What do you mean my boobs got bigger? DAMMIT.

This is why I hate bra shopping.

I AM DONE WRITING MY THESIS!

PARTY!

Too bad I now have to go through and format all the figures. -_-

My citation list for my thesis has hit five pages and it's not done. Dear lord, self, STOP DOING RESEARCH. I'm still at 45 pages, but I've been doing some much needed editing and condensing. This is without the citations at the end, a couple of illustrations, the index, and my CV. So in actuality, my thesis has passed 50 pages and is racing towards 60 pages. And I'm not done writing.

When I get this off to my chairperson for initial comments, I am so taking a day off and slacking.

Also my mom and grandfather are coming up next weekend! Unfortunately, this means I'm going to be spending most of this weekend cleaning. Ah well. At least the thesis should with my committee by then so I'll have time to spend with them.

Up to 43 pages on the thesis. Completed all the maps. One more illustration to do. Life is awesome.

From the BBC story about swimming deer. Emphasis is mine.

"All belong to the ancient ruminant family Tragulidae, which split some 50 years ago from other ruminants, the group that went on to evolve into cattle, goats, sheep, deer and antelope."

That's supposed to be 50 million years ago unless evolution decided to hit the gas and speed up while I wasn't looking. They'll probably fix it soon, but before they do, have a good laugh.

Edit: The BBC fixed the typo. Ah well. It lives on in infamy in my LJ.

I love this blog so damn much. Go through all the entries (there are not many of them since it's fairly new). I have added this to my daily list of must look at sites and I have not regretted it at all.

Okay, someone stop me from slashing the two announcers from Wipeout.

It's been a steady, cold rain all day long. So I doubt there will be any fireworks here tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

In good news, I sent off a couple of paragraphs outlining my experience to the prospective job. Crossing my fingers that they like what they see.

Here's a concept I wish more people would understand.

Weather is like me flipping a coin and saying whether it's heads or tails.

Climate is like 20,000 people all over the world each flipping one coin 40,000 times and recording the general trend of number of heads versus number of tails.

I swear if I hear one more idiot make the statement "Well, last spring/summer/fall/winter has been cooler than normal so global warming is false" or "This spring/summer/fall/winter was the warmest/driest/wettest on record. Global warming is at fault!" I am not going to be responsible for my actions. This is like me flipping a coin 10 times, it coming up heads 7 times, and saying "The odds of me flipping this coin and it coming up heads are 7 out of 10." Sorry, no. It doesn't work that way no matter how much you may want it to.

This is the #1 reason I refuse to debate climate change in people.

Job prospect FTW! May not pan out, but just the fact that I got a call makes me happy. Bonus because it would be a state where I can marry miome.

I have gotten an accuracy of 68% for one of the lakes! It's not great, but it's better than the 53% I have for the other eight lakes and definitely better than the 40% accuracy I had last week. I'm doing one last recoding to see if I can improve the accuracy of the eight lakes by a little bit and then I'm going to throw in the towel and call it good enough. I have justifications for the errors, so all is good.

Now comes the fun part: writing the thesis.

Oh god, why do I have an idea for a Sam/Mikala/Bumblebee threesome?

EDIT: SUNDAY IS MERLIN NIGHT. WOO!

miome and I just got back from watching Transformers 2. That movie is made of equal amounts of win and fail. I knew that it was going to contain fail fairly early on when it showed a bunch of hunters trying to catch a tiger in the middle of a African desert. So not only did they get the environment of tigers wrong, they got the wrong continent. That's pretty much on par for the fail that's found throughout the movie. When it does fail, it fails big. At least the fail is pretty balanced out by the win.

It was an okay 2 1/2 hour movie but it probably would have been a much better 2 hour movie.

Buffy vs Edward.

If only the Twilight movie had gone like this.

This morning an earwig fell from the ceiling and onto my hand while I was brushing my teeth. I felt it when it hit. Lucky for me it didn't stay on me. It kind of bounced off my hand and fell into the sink full of water where it promptly drowned. There was a long moment of "WTF?" before I processed what I was seeing in the sink and realized the earwig had fallen at me. Since it was already dying at that point, my logical side (the Wolf) just couldn't seem to justify freaking out over it falling from the ceiling on me considering that it was dead and had touched me for all of .02 seconds. The less logical part of me (the Dragon) was internally screaming "IT FELL FROM THE CEILING. IT WAS ON ME. WHAT IF THERE ARE MORE? WHAT IF IT HAD LANDED IN MY HAIR? OH SWEET JESUS IT'S HUGE." And of course another part of me (the Unicorn) was going "Oh hey, I haven't seen one of those since we were little. We use to play with them. Too bad it's dead now. :("

A quick look at the ceiling showed no more bugs, so logic won. I didn't have a fit about it. I wanted to, but no. I feel kind of cheated. I think having an insect with large pincers fall on me while I'm half naked deserves a good freak out.

Instead, I went and got a hug from miome.

When I get home, I will upload pictures I took of it.

This accuracy assessment is going much faster and seems to be much better than the last. I'm still going to have to come in this weekend, but it won't be as bad as I was fearing.

To celebrate Kittens vs Cameras.

After two days of comparing random points to my reference data, I was able to run an accuracy assessment on the maps I made.

I got an overall accuracy of 49%.

To give you an idea, most of the papers I read on this topic have accuracies of 70-85%. An accuracy of 49% is so low that I would literally have done better had I just randomly assigned classes to different categories.

It is time to email my adviser and find out what the hell I do now.

EDIT: Okay, I think I have figured out what went wrong. I just lost 3 days worth of work, but it can be fixed. I hope.

Well today has been productive already. How do I know? Because I've managed to crash not one, but two pieces of software and I've only been here about an hour and a half. I also completely locked my computer in the process and had to hard reboot it because ctrl + alt + del wasn't registering.

I'm just awesome like that.