The post of change

Today's post reflects my extreme change of working environment: from computer science departments to the one of biological sciences! The highlight of my first day at work was having the chance to touch an owl. I confess that it was a bit scary because the owls looked really frightening with their big black eyes! For you to have an idea, based on a very amateur analysis from my part, I found the picture above that resembles the owl  (I must say that I'm not responsible for any nightmares that you might have after seeing it!)  ;)

I'm probably making a big fuss of it, which can be easily explained by a combination of me being a city girl + a computer scientist. But I wasn't always like this. I actually grew up on small towns on the country side, and I even had a sheep as a pet once -- she was called Misha, and, according to my mother, she was named after the famous mascot of the Moscow Olympic Games!