Of the day's annoyances, these...

[x_maker]

1) Latency on the lab servers is getting to the point where it's affecting the accuracy of my engineering simulations. Whoever's using the lab servers to host your multiplayer Counterstrike games, I will find you and superglue your thumbs to your own ass.

2) Latest attempts at scrambled eggs were unspectacular, but not a disaster. Will stick to fruit and oatmeal. I have not yet burned oatmeal.

3) Humidity is making my arm itch. Need to devise a barometric/hygrometric compensator.

4) Purple hair on my socks, Catseye! Shed on Kyle's side of the room, dammit!

5) Stupid winter cold making my sinuses feel like a thirty pound weight embedded in the middle of my face. Maybe someone needs to look into mutant-strength antihistamines.

Comments

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

1. SO not me, but dude, that'd be awesome. We should do that!

2. Yeah, but you burned fruit, so that counts.

3. I know what barometric is. What's hygro? I know hydro. And no, I don't feel like looking it up. Dictionary's on the other side of the room where all the purple cat hair is.

4. See #3. Ha-HA! Invent a robot vacuum. Or use the one -in our closet-.

5. Dude, this is gonna sound totally wacked, but go mix some lemon juice in water, and snort it up your nose. My grandmom gets me to do that... well, got me to do that. I don't get colds anymore. Feels fucked up, and you smell lemons for hours but totally cleans everything out. Whoosh.

6. Dude. Help me out here with the DVD player? I'm supposed to do a compare/contrast on classic lit vs a modern version and I can't get this stupid Knight's Tale DVD to work.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

2 - Hence why I am not COOKING fruit again.

3 - Hygrometrics is the measurement and study of humidity. Specifically water in the air, as opposed to standing water.

4 - I tell you, between the humidity and the cat hair and the static electricity from winter blankets, it's like trying to sleep in a scrap metal heap.

5 - Water up my nose? Nuh-UH! I am not a fish! I am an oxygen-breathing mammal!

6 - It's probably wired for those weird Japanese import DVDs Shiro likes to watch. Need to install an anti-region coding chip or something...

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

5. Yeah, yeah, right now you're a constipated elephant. Do you have any idea how -gross- those noises sound in my ears?

6. Raargh. Dammit, this TV has the decent sound on it and I'm not dragging a DVD player across the room. Stupid English list projects...

Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

1) An awesome lab partner. Who would totally share her mutation if she could, poor lab-ie.

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is that.

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

See? Now we just need to clean your room, put lemons up your nose and let you play with your arm and things are perfecto.

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Let's not be crazy here. That there's insane girl logic.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

2) I think we need to tape basic cooking instructions to the wall above your kitchenette. Like, the light on the stove means it's on and so forth. I remember the time you burned fruit and the whole floor stank. (how in thell did you manage that anyway)

5) Barring that, take a very hot shower and let the steam unblock it. And why haven't you cured the common cold yet? Get cracking! Because I've had one for a week and it's Not Going Away.

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

That's just not possible. Girl I might be, insane I am not. Check your formula.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

5) I'm an engineer! Not a pharmacologist or an immunologist!

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Why are you letting a silly label hold you back? Break free! Think outside the box!

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

All girls are insane. It's part of that extra bit of the X chromosome.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

When it comes to things like biology, I am a genius, but sadly only a normal genius. Besides, it's just not as interesting.

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

He won't put lemons up his nose either!

Re: Of the day's [opposite of annoyances], these

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Yep, I was right. Incorrect equation. Bad Forge, back to the whiteboard.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue!

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Biology's so... inexact. Imprecise. I like my nicely ordered systems, where things behave like they should. Put in proper data, get expected results. Not put in data, get massive allergic reaction, go into anaphylactic shock, etc.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Shh... poor biology, don't listen to the bad man, Paige still loves you.

Besides, it's not so much that it's inexact as it is we do it wrong and it has rather large consequences. Put in the proper data and you do get expected results. Same as you.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Right. It's just that you have to know exactly what to expect from any given system you work with. You can apply a theory with the best of intentions, but one thing you may have overlooked or misunderstood can result in a complete and catastrophic failure.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

That's why you don't overlook or misunderstand things. Silly.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

If only it were that simple. It should be, but it's not. Some of us are still in the learning process there.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

You can apply a theory with the best of intentions, but one thing you may have overlooked or misunderstood can result in a complete and catastrophic failure.


Like aiming at being brekkie and having your powers restarted, for example?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

See, that wasn't a failure. You got your lunch on, I got my powers back. I consider that an unexpected, yet positive, side effect.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Oh, so now it's really because you're not a master of it already. I see how this works.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

I find it suspect that you're perfectly willing to experiment with an unknown mutant power, but a little thing like snorting lemon-water is out of the question. You've got odd priorities, mate.


Alternately, you can do what my mum always did -- slice up a chunk of ginger, boil it until the water goes yellow, and drink. Boil it right and you'll never have to worry about your sinuses again. (Snorting it isn't necessary, but it probably couldn't hurt.)

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Now you're getting it.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Dude. That's why I'm here. And stop talking like Kyle, it's catching.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

At the time, I felt any risks were negligible.

Hey, you know what, I'll bet your hand-mouth-slime stuff acts as an antibacterial agent, too. No one's complained of any infections yet, and you wouldn't think eating with your hands would be all that sanitary.

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

5) Stupid winter cold making my sinuses feel like a thirty pound weight embedded in the middle of my face. Maybe someone needs to look into mutant-strength antihistamines.

Who says we haven't? The difficulty is the variation in mutant metabolisms - what works for energy projectors doesn't work for psis and what works for psis doesn't work for those with purely physical mutations and shapeshifters.

However, if you're not keen on the home remedies posited below, we can try some of the lower-range anti-histamines and work our way up. You know where to find the doctors.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I've been practically mainlining Sudafed since Sunday. If we have anything stronger... hell, I'll be down in a bit.

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

That we do - we have a lot of allergies in spring and it's always handy to have a range of drugs in this place to cover that whole range of mutant metabolisms. I'll be in the dispensary.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

. . .

Mate, you are not snorting my hand-slime to kill your cold.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest having the doctors take a sample and see what kind of odd properties your weird and freaky bodily fluids have. But then I got the mental image of the docs having to milk your hand like a rattlesnake, and I laughed myself silly for three minutes.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Your interest in my bodily fluids is becoming increasingly suspect.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Well, someone keeps pushing me to consider biology as a more legitimate source of study, and while I have no overbearing concern with how your body produces the analgesic secretions, the properties they have are quite chemically intriguing.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I said nothing about you actually doing the studying. Don't you pin your fascination with this young mans fluids on me.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Look, you sasy you can fix anything, I just want you to put your money where your mouth is. That, and I think my cold has decided it wants to be the flu. If you'll excuse me, I'll be dying in my room.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

1) Doc McCoy's the only one who's allowed to do that, and that's not his log in. Gimme a sec and I'll lock them out.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

#2. or ask me to cook you something. I like your distractions.

#4. she does it on purpose. you just don't understand her plotting.

#5. chicken soup and a sauna will help.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Knew we'd get you saying 'Dude' eventually. *bwha!*