OMG these past three nights of SfN have been totally nuts. o_O They're all kind of running into each other, so I'm not sure what happened when anymore. XD There was a moment of incredibly serendipity and then tonight was just a moment of complete and total awesome.
First, the serendipity. So Sunday night, Alex and I get off the 10th floor elevator here at the Sheraton and I see this sign on taped to the wall, written on lined paper that says, "K. Lab, 1014 ===>" so we think "Oh, there must be a party going on in K. Lab, whatever K stands for." So we go to 1014 and there's a lot of noise coming from the door. Obviously a party. Alex and I decide to crash it so we roshambo for who gets to knock (I won, so he had to knock). He knocks, the door opens, and we're all like, "Wow! A party! Can we come in? We have no idea what lab this is!" So they're really nice and they let us in and they say, "We're the Kanwisher lab!"
XD This is amazing because Nancy Kanwisher is a huge imaging neuro person at MIT. I never knew her because I wasn't in her lab and I never had her as a teacher, but I knew of her. So I stepped in and started talking to people and telling them I was an MIT alum...and then around the corner I see one of my Brain and Cognitive Science Class of 2005 classmates who I haven't seen in a long time. :D So we chat all night, it was totally great. XD Turns out she's at Yale now, doing Pharmacology there. :3 How cool is that? The next time I get it in my head to crash a random party, I totally should. Awesome, unexpected things happen. :3
So tonight Alex, Ariele (an undergrad in my lab), and I hit up the SfN grad student & post doc social. I heard from Allison in my lab that the social was horribly boring, but since I was lacking something to do (and trying desperately not to find an excuse to run back to Swinging Richards to throw more money at the cute little stripper boy) I showed up anyway. XD BEST IDEA EVAR. We got there, most of the grad students were still sitting at the tables, drinking their beers, talking. There was NOBODY on the dance floor when we got there, so me and Ariele and like, "WTF! DANCE, BITCHES!" So we get up there (by then there's about 4 people starting something) and start dancing. They were playing house music so Ariele and Alex and I were having a great time. Slowly, more and more grad students started trickling in.
Then they started playing mixes of all the popular songs like Justin Timberlake bringing sexy back, and Nelly Furtado being a Promiscuous Girl, and suddenly a few songs pass and the dance floor is PACKED. And when I say PACKED I mean PACKED. There were some researchers who were last on my list of possibly being party animals, but they were WILD. There was much of the grinding and the hip shaking and the dirty dancing. :3 Grad students really know how to party, I must say. XD *laughs* It was a lot of fun, I was having a great time dancing to songs I enjoyed (they even played some Sir Mix-A-Lot). To top the night off they started playing classics like "Livin' on a Prayer," "Sweet Child Of Mine," and "It's the End of the World." We got to the thing shortly after 9 and left at midnight. I'm totally tired. I haven't danced like that in a long, long time. :3
I think it's just what I needed, because I can't take my poor stripper boy back with me to LA, and I don't have enough money to pay him. XD *laughs* I was thinking about him and how darling he was all weekend, and that's really, really bad for me. .___. *is bad*
Well, it's a good night. It's been a good SfN. I'm satisfied. I had WAY more fun this time 'round than last time, and I'm glad it was more than just the male stripper club that made it fun. ^_^v
Yaaaaay! Now I'm all refreshed and I can really go back to lab and be inspired to work my ass off so I can have a poster to present at SfN next year when it's in San Diego. :D
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