There are now five male creatures in my household.

[nanila]

How I Know We Have A 22-Year-Old American Cousin of the Bloke's Staying With Us:

• Number of panniers/rucksacks in the kitchen yesterday: 1. Number of panniers/rucksacks in the kitchen this morning: 6.
  
• Number of sausages in the fridge yesterday: 16. Number of sausages in the fridge this morning: 5.
  
• Slices of bread in a new loaf yesterday: All. Slices of bread in a new loaf this morning: 2.
  
• Cartons of juice in the fridge yesterday: 2. Cartons of juice in the fridge this morning: 0.

To be fair to him, he is cycling around England. It takes more than a couple packets of Haribo to fuel that. I think we're going to have to do a shop tonight that would normally be reserved for the impending apocalypse.

I feel like a tiny speck of oestrogen adrift in a sea of testosterone. It's like being at a chemical dynamics conference, right down to the amount of beer consumed. Although there is considerably less discussion of photoelectron angular distributions.

Comments

[weaverbird]

Oh, how this made me laugh!

I am reminded of one of my favorite lines from Tolkien: Bringing up young hobbits took a lot of provender. *g*

[nanila]

He has gone off to Manchester for a few days, so our larder has a chance to recover this weekend!

[holdthesky]

Ime, in Cambridge, when testosterone reaches a certain concentration photoelectron angular distributions are just the kind of thing that get discussed, lots, :-).

[nanila]

True. Like the time I got out my mini-theremin in the Devonshire so that my friends could play with it, and the chaps at the next table went, "Ooh, a theremin! Can we play it?"

[holdthesky]

You've got a mini Theremin? That is wonderful! I think there must be more Theremins per head in Cambridge than anywhere else in the world!

[purplecthulhu]

'I feel like a tiny speck of oestrogen adrift in a sea of testosterone.'

Sounds like a pretty good encryption of your working environment as well!

[nanila]

Yes, although my particular group is more evenly balanced than most in physics!

[ajnabieh]

I was trying to reason out how much poultry I needed for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. "Twelve people, but one of them is a vegetarian and one of them is a three-year old, so maybe two chickens...oh, wait. Three of them are young men between the ages of 23-21. Three chickens it is."

[nanila]

Ooh, I hope they turned out well. I'm salivating thinking about it, although in the house at present (outnumbered four to one), I have to be pretty swift with my fork to grab my share!

[lark_ascends]

Oh, dear. *giggles*

[nanila]

He's away for a few days, so our plundered larder will have a little time to recover before the next onslaught.