my advisor's 7 year old daughter was in lab one day last week. while
she was there, she was sitting at the table in the lab break room
with a highlighter and a stack of papers she'd salvaged from the
recycling bin. when one of the other grad students sat down to talk
with her for a bit, she told the student "not now! i'm busy writing
a grant".
-sian
siang at mcb.umass.edu