Bad: Deadline incoming, must spend hours preparing images. A boring and repetitive task.

Better: Soda company just so happens to be handing out free samples of their latest caffeine bomb in the lobby.

Best: Boring repetitive task buoyed by brightly-flavored uppers, now set to the tune of a rotating playlist that opens with Martha And The Vandellas and moves swiftly into the classic works of AC/DC.

Those of you who follow the Journal of Neuroscience Research--and I know nearly all of you do--should keep an eye out for the upcoming publication of "Dye Coupling in Developing Vestibular Nuclei."

I'm finally a published author!