April 23rd Meeting Re-Cap

Hey, great meeting everyone! 

Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Friday May 7^th in the All-Staff.  Jeff will be Toastmaster, Yunling and (hopefully) Tom will be giving speeches.  I will be doing table-topics again and have a plan to do a book/dvd swap event, so keep an eye out for an email with more details…..  I really want to encourage our members who haven’t been able to attend meetings lately to try and stop in again (Paul I miss your angry rants during table topics….)  Here’s a recap of todays meeting:

Today’s word of the day, compliments of Dave:

Munificent

/ [myoo-nif-uh-suhnt]–adjective

1.  Extremely liberal in giving; very generous.

2.  Characterized by great generosity: a munificent bequest

 

Bonus Word (In homage to last meetings table-topics)

Schadenfreude

[shahd-n-froi-duh]  –noun

Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

 

And our first ever original poem ‘My Day at Work’ from Anuj:

 

First I check my email

Then I eat some cereal

While I thaw my buffers – so I have my lab material.

 

I run a PCR

And photograph my gel

I don’t shower in the morning, so there’s a good chance that I smell

 

Now  it’s time to eat again

Does anyone need lunch?

The CLASH team all needs food – “this week we’re in a crunch”

 

I make some dirty jokes in the caf

But none of them are funny

So I just get some saltines out and pour on lots of honey

 

The end of day roles around

I feel a little sad

Now’s when I remember that my job ain’t so bad

 

It hits me why this day was great

And then I begin to smirk

I should have a drink every morning before I come into work

 

Andy Read

http://sigmasix-tm.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

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