Eyes on All Sides

Odd... Ropi took himself off my list, then put himself back on, then took himself off again? That sucks.
Gah, if Beau doesn't contact me soon I'm going to scream.
Today is a day off of school, so Lila and I decided to go to our Dad's work, which is where I'm posting from right now. It's a very big place, with lots of locked doors and microscopes. Dad works on the 10th floor of the building, which means he is very important (because important people get the highest floors) and he showed us around. There is his office, his labratory, his microscope room, and his computer room, where I am right now typing on a very old keyboard. Dad showed me some slides that he's working with, depicting cross sections of rat brains. He's looking at little black dots and trying to figure out what they mean. Now, I think you can guess that I am not "anti-animal research" because I helped him look through the microscope and analyze the brains. Please don't kill me for that. I discovered that there is a line of dots in the lower left-hand section of the brain, indicating who knows what. But maybe that'll be the beginning of a whole new age of science!! (lol)
I also attended Dad's lecture, which was about scientific misconduct. Apparently it can take uptwo 3 years to investigate allegations of misconduct, and cost people horrendous amounts of money. Even if you are proven innocent, the time and money are irreplaceable, so people, BEWARE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES!! At this place there have been at least two recent cases of people being proven guilty of this, resulting in them being debarred and having their funds confiscated.
I feel obligated to mention the students. There were 5 that arrived on time, and 3 late. (yes, only 8 people in the class) These were the audience of Dad's lecture. There was someone from Syria, from Jordan, from India, Korea, and the rest American. It's really cool that there's such a variety of people here. It really teaches you to look beyond the skin.