45 min of Halloween at the AIDL (Arthropod Borne Infectious Disease Lab).
The lights in the insectaries are on a timer, so the creatures' perfectly artificial circadian cycles are not disturbed, -what that means for you is: gotta move fast if you don't want to be interrupted by sudden and absolute darkness.
I think pressure, makes you slightly more aware of every noise, that's because you're trying not to pay attention, otherwise you would remember two things: 1) the building is now half gutted, half wrecked by the renovations in progress, and 2) only people with keys can get in. Regardless, you find yourself spinning as you walk trying to look back, the lab coat flowing and flapping all along, until you let it join the other lab coats that cover the hallway walls... Outside the parking lot, also empty. The darkness is more intense when the only light around is shinning directly on you standing alone, your shape cut out at the top of the stairs. In those conditions, your eyes cannot see the predators under night cover, within feet from you, and that would be perhaps because...
they aren't there?

Margarida
Margarida's Birthday, the 29th. I wanted to be there, instead Rita sent me Phado by M-Pex full of Atlantico and guitarra Portuguesa.

New Found Love
I fixed most browser plugins on my laptop and finally installed Opera 9.62.
Why would I resist it for so long? It must be that I wasn't ready for love.

Chemical Party
Months back I found "Chemical Party", in an endless diversion from browsing science jobs in Europe. It's nerdy neat, but I would have used a small mob of three to bully up potassium, instead of just one guy, -just watch it, it will bring you memories of High School Chemistry, only more fun.

Not The Fall
... Anyway, that took me to looking up the music, which I thought it was an unknown The Fall track.
Turns out it is "Fledermaus Can't Get It" by Von Südenfed.
Enjoy.


Ed Wood, Ed Wood, where are you, baby?

Just from Live Nation there are at least 3 shows that I'll think about for a while.

I used to talk shit about the whole idea of dating websites; it's like a market, it's weird,
why can't people just settle with what they have, even if that is basically nothing (on the subject of dating)? there are plenty of other things to do, besides hooking up with someone...

So after being accused of speaking with nothing to back me up (which is a lie, to begin with), I went ahead and populated the fields with data on a profile, (I was pretty honest too.)

Even though I didn't learn anything to help changing my "very judgmental opinion", I was on the other end somewhat surprised with a few things:
I had forgotten how to behave in my own gender, (and quickly reminded that it really doesn't matter... )
In general, friendship is either meaningless and/ or a mask for people in these settings.
Friends of friends are just like the rest of the people, when you don't know them yourself.

At any rate, I closed my account; it was overall a fun experience, but more time consuming than what would be reasonable for me.
I still haven't decided if it is a good or a bad thing that I'm rather inapt at the whole thing.
Now, back to work and things I'm really good at...

The heights of my days.

So this was in my Epi book (Epidemiology 3rd Ed. by Leon Gordis)
Alright, this is just too bizarre, for me not to post.
Either that or my head cold is more serious than I thought.

"An infected individual can transmit influenza or the common cold to a score of others in the course of an innocent hour in a crowded room. A venereal infection also, must spread progressively from person to person if it is to maintain itself in nature, but it would be a formidable task to transmit venereal infection on such scale."

-Mims

A task?