't own Sentai.
A/N: First five prompts from table two from 10_themes

( Box Of Emotions )

For all I complain about University I sure do get lazy the second it finishes. I haven't done much except read 'The Red Queen' by Matt Ridley and 'Superior Saturday' by Garth Nix since I finished my exams last month. Also I have clocked up an insane number of hours on Final Fantasy 12 and still have exactly no feeling of accomplishment because it was frankly to easy and too boring. The only reason my Clan Rank is higher than my brothers is because of all my patient hours trying to eek some fun and challenge out of the damn game. Honestly Square need to up the ante for veteran players because this is just insulting.

( Hitting that Social Balance )

Also all the cramming (and obsessing) paid off, the late nights and surreptitious studying whilst on the counter at work obviously did the trick as I graduated my second year of university with a high 2:1. Sweet.

And alas to Toku.

( Tomica Hero Rescue Force )

( Kamen Rider Kiva )

( Engin Sentai Go-onger )

( Kamen Rider Faiz/Phi/555 )

Not really sure if it is Toku or not

( Keitai Sousakan 7 )

Definitely not Toku

( Rookies )

( Delicious Gakuin )

Now finish up some writing.

I got a pay rise!

From £5.75 to £6.27 per hour!

Engine Sentai Go-Onger 13 Subbed: I fell asleep when I was watching the initial broadcast, a combination of exhaustion from late nights to get in all my uni assignments and being on my feet for a good ten hours for work. It was good, completely jumped the shark at the end and wow, Kegarishia cleans up well.

I was at work Monday for audit. One of my bosses said to me that I have absolutely tiny feet. I said well, I'm not tall and there isn't a lot of me so why would I have big feet? He said yeah but they're still tiny.

Why are men so amazed with how small womens feet are sometimes? Don't they understand proportions?

Audit sucked anyways, severely understaffed , we hadn't even started the hand counts when myself and another girl had to leave at midnight. Still free dinner so it wasn't the end of the world.

( Support woes )

Four weeks?

Oh well.

University caught up with me, three assignments all in on the same day (And dear lord two got way more complicated than need be). My dissertation supervisor got the man flu and got me an extension on my project preparation which after obsessing about it for nearly three weeks he finally gave the okay to finish it off and hand in. I hope I got a decent mark for it, as I had revised and edited it so many goddamn times. On the bright side I can finally have some lie ins and after a week with about twelve hours sleep my body is loving me for it.

Got caught out with lack of sleep as well, last Saturday I set my alarm for seven am to get up for work, I recall turning off my alarm putting on my TV and getting my raisins and apricots. The next thing I remember is its twenty to nine and I'm due there in five minutes.

Setting a new record for getting ready I rush out manage to call work to say I'll be a bit late and because I called and apologized and my boss didn't write me up for it. Also after much badgering I'm finally getting to talk to my bosses about a well earned pay rise as I'm still on basic despite being both business and service desk trained and cashing up the tills at the end of the day. No more £5.75 an hour for me. And considering some of the crap I have to put up with (I swear the crazies co-ordinate their efforts to torture me and the other weekend staff) and I've been there a good eighteen months, done all the training I think its about time.

( Kiva 17 and other J-Drama, possible spoilers )

Last Monday I went down to the Old Bailey with some of the members of my Forensics class. It was really interesting sitting up in the public gallery but was also a bit awkward us random students peering down on a variety of cases, we caught some odd looks from the people there.

I still have my revision to do for my exams at the start of next month, I'm still procrastinating over it a lot but I'm still learning, if slowly. Urgh.

Anyways I have some posting to do over at Sentai Gauken then I'm going to get a little more revision done. I do have work tomorrow but its audit so hopefully minimal dealing with customers. Woho!

Busy week, two assignments and lots of running around for the group project, I don't even know what a lie-in is anymore.

Whats been worse is that I've had a throat infection and been on penicillin all week. As well as sorting my voice out they've given me headaches, made me freakishly tired during the day and has screwed up my sleeping pattern. But I still managed karaoke at the staff dinner on Saturday after about eight cups of green tea. It was only one song and I was drinking coffee throughout it but at least I made an effort which is more than some of the miserable buggers were doing. And I hadn't been drinking either so no dutch courage for me.

Still it was a good night with lots of free food so who am I to let it bother me?

( Toku on the other hand... )

In fitness news I ran 2km in ten minutes today, that a new record for me and I didn't think I'd hit it for a few more weeks considering how little time I actually get to work out, but since I switched to fewer higher intensity workouts instead of my usual little and often ones I am seeing improvements, the whole changing your routine once in a while thing really does work.

Oh heres a little something I've been working on for a while.

Title: How to Spice Up A Marriage
Author: awkward_as_heck
Fandom: Mahou Sentai Magiranger
Characters: Urara/Hikaru
Rating: 15
Warnings: Few hints of sex, nothing explicit
Disclaimer:Don't own
Summary: Frustrated Urara plots and goes shopping.
Notes: Post Series.

( Magiranger One-Shot )


I also finally got round to taking my glasses in for repair. Since the frames were busted and it was a manufacture fault I got them replaced free of charge. Sweet. And these new ones are working out great.