December 5, 2010
“Our travel budget is kaput.”
Pete lowered the latest issue of The Journal of Plankton Research and doffed his reading spectacles, peering at me with that familiar difficult-to-decipher unblinking blank stare. “Our travel budget?” he asked. “If you have not noticed, Einstein, I do not own a wallet or possess a bank account.”
“You know what I mean,” I replied, a bit perturbed that he was more interested in reading about the flexible adaptation of the seasonal krill maturity cycle in the laboratory than in my checking and savings account balances or our future travel destinations.
