Stuff I've found out on my first day of the new job

[amethyst73]

• Probably the most exciting thing: Much of the campus is on the electrical grid of Menlo Park.  Today, the Menlo Park grid went down for about two hours.  Happily, the hospital (and the medical library) were on the Palo Alto grid, so I went to the library and tried to do some work there for a while.  The person I'm working with most closely (who's going away for a couple of weeks next week) went home to work there, so I've been doing lots of reading.

• Reading papers and manuals is kind of tiring/eye-crossing.  I knew this already; it's just been a while since I've done lots of it.

• The building I work in is over-air-conditioned.  Need to bring in a sweater I don't much care about to store here.

• Working in a protein lab means I get treated to the smell of beta-mercaptoethanol all day.  It smells kind of like sulfur dioxide, except more sulfur-y.  I'm told I'll no longer be able to smell it reasonably soon.

Comments

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Yup. More than 4 hours after leaving lab, I can still smell it!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm sorry. When I worked in a smell lab, I was told I could work with basically any odor chemical class but those, because they're just that stinky.