OctoFuzzie. Our fuzzy pad wielding overlord.

So there's this undergraduate research thing going on later today that I want to attend. As a result, I've been awake since about 3:30 and am in le lab at 5:30. The walk over here wasn't as sketch as I thought it might be. I barely saw anyone, in car or out and it was pretty peaceful. You can kind of smell Spring in the air and it's not 12 degrees outside so the walk was nice and relaxing.

This is OctoFuzzie, the newest member of the lab. OctoFuzzie has been in the lab for a total of 2 days and I think he likes his job so far. He's way better at holding the fuzzy pads we use for our westerns than the make-shift clothesline we had before. Speaking of westerns, I have become western god. I think. I haven't had a leaky gel in about 2 weeks (except now that I've said that I'll never have a non-leaky gel again) so I think I've finally got it down. OctoFuzzie seems to be a part of our goal to make the lab as tacky as possible. He's no where as cool as the tacky Festivus tree that we had up or the lights that they recently made us take down (fire safety peoples are mean(I don't mean that)), but he does his job like a true cephalopod.

While we are on the topic of decorations. Here's a nice picture of my lab bench pics that I have hung up.

The middle picture is definitely my favorite. (All comics from xkcd)

It pretty much sums up how I feel a lot of times in lab. Of course I enjoy the work, but I still have no idea what is going on a lot of times, which is okay because in science years, I'm like 4.