Oh, what did you think?

Something I learnt today: How Futurama ended
Something that made me laugh today: Hiding things from Dave (he's a curious soul)

Those of you who read often will be well aware of the struggles I've been facing in choosing between Micro and Genetics in terms of majors. I'm currently trying to figure out where to apply for honours and the decision is still a little annoying.

So I spent my free hours on Thursday and Friday running from office to office, building to building and in one case off campus and back again, introduing myself to no less then ten supervisors. 3 from micro, 7 from genetics. My heart really wants to do genetics, so I figure I'll make it happy.

Realistically I think I'll get offered my first place for micro because I'm the only person who has expressed interest so far. But I want to do genetics.

The last genetics interview I had was the only one to stretch over 25 minutes (tight scheduling allowing for running from building to building because I knew I had to see a lot of people in a small period of time) was with a very nice supervisor with quite interesting projects. He gave me a fairly scary warning I must admit...the supervisors begin to get disenchanted when they're too low on your preference list.

It's too hard! Should I really be ranking the projects based on who is likely to accept me? That's a bit silly I think. I miss the days where the computers would calculate it all for you and no one would get insulted. I should have asked Charlie how far down the preference list people would begin to get insulted. Damn.

So in terms of who is likely to accept me...a fair few seemed impressed. The fungi genetics guy for sure, likewise with a couple of micro people (booo). Mr Sequence Evolution himself seemed to like me (but I'm sure he likes everyone) and the guy who was at the top of my hit list is as responsive as a three week old cucumber but there were a few encouraging comments such as "That's a very good question." (I think such a line proves that I've been thinking about it and proves I'm interested and that I'm looking at the problem from a number of angles - correct me if I'm wrong and I'll put Fungi guy at number 1).

Meanwhile, I'm not feeling too crash hot and so took some time off work, allowing me to spend a lovely relaxed morning with my boy. Hurrah.