cleverly disguised as a responsible adult

I have the attention span of a hyperactive goldfish. I swear, today's been a combination of Gir and Kiki for trying to get things done. Luckily, I seem to have impressed the faculty members who I wanted on my thesis committee instead of the previous, unreliable sort.

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This morning I woke up in the middle of a dream. I was in a house, and it was flooding. There were several feet of water in the house when it started to float away. One of the sheep was confused, swam over to the window, head-butted it a couple of times, but gave up when all it could see was water. I came to consciousness thinking, "weird...", then was confused because I thought it may have been real. Luckily, only the thunderstorm was real and there were no sheep in my bedroom.

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Cool Facts (courtesy of Dribbleglass)

• Porphyrophobia is a morbid fear of the color purple.
  
• Shakespeare was the first to use certain words that are now common, including "hurry," "bump," "eyeball" and "anchovy."
  
• In the early days of motion pictures, "movies" were the people who worked on films.

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I was arguing yesterday with several computers in my lab. Actually, I think the problem was more with the CD full of data than the 'puters, but I digress. I was able to open and manipulate the pictures that were pretty much useless, but not the ones that were important. I went back and forth from our lab to a collaborator, tried different formats, different computers, different curses.

I finally ended up proclaiming, "I need an old scientist and a young scientist, strong in their faith and belief in the scientific method. Open the biochem textbook, start reading anywhere. Hand me a bottle of PBS. The power of Darwin compels you! Demon, leave this machine!"

...and that was yesterday. Today, the files opened easily. I didn't even have to cajole or threaten violence. I'm not going to argue, just so long as everything still works.