THIRTY-SIX!
Jun. 22nd, 2012 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronYesterday, when I went to bed, it was grey and drizzling, and I thought "hooray, that's my birthday rain". I've had less than 10 dry birthdays in 36 years. There's an actual reason for it, too, but I can't share it with you because it's from an old copy of The Times and they now want a login for it - even though it's from before they started charging for online content! You'll have to make do with my summary from the time.
Today I have received the best birthday present ever, which is a drawing from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stellarwind. Everything in the picture is a reference to something in my life, and I don't actually EXPECT anyone to get all of the references, unless they're me :) It's still pretty awesome to share, though. I need an emergency spoon dispenser in real life, and the "thirty-six impossible hydrogen bonds" is both a double pun AND based on an actual problem that I've been having with my work.
I don't expect to get any more birthday presents until I have time to use them, which is fine by me. Work is being awful, and doing that thing it does of expanding to more-than-fill the time available. I've spent three whole days trying to get a program to work with certain files, and if my supervisors can't come up with a magical solution today, I'm going to throw them out, because I can't afford to waste any more time on this part of the project. I'll just write about the files which did work.
I hate being under an impossible time pressure.
Today I have received the best birthday present ever, which is a drawing from
stellarwind. Everything in the picture is a reference to something in my life, and I don't actually EXPECT anyone to get all of the references, unless they're me :) It's still pretty awesome to share, though. I need an emergency spoon dispenser in real life, and the "thirty-six impossible hydrogen bonds" is both a double pun AND based on an actual problem that I've been having with my work. I don't expect to get any more birthday presents until I have time to use them, which is fine by me. Work is being awful, and doing that thing it does of expanding to more-than-fill the time available. I've spent three whole days trying to get a program to work with certain files, and if my supervisors can't come up with a magical solution today, I'm going to throw them out, because I can't afford to waste any more time on this part of the project. I'll just write about the files which did work.
I hate being under an impossible time pressure.
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Date: 2012-06-22 08:12 am (UTC)I also would like an emergency spoon dispenser. I got lots of penguins for my birthday though so I'm happy :)
My birthdays (18th June) tend to be either really hot or really wet. This year I got both, which was nice :P
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Date: 2012-06-22 11:56 am (UTC)Good luck with the files.
I love personal picture presents, a mutual friend did one for another friend and he really treasures it 10 years later. I love your one, I can see some of the references :)
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