Crazy working.

Last week I worked like an insane person, i.e. like your general scientist. I spent no less than 53 hours in the lab, and that is a lot. Especially for someone like me that is supposed to be on 50% sick leave, and not work more than 20 hours per week. But most of you know me, and know that I want to try things to see if they work. Challenge myself, and work enthusiastically when something very exciting comes along. The wish to challenge myself coincided last week with an energy supply, and very exciting work. So I went for it. It worked. I felt tired, but not fatigued and stressed by it. This morning it was hard though. I woke up at 7 and felt: 'Awwh, today it is saturday, relaxing finally', only to within seconds thereafter realise that is was actually monday morning, and that I was soon bound to get up if I wanted to make it on time to my compulsory PhD course. So now, I am very tired. I want to sleep, but fear that will reduce my chances greatly to make it to StepStrength and PowerYoga later tonight. And I really want to work out. I guess I will find out how that goes.

So this week I am on PhD course again. Compulsory, of course, otherwise I would not have been there. The course is about how to handle animal used for research-purposes in a correct way. Or in a "humane" way as some lectures have pointed out today. But what does that mean really? How do you kill a mouse in a humane way, when you don't kill humans legally at all (apart from insane death penalites, but let's not get into that too). Or how do you "store" your living mice in a humane way? Do you put your 5 mice in a huge family house? Or does it mean it is ok to put 5 humans in a 30x50cm? Although I of course understand what the lectures mean by using that expression, I still think removing the word "humane" from would be a good start. It just makes me sit there and think of how 5 mice would enjoy their house, and how the 5 humans would enjoy their plastic cage (I made some preliminary sketches of the latter in my notepad, as a comic relief for an otherwise comic deprived day).