Am I more boring, or more weird?

I spent most of today looking at dead bats, which was a lot of fun. Of course, now I sound really creepy, but, you know, such is life. Today was just learning the basics, and I didn't do any actual official hair counting (which is what I'm going to spend most of my time doing). The guy who showed me what to do was really funny. He seemed really worried that I would have an issue with the dead animals, which I guess is understandable, except, well... as I told him, my mom does this for a living. She used to teach anatomy, so I spent a fair bit of time when I was little in rooms full of dead human bodies. So bats? Like the ones that occasionally end up in the freezer at home? Not a problem.

I had a ridiculous amount of fun looking at these bats through a microscope today. It's actually fascinating, these hairs that we're counting are on the wings, and they are tiny. At the moment it isn't clear what their purpose is, but the people working on it think that the hairs are probably used to monitor the difference in air pressure on the ventral (front) and dorsal (back) sides of the wings. There are different amounts of hair on different parts of the wings, so we're counting a bunch of different areas.

And I'm even more excited about tomorrow, when I will not only begin collecting data, but will also get to go over to engineering and drill holes in a metal plate so that it can be used as a stencil for painting grids onto bat wings. Which is awesome mostly because it means that I get to work in engineering.

Wow, this is sort of insanely boring and technical and stupid...

And now I'm hallucinating. I would swear that something just ran off of my bedside table, and across the bed directly behind my computer. But there's nothing there... This is probably a sign that I should stop saying nothing.