Lab Assistant

I hesitate to show this photograph in public, because some of you know, or will guess, what it is we are looking at in the scope. I cannot resist, however, showing off my little science pal, whose lab duties include--but are not limited to--flipping the pages of the phone book, pounding my glasses on the table six or seven times, smiling at his mother, grasping for the microscope, the sharp glass slide, the hot lamp, my coffee...all of it.
We found what we were looking for, but we still don't know what it is. Nothing "in the literature". We wait for culture results.