100% Pure awesomeness...

From a test I am grading:

Answers to the name of the disease caused by a reactivation of the chicken pox virus in elderly people years after the initial infection: (correct answer: shingles)

1. Smallpox (!)

2. Schizophrenia 

3. Scabes

4. Rubella

5. Measles

I don't know if this is only hilarious to microbiologists, but it certainly made me giggle.

You know you're old when...

Someone says you look really young to be a grad student/married, and you gratefully take it as a compliment. *shudder* Only six years ago I was getting irritated at the airline stewardess for not thinking I was old enough to sit in an exit row (for which you must be 15 years old).

Deep thoughts...

I realized today that I'd probably get used to these new fangled glasses sooner if I stopped taking them off every five minutes or so...

(The joys of being just nearsighted enough to finally need glasses, but not so nearsighted that I can't see without them.)

Must...restrain...fist...of...death...

Anyone who designed any of the x-ray crystallography GUIs shall be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Followed closely by the brilliant coders who decided that every single crystallography program should require a different file format. One more time people, repeat after me: "Interfaces are supposed to help the usability of the program. Not destroy it." Also, "I do not need my own special format to feel special." Not hard concepts, I feel.

In other (old) news... Coolest. Priest. Ever.

The new priest at church who quoted the Monty Python "What have the Romans ever done for us" sketch in her sermon has my full, unreserved approval. (This actually happened several weeks ago, but I'm stretching for something not of the "my job sucks" category of material here).