Thursday, November 18, 2004 sexy bullfrog
My skin is a little bit green, but only because there used to be a lot more blood in there than there is now. My BANK ACCOUNT is more GREEN also. Get it? (I mean I received financial compensation to participate in the drug study that ended today.) One of my study-mates was in the big dysentery vaccine trial last winter, although she wasn't in at the same time I was. We sat and compared notes while others listened in horror. What's up? Too chicken to test experimental vaccines? Yeah, stay in these penny ante trials of crap that's already on the market, suckers.
(I intend to, also. Intent may be reversed due to future poverty.)
This week's overnight was shorter than last week's, and I already had my routine down, so the time passed more quickly. However: recent clinical trials have shown that I remain popular with captive males aged 18-55. There were plenty of beaus at that ball, but I still have my honor. I dealt with all the attention in the way that I have found it best to deal with awkward social situations: I pretended to be asleep a fair amount of the time. If it is not plausible to pretend to be asleep, it shows that the situation isn't really all that awkward at all.
This morning, though, there was a window of time where the sleeping areas were locked, and we weren't allowed to sleep or lie down in the common spaces. I watched cartoons on the TV room TV, and had conversations I would have preferred to skip. They often ended with questions like, "Hey, how come you twitch so much?"
I would give answers like, "Because I'm really uncomfortable right now."
Luckily, "Oops, they're calling my number for blood draw--gotta go," was a really rock-solid excuse to get up and go elsewhere.
posted by Frenz | 11/18/2004 01:20:00 AM
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