Local Craziness in the News
I nearly choked on my cereal this morning when I heard the local news recounting this story. Apparently a Post-Doc at UCSF tried to poison a technician from the same lab, not just once, but twice. His chosen poison, while they don’t explicitly say in the article, is some common lab chemical that turned the drinking water of said technician 
blue, and get this, she noticed it was blue but drank it anyway. They only figured out the Post-Doc was trying to poison her because he told her he was. This whole thing is completely mind boggling. I think it must be some sort of cry for attention, because if he was really trying to do her in, he did a very poor job for someone with a science background. He refuses to tell the police his motives, and will most likely be deported (pretty sure attempted murder is a violation of a US work Visa). I hope people don’t start to think all Post-Docs are unhinged like this guy. Yes science can be stressful, but poisoning a lab-mate, I can’t believe it would get that bad. My boss told me when he was in grad school, someone in a very well known lab was putting radioactive substances into the coffee of a lab-mate. He wasn’t sure how they figured out who was doing this, but it sure makes you want to be nice to your co-workers.
In completely unrelated science news, researchers at the University of Michigan used nanotechnology to make some pretty cool likenesses of the President-elect, they call them Nanobamas.
By no means am I condoning it, but a post-doc can definitely make you psychotic. I’m so glad to be out of it.
Scientists are crazy!
Just looking at the baby widget! That is getting very close to 0 days! I hope you are doing well April and aren’t too uncomfortable. Matt, Chris lost lots of sleep at the end of my pregnancy because I tossed and turned so much, and when I turned over it wasn’t exactly straight forward. I used to tell him I was preparing him for the sleep deprivation that was to follow.
Seriously though, I am super excited for you guys.
She could come any day now, and I sure hope she decides on sooner rather than later. My sleep is pretty shoddy these days. I’m even staying home from work part of the time (that’s a lot harder than it sounds).
So exciting! (The baby, not the poisoning.) I also spent a lot of time at night negotiating the turning-over, the getting up to pee, the getting rid of excess covers Chris kept trying to smother me with. As I’m sure I’ve lamented before, I had a whole 1 day off before our little guy decided to come (2 weeks early), so treasure the time off you can take. Can’t wait to see pictures!