This weeks free lunch was bought to me by the kind people at invitrogen. For the first time the sales reps were selling stuff relevant to my project, so club sandwitch in hand (lamb, tomato and lettuce, perhaps the greatest of the club sandwitches) , I picked their brains about novel RNA extraction and quantification kits that invitrogen have developed (read: bought out another company and slugged an invitrogen label on it).

At one point the guy was so excited about a potential sale that he wet himself twice and had to take three deep breathes to maintain consciousness. He was very enthused and rather scary.

I sadly missed another one today :( due to a meeting with no food running overtime. I had to buy my own lunch which I think is pretty criminal.

Christchurch has been cold, damn cold (read: coldest June on record). Which is only good for one thing. That is snowboarding. Have had one wonderful day at Mt Hutt, where there was more snow than I have ever seen at this time of year, and being only 90 mins from the carpark I think I may well be seeing a bit more of it before winter is out.