not love but clean centrifuges

[jinian]

I am so happy to have a new lab assistant who knows what clean looks like. He willingly used acetone (in the fume hood, of course) to clean the gummy adhesive off the test tubes, which have been awful for a year or more. He wanted to. <3! Also I think I am winning the existing lab assistant over to my fan club, if not my lab-perfection ways just yet; he complimented my hair (cue rad-fem rebellion moment), and when he was talking to me about Wolverine today and I proved to actually know a bit more than he did, he carefully sounded me out about other fandoms as well.

It wasn't a bad day for love either, in fact. The interviewee looks like a blonde-bobbed angel and has brains of steel, I was happily surprised to see and sit by one of my favorite year-mates, and a cute postdoc came over to my office after seminar to look at my etchings Macrolichens of the PNW. Also I'm making a care package, which always makes me happy. Whee!