So.... How is your week going?

Superbug kills 7th person at Md. NIH hospitalBETHESDA, Md. (AP) - A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland ( Read more... )

Turned out, the worst patient the NIH ever had to deal with was one of their own. Most took it as a sign of luck that, while dealing with some of the worst diseases mankind had ever seen - they'd faced the plague, for God's sake - they never seemed to get sick ( Read more... )

Are you in or are you out?

I am IN Wisconsin. Not only am I in Wisconsin, I'm IN a hospital in Wisconsin.

And, I am IN search of a decent cup of coffee.

and we are running OUT of time

I've officially maxed out my airline miles. Which is sort of funny, as I have my own plane.

Well, NIH has a plane. But it's my plane. Natalie doesn't believe me. She never does.

Off to a staff meeting. Will probably be interrupted by a call, and then I'll get to go to the middle of nowhere for three weeks.

Without coffee.

Again.

But I need a damn vacation.

We're in this together.

He didn't think it was actually possible to get any colder. Really, cold was probably looking for a blanket at this point.

'Arctic Circle,' Stephen reminded himself as he slowly trudged through the blinding snow. Straight ahead, Jeff had told him. There was white in every direction, so Hell if straight ahead wasn't behind ( Read more... )

I saw this question over at this Character Loft-place and figured I'd give it a go.

The world is ending, do you step in to save it or laugh while you watch it burn?How is it ending? Ice age? Asteroid? Some other Hollywood catastrophe ( Read more... )