Live blogging from the 75th Annual Fictional Science Conference, Part 4

Note: After several days of lectures, attention starts to wander and focus shifts to the restaurants and bars around the conference site.

12 August 2013

The "Meandering Musicianist" has become the favourite hangout of the scientific crowd.  There is no great mystery to this.  Fill a town full of middle aged professionals of any stripe and they will locate the establishment with the most beautiful waitress. I wonder how many invitations this poor woman has received to assist with investigations of meta normal phenomena.  

Over a supper of tempura and a substance I was unable to identify, I shared a fascinating discussion of heteroprobabalistic interflamability in yeasts with a geneticist from Peru. In the ardour of the conversation, I began to confess my own true feelings about the role of 6-dihydroxyplenderphytine in the phenomenon of conjugation tube rejection. The intense mood was shattered when one of the pieces of sushi she was about to chew proved to be not quite dead, and bit her finger. This traumatic event quickly spoiled the atmosphere, and it took four waiters nearly half an hour to clean up the mess.