I have never smelled a fish so foul! This morning we look at the dogfish dissection that first year students are going to carry out this week. The stench of the fish is overpowering. I try to keep my face straight and my heart in the right place when the professor is opening out the stomach of the fish. This one is a male. The liver lobes are enormous. We can also see clearly the intestine, kidneys, dueodenum, and the rectal gland. The rectal gland excretes salt into the sea so the kidneys do not have to do so much work on excretion. The fish has to excrete large amount of salt otherwise the osmosis balance in the body will get out of control. This is adaptation of the animal to a sea life.
We leave the dogfish until Thursday. Take mail to Megan's desk but where is she? She is supposed to be in this dissection session. Eat lunch with Jo and Laura in university. Get back to Dexcel and discovers I am not actually late. Everybody is still at their desk waiting for the meeting to start.
We talk about what we should do in these few months. Supervisor is going oversea in June and will be back after that. The cow are still in gestation at that time and there's no milking. It will be quite cold around June/July and it's the time for us to get some holiday before the wheel starts to turn again around August/September.
I am assigned to write my Literature Review (Chapter 1) before the end of April. That means a lot of writing non-stop from now.
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