What I do and what I really do

Click the link in the title for a crash course in Cytology 101

So... people always ask what I do for a job and I'm usually fairly careful and pick my words wisely so as not to offend their sensibilities (I try to judge how much information they can handle and gauge by the general conversation how much more I should reveal).

I look at cells under the microscope.

Looking for cancer cells and precancerous changes.

And yeah, I do love my job (as much as one can love a job), we are so perfectly suited for each other -but that is kind of another story for another day...

Yum Yum

Bugs snack on wood chips and excrete crude oil.

Flying Warthog

I saw a flying warthog today. A disorganised group of metaplastic cells was masquerading as a warthog in "Superman" pose, looking like it had just been shot out of a cannon. It had everything: snout, tusks and trotters.