"Here's some money. Go see a Star War."

I feel a lot better. I no longer feel like I am being stabbed in the ear with a chopstick every time I swallow. So that's good. Lymph node still feels swollen and sore. Yes, I did mean to leave that singular.

I finally made some progress on my Naoto costume this afternoon (winter school uniform version). I had found the jacket years ago at Goodwill and had guessed--correctly--that someday it would become useful, as it closely resembles a Japanese schoolboy's jacket. I blocked out the stitching with a white colored pencil. This took a lot longer than I had anticipated (something like twelve episodes of Arrested Development), given that I was just doing rough proportions based on character designs and drawing dashes along a tape measure. Still need to transpose the Yasogami High logo with transfer paper or something.

( Outlining of stitches )

After embroidering I still need to buy the houndstooth fabric to fabricate the collar, make the metal logo/year number if Hobby Link Japan doesn't get its stuff off backorder, and make the hat. Embroidering stitches on the pants will be easy; it looks like there are only stitches along the leg seams. I just need to find pants I am willing to deface that are not faded jeans with acid-wear holes and bleach blots.

Saw xcerebraledemax, keichisfuuma, white_manjushri, and aquabot1 last night. I still feel violated. Like the kind of violated where you're never going to be clean again. Ever.

I'm going back to the lab tomorrow, finally. I looked over my DNA sequences briefly and they're more-or-less unusuable. The second trace half-consists of unknown nucleotides. So that's helpful. I hope I can get something out of the PCR product, because I really do not want to have to purify and clone my bands if I can get away with it.

The behemoth desktop in my room is still busted. It's just a different kind of busted now. My patience hit its limit for at least the next few days.