Band-aid adhesive destroys my skin (although, oddly, not in certain places, like my hand/fingers). And one of the ingredients in neosporin will give me a bumpy rash if I use it too many days in a row, or on too large of an area.

ISTG, I am a delicate goddamn flower. It's frustrating.

neosporin is the devil's ointment. my skin peels off from it.

funny how so many of us have similar ailments. apparently love of Buffy is for those who cannot stand over the counter bandages and ointments.

funny how so many of us have similar ailments.

I keep developing allergies to drugs, too, which is annoying in the case of steroids, but also worrying in the case of antibiotics. Because I need to be able to take antibiotics if I have anthrax, yo! (Well, if my lungs ever stop working, or I have brain swelling or some equally horrific shit, I also need to be able to take steroids.) Stop it, body! Don't reject the things that are trying to HELP you!

My car is fixed. Please let it stay that way this time.

For those who are having issues with band-aid adhesive, or the plaster themselves, I would suggest gauze and tegaderm. Tegaderm is an awesome "tape" that feels like skins, breathes, peels off with no pain, and stays on when you sweat. We use it to hold mic's on actors. It's pricey, but sooo good! No sticky residue. We buy it by the roll, but they also have squares that go around a gauze pad. The stuff is pricey, I will warn you. But so much better than 'surgical tape', especially for actors who are putting the stuff on night after night for weeks on end.

Here is a link to the roll stuff. I have not used the retailer before, so I am not endorsing them. Just pointing it out. [link]

The roll stuff is tricky, it has two layers of peel. You peel it off the paper roll, then peel it off the applicator?? I'm not saying it right. But, if you get it, be aware, two layers of peel.

It is now the end of the Easter long weekend (for all the fuss over Christianity in the States, it's laid-back Australia that does a four-day weekend for it). Not heaps of fun, I spent most of it trying to finish off an assignment for uni. However, Ryan and I did visit the Melbourne Museum for the fossil exhibits. Ryan is feeling quite proud of himself because he correctly identified the sauropod on display (a Mamenchisaurus, featuring the longest neck of any known animal). In this he outperformed his daddy. (My favourite reconstruction was a Quetzalcoatlus skeleton, that thing is freakishly large.)

Band-aid adhesive destroys my skin (although, oddly, not in certain places, like my hand/fingers). And one of the ingredients in neosporin will give me a bumpy rash if I use it too many days in a row, or on too large of an area.

Steph and I are again as one in our delicate-flower-ness. I'm allergic to latex, but I actually have less trouble with latex bandages than with the adhesives used on many of the non-latex ones. Latex just makes me itch and burn. Adhesives make my skin swell up and turn red and itch and then peel off.

omnis, thanks for the tegaderm rec! I'll track that down and try it.

With as many people that I know that have issues with adhesive you would think they would have come up with a better bandage option.

I was offered a renewal of my contract working here for next year, and I've got to let them know by May 1 whether I'm accepting it or not. A school that I really want to work for, and where I think I've got a really good chance of getting the job, just contacted me about setting up an interview. I explained the situation here with the deadline, and they said that they'd try to schedule my interview as soon as possible, but that they won't have a definite answer by May 1. I guess I'll see what "as soon as possible" means and then see what happens.

Can you tell your current school that you have personal issues and ask to extend your decision making time past May 1?