I love this paragraph.

[agilebrit]

Seriously, this is Alex in a nutshell:

Back inside, the work consumed him, completely blocking out everything else. Lunch came and went without him noticing. Sometime around nine PM, he ate. . . something he didn't remember five minutes later, in between poring over slides and tissue and nanotech, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. He had an enormous pot of coffee next to him, and a fresh bottle of single-malt scotch. If he could've used an IV to mainline the stuff, he would have, but the one time he tried that, he'd had to endure a two-hour lecture from both Megan and Chambliss on why it was a very bad horrible idea, so he drank it down the conventional way and lamented how slow it was, while back-burnering an idea to speed absorption.

He is awesome and hilarious.

And not Tony. Really.