In case you weren't aware, there is a picture of Ben Whishaw with cat ears. The picture is real.

Truth is I don't like it.

( And this is why )

Which isn't good given how crappy the world is at the moment, but sometimes I just need to get angry.

The following is an educational post about how to ensure a smooth ride when you have to go for a blood test. I'm wondering whether to crosspost it to Facebook.

( It may be slightly vitriolic, but nothing you haven't seen or heard before. )

( I put lj-cut links so I don't have to see my embarassing entries, actually. )

EVERY time I'm sent to take blood from patients, one of two things inevitably occur ( Read more... )

On Friday night, strange red spotty blisters appeared on my torso. I thought "Oh please please please please please don't let it be chicken pox NOW I got VGL and the Sakimoto concert to go please please please pleeeeeeaseeee."Guess what I got diagnosed with on Saturday :D ( Read more... )

On the 2nd of January I found no less than THREE people starting on Project 365 (one was doing Project 365 #2!). And then I remembered the other three people who did Project 365 last year and didn't make it ( Read more... )

H1N1 is...stressing me out for the wrong reasons.

For the 50 gazillion people who haven't heard from me lately, I've been putting in extra hours at work due to the pandemic. My department (Microbiology/Serology) handles a type of screening test for respiratory viruses (we call it the RSV test), of which currently me and my colleague are the only ( Read more... )

I want a journal ( Read more... )

So I saw a snatch thief at 8 AM today ( Read more... )

So a colleague (let's call her K) was doing a night call a while back ( Read more... )