Snark hunters

First full day back at the lab and I remained strangely undisturbed by the PI all day, despite of the fact that he was out to harangue Wendy, who shares a bay with me. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed their break, and over the course of the day we got to swap a little bit of our holiday adventures in between taking turns to go down to the Mouse Room to take care of our mice. (I had mice to wean today. Weaning age mice are so cute.) Dorothy recommended going to the wild life zoo around this time of the year, because it gets crazy hot. She also served to remind me that oh right, Martin Luther King's Day is in January. My enthusiasm lasted until I remembered that I am a grad student and so probably will spend that day in lab as well. Then Wendy and I pondered over the fact that one of the PIs I know apparently does fencing as a hobby. The idea of the PI going around, whacking people with sharp objects, is a little terrifying. Mostly it's just very incompatible with the image of the PI. It's like trying to imagine your dress shoes & tie wearing professor loving sky-diving.

I have a crazy amount of paper to read, considering I only have two classes. I wonder if the PI seriously believe that everyone will be able to read through the six different articles that was only posted today by Thursday. At least the stuff seems fairly simple...for five of them.