New Years Resolutions:

1. Quit Smoking.....again
I was supposed to before but realised that since tomorrow starts my first day of finals I would be stupid to do so now.
2. Look like a heroin addict by the end of the year
Or at least a reasonable fascimile thereof.

Today I retrn to work after myweek-long vacation. I'm not too happy about it. I'm enjoying one last smoke while I dry from my shower, then off to the salt mines. I'll have info and pics abot my little vacation later.

I'm starting to severly dislike my job and all. I've been doing it so long, and the longer I do it, the longer that it seems to take. No matter how long I attend classes, it seems I've been stuck at another two years, as at the end of every semester, I am pushed back another semester. I want this degree, but I am starting to wonder if grad school is really the right decision. I haver to think about it. At least I still have plenty of time to think about it. I really hope I start getting paid more soon tho. Here's hoping.

The rat in the next cage over have been playing that retarded "no no no no, don't mess with my heart" whiny song for fucking hours now, since 9 this morning and now it's almost 1 in the afternoon and I swear that if he doesn't turn it off, I'm going to fucking tear his throat out.

Well, I'm attempting to join the Mad Scientists Webring. Duno if it'll work, but here's hoping.

News for me! Now with the summer here, the hallways are cleared out and now we can get down to some real work. And no mere labgoat am I any longer, but indeed now have my very own slave to work under me. Good thing too- do you know how hard it is to clean glassware with these paws? Yeesh.

In other news, our new darkroom inches closer to completion. Since it has been decided that red fluorescent bulbs will be on the walls as well as the ceiling, I have officialy dubbed it Red Alert. Hey, rooms can have nicknames too, right? Well, the way I figure it, Red Alert is as good as any.

Mind you, consitering that the break room now has to be called the "Computer lab"...bah ::waves a paw::

Why am I even here? It's like all of us used to run on a treadmill to keep this place powered, and gradually one by one all the others dropped off leaving only me- and I'm getting tired and pissed, because they weren't tired, just lazy. Grr

Mwa ha ha ha ha. The cat is away, and we rats are playing. The chancellor is busy sleeping for twelve hours and may not even come in. Lil' Satan and I, however, had the nice opportunity this morning to be evil in proctoring for an exam. Mucho fun to be evil, but the kids weren't bad. Strange to be on this side of an exam for once tho.

No, you don't understand, women have the lower body strength, men have the upper body strength. Ifonly we could make some kind of half-man, half-woman...

...oh wait...

So there we are sitting in the cage and munching. We're talking about matzoh and bagels, and I comment about how it's all Jewish food. We make lots of Jewish jokes, and though it may be hard to circumcise a mouse, it can be done.

So Milla, a nice girl from the country, says "You know, it's funny- I nver really thought of bagels as being a jewish food."

"Really?" says I.

"Yea, I've always thought of them as being more Polish."

"Polish?!"

"Yea," she says "Well, there are Jews in Poland."

Immediately, David and myself chirp up at the same time, replying "Not anymore!"

Heh. No seriously, there are jews in Poland. Exactly 1,423 to be exact....22.....21.......20...