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[scriver]

I really like that pun, I just hope it's tasteful!

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I looked up the dish by the way so o could speak in less general terms about it and it's called "al pastor" (and the people responsible for it was Lebanese immigrants) so please look out for that or it's alternative name "trompas" or northern Mexico variant "Gringas" for me if you go there, kagus.

[nenjin]

I made a dumb joke about there being a new Mexican-Arabic fusion restaurant opening up, and that I was excited to try their inshallahdas.

Friend of mine did not recognize this as a joke, and is now also excited.

I laughed.

[King Zultan]

Right over his head.

[Frumple]

that feeling when you're carrying food into another room, and because your hands are occupied doing that there's not much you can do but watch as the spoon or fork or whatever slides down into the bowl and sinks beneath the surface of whatever you're planning on eating

[delphonso]

I may have broken my ankle/foot while boxing last night. Slipped and twisted it.

[MaximumZero]

I may have broken my ankle/foot while boxing last night. Slipped and twisted it.

Fingers crossed for minimal damage on all fronts, friend.

[King Zultan]

Hopefully it isn't broken and you recover quickly.

[delphonso]

X-ray says there's no fractures! Just a real bad sprain. Sucks I'll be slow moving for a while, but happy that it shouldn't take too long to recover.

[King Zultan]

Glad to hear it isn't a fracture.

[Jopax]

Pulled a back muscle yesterday, or got hit by wind while sweaty, no idea. Left back side is tight and painful in almost every position except standing straight and sitting awkwardly. The worst part tho is that deep breaths also cause pain as does laughter, didn't sleep too well because of it and I'm yawning often, which you know, hella hurts :V

[Loud Whispers]

I am baaaaaaaaaaaaaack from the dead. My god what a brutal month. Constant fighting up hill, developing professional whiplash from going from glowing interview panels on my job performance to sitting down with managers calling me irrational and lazy for not doing their job. I swear to fucking random number gods you help someone out once and they're grateful, you help someone out consistently and they're entitled. Meanwhile I've just been bantering with my ultraboss about how my promotion is always around the corner because he keeps telling me "he's making progress" and I keep joking we're empirical men of science, progress without numbers is not progress at all. He said he's banking on the probabilities going in my favour and I told him if I wanted to bank on stochastic analysis I'd have gone into banking... At least then I'd actually make bank!

But my god I am tired. I didn't even show up to work on Tuesday, just slept for 16 hours and turned my phone off. Apparently on that day one of the research nurses told me PI he was going to do an important log but went home and didn't tell him, causing him to wait for 3 hours for someone who was never going to show up. PI nearly broke down into tears and threatened to end the study until another doc stepped in to help him last minute. Everyone is going crazy because of the overwork, the logical contradictions. I ended up making myself incredibly unpopular by constantly pushing for everyone to get salary raises, as especially amongsts the senior staff, they viewed me as entitled for pushing for pay in line with what they were getting. They kept saying we should be getting PhDs if we wanted to make living wages. In the end one of the research nurses ended up joining my crusade and we're slowly winning against this toxic mentality of "wage increase = disloyalty" especially since the same people telling us to accept the dead pay are the same people who already made it rich in life and don't understand we're not asking for pay raises, we're asking for pay that matches what we actually do, and pay that actually covers the cost of working :|

The worst part are the nurses who treat us like pariahs for competing for our own job posts, as if that wasn't already an inherently clown world corporate action. It's deliberate divide and conquer to pit workers against workers

[pisskop]

Sounds like hell.  Youre knee deep in the nurses strike stuff, arent you?

[Loud Whispers]

Not directly, as those strikes cover more the healthcare providers not the healthcare researchers. But inevitably we have our own shit from basically the exact same issues of chronic underpaying, overwork and non-competitiveness. E.g. we're taking on more studies but four more people just quit. So the workload just increased quadratically and the big big cheese don't see how this is unsustainable in the slightest or understand why everyone is quitting

[Frumple]

goddamn cough has dropped my default voice by like two octaves or something

it's basically gone from "confuses people as to gender over a phone" to "unhealthy blues singer"

it'd almost be nice if i could, like, stop. and it didn't hurt. and i was able to raise my voice, which i can't like, at all, so blues singer except they can't actually sing because they can't project their voice even a little

strep test was negative, plague test was negative, but whatever this is has had me fucked up since monday and it'd be great if it would stop soon, blegh

[Loud Whispers]

enjoy your country bass career for the 2 days it lasts