I will post more about my new place and new job soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share one of my favorite parts about work. There are two newbies at work (me and another guy ironically named Eric) and we were thrown into work almost immediately last week because there was so much to do. It wasn't until yesterday that we started our official training and were shown around to all of the rooms in the lab.
One of the areas is full of little baby trout that they use for environmental experiments. Next to the tanks of baby fish is one tank with a monster trout. He is there because the people I work with are hilarious...and awesome. After experiments, there are always baby fish left over. They choose the largest of the batch to try to raise as big as they can and have him as a work pet (more on work pets later - there are several).
This specific trout has grown quite large and his diet is composed of...baby trout.
Other unused baby trout are occasionally scooped up and plopped into the pet trout's makeshift tank (circle of life, guys). And this fish goes absolutely nuts. Bananas. I swear he has fish brain damage because he hits his head into the side of the tank trying to ram his dinner to death. His forehead makes an audible "thunk". Every time. Eric and I cannot stop laughing - we look forward to trout feeding time.
The TROUT at work! We are working on a name for him and are open to suggestions:
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