Flying Pigs and Venereal Diseases
Only in my life can something so strange come out of a seemingly normal event....I had a meeting with my supervisor about potential projects for my thesis next year (this is assuming I make the grade and am not thrown from the masters program - ARGH I am feeling teh pressure already) and we discussed several fields of interest...it has been narrowed down to 2 strong contenders...the first is a study on the identification of calibre and type of bullets from skeletal analysis...sounds cool huh....yep I thought so too until I pointed out that we did not have any people handy that I could shoot full of holes with a variety of different weapons....my supervisor was not to be deterred by mere details...he said "we will buy you some pigs" - WTF??? "You want me to shoot pigs? I ask in disbelief....You want me to shoot pigs, watch them rot then write about it?????? - dont worry he says we will buy pigs that are already dead!!!! I am unsure as to how to respond to this..........part of me is severly grossed out by this concept and part of me is thinking cool....except I suspect this would make a fairly bad line when meeting people and they ask about my masters??? Still it has to be a better pick up line than the alternative project we discussed.....
You know how some diseases have adaptive advantages when they appear in the heterozygote form..like sickle cell in malaria prone populations - well after a discussion I had with him in which I raised the question of whether a particualr disease in the medevial ages could have had an adaptive advantage he got excited as no one has as yet looked at this..."this" he says would make a great project..."Yeah" I reply "I could call my masters
"The Advantages of Venereal Syphilis" - Try picking up a date with that one!
So should a miracle occur and I actually make the grade for next year I can look forward to either telling people that I shoot pigs and then study the resulting effects, or that I am writting a paper on the benefits of syphilis...I guess it will be a lonely year for me!
Cheers
Jinx
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You know how some diseases have adaptive advantages when they appear in the heterozygote form..like sickle cell in malaria prone populations - well after a discussion I had with him in which I raised the question of whether a particualr disease in the medevial ages could have had an adaptive advantage he got excited as no one has as yet looked at this..."this" he says would make a great project..."Yeah" I reply "I could call my masters
"The Advantages of Venereal Syphilis" - Try picking up a date with that one!
So should a miracle occur and I actually make the grade for next year I can look forward to either telling people that I shoot pigs and then study the resulting effects, or that I am writting a paper on the benefits of syphilis...I guess it will be a lonely year for me!
Cheers
Jinx
xxx
posted by jinx at 11:37 PM
2 Comments:
Go for the first one.. you should be able to make a silk purse out of that sow's ear... and the other one's just poxy.
:~)
*sigh*
I'm suffering a little bit of thesis envy.
Hmm.. My usual cure for thesis envy is to taunt Gray with the sheer ludicrousity of his thesis. "Scooby Doo, the Road Years."
Hah!
Oh yes, I feel better already.
:P
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