TGIF

Last few days have not exactly been fun. Low grade headaches at work, low blood sugar snarkiness right about quitting time (thus hitting home and my roomies with cranky!Misha unless I stuff food down my throat the minute I get in the door), and more cold. Ick. Cold.

Still, only a few hours left in the day, and Blackhawk Down tomorrow (wherein Meg and I will bond over our mutual squeeage of Ewan, and Lori will get more of her beloved Orlando. Ooh, it's all good.)

I've also managed to stumble across a really good BSB fic site - one author with a decent set of mmf threesomes and this other author with an incredibly long het fic that starts off with your standard stereotypical rape trauma to damage the heroine, but has redeemed itself so far with pretty decent writing.

Not to belittle rape-survivors at all, it's just incredibly cliched these days in romance fiction as one of the stumbling blocks in a budding relationship.

Must eat now, and read more Pratchett (yes, again!) before I turn green-skinned and suddenly find myself wearing incredibly tattered clothing that just barely manages to keep me decent.

...wait. Wrong story. Nevermind!

Geekosity, chem style

There I was, sitting on the bus, trying not to laugh to myself over the forest of cliches I found in the het story, and found myself thinking aout Chemistry. Not people-people chemistry - the real deal. Periodic table, elements and bonds. And about how elements could be people, and really...

So carbon molecules are really just people - people who want everybody to get along, and form large groups of happy people. And hydrogens are like kids - they'll tag along with anybody, and they're not really grown up just yet. So Methane, which is CH4, is like a single parent family with four kids, and she can't clean much, which is why it stinks so much, but the Carbon is just looking for love, (Methane's pretty damn reactive), or at least a bigger molecule to sweep them off their metaphorical little feet.

A pity that by the time you reach the periodic table, you're over the age where this would be a good mnemonic.