Beginnings and Exhaustion

I am very, very tired. The lack of funds has driven me into the arms of AHAARG for the first time and I have been placed into a group that is strange even by my standards and forced to *gags* socialize. There is a high point and it is that nobody has actually forced me to do so, but I am functionally completely socially exhausted and regretful that I haven't had more time with the local library or my lab. I miss my fungal abode in the deeps of the world. But what must be done must be done. These disciplines aren't going to synthesize themselves...
Also, what was with that guy who blushed when I made a joke about eating his finger? Is that the norm for the big city?