Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Great News, Everybody!
Just on a lark, I called up Johns-Hopkins on my break a little bit earlier. I spoke to a very nice woman. When I mentioned that I'd received an e-mail that indicated that I might be qualified as an epidemiologist with that institution, she got really excited. "We're so short handed!" She said. "Fifty of our best epidemiologists all went on Hawaiian vacations at the same time, and the rest have terrible diseases. When can you start?"
I was a little taken aback. I had some anecdotes about epidemics whose progress I'd personally tracked all ready. I didn't even get to tell her about how I traced the recent poncho epidemic to some contaminated hay. Still, I was pretty psyched that I had been more or less instantly hired. Hopkins doesn't screw around, man. You have to call a place like Ruby-Tuesdays every day to see if you're hired or not, but I guess that is the difference between Johns-Hopkins and Ruby-Tuesdays.
I had one major concern, which is that I already have a job. I mentioned it to the nice lady, whose name I forgot but I'm sure I'll relearn it, and she said I could telecommute. It seems really perfect right now.
I can't wait to find my first epidemic. posted by Frenz | 12/13/2005 11:54:00 AM
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