I have trouble reading phone numbers correctly (my mental buffer is about 5 numbers long) so I think it safe to say I would have had some trouble if I'd gone into genetics research.

I guess the punctuation is part of the, IDK, designation? Better you than me, Tep.

It's time for our annual round of Scheduling the Outlet Sale. This year with the added joy of moving the actual sale offsite, so we won't be able to dash in to our desks and do a little work on our breaks if something urgent comes up (gee, can you imagine something urgent coming up in December for a job that is mostly about supporting retailers?) The procedure this year is just to let people sign up on a single hardcopy schedule in pencil, first come first serve. I don't really care when I work except for a couple of days I have plans for after work so I thought I might as well put my name down but the line to sign up is too long for me to stand around in. This is gonna work great.

Timelies all!

Steph, that type of sentence makes sense to me, but I'm a molecular biologist.(I don't read papers much these days, since I've been working in the Blood Processing Core.)

Thanks to you all yesterday, I had an alert on my phone to make a dr appt today. I went through the online portal think and asked for an appt anytime next week 8-9 am. I got an email back through the portal that no times avail and I needed to call in.

I call in, they have Wed at 9am!!! Ugh that was like 5times the amount of work it should have been.

When I get a string of gobbledegook I just Google it, too, and usually it's fine, but occasionally I'm able to ask the author "Did you mean this?" and s/he'll say "omg thanks for catching our mistake!" and then I look like I know something. hashtag impostersyndrome

I'll get this sometimes with the engineers, "That word you are using; I do not think it means what you think it means." One Google later, "Well, whadda you know! That is a usage of that word of which I was not aware!"

That's happened to me a lot too! Hot damn, so that really is a noun...

I need to schedule a flu shot. Also my second shingles shot. sigh ...

Reading on the internet, I'm thinking the human species may be wiping itself out ... or at least a large portion. There's the anti-vaxxers (I'm old - I had measles as a child and they were afraid I was going to die, go blind, go deaf, something). I grew up with polio scares and having to have smallpox vaccinations (I show the interns at the hospital my first vaccination scar - it's impressive). Then there was the - hopefully brief - raw water fad ... going out in the woods and filling bottles with water straight from the stream - no purification - although the standard warning was that the water would start turning green if you tried to keep it too long. Then I ran across the people saying that the ONLY way to eat chicken is medium rare - pink on the inside. And the CDC had to warn people with pet chickens not to kiss them ... or at least wash their face and hands afterwards. Also ran across someone who's making and selling truffles that contain nightshade and belladonna and such - they say you get a nice tingle from them. And the people who like to use essential oils in their cooking.

Seriously people?

Well, after the line died down there were still acceptable slots for me, so maybe this system will work okay. At least for me. This whole business of holding the sale in the old Walmart down the street instead of in our warehouse is going to be super weird, though.

I did not get my flu shot nor my snail today. Maybe tomorrow. #SnailFail

I missed the snail? Are you getting a snail?

I told the theatre today that I could not finish the semester due to mental health reasons. My old boss is helping me clear off tasks to other people for next week, when I am on vacation to clean.

Still really nervous about the estimate visit. Less so because ai sent en email with questions and they were very reassuring that they have seen everything. More so because I am afraid of the estimate

I am almost finished cleaning the bathroom- Just the floor and mirrors left. Well, that is three cleanish rooms (like- need to do a quick vaccuum and pick up, one cleanish room full of trash bags, half a clean kitchen, and one pit of hell. That I can't face.

But I will try to do the rest of the kitchen tonight, and pull the vacuum out of the pit of hell tomorrow. I am not sure what I will clean next week unless the estimate is so high I have to tackle the pit of hell.

Thank you again for listening.

Sophia, if this isn't helpful right now please ignore it, but are you aware of Unfuck Your Habitat's emergency cleaning post? [link]

I am rooting for you and I'm glad you're continuing to check in with us.