Well, just one. Don't take 4-year-old dayquil. I'm not entirely certain, but I think it's giving me mood swings, and is definitely making me feel queasy. That, combined with the allergy I took it to combat, are making me feel really ill and strange. As soon as I finish with this message, I'm going to go home and see if massive amounts of sleep can fix the problem. Ugh, and I thought I was miserable this morning from the allergies... gah.

During lunch today, I was reading out of science news, and there was a fascinating article on how there are specialized scientists who can take plant cells, expose them to various chemical recipes, and with one appropriate to the plant in question, can generally produce a plant 'embryo' which can be convinced to grow. They said that this is because plant cells, unlike animal cells, usually have a property called totipotency, whereby they don't specialize enough that they can't be reshaped into being another type of cell. There's apparently an art to finding the right recipe, mixing a lot of intuition and domain knowledge. What a cool job that would be. It would be interesting, were it possible, if there were chemical ways of coaxing such capabilities out of animal cells as well. Any cell could be a stem cell. In any case, the article was one of the best bits of pleasure reading I've had in quite some time. If you're subscribed to science news, and did their online registration thingy, you can get the article online here. Pity it's not free to all.. :(

Time to go home and go to bed...