Okay, that's weird.

So I'm going over a student's paper that she handed in early for my "freebee" check, and another student (a former student of mine) stops by:

"Dr. Fillyjonk, do you know how to dispose of a brain?"

I look at her for a moment, boggled: "A.....brain?!?"

"Yeah, a brain. Someone left it in the plants I'm growing for research. I think it's a cat's brain, see?" (She holds up a small glass jar with liquid and what is pretty clearly a preserved brain in it. I was too flabbergasted to ask her if it showed up like that - in the jar - or if she had to pick it up and put it in there herself. I presume it was in the jar because it looked too well-preserved to just be laying out loose).

I just gape at it for a few moments, and weakly say "I think Dr. Anatomist would know better than I do"

"But she's not here."

"Well, I think she's in lab, she's probably not busy as it's the midpoint of lab. I don't think she'd mind you going and asking her. I THINK they incinerate those kinds of things but I don't know for sure."

So the student left, carrying the jar of brain, to go find Dr. Anatomist.

I said it last week, and I say it again: the weird stuff can stop happening ANY TIME now.