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Jan. 5th, 2004 04:55 pmFirst day back at work. What was I doing nearly 2 weeks ago? Buggered if I can remember. Or find where I hurriedly stuffed things.
It's very, very quiet though... only about a third of the lab in, and similar proportions in the rest of the building. Not that I'm complaining...
Talking to one of the senior postdocs, when he asks: "Is [unintelligible sound that I didn't quite get] back yet?"
"Who, sorry?"
"[unintelligible sound]".
"um..."
"oh, sorry, you probably know her English name and I'm saying her Chinese name... what is her English name again, I've forgotten..."
And the best comment from 2003 (which I meant to put in earlier but forgot):
My boss at a major seminar detailing what the lab does to other departments:
"When I started work on malaria there were about 200,000 deaths per year. Now there are about 2 million. And you thought I was on the side of the humans!
It's very, very quiet though... only about a third of the lab in, and similar proportions in the rest of the building. Not that I'm complaining...
Talking to one of the senior postdocs, when he asks: "Is [unintelligible sound that I didn't quite get] back yet?"
"Who, sorry?"
"[unintelligible sound]".
"um..."
"oh, sorry, you probably know her English name and I'm saying her Chinese name... what is her English name again, I've forgotten..."
And the best comment from 2003 (which I meant to put in earlier but forgot):
My boss at a major seminar detailing what the lab does to other departments:
"When I started work on malaria there were about 200,000 deaths per year. Now there are about 2 million. And you thought I was on the side of the humans!
