I just got back from a conference in Moscow, Idaho. It was nice to get away, even if it was work related. I gave a talk, and listened to plenty of others. My brain is entirely full. Who am I kidding? My brain was full after listening to the first talk.
My friend and I arrived just before the registration desk closed the evening before talks began. In a weird coincidence, the very first person we saw at the conference was the one other guy from our university who was attending and who happened to be walking up to the registration desk at the same time. The next person I saw was a friend who was working on his Ph D when I was working on my MS, and one of the next was a guy who was a post-doc at the same time. Strange that I would travel a thousand miles away from home, to a conference where I didn't expect to know anybody, and have that happen.
Before we got to Moscow, my friend and I made a wager. He set the over/under on hot girls who would be at the conference at ten. I took the under on the condition that they had to be legitimately hot, not just biology hot*. I won. There were only six**. Six hot girls out of 1200 registered attendees. That's a mere 0.5%. And you wonder why I'm single.
My friend told me he'd give me $1000 if I'd end my talk by saying, "And with that, I'd be happy to take any questions . . . Ladies!" He wouldn't have paid up if I had, but even if he would have, it wouldn't have been worth committing career suicide over, so I didn't. Not that I would've been able to say it with a straight face anyway.
*Biology Hot - a girl who is average looking, but when compared to other female biologists stands out as unusually attractive.
**And one of those may have been a duplicate.
8 comments:
Trust me Minnow, the odds of finding a hot man are even more tragic....or so I'm told.
moscow, idaho. who knew?
That's a pretty deplorable ratio....
That is a low percentage - unfortunately. And I'm glad you put constraints on it because hotness is a sliding scale and it shouldn't be compromised or sullied. Ha. Hope the conference was fun despite the numbers.
can you comment on the numbers of hot men?
Glad you had a good time and it's nice to have you "back".
maybe I should go study biology - i think i could pass for biology hot, well for a fat chick at least LOL
"*Biology Hot - a girl who is average looking, but when compared to other female biologists stands out as unusually attractive."
A very important distinction!!!
What was the percentage of girls to guys regardless of hotness factor? That might bring the percentage up a tad.
Is there a biology hot for guys?
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