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Suddenly I'm postgraduate help guru. Both my mother and a friend have referred people with tricky supervisors to me for advice.

When did this happen?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHJkyMo9MtU

The choreography alone...

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http://boards.4chan.org/cgl/res/5567586

Be still my beating heart, for I have found my one true tentacular love.

♥♥♥♥♥xxxxxx♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

ETA: Bah, that thread didn't last long. Suffice to say there was very nearly Adeptus Mechanicus rule 34.

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I appreciate that you are committed to absolutely perfecting every detail of my kata, but quite frankly just shouting random words while I perform it is next to useless. "More spirit!" is abstract, but comprehensible - you want me to shout louder and punch harder in general. "Feet" is difficult but probably refers to the fact the floor of the dojo is so damn slippery that I can't keep my feet straight in back stance - they keep sliding. However "hands!" ..what do you want me to do with them? Flutter them? Slap the brown belt next to me? Sign "don't be a twat"?

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J: btw congrats on finishing your book
Me: XD Yeah, it's pretty much a book, isn't it?
J: so what's the hero's name?
Me: Inositol Requiring Enzyme 1 alpha.
Me: It's about her epic quest to save the cell from the dangerous hordes of unfolded protein.
J: wow!
J: sounds epic
J: must build on the arthurian english tradition then
J: is there a damsel in distress?
J: ha ha ha
Me: the endoplasmic reticulum, suffering terribly from the torments of aggregation, reactive oxygen species and calcium imbalance.
J: oh my!
J: sounds like an amazing story!
500 pages of gripping suspense, heroism, and polymerase chain reactions.
J: i think the inositol requiring enzyme alpha 1 is a metaphor for post-war britain and the postcolonial diasporic ethos
Me: What, with all the hostile cultural influences of the transcription factors upregulating protein expression?
Me: And the legacy of the of ribosomal shutdown by eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha of Indian independence?
Me: okay, that was a step too far.

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Okay, I can understand the Biology undergrad coming to me for help with haematology, but the English undergrad?? Even if he is from Minnesota.

So, I seem to have somehow ended up as the City Council candidate for the Labour (socialist...ish) Party in Lemington in Newcastle.

This will be interesting.

The influence of the moon in Scorpio, the sign of crazy, means that today you will neither be able to rely on the people around you to sort themselves out or they will read things the way you did not intend them. Avoid people and hide safely in your room doing science until it all goes away. Oh, you are inexplicably too tired to apply yourself to work? Oops, sorry, guess Saturn hates you too.

>_

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I am juvenile.

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Looks like I'm back on the selection list for City Councillor

...this will be interesting...

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I am well and goddamn truly sick of having tonsillitis now. Swollen throat, crippling pain, snoring like a warthog and talking like the aliens out of Galaxy Quest. And before anybody says anything, yes I already asked if I can have them out, the answer is no, take this second course of a different antibiotic.

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Milk
1 measure tequila
1 measure cheap, bitter vodka
One egg white.
Shake.

Should be slightly slimy, somewhat bitter and white.

I call it a "Jizzball".

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Resolutions for this year:

WRITE.

THESIS.

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...coupled with Nietzche's embrace of a horse are guaranteed to give me nightmares I'm sure.

Otherwise, fascinating as long as I look at it from an entirely clinical perspective. Curse that pesky humanity.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/hitchens-201201

Good thing about karate - Main sensei is participating in movember and has grown a spectacular mexican-style moustache which makes it hard to keep a straight face

Bad thing about karate - As the only over eighteen in the class last night I was the demonstration model for the most...er..vigorous sensei. We were doing head kicks. Excuse me while I realign my spine...