BBBrrrrrr!!!
Jul. 8th, 2003 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhCold!
I've been hanging out all morning in the microscope room working on the computer. There are two very expensive, very fancy microscopes in this room, several computers and some other imaging equipment in the room. There is also a very powerful air conditioning unit.
One of the students is working on the confocal microscope on the other side of this tiny little room, and he needs the room to be quite chilly for his samples - below 16 degrees, to be precise. Now, that's degrees C (60 F for you Fahrenheit-inclined). That's a tit nipply, thankyouverymuch, especially if you're just sitting still, tap-tap-tapping away on a keyboard and trying to carefully manipulate a mouse. It's especially cold if you add in the factor of a BIG FAN blowing in your face and down your neck.
COLD!!
Let me tell you, I get quite a bit of relief when I step out of that closed-up, loud, frigid ice-box and into the stifling humid stairwell where it's 30 degrees warmer (F).
This can't be healthy.
Speaking of healthy, I've found out that another lab is going to be moving to another building. Why? Because everybody in the lab is getting sick. I'm not talking *whine* kof kof sick. No, I'm talking sick. I'm talking x-rays showing nasties in the lungs, phlegm and shit sick. Yes, I work in a sick building. Let us all hope that the time of my exposure here is not long enough to have caused any damage, and let's also hope that the infestation has not been bad in any of the walls in my lab.
We've had one faculty, then another, then another go down with illnesses, but you can't justify major building renovations on one or two people. But now that more people are coming down with it, I think something will be done. It makes sense that they waited, because people are all different and the problem may not have been all that severe, but now I think it's pretty damn obvious.
I wish I had an allergist on my friends list - I'd like to know if being in a sick building like this would tend to increase respiratory sensitivity to allergens. No one in my lab has been symptomatic, other than we notice that we sneeze more often. And then of course there's me and my headaches. The symptoms are supposed to be respiratory, though, so I don't think the migraines are a link.
*shrug* Wish this was my specialty, because I really don't know.
All right. I have to head back down to the ice-box. Gonna finish up down there, then head back up here and COMSTAT myself silly on the lab computer. FUN!
I've been hanging out all morning in the microscope room working on the computer. There are two very expensive, very fancy microscopes in this room, several computers and some other imaging equipment in the room. There is also a very powerful air conditioning unit.
One of the students is working on the confocal microscope on the other side of this tiny little room, and he needs the room to be quite chilly for his samples - below 16 degrees, to be precise. Now, that's degrees C (60 F for you Fahrenheit-inclined). That's a tit nipply, thankyouverymuch, especially if you're just sitting still, tap-tap-tapping away on a keyboard and trying to carefully manipulate a mouse. It's especially cold if you add in the factor of a BIG FAN blowing in your face and down your neck.
COLD!!
Let me tell you, I get quite a bit of relief when I step out of that closed-up, loud, frigid ice-box and into the stifling humid stairwell where it's 30 degrees warmer (F).
This can't be healthy.
Speaking of healthy, I've found out that another lab is going to be moving to another building. Why? Because everybody in the lab is getting sick. I'm not talking *whine* kof kof sick. No, I'm talking sick. I'm talking x-rays showing nasties in the lungs, phlegm and shit sick. Yes, I work in a sick building. Let us all hope that the time of my exposure here is not long enough to have caused any damage, and let's also hope that the infestation has not been bad in any of the walls in my lab.
We've had one faculty, then another, then another go down with illnesses, but you can't justify major building renovations on one or two people. But now that more people are coming down with it, I think something will be done. It makes sense that they waited, because people are all different and the problem may not have been all that severe, but now I think it's pretty damn obvious.
I wish I had an allergist on my friends list - I'd like to know if being in a sick building like this would tend to increase respiratory sensitivity to allergens. No one in my lab has been symptomatic, other than we notice that we sneeze more often. And then of course there's me and my headaches. The symptoms are supposed to be respiratory, though, so I don't think the migraines are a link.
*shrug* Wish this was my specialty, because I really don't know.
All right. I have to head back down to the ice-box. Gonna finish up down there, then head back up here and COMSTAT myself silly on the lab computer. FUN!
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Date: July 8th, 2003 12:17 pm (UTC)show of hands on how many think labs will be fighting mercilessly for space in the new IDSB when it's built?
*raises hand high in the air*
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Date: July 8th, 2003 04:36 pm (UTC)teehee.. *Giggles like a school boy...*
Chris x x