I hate colds, but I like my job! (942 hits)
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Submitted by canadia (View user info) at 2005-04-19 10:30:04 EDT
*sniff*
Don't you love being at work with a cold? It's not quite severe enough to stay home like the flu, but inconvienient enough to stop you from doing most of your work effectively- especially on cold medecine. I feel like time is moving extra slow today. Maybe it's because my brain isn't getting any oxygen since my nose is clogged and my throat is full of sticky mucus.... good morning everyone! This was your gross wake-up call!
Although I am a firm believer that sick days are made to be taken, and sometimes even when you're not sick (they keep accumulating anyway, just like magic!), I actually have work to do today. Listen to me, my boss is out of town and I'm coming in sick to do work! I'm so great!
Ok, I'm not great. This means I'm sitting at my desk, moaning, starring at my computer screen. I bet to most of you, this is a normal work day. I, on the other hand, do not work in a cubicle, and only use my computer to pass time and play popcap games (and read uber stuff of course). The rest of the time I wonder around, looking for stuff to do, since my lab is closing in a few months and there is in fact, nothing to do. They keep me for one reason: they need my help to move all the stuff and pack boxes this summer. Oh, and upkeep the lab and help out a few scientists while I"m here.
-Wait! Didn't you say you had work to do today?
-Why, yes, I did. Thanks for reminding me.
-Actually, I'm doing my work right now.
-Right now, you say? How? You're typing a post.
- Let me tell you...
I toiled all day yesterday, but I won't bore you with the details. It's all scientific mumbo-jumbo anyway (and I' m not trying to sound cool either, mostly I don't think you guys care). My final step last night before leaving was to incubate overnight (NO, I'm not hatching eggs into little chicks!) and now I am sitting here, waiting for my blot to wash. This will take all morning, and part of this afternoon.
This, my friends, is why I DO NOT HATE MY JOB! Some days I work hard, and stay late, others I come in late and leave early and do nothing. At most jobs, this would get me fired. Here, they say I'm a good worker, and I learn fast. This my friends, is how you cure cancer. Science is a wonderfull thing!
By the end of today, what seems like a big waste of time, will hopefully give us a small piece of the puzzle to how ERalpha interracts with AIB1 for ... well, anyways, we get little answers everyday.
All this with a bad cold and me sneezing all over the experiment.
Shit, I hope I didn't fuck it up.
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Submitted by wanderingsharps (user info) at 2005-04-20 13:33:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
sorry to hear that-
if you become my suger momma,
I'd make sure to send you to work with
tea and soup. (i'm not totally lazy)
I rather hope you feel better- joe
Submitted by MarthaStewart (user info) at 2005-04-19 15:51:27 EDT (#)
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Using two tabs of Cold Remedy Alka Seltzer, drink down a glass of water.
Also, be sure to eat chicken soup! It's good for colds!
Submitted by Fartman (user info) at 2005-04-19 13:46:21 EDT (#)
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What a coincidence. I was just sitting here waiting for my blot to wash too!
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2005-04-19 13:38:21 EDT (#)
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I hate going to work with a swollen dick.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-04-19 13:27:45 EDT (#)
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So let me get this straight, you're gorgeous AND you're a mad scientist?
Will you marry me?
______
I'm sorry you feel bad, sugar, try to get some rest, mmmkay?
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-19 12:22:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:49:54 (#)
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ERalpha works just like a woman, that is to say crazy, unable to posess logical thought/emotions once a month, and it has a great set of tits.
Please spell my name correctly on the Nobel Prize
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Adam,
Remember, we are trying to save boobs all over the world. Every little bit helps.
You might be on to something. Sadly, we already knew that ERalpha is an estrogen receptor, and that estrogen is the root of all womanly evil, except for breast tissue.
Thanks for your imput.
-Mad scientists
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:49:54 EDT (#)
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ERalpha works just like a woman, that is to say crazy, unable to posess logical thought/emotions once a month, and it has a great set of tits.
Please spell my name correctly on the Nobel Prize
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:23:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:10:44 (#)
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sick days are for hangovers...
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Or for getting drunk.. They certainly shouldn't ever be used if you are genuinely sick.
Submitted by Williams_2004 (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:12:47 EDT (#)
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Unlucky m8, get better soon. I wish I could sit on my ass all day long in work :(.
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:10:44 EDT (#)
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sick days are for hangovers...
Submitted by canadia (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:10:27 EDT (#)
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The worst is that working in a lab, I have access to all sorts of things which could help clear up my nose and head, but they would also burn the nose hairs off and destroy the cells down my throat and lungs... I'm not willing to take that gamble. Then again, I could breath, I would just spit blood for a while.
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:07:03 EDT (#)
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your job sounds remarkably like mine...
ok, no the sitting on your ss bit sounds similar, not the science. don't talk to me about science. I don't get it.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:04:05 EDT (#)
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Get some codeine cough syrup, drink half the bottle, and I promise you this will be the best day of work ever.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-04-19 10:53:19 EDT (#)
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I'm in the same boat you are. My doc says that I have a "touch" of the flu, but I have work to do so I had to come in.