30DoA.18: Best Five-team: cast of Digimon Adventure 02

Day 18 - Best Five-team: cast of Digimon Adventure 02

I'm assuming this refers to the sentai trope of having five people on your team. You also get it in a lot of other things, as TV Tropes notes. (Standard disclaimer for TV Tropes link goes here.) Basically, you have five people who usually fit a certain pattern -- the hero, the hero's foil, the smart one, the tough one, and the sweet one (usually a girl, sometimes the only girl).

( TV Tropes notes that both the humans and the 'mon fit this.  )

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Things I need to do before I leave for California on Saturday:

1. Haircut.
2. Check that my dress clothing all fits and that I have enough.
2a. If not, buy some
2b. Repair the seam in my skirt.
3. Finish my talk and upload it to the servers.
4. Charge everything -- iPod, eReader, camera, DS, phone.
5. Pack.
6. Pick up some snacks for the plane.
7. Make sure I have little toiletry bottles for stuff, so I can try to go without a checked bag.
8. Finish the outstanding art projects I have due by the end of the month.
9. Make sure all veggies are cooked into something and frozen in the freezer, the milk is used up or tossed out, and other perishables are frozen or in the trash.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

So, for those of you who don't know, I'm going to Pasadena, California for a conference. My first time in that part of the state -- I've been to San Francisco, Monterrey and San Diego, but this is my first time near LA. Not that I'll be spending much time in LA -- most conferences don't involve me doing much touristy stuff unless it's a sponsored trip. And this time I decided the Palomar tour wasn't worth staying an extra day. (I think... if not, I now have a ticket to the tour that I can't use, and will need to give to someone else at the conference.) I'm presenting on the morning of the first day, so I can relax for the rest of the conference and enjoy the science. Or hide in my room and write during the evenings, since usually I am burned out by a day of having to be social.

(Though I do have a roommate -- a month ago, a friend of mine emailed me and was all 'our undergrad can't afford to go to DPS unless she can find someone who will let her sleep on their floor', so I offered, as the only woman from Cornell going**.)

Also, I ended up on the same flight as my adviser. Which means I save on cab fare to and from the Ithaca airport, but that always makes airports interesting. (At least this way if we end up stuck in Philadelphia*, I have an Ithacan who can drive with me.)

* Ask any Cornellian about the Phili airport, and you will get a story.
** I'm the only woman in our group besides our undergrads, the Martians prefer geology conferences to astronomy conferences, and the only other planetary study at Cornell is a bit of moon radar, and that grad student isn't going either.

30DoS.18: What is the cutest pairing? Winry/Sheska

Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing? Winry/Sheska

I know I tend towards canon pairings, and this is not a canon pairing at all. But this one is just so adorable in the first anime.

( Anyway, Winry is the main character's childhood friend, who in modern terms would be a biomedical engineer and in her world's terms is an automail mechanic -- she makes and fits prosthetics learning from her grandma.  )