Beautiful Girls

Today, I have been the most attractive girl in a room full of students.

That doesn't happen all that often. It's another aspect of chemistry I like. When I say the most attractive girl in the room, I really mean the only one. Not the only attractive girl, but the only girl. Full stop.

The easiest way to win is to get rid of the competition. ;oP

Usually it's about 60:40 boys to girls ratio, I reckon. If you discount the foreigners that stick to their own language and culture, the biochemists and couple of randoms who are only in the odd module, it's probably even makes the females more of a minority . Most of the lab demonstrators are male. This is advantageous in some respects, not being self-obsessed, or anything ('sif!) but I kinda get the feeling they do gravitate towards the girls more. Come on, it's probably the only opportunity they get where girls will willingly approach them and listen intently to their every word. Hah, perhaps I'm being unfairly stereotypical - some of the guys are good-looking as well as being genuinely sweet, so I doubt they have it too rough.

But like was so readily remarked on by a fellow (male) peer last year (to the PhD students):

"You clearly only do this job to get to flirt with the freshers"
"Well I can't say that's not a bonus"

Heh, just unpop your labcoab, whip up a smile, and they're putty in your hands... ;o)

Of course, the fact that most of the department is male and incapable of empathy, it means there's a somewhat lack of genuine higher authority support in the pastoral care side. But that story's for another day...

On the jukebox: Roy Orbison ~ Pretty Woman