CWD Necropsies: Day 1

I spent about 5 1/2 hours today stuffing bits of dead deer nerve, muscle, and tongue into little plastic bags. We started around 3:45, had a short dinner break close to 8pm, and it was almost 10 when we finished. My only complaint about it is that my back hurts.

Signs I have incorrigibly set my feet on the road to becoming a career biologist:

• Can listen to a 15-minute conversation about the right way to cut off a head without thinking it either grotesque or particularly funny.
• Can spend hours bathing in blood, eat a hearty dinner, and go back to bathing in blood.

My boss volunteered me for this, by the way. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Okay, it's a good thing, but my back still hurts.