There is a woman who used to work in my lab who I have never actually met but in my mind she is somewhat of a legend. She is almost manic about her work and was known as the “Whitney Houston” of the lab (keep in mind she was a doctoral student in the lab in the mid to late nineties so that was actually a compliment and not an affront to her character)-intelligent, sharp, always well dressed and impeccably groomed.

A couple of years ago she was in town for a conference and my boss came to her hotel room for a dinner date. She walked out of the bathroom and took a couple sniffs. She asked “Laura, do you smell that? Do you smell that sulfur?” My manager sniffed the air, trying to smell what she was smelling. She said “You know what that is? That’s the smell of our eggs burning.”

Ha.