Quite apart from wondering how you can be made late for work by having the clock at work reset, I kept expecting you to start bitching out a graduate student for stealing your lunch, or your drink.
P.S. As I’m you no doubt know, the searing pain from certain capsacian-bearing comestibles is courtesy of an oil, and as such, is susceptible to solvents, such as, oh, alcohol. Keep a hip flask on your person at all times, should be your new safety motto.
In this context, all I could think of was “your small intestine runs on electricity?”.
You might consider getting one of those little LED flashlights that go on your keychain. Good for power-related emergencies such as yours.
I hate to break this to you, but that’s because you’re not a scientist where you work; you’re the experiment. Somewhere in another room in the building where you work, a group of men in lab coats was watching you on close circuit TV, to see if the serum they gave you has taken effect yet. Apparently, the night vision didn’t “take.” Nor the superhuman agility.
I could find it myself, but it’s way too late and too hot to go a-googling. Can someone please pull up for me the recommended immunisation schedule for lab who deal with animals in the US (I’m extremely familiar with ours, but ours doesn’t includes rabies - which I think the US protocol does)?
I know that you are freaking right now CR, but I would please, PLEASE ask you to get in touch with me. You say that you are having tetanus vaccinations at closer than usually scheduled intervals. WHAT vaccine is being used (not all tetanus vaccines are comparable in terms of longevity) and how does that relate to your potential exposure rate (animal bites = HIGH potential exposure).
Hell, why don’t you just post when you’re feeling OK again and let us know that you’re alright?
I think that’s pretty close to the order of importance. I have to buy more lime juice tomarrow to make holiday drinks
Reprise:
I have the feeling that I’m somewhere in the gray area of employees in a regional primate center. I don’t directly work with the primates, and I have little exposure to them (I go to the field hospital every few months to pick up blood samples closest I come to the primates).
Every 6 months we get a round of antibody titers, HIV, hep screenings, TB tests and tetnus shots. Every year we serum banked (so if we get exposed to something or we develop symptoms they can go back through the serum reccord and determine when we were infected).
Oddly enough according to the person who runs our serum through the antibody titration thingie I produce the highest level of antibodies she’s ever seen. So they get extra blood from me
As for the tetnus vaccine schedual… I know it’s supposed to last 10 years, but I thought the general rule of thumb was if it’s been 4-6 years and a doctor has you in their clutches they’ll generally give you a booster.
What I think is happening is that there are two scheduals for blood work/vaccinations at the foundation. So each person gets this all done once a year, I have the feeling I’m on BOTH scheduals so I keep getting notices from HR to have everything done to me each time.
Ya know what’s fucked up about this. They do everything to me but the HIV test. And I’m the only person in this lab who works with HIV. You’d think they screen me for that without me having to request the work be done.
Then again, I have all the reagents to test myself.
