PI came by to congratulate me on the exam thing this morning and see how I was doing. He always comes by at least once per week and it never ceases to amuse me because a) he teaches one of my classes and b) I see him every day in lab. But those points aside, today I pointed out to him something that the staff in the vivarium did that didn't make sense. His comment was that I was assuming that other people besides me were actually thinking, and whiles this "better be true" in his lab, generally speaking this assumption may be....faulty. I gaped at him for a bit then remarked that was a really very cynical view, to which he replied, "I'm relapsing." For some reason I found this hilarious.
Aside from his apparent bout of recidivism to skepticism (wow that's a lot of "ism"), there was also the part where he reminded me that should I feel uncomfortable talking to him (a laughable notion, since up till now he's the only PI I ever felt comfortable enough to make these sort of commentaries on, sometimes to his face), there are other PIs that I can talk to who are obligated to help me. This particular bit of PI-ism goes, I believe, "If they have the title of "professor", they'd better be professing!" (And then afterwards I of course went to google the term because I've never heard the word "profess" being used that way.)
Now I have the strongest urge to go up to the PIs I know and ask, "Have you professed today?" (And then probably giggle hysterically and blame my PI for the whole thing.)
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