| How I made an ass of myself in front of a prestigious Harvard scientist. |
[Nov. 13th, 2005|10:39 am] |
On Friday the Chemistry Department, and in particular the new program they've started on Bioinformatics, invited a prestigious systems biologist from Harvard to give a talk here. As I am in the Bioinformatics class, I, of course, was required to attend the talk, and then that night, go to dinner with the scientist at my Professor's house.
So the dinner started off fine, I was sitting at the table with the guy and he was really nice and we were having a nice conversation about things having nothing to do with science (thankfully, since I fell asleep during his talk earlier in the day). After dinner, those of us at the smaller, secondary table joined the other big table for desert, and the guy started talking about his lab.
Now, talking about some guy's lab is not exactly the most interesting subject to me, so my mind started to drift and I kind of zoned out. Then I heard an interesting sound to my right, and I looked over.
My professor's dog was, like, going to town on its crotch. I've never owned a dog, so I don't know if this is common behavior, but this dog is just lying on the ground, vigorously attacking its crotch.
So I'm a bit taken aback, and I look around to see if anyone else is noticing this. They are all enrapt with the speaker. I look back, and the dog's still at it.
So of course, try as I might to hold it in, I bust out laughing.
The speaker just goes dead silent, turns and stares at me. Everyone else in the room turns and stairs at me.
I keep laughing.
See the problem was, I wanted to convince the guy that my outburst of laughter wasn't me being like "Oh my god, what you just said was such bullshit", like he took it. But I also didn't want to admit in front of 15 people and a prestigious Harvard scientist that I found a dog licking its crotch so hilariously funny.
Anyway, I hope that dog was really enjoying itself. Because I just lost any chance I ever had of getting a job working for that guy. |
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