Technician surfaced! His phone was a loss and he had to look for a payphone. He'd have arrived here at 15:30 so i rebooked him to monday 10am cause i'm not having the machine fiddled with on friday afternoon.
Ok so @KaidaShade is streaming me3 for me and i'm having opinions Femshep is canon shep and BioWare can bite me. The whole 'bust your ass but nobody believes you/be everyone's errand girl'? Just feels a lot more like a woman's kind of experience and again: BioWare cam bite me Also: fuuuuck the council. Realistic maybe but god, stubbirn politicians left right and center is just so frustrating. Javik is A Dick, which naturally means that i'm outraged he's not a romance Option. His voice is a++ and the design is too. GDI. Not annoyed by the human crew this time! Still lover Joker! Also love Traynor, the nerd. There needs to be more EDI/Joker/Traynor content on ao3. And James, for whom the term 'gallopping abs' has been invented. He's a darling. Miranda can still fuck off btw.
Also: i would take great personal pleasure in punching TIM in the face. God the smug fucker pisses me off.
Murrrderrrr. Our influenza PCR test takes ~35 minutes. That means that it takes around the same time as the rest of the normal parameters, so fucking ideally, if they ring me out in the middle of the night, they bring me both at once Tonight: bring blood at 0:40. bring influenza swap at fucking 1:10, when the blood is almost through, ensuring that gotta stay awake an additional fucking twenty minutes because who needs sleep, not the lab, i guess.
i didn't sleep a whole lot but i got poppy seed cake with almost two inches of solid poppy seed filling in it and life is good.
That's surprisingly quick for a PCR test, but then again I do PCR in a fairly different setting, so I probably don't have a good frame of reference. I am sorry about the sleep loss
In their defence, sometimes you don't decide to run the test until you think of it later. If I am busy in the middle of the night then it sometimes takes me twenty minutes (or sometimes longer) to see a patient, if the triage nurse hasn't decided to run the fucking test and I have to decide to do it after all... Though our lab always has someone who's awake in the middle of the night fortunately :D
I DO AND I SUFFER. Please put any and all decent ship fic of him my way. not involving Liara because Liara Deserves Better, but otherwise I'm feeling pretty open-minded. it's a sort of ready-made little box. You fill in the sample, pop it into the machine and it gets going. It's also the fastest one we have. Similar setups for MRSA (1h 10min) and Norwalk virus (1h 30 min) are a lot sloooower. They're usually also a lot rarer, since they don't come in seasonal rushes, so we're all super happy the influenza one is speedy as hell. yeah doc was very apologetic, I'm just grumbly when my sleep is cut short, since we're on-call at night and not required to be awake. Or really supposed to, since otherwise we'd be pulling full 24h shifts, which is kinda illegal.
Every Day I Become More Goth: Food edition today's meal managed to look, how Cody put it: 'very hannibal' (cross posted from Kintsugi kitchen)
because @vuatson reminded me that no, actually, i've never written down any bio for Matt. In part because there's several versions of him running around, but still, here's the cliff notes that tend to be identical: Spoiler: death born as the only child of a couple of middling necromancers, which is pretty rare already because the more powerful a necromancer the less likely they are to concieve/father children. All 3 of them living in Germany. when still very small (like five years old), broke through the surface of a frozen lake and drowned/froze. Was recused and resuscitated, but dying and coming back cranked his powers up early. Before he could sense ghosts around. Afterwards, the occasional roadkill would follow their car home and try to get him to pet it within a year of that, his parents decided to move to the UK with him, and he's gone to school etc there when he's sixteen, his parents died in a car crash. He wasn't with them and only found out about it when he was rung out of bed by the officials to be told that hey. you're an orphan now. He did not take the entire thing very well, and tried to bring his parents back. He poured so much of himself into the spell that it killed him, and that would have been the end of it, except at that point Hel had taken notice of him and decided to allow him to come back, with some... changes. Mortals don't really take the touch of a deity well without changes to them he stays with a foster family for a little bit, trying to get his powers back under control because they were given hell of an upgrade in the second death/god-touched process and things were very weird for a while. Foster family was convinced they were haunted. They weren't wrong. he moves out from them as soon as he's eighteen and moved to London. within a year, he's forced out all the small-time necros in the greater london area and installed himself as Necromancer Of London with the local undead. He's given plenty of the undead population PTSD in the process, probably. needs another two years to establish himself in that position to the human mages as well, since he IS very young, and a lot of them takes age for power and he's...well, he's barely over twenty at this point and has had to fend of multiple attempts on his life/position in the mean. One of these attempts had him find out that, yeah he can totally eat souls, but he desperately doesn't want to. At all. There's a bit of a dangling plot thread in Matt being twice-dead now. When he dies for good, there's a pretty much 100% chance that he'll go lich, and as a then thrice-dead one, he's be pretty hellaciously powerful and he...knows this and he's kinda trying to make backup plans for that
