Motetus

( Birdy! )

And a little rant:

My favourite work colleague, Syrian PhD Student, recently became pregnant and because the group next to us do a lot of work with Listeria monocytogenes she's been told she shouldn't enter our lab at all and has had to move to another lab to do her practical work. Now, I'm usually pretty rubbish at paying much attention to health and safety, but this is something everyone should be taking extremely seriously given that there's the risk of her losing her baby. So today, because I'm already in the lab and she can't get hold of me, she asked Weird Post-Doc With All The Social Skills Of A Turnip (who is already in my bad book for hogging all the incubators this week) to pop into the lab to get her bunsen burner - a trip that would take literally a minute. His answer? "You can get it yourself."

We both had a very stern word with him later that resulted in one cowed and sheepish post-doc. The evil part of me did enjoy seeing him squirm.

I'm not really into fantasy novels so I wouldn't have picked up this book if it hadn't been given to me as a gift - and it's more steampunk fantasy than dragons and fairies. The imagery in this book is fantastic, particularly the floating pirate city formed by thousands of ships lashed together and pulled by the vast sea creature with a heart the size of a cathedral they have tethered miles below.

Another tough one. I don't really have a favourite film, just several favourites - Batman Begins, Schindler's List, Kinsey (see a pattern here?), A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. But if I was only allowed one film to watch for the rest of my life, it would probably be:



As action-adventure films go, it's pretty much perfect. Harrison Ford was at the peak of his attractiveness, Marion was an awesome female character compared to the other two in the later films, and it contains my favourite animal character ever: Evil Nazi Monkey.

And there was no such thing as an Indy IV.