RBOC

• I got a birthday package this week.
• At first I thought I was going to have to be good and wait for ages to open it.
• Then I realised my birthday is only about 2 weeks away.
• I kind of feel like I should do something for my birthday, since I'm being more sociable for a change this year.
• Any ideas for what I could do?
• My advisor told me today that the quietest member of my committee thinks I'm smart.
• I guess I'm fooling more than just him...
• He also told me a bunch of less positive things about the most negative member of my committee.
• I appreciate that he was trying to make me feel better about her not liking parts of my project, but it was a little weird.
• I got to hear some more gossip about the imploding lab downstairs, which was both fun and frightening.
• This letter to the editor in Nature made me smile: "I admire the professionalism that refrains from a description of 'adorable, stumpy little mouse tails', but what is wrong with 'shorter tails'?" I would actually like to read about adorable, stumpy little mouse tails, though. Why do fly people get all the fun descriptions?
• I posted this week's homework photos on my photo blog, if anyone would like to help again (thanks for your help last week!).
• The new star plan was working well, but today my desire to avoid working is stronger than my desire to read blogs, so I still haven't done more than half an hour of work...
• I guess I should stop writing bullets and get to work.