For some reason, Halloween sharpens the competitive edge at the Hutch. My rotation lab is engaging in a two-front war with another lab here. Front one: Halloween costumes - and I think we're pretty well screwed there, as we have no concrete ideas yet.
On the seccond front, however, we show promise: a haiku competition. Each lab member of each lab can submit up to three (topic = "science"), though each lab selects five total from among its members to present to a neutral judge who, on Halloween, will select the best haiku from the batch. Today, we voted within the lab for the five haiku that would be submitted for our lab to the neutral judge. None of my selections made the final cut.
(They may not be up to his standards, but they work for me.)
Science Haiku:
The first two bitch about lab difficulties, the first being the simple equation C1V1=C2V2. Yes, the same one we all learn about in general chemistry - and yet I time and again trip over it. The latter two bitch about the grant I have due in a week.
Oh, C1V1!
I’m getting a Ph.D.,
And still you mock me!
P.C.R.: smug and
Abusive; cruel and cold. Yet,
I come back for more.
Pressing matter: my
Grant is ten lines too long. But,
Iron Chef is on!
"I don't give a damn,"
Says Rhett. Can I say the same
To the N.S.F.?