Yeah!
Re: Marlin (Update)
So the dear fish finally made its way to the AUT. And no, it doesn't smell as bad as Master O would have us believe. It's "just" the smell of rotten fish .. can I spell desensitise right?
So last evening, I get a ride all the way to Master O's garden where the fish has been waiting and polluting the local neighbourhood with noxious fumes that forced people to keep their windows closed despite the scorching heat of the past few days. Anyway, it's dark when we get there... and i suppose that was a blessing because I could quite see the writhing of the mass of maggots (that came after...). We load the container (with no lid!) into the 4x4 along with another (empty) container reclaimed from filfthy squid bits in formalin
The drive is uneventful, we discuss (once Master O's retching has subsided) about the posibility of being stopped by the cops and how far in our story we can go until the collapse from the fumes....
The arrival at the AUT is worthy of the best spy movies, with all the stealth one (or two, as the case may be) can muster while unloading a huge barrel full of rotting fish bits, we sneak into the building... right under the nose of classes of engineers... (won't know what hit them..)
Safe inside our beloved wetlab, I proceed to clean up the different body parts, washing away a whole generation of maggots and assorted squirmy things. Master O volunteers for water duty.. anything to get out of the lab really. Despite trying real hard, i can't quite block the sink but that's ok, i guess. There's always next time. I'm hoo-ing and aaaah-ing at the amazing bone structure and promptly throw the bits in the chemical bath waiting beside me. A liitle bit a scavenging nets me a three-panels lids (read: three bits of wodd that fit reasonnably well) and the marlin reaches its home for the coming week or so.
My brain loaded with endorphins (what can i say? i love science), i'm dropped off, dimly aware that my aura (read: tangible smell armor) will protect me from anything that goes bump in the night (yeah.. even drunken students) until I can get picked up... off to a very very very long shower and a night outside
(the people i live with still have a sense of smell unfortunately).
Anyhow, just adding a little pic of the beast (couldn't get Master O so the fish will have to do).
And if some people are into maggots (takes all sorts...), i have a neat video
freaks
TPOTH
*unclean! unclean! uncleeeean!*
