You know you've worked in a lab too long when...

You find yourself looking at the antibiotics tube thoughtfully, thinking, "Wow, we've got needles in the lab. I could just inject this stuff and skip going to the doctor entirely."

Dear heavens, I hope this is a joke...

I really, really do... but I'm afraid it may not be.

A note for lab workers who do not wish to be brutally murdered:

If someone else in your lab has washed a piece of equipment for her own use, and has set it aside to dry, away from all other pieces of equipment, do not take that piece of equipment without asking. Not even if it's the last one available, because, hey, maybe the person who washed it actually needs it! Maybe you're not the only productive worker in the lab!

Also, if you use the last of something, do not put the empty bottle/box back on the shelf. (I've found empty boxes/bottles THREE times in the two days!) Reorder the damn thing. And if you have used all of a kind of equipment that must be autoclaved, autoclave it yourself! Do not wait for a woman to do it for you. (This seems to be SOP in the lab. Leave all autoclaving and/or tip box refilling for one of two women to do. Guess what: not cool.)

I have had about a half a dozen times in the last two days where I have been royally screwed by people being just plain inconsiderate. Do not be a jerk, for I will wish plagues of irate ducks on you.

*Fumes*

You know you're a total geek when...

You see this comic and go, "Hey, cool! I already know LaTex! I'm a bigger geek than the grad student in PhD comics!" (Obviously I'm using a very... special definition of the word "cool" here).

Aww...how cute (and yet so dumb, really)

Two kids in Germany decide to go to Africa (because it's warm in Africa) to get married. Problems: no passport, no money, nobody over the age of 7.

Very cute, and yet pretty dumb. I may have gone around dropping things as a child to prove that gravity was still working the way I thought it should (after encountering my first helium balloon as a toddler), but I never thought I'd get away with going to another continent without anybody noticing.

Yeah.

I've started saying "Structural Biology." It doesn't make any more sense to most people than "Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography" or "Microbiology and Molecular Genetics," but it is faster to say.

Sam wants a snowblower for Christmas.

Why do snowplow drivers have this unerring instinct for pushing huge mounds of snow in my driveway? If a neighbor with a snowblower hadn't taken pity on me I might still be shoveling out my car. 

In other news, the dumber of our two cats finds this "snow" thing absolutely fascinating. She keeps trying to go explore it, even though it's deeper than she is tall. By about 200%. Darwin missed a few.

I am seriously considering trying out hibernation for this winter. Tonight it's supposed to be -20 to -29F windchill (for you snobby metric types that comes out to -28.9 to -33.9C). It's only December...it's only getting worse from here.