Just Another Income Stream

So, unless you're new to my blog, you have probably asked yourself after reading a post, "Why is Andrew's life so incredible and mine so humdrum?" I do not know the answer to this (nor to many other questions). but I do know that you are probably right to be jealous.

Feast your eyes on the contents of an email from earlier today. If you were me, this sort of thing would not even be exciting anymore because things like this are what make my life what it is. That is where my fortune came from in fact. My comments are in red. Behold:

Dear E-mail Owner (personalized introduction),

You are a winner of the UK National lottery online program that was held on the 9th August, 2008 (I won without even entering!). You have been approved to claim a sum £500,000.00 of (Five Hundred Thousand Great BritishPounds) (yes, "great britishpounds") of cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.To file for your claims you are to contact our claims agent (random extra spaces, missing spaces and grammatical errors):

Mr. Claire Kingston (gender-confused contact who has not stolen any prize money to buy her/himself a telephone)
Email: mrs.claire.kingston@gmail.com

Provide her with the following information to claim your prize. Full Name: Address: Phone Number: Country of residence: Sex: Age: Amount Won:

Yours faithfully,
Gibson Witterford (whose email is "maryanndaniels@adelphia.net")
Online Co-ordinator
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY (an organisation I've never heard of from a country I've never been to)

So if anyone is in a financial bind, you know who to talk to. Don't worry... I've got your back.

Let the Games Begin!

See, even in Microbiology we've caught Olympic fever.

Work was a little slow, so I started prepping a little for the upcoming Olympics. These are bacterial and fungal growth media in petri dishes. Since we already had them in so many colours, I figured that I may as well assemble them into the iconic Olympic rings (in order to bolster morale in the lab). So far so good.

I know, you're quite impressed, aren't you?