Radiation and other animals

3.38pm. Roy is still quite upset; it was pretty shocking to find him in tears in the corridor. Kirsten is pretty concerned, so I think I might have to liven things up a bit this afternoon and get him laughing again.


This afternoon's work is going well, and things were pretty happy... up to a point. There has been one further episode of unpleasantness, internal in college this time. Last night when we found ourselves in the tutor lounge with Katherine and Andy (the academic support guy), Paul swiped a bottle of red. This Andy guy made a point of saying that he was turning a blind eye, which was fine, everything seemed okay.

But today, Academic Andy came into the lab, walked up to Paul and said that there was a problem, there was something missing, and it has to be replaced. His tone of voice was distinctly unpleasant, almost as if we were being threatened. We would have replaced the bottle anyway but to have this thrown in our faces by someone who said that he was turning a blind eye to it at the time was rather unpleasant.

Roy, Kirsten, Tim

We're currently standing outside having a coffee break, me, Helen, Colin, Kirsten, Roy, Andy (the nice one, not the twat), Tim and Paul. Soon it'll be time to go back in, and continue measuring counts. I'm enjoying this lab.

It turns out that our tutor for this is actually from Argentina, but she does not have the sort of accent that I would expect.