"I saw an article that said the radiation is coming to the west coast. It had arrows and everything! And then it's going to come to the east coast! And you say there won't be significant effects, but what does that mean? Because it's ALL THE SAME AIR!"
Oy. I had people on a similar level of freakout last night. All I could say is, "I trust my friend Ginger."
Every. fucking. morning. I get an im from my coworker who cannot figure out how to do her damn job. Never have the words "Good morning" struck me with such dread. I mention this now because I just got one. It's along the lines of, If I want something taken off the site, is that a new request or do I need to find the closed request to put it up and make a comment in there.
Presumably you've had to take stuff down since you've been here. Also, why would a developer look at a closed request that's not in an upcoming release?
My head hurts so badly that my arms are shaking. I really want to go home sick after getting this morning's tasks out of the way. This morning's tasks include my performance review, but I seriously don't feel good enough for that.
And they just announced I'm working this Sunday. Seriously?
Oh, no, ita. I'm sorry. I wish I could do your job for a few day or something.
Dear coworker, walking in at 9:44 when you were supposed to be on the desk at 9, and then telling me about how you were supposed to be at Main but double-booked yourself, is not impressing me today.
Hello, be a grownup. I am sick of this shit. Even the "lazy disorganized" person in the office knows when she is supposed to be on the desk and CALLS ME if she is running late.
Signed, I do the same work you do but am not in a librarian position so I make $15K less than you. Also, I have two small children and I can get to work on time - you BUMPING YOUR HEAD AT HOME is not an excuse to be 45 minutes late.
Ugh, ita.
My damned cats are driving my crazy. If Oz doesn't want to sleep at night he wanders around my room, pawing at things. Most of the time, if I personally invite him onto the bed and give him a little cuddle, he'll stay and sleep. Not last night. At 2, I finally chased him down into the basement (I may have been swearing at him at the way down.) only to be woken up by him scratching on the basement door at 3:30. I have to do something to change his bedtime habits, or I'm going to end up throttling him.
Ugh, ita. I hope the review goes well, and quickly, so you can go home.
It was still dark when I left the apartment this morning. I was not amused.
We got an email this morning saying that the firm is closing the Tokyo office temporarily.
I guess that's not surprising, Perkins.
ita, I hope you can go home after the review.
It's not at all a dumb question, Fred, particularly considering the number of people in this country saying, "What should I do? Are we all going to die?" The answer is, "No, no, a thousand times, no." I keep wanting to grab news people and say, "Get a grip. This isn't
On the Beach."
I'd guess that in the worst case scenario, this could increase background radiation in the U.S. by a tiny percentage, something like the amount of radiation you'd pick up from one cross-country flight and well within normal variations.
Chernobyl spewed way more radioactive material into the atmosphere than is possible with the Japanese situation. At Chernobyl, the core was critical and then entire core exploded. A core breach at the Japanese reactors will leak a stream of radioactive particles. Many of these particles are very short lived, so amounts of radiation near the reactors will be way higher than even a few miles away. At any rate, the World Health Organization estimates that the people in living in the highly contaminated zone near Chernobyl received about 33 millisieverts (mSv) of exposure, or the equivalent of three to five cat scans. Those people's cancer rate is maybe 3 percent higher than the general population. Acute radiation syndrome, from as much as 1,000 mSv, was diagnosed in 134 people who worked at the plant and only 28 died. Most of the rest are still around today.
eta: MSNBC has a pretty good piece about radiation [link]
