[clovember]

[kaberett]

Today I am mostly in lab, with 20-30 minute breaks between flurries of activity in the main room that is currently at 16degC WHICH IS AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE 13degC IT WAS WHEN I GOT IN AT 7.30. (By all means tell me it isn't that cold! Then you get to sit stationary on an uncomfortable wooden stool in significant wind chill. "But Alex," you are perhaps thinking, "your laboratory is indoors," and you'd be right - but it's a clean lab, with the entire air volume of the suite of rooms being replaced 50 times an hour, with additional positive pressure inside the flow hoods, so it is in fact non-trivial.) Hence: bad selfies.

Deep navy blue jumper with bizarre drawstrings at waist, probably from a charity shop, acquired when sorting through Mama's clothes after her death; checked too-large-for-me shirt largely invisible, definitely acquired from a charity shop by Mama for Papa (when it turned out not to fit she attempted to give it to Middle Brother, who disdained it, which is how I ended up with it); fringed dip-dyed scarf/shawl in dusky blues from a charity shop but this time acquired by me; disconcerting-shade-of-green corduroy trousers acquired from eBay this week; and, of course, the boots (courtesy as always of the boything ♥):

Comments

[davidgillon]

That temperature's not great, but probably not quite as bad as the 6:30AM MRI I had a couple of years ago. I don't know whether the MRI suite is always that cold from superchilling the magnets, or if it was a symptom of the heating having been turned off overnight (while superchilling the magnets), but I'm convinced the temperature was sub-zero, which is not a good place to be when wearing only a paper hospital gown. It was so cold that when the techs needed to check my positioning they literally ran in and out of the room.

[birke]

That sounds thoroughly miserable. Was the MRI worth it?

[davidgillon]

Well, at least it was quick, and it did confirm the disk prolapse, but probably the nerve conduction testing was more useful, though that involved sticking needles in my arm and running electric currents through them, for an overall conclusion of 'well, something's clearly not right' and 'but not to the point it's worth doing anything about'.

So mixed feelings, really ;)