can it be?

Is it really really April? I think i'm still stuck in March.

i was listening to BBC radio 2 this afternoon, while pipetting minute amounts of precious reagents into tube, and the talk show featured a discussion about the recently publicized demand for human brains to be used in finding cures for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. unfortunately, you'll have to dispel those far flung thoughts of brain transplantation as these brains will only be used for research. the general response to the official inclusion of brains as part of the organ donating scheme was mostly, "duh, why wouldn't you use 'em." however, many people are more than somewhat disturbed by the thought of scientists remove the brains of their future deceased bodies or the corpses of their loved ones. one caller described it as a Frankensteinian scene of mad hungrily scientsts hunched over an a cut skull in gleeful and morbid fascination. i'd personally be flattered if someone wanted to poke around in my dead brain.