Headline of the day!

Is this from the Nature website:

Drunken flies get hypersexual!

So...men get drunk and get horny. Duh..we know! Women get drunk, but not horny. Very debatable!! Read the article, its well written. The Shakespeare reference had me in splits. Apparently art and science do go hand in hand.

The vacation is almost over...I received a reminder in the form of an email (friendly reminder he calls it!) from the Graduate director of the cell bio program...I have a committee meeting due in a few months. I can see the mice I have to kill, the cells I have to transfect, the Co-IPs I have to perform, the Real-time PCRs that are waiting,the shRNA experiments that I shelved. In vivid technicolor. Not doing anything is boring. I've eaten, slept, shopped, and watched very bad TV until I want to scream. So, the prospect of going back to work is actually kind of exciting. Until I actually get back to work of course. When I will start complaining about my boss, labmates (for smelly food..they're very nice otherwise!), failed experiments and gloomy weather.

Still a week to go though..and with the wedding coming up, things might hot up a bit!

One other very random observation. This vacation, people have been strangely obsessed with my nose-stud. OK..its new. I just had my nose pierced 6 months ago. But who cares whether you like it or not? Every single person I know has an opinion.They like it. Its traditional(the oldies), its cool(the younger ones). They don't like it. Its looks like an impediment(the mamis). They like it, but shouldn't it have been a little lower. They like it, but the left side would have looked better. They don't like it, because they think it chokes up the entire nostril thus depriving me of oxygen!(Duh!!) Someone even wanted to know if I'd just stuck something on my nose to make it appear as if I'd pierced it.(Why, why, why would I do that?) I almost invited him to check it out for himself. Next time, I'll make sure to really shock them by piercing my eyebrow or something equally repulsive!