changing the meme to suit my own purposes

[minxy]

Comment, telling me you want me to meme you, and I'll--

1 - Tell you why I friended you. Assuming I can remember :)
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you, or completely fabricate something.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8 - In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ, or answer the same questions about me in a comment. Or, you know, not. (I'm low-maintenance like that.)

I was askeered to do this meme until danvers insisted, because there are so many lurkers and I'm afraid, see, that someone will comment and I *won't remember who you are*. I'm over it, though, in fact, I would like to INVITE lurkers and various aquaintances, as well as close LJ buddies, to comment with question answers and at the very least I'll comment fic you off something you said in your answers or something, and then I get to know a little more about who you are, so it's win-win!

Comments

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You kinda make me think of oscilloscopes and telescopes and linear accelerators...and, um, Sam and her vibrator :)

AWESOME. I'm so cool!

as we walk to the water's edge to stare at the stars and speculate which of them have planets with 'gates.

*is overcome with awesome* I'll bring the midnight picnic basket.

You're in physics, right? What's your specialty/sub-field/research?

In increasing order of complicated technobabble:

Biomedical/biophysics research. Structure-function studies of biologically relevant macromolecules. Crystallography of protein/RNA complexes and the mechanisms of post-translational modification. I use particle accelerators for their x-ray beams, especially the tuneable ones, to collect diffraction data on said molecules for to understand them. You?

my favorite is the "Sam/Janet sigh" one.

I miss Janet. I loved Janet.

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Biomedical/biophysics research. Structure-function studies of biologically relevant macromolecules. Crystallography of protein/RNA complexes and the mechanisms of post-translational modification. I use particle accelerators for their x-ray beams, especially the tuneable ones, to collect diffraction data on said molecules for to understand them. You?

Cool!
Me? I...bounce a lot. I spent some time making targets for a linear accelerator, spent lots of time studying metalloporphyrins (a super cool type of inorganic molecule (sortof a snowflake of carbons with a metal in the middle) - they're the active part of hemoglobin and chlorophyll) and how to make wires out of them to design molecular electronics. Then I went and spent a summer in nanofabrication, designing biomolecular sieves to separate proteins out of blood. In grad school I studied nanoparticles of magnetite, how they react with carbon tetrachloride pollution in water systems, and how to dope them with other metals to create a more favorable reaction. Then I didn't like grad school so I ran away with my masters do spend a year in AmeriCorps doing hurricane recovery in the gulf.
Now I'm trying to switch over into environmental science/education/policy.

I miss Janet too! She was so awesome, and even though I knew before I started watching SG-1 that she was going to get offed eventually, and knew when it was would happen (and vaguely how) when I watched the episode, I still got really sad and I still really miss her.