You know you live with a scientist when...

[Gemini Cricket]

...you find a squirrel skull in your freezer.

I'm getting ready to make dinner and I get my crowbar and icepick and go through our overpacked freezer. I look for the frozen salmon that we got from Costco and find other things instead. Ice cream, frozen bagels (also from Costco), white fish from Trader Joe's, buffalo burgers, squirrel skull in a plastic bag, frozen orange juice, ice...

You know, several years ago, I would have been all 'Holy Jesus on a pogo stick! What the hell is this? I can't believe it!' but now I'm all 'That's nice'.

He found it in a park near us the other day. Decomposing dead squirrel. After several days of watching it rot, and after the sun bleached it perfectly, he collected it. Said it was a perfect specimen. Froze it to kill some bacteria thingamajiggies.

He's going to preserve it and take it to work.



Does this make me Igor?