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  • Sep. 15th, 2008 at 6:16 PM
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Chemo. Fatigue. Broke. Blah, blah, blah. Although I had a fairly nice weekend away from the house, which I think I need more often.

I just wanted to pop up, say hi, and send this on to my brainiac friends out there...

The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game.

The rules are simple. Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs:

  • A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.
  • A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.
  • A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).
  • Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).
  • A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
  • Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn't count).
  • A petabyte of data is generated.
  • Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.
  • The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).
  • The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
  • Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.
  • Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.
  • An intern confuses muons with gluons.
  • The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.
  • Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
  • Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).
  • Someone says "Big Bang."
  • Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like "Pow!" and "Zap!" when it happens; feel free to construct your own).
  • Someone says, "What's a hadron?"
  • Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).
  • Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.
  • Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.
  • The world ends (drink whatever you have left).
  • Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we'll all pretty much have to take their word for it).
  • Someone uses the term "beam pipe" in a pickup line.

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[info]feyandstrange wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 01:29 am (UTC)
A change of scenery can be pretty damn daunting when you're exhausted, but it's also useful. I try to make myself leave the house at least once a week, preferably twice, and one of those is supposed to be for something fun (as opposed to something medical or necessary).

If you want to crawl over here some weekday and lie on the sofa and read our books and comics and wireless internets, you're always welcome. (well, unless I get the flu or something. You know what I mean.) I'm not exactly scintillating company either, but this is why Paletz and I came up with the concept of "nap dates".
[info]dancingshaman wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 02:12 am (UTC)
If I ever have to come into the city with Johanna for anything, I think a nap date is an extremely good idea.
[info]senatorhatty wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 12:57 pm (UTC)
Did you and Susannah ever actually HAVE a nap date?
[info]feyandstrange wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
I think we had the equivalent of fooling around at parties, like falling asleep on the sofa together at parties, but no actual nap date. We were too tired....
[info]wildpaletz wrote:
Sep. 17th, 2008 02:21 am (UTC)
If we'd lived closer together, we could have pulled it off sometime. Though I suspect we would have ended up chatting for some of it.
[info]vesper2000 wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
Oh, that's funny. Thanks.
[info]britgeekgrrl wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 02:59 am (UTC)
You checked out the LHC rap, right? ;)
[info]silverstreak wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 03:20 pm (UTC)
Female Intern: "So, what IS a hadron anyway?"
Male Scientist: "Well, follow me into this broom closet and I'll show you..."
[info]noirem wrote:
Sep. 16th, 2008 07:38 pm (UTC)
that is my favorite icon of yours :o)
[info]wildpaletz wrote:
Sep. 17th, 2008 02:23 am (UTC)
Since I'm new to this (you), how long is your chemo for? Meaning, when will you be all done with this whole set of sessions.

Also, SUCK.

Also, does this mean you will get a brand new hair color?
(Not meaning to offend--I've known a number of people to go through chemo, and it was often the one thing they would hold on to as a tangible positive: "well, maybe I'll end up a redhead..." and in one case, that's exactly what happened.)
[info]dancingshaman wrote:
Sep. 17th, 2008 02:34 am (UTC)
I've been on and off chemo now for over a year. Supposedly, I only have another six weeks of the injectable stuff, then I switch to a pill form which is much milder, and allows me to go back to work. That I'll have to take for an additional four months.

As to my hair...the only sign that the chemo is affecting it is that it;s thinning out, and we think that it's growing a bit lighter. The last time I went through this, I lost all the gray in my hair, so I'm hoping that trend continues ;-)
[info]wildpaletz wrote:
Sep. 17th, 2008 02:31 pm (UTC)
Well, good luck with that. Hey, maybe you'll end up a blond! Err...