i used the word "blurb" today as part of the title of a file i sent to one of my labmates. as in, "research blurb". totally valid usage.

also, im pretty sure that most of the people in my lab are scared of me, or at least think im crazy. which is OK, i suppose, because then maybe i can intimidate them into doing my bidding. however, i don't want everyone to think im a crazy psycho bitch, cause im not really, i just don't like my stuff moved all over the place! see, we got all these undergrads, and we don't have enough benches for all of them to have their own bench, so this one guy, let's call him mr. hippie, lets his helpers use my bench. which.... I will allow... but only because i think that killing him would send the wrong message and maybe i should learn to share. but you aren't supposed to share lab benches! things could get all messed up! anyway, i always complain to my undergrad, because when the others use my bench they use up all my stuff and move it around and don't replace it, and this becomes a problem when i am in the middle of an experiment and i reach for a pipette and there are none and then im like "FUCK! gah!" and i have to go run and find one and this is a problem. so when my undergrad asked me where she should put the extra plates because she knew that "if she put them in the wrong spot i might get really mad or something..." i was like, hm, maybe i should not get so pissed off. but actually i am completely justified because in a lab you shouldn't move people's stuff. you should just get your own, and I should stop sharing my feelings with my minion. i think that she thinks we're friends and then she shows up an hour late and that is not cool. she needs some time outs, obviously.