You're funny.

Why thank you. But do you mean like funny lookin or I could make money off the things that come out of my mouth? I'm cool with either...

Well, seeing how I've only seen a picture of you on the toilet and you look pretty serious there...

so what do you research?

I'm going to see Flogging Molly in concert tomorrow. Yippy Skippy!

Heh. Gotta be loose on the john...Don't want to force anything in there...

But I digress...

I work with mammalian visual systems. In particular I work with retinal cone opsins and study the effects of altercations in their amino acid sequences. In reality I squirt monkey eye juice in tubes and shake them around a lot. I'm actually an undergrad here up at UMBC. Still have about two years left. The monkey eye thing is just something to spice up the resume for grad school.

Where is the crew playing tomorrow night? The Cotton Club or the Masquerade? I actually use to live down that way (Stone Mountain).

Actually they were with the Warped Tour. The played the Hi Fi Buys Ampitheatre which used to be Lakewood Ampitheatre back in the day.

"mammalian visual systems" that's one you don't hear everyday. eyeballs freak me out. What's the name of that phobia? Whatever it is, I am.

Yeah...shiz...Warped is up here next week. I want to go but its in DC. I hates the DC...Traffics not as bad as rush hour on 285, but its still a pain in the ass getting anywhere around there. The temptation to go is killin me....

I love playing with gross shit like that. I really wish I weren't so damn lazy cause I'd love to be a surgeon. One of the highlights of the summer research things is getting out and showing off your research at the end of summer conference.

I use to work in another lab, in short I played with caterpillars in there, and I would plump up some 'runway models' for the show. They'd be hangin all over me and the poster board and shit...people would come up and get all freaked out cause of these big green things crawlin all over.
This year I'm gonna bring in these huge-ass, baby head sized whale eyes. We got em in bags all nice and juicy like...good times.

Ommetaphobia and or Ommatophobia. I don't know what the difference is but they got more than one word for it. I'm kinda affraid of eating out of a container of pudding that my roomate has eaten directly out of. I don't know if that qualifies for a phobia though...