Scabies reminds me that if any of you or your pets gets any mites, fleas, lice, etc. you can send them to me. Oh yes, I want them. Not to become my own personal ecosystem, but because I am making a collection for insect systematics next fall. Storing them in ethanol is best, but otherwise any little container will do.

It's amazing how much better my PI gets along with men than with women. He is extremely formal with the girls in the lab, but we recently got a new (male) student and they are instantly thick as theives. He'll come into the lab and be like "Did you do this totally manly thing Saturday?" "Oh, me too! It was awesome." Yesterday they had a conversation at lunch about hunting wild pigs in California and how they make pig wallows or something. Seriously. There was so much testosterone in the air I started growing a beard.