How to Kill Time Between Spectra Late at Night, Volume 4

Ok, not just late at night this time.  We're going back to late afternoon here.  Now that it's actually late at night, I decided it had been a while since I'd made such a list.  Which is a good thing.  And fortunately I am nearly done with such opportunities.

• Email back and forth with aunt about a million times
• Fret over grandmother's rapidly declining health
• Talk to Boyfriend on the phone, feel somewhat better because Boyfriend is awesome
• Get pizza from union before last on-campus food options close at 6 pm.  The (major, but only) downside of spring break.
• Play Bejeweled 2
• Debate pros/cons of taking the train vs renting a car (see separate lists at the bottom)
• Talk to Dad on the phone, advise how to renew little brother's license while living out of state (renew while he's home this week [2 1/2 months before it expires], unfortunately be issued another Under 21/Vertical Loser license, order replacement online after 21st birthday if desired), wonder why Dad is so concerned about this
• Facebook chat with little sister
• Read awesome and ridiculously cute story on Facebook how Ted Allen is a really nice man!
• Book train ticket from Lancaster, PA to New Haven, CT - beg aunts for rides to/from the train station
• Clean out GReader
• Buffer exchange more sample
• Gchat with Boyfriend
• Gchat with J, who apparently has much greater attention span (and budget) for Vegas than I do
• Play Words with Friends with Angie and Little Brother (not the unicorn one)
• Be reminded that Wednesday is Pi Day, ponder what sort of pie to make should I have time tomorrow night, preferably consuming the bag of cranberries in my freezer
• Make & drink tea
• Write frivolous blog post
• Check CNN for election results, realize that it is Monday, not Tuesday
• Remark that it is unfortunate that I should be on the last page of this lab notebook, and will have to get another one, with approximately 3 experiments left
• Adjust bra for zillionth time today, debate combined contributions of bra's age and stretched out-ness and losing a few pounds
• Read editorial from Analytical Chemistry
• Look at produce list for this week.  Get excited about snap peas - yay first sign of spring produce!  Be sad about MORE fennel, beets, and collard greens...
• Tidy desk.  As much as a desk in the midst of dissertation writing can be tidied.
• Flip through latest issue of JASMS, read paper on the effects of super-charging protein complexes
• Laugh ridiculously hard at this picture (if you don't find it funny, it was funny when I was tired at midnight):

Pros for renting a car:

• Ability to go wherever I want whenever I want without inconveniencing anybody else
• Slightly faster than taking the train

Pros for taking the train:

• Cheaper, before even considering the gas and tolls associated with the 600 miles of driving
• Can work on the train
• Can sleep on the train (though not while working unfortunately)
• Less susceptible to traffic jams & rush hour
• One less car on the road - yay mass transit