It's been snowing a lot recently. Right now we have 4-6 inches on the ground, which is more than I remember for early December (rhymes, snerk).


Science update! Unfortunately, that second manuscript was turned down from Genes and Development in a little over a week. We sent it to EMBO and got the same reaction. Bummer. They wanted more of the mechanism behind our observations, which makes sense as it would make a more well-rounded manuscript. However, our lab is not equipped to do experiments detailing the mechanism, as it requires in vitro cellular systems with DNA repair and histones and all that fanciness. We've never done such a thing, and having someone learn how now would take way too long. So, we're resubmitting the manuscript to the JBC tomorrow. Sigh, I hope this one at least gets reviewed...

And my fellowship interview is next Tuesday! I'm quite nervous, as it's difficult to make sure you put on your best face for no less than 8 faculty members, plus give an hour-long talk about your research. Good news: I did buy a nice suit for $80 (steal!) and I'm making it even more awesome by getting it tailored.


I'm sort of torn that Heroes is over, part of me wants more and the other part was kinda bored by the season and frustrated by the finale. I'm looking forward to the SGA ep tomorrow night, partially because of Weir, yay, and partially out of morbid fascination to see what TPTB end up doing with her. Quite worried they might kill her off this ep, or worse...

Is Beckett coming back next season? I've read some tentative rumors, but I don't know if there's anything concrete to back it up. I don't know quite what to think if TPTB bring back Beckett but are done with Weir forever after s4. It's not good thoughts at TPTB, that's for sure.

My response to the last 5-10 minutes of tonight's Heroes ep, spoiler free:

"OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"OMG, YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

Heh.

Only 2 eps left? Sad.

Has it been confirmed that the 11th ep of Heroes will be the season finale-ish due to the WGA strike? I've seen rumblings that this may happen, and TPTB have stated that they refilmed the ep to make it into a finale if needed, but I don't know if they're actually going through with it or not.

And 30 Rock isn't going to be writing any new shows either, *sob*. Time to get to the library for some TV DVDs. The last season of Veronica Mars is out, maybe I should watch that. Or I can finally get off my duff and watch DS9 in its entirety (I stopped after s4 or s5). HOW CAN YOU BE A SF FAN AND NEVER FINISH DS9, OMGWTFBBQ? ;)

I've been keeping up with the show but I find myself not as interested in this season compared to last. Maybe it's because I watched eps 1-14 back to back of s1 and it's easier to watch Heroes all at once instead of waiting for next week. Maybe it's because the show has lost its "shiny new!" feel as most shows do. Maybe it's because I'm not as interested in what's going on with some of the characters right now (Claire's ew new bf, HIRO...IN...JAPAN!!!, Peter doing...whatever the hell he's doing, too much time on the twins from Mexico). The ep last night was nice because it started tying things together, but I felt like I had to wait a LONG time for them to get to that point. Things could have been tighter.

Still, the show may have finally kicked into gear last night so I'm looking forward to seeing how it all ends!

Because I thought some humor was appropriate...

Yay! New BSG tonight and new Heroes tomorrow! :)

It's somewhat bittersweet that I'm looking forward to the latter much more than the former. I'll be a lot happier with BSG once we get this whole Lee/Kara mess behind us, if that happens. I've been watching s2 DVDs and I'm trying to figure out what's so different (and IMO not as good) about this season. There's no real Roslin arc, the cylon threat doesn't seem as impending or dangerous anymore, Hera was dropped, Baltar is getting bland, and the whole Lee/Kara debacle is enough to tear out hair. Also, we really haven't had a proper "Oh CRAP!" moment recently, have we? The last time I had been so exhilarated/shocked about BSG was Exodus 2 - I felt it was lacking in the mid season finale.

And yay for Heroes, I really haven't had much to critique or nitpick about the show so far and I can't wait to see where it goes. It got officially picked up for a second season this week. Now I'm waiting for BSG to get the same.

I think I'll watch Dresden Files tonight too and see how that goes.

Ahahaha, look what I did! *points to userpic* Sigh, Hiro is awesome.

I couldn't make it a square 100X100 though because of the cap, it's about 100X80. Does anyone know how I can center it instead of having it at the top of the allowed 100X100 space? I don't even know if such a thing is possible...