And here you'll see the doctoral student in her natural habitat....

I'm sitting in my class' office with a classmate typing up some session notes and eating lunch. We have our "big deal colloquium" this afternoon, so our training director was schmoozing the speaker and showing him around.

Suddenly, the door cracks open wider, and three heads peer in:

"These are our student offices...here are some of our third years..."

I looked up from the screen with alpha-alpha sprouts hanging from my mouth and didn't comment.

You know when you're hiking and you see a deer eating, and it stops mid-chew and looks at you with food hanging out of its mouth? That's EXACTLY what it was like...

In other news, I am insanely sleep-deprived and a little punchy....