For great science!

[oloriel]

For some reason the company vaccination scheme extends even down to us humble students.

So, got to go to the occupational health center, sign that I was neither pregnant nor allergic to oval albume nor sick already, sign that I had read and understood (...) the patient information sheet (which mostly informed about "previously occurred" side effects, which apparently range from fatigue to insomnia (don't ask me), bare my upper left arm, and be all heroic.

Because of the newness of the vaccine, also got a yellow sheet for documenting "side effects and grievances" so they can improve their statistics. Feel like a guinea pig now. Am a v. boring guinea pig; aside from the usual ache around the injection site, which is to be expected, there is nothing going on so far. Not even a headache (but then I have headaches frequently these days so that wouldn't prove anything anyway). Yay!
Hopefully there will be no further exciting news on that count.

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Despite the university work I should be doing when I don't do work work at work, today I just couldn't kick myself to do it. Instead I found myself finally starting on the sixth chapter of my weird-ass Númenorean embalmers fanfic. \o/ Wrote four pages in one go and loved it. I hadn't even realised how much I missed writing frivolously. Naaaa. Noooo. ;_;

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There seem to be very few people who want a Christmas (or whatever) card this year. In case you missed the big sign-up, it's here. Don't worry, I don't expect anything in return, if that's what's keeping you back. I wanted to go and buy/prepare the cards this week, so now would be a good time to come out of hiding. ;)

Comments

[eruannath.livejournal.com]

Is this a swine-flu vaccine? I don't think we have any massive vaccination campaigns here :\ I wonder if the thing is really an epidemic or just a way to sell the vaccines and the great pharmaceutical companies earn more money. Hahaha maybe I have been too exposed to anti-capitalism movies.
It's good that you didn't have any side effects :)

Weird-ass Númenorean embalmers fanfic???

[mirien.livejournal.com]

I'd like one please!

*is still hiding after all the injection talk*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

There's not exactly a massive vaccination program here either - it's mostly left to each individual to decide whether or not they want to get the shots, even if they're working in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, kindergardens etc (though of course to those people it is heartily reccommended). There's also a lot of controversy about whether or not the vaccine is more dangerous than the illness and - as you say - whether the whole pandemic scare is just a marketing move (though by now there have been enough cases - especially among young people, i.e. not those who usually get severe cases of the flu).
Well, now I am serving science. And should university be hit by the flu, at least I can expect to be left out ;)

Yeah, I wrote one for Akallabêth in August. Or started writing one, more like - it was supposed to be a little 3-chapter thing but now it wants to be a novel-length monster. The first four chapters are here (http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=639), in case you're curious and interested in reaaaally obscure Númenoreans.