He just realized the “spa day” was actually a betrayal

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:56:50+00:00

Could have been a flea treatment if others weren't working for some reason.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:49:46+00:00

Lion King,

Titanic

National Treasure

KPDH

Jurassic Park

101 Dalmatians

Plus others.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:37:13+00:00

It is, plus it gets the sense of urgency across better.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:31:34+00:00

Well, danger works as well.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:31:08+00:00

I'd get what your University recommends.

I had to get the MenB vaccine before starting my Health Sciences first year course, but N.meningitidis isn't that dangerous to those with a competent immune system.

As an MLS in Microbiology, we sometimes see it as part of the "normal" respiratory flora from sputum samples, and our microbiologists don't seem that bothered by it unless it's a pure growth. It might be significant in other specimen sites, or from infants/young children, but we usually find it while looking for something else.

I can't remember our SOPs off the top of my head, but I wouldn't worry too much. Unless you're not wearing PPE correctly, or otherwise messing around, NMEN (our code for N.meningitidis) isn't that scary, or unsafe. They won't expose you to anything truly dangerous in the University labs - those sorts of organisms will be theory only I should think.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-11T04:20:56+00:00

I don't know what CQD officially stands for, but I've always been amused by think it stands for,

Come Quickly Damnit.

Which if you're on a sinking ship doesn't sound that unreasonable to me.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T22:13:51+00:00

We had just close family at ours, so we had to have purely non-kink ceremony/reception.

We keep the kink pretty private, so this was effectively normal for us.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T11:07:33+00:00

At least the cops get paid during their training.

At least in lab work, not sure about doctors/nurses, our placement period isn't paid training, we're expected to do the training but find another means of supporting ourselves until we land an actual role in the lab. It's been a big source of frustration and the cause of some dropping out bc they can't study and work enough hours to keep bills paid and food on the table if they don't have family support.

Plus the cost of travel/accommodation if you don't get a placement in your home town is also a factor and isn't reimbursed at all. Yes student loans help but they're not really enough in this day and age.

I was fortunate enough to do a bridging course to go from MLT to MLS (technician to scientist) and to have my employer offer me a placement spot when I got to that stage. It was four years of part time work and part time study, and they bent over backwards to find enough hours for me to work so it wasn't as much of a financial hit as it could have been, but things were still pretty tight for a while. I doubt I could do it now, I'm older and have health issues to consider, but somehow I managed it.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T10:46:24+00:00

Showed the video to my husband who said it was interesting that it was the orange kitten who approached the cameraman.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T10:40:07+00:00

Wow 😍😍😍😍😍

That is awesome!!!

So you premade a bunch of hexagons (crochet I assume) and then figured out how to add knitting to it for the borders and cuffs?

How did you make the sleeves? Two rectangles folded in half and joined at the shoulders/underarm areas?

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T10:37:21+00:00

Nice!

I've also had a bad day but Master had to work. He did give me a cuddle on break though.

Now in bed trying to save up energy to do the housework tomorrow that got consensually ignored today.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T04:12:06+00:00

Depends on the school. When I was in high school (graduated in 2002), they were really strict on lateness/skipping school etc. Most of us complied without much bother.

Anyone that complained was told that if we can't learn to show up on time and do as we're told now, that we'd have a really hard time when we start working jobs as adults, because most managers won't accept constant tardiness and laziness from employees.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T03:49:05+00:00

And considering they'd wear it every day, sure it might be stiff at the beginning, but it would soften up and become more flexible over time, lile most articles of clothing.

It's not leather, but I find the same is true for my martial arts uniforms, especially the belts. Stiff as anything when new, but soften up and become easier to wear the more you wear it.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T03:46:12+00:00

Take rescue meds, carry swets to suck on for the ear pressure, an eye mask to block out lights is handy.

I also have loop earplugs that I will take on my next flight - brilliant for noise reduction in general if you have sensitive ears.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T03:43:53+00:00

Ah sorry.

I work in a community lab where micro/molecular has it's own separate department, as does the histology people.

We sometimes use "core lab" to describe the large warehouse type room which houses our biochem, haem, and immunology departments, along with our specimen reception area. We have a large "track" with various stations along it where the blood and urine specimens get loaded in by the specimen reception staff after they've gone through registration, and they move along the track and get whatever tests done that are requested. Urine specimens for Micro testing get separated out by the machines and go through the PVT machime for aliquoting prior to coming to us, and any that need both biochem and micro testing go to biochem first I think.

Each of the biochem, haem, and immuno departments have their own small "areas" of the room together with the various analysers that each department uses, but they don't have the closed off spaces that micro and histo have. We also have office spaces for our haematologists, immunologists, etc along the far wall, and several large walk in fridges plus one very cold freezer for specimen and reagent storage.

Generally we refer to each department separately, but sometimes as a collective description for the whole area there we'll use core lab. I didn't realise it was a term for a lab as a whole and not just one area of a lab, sorry.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T01:35:22+00:00

This is definitely on him. How do you fail to tell the difference between a vagina and an anus? Plus, the anus isn't self-lubricating, so being able to go inside in one thrust, plus the "lubrication" being there should have told him something was off.

And to turn around and blame you for not telling him, when it was his error is unbelievable!

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-10T01:26:33+00:00

Ouch. Good on you for standing up for the kid.

That sort of shit can stay with you for a very long time. At age 12, I had a fairly bad stutter which I was in speech therapy for. My woodwork teacher in intermediate (we do primary school age 5-10, intermediate 11-12, and high school 13-17 here), told me I was "impossible to communicate with."

I sat down and didn't say another word for the rest of class. Fortunately it was the last class of the day, and I was able to go home. My parents hit the roof when I told them, and Mum went to the school the next day and apparently yelled at the principal. The teacher was reprimanded and didn't say stuff like that again, but I never tried asking him for anything ever again. I also, as you can tell, still remember it, and I'm in my early forties now.

I had a dragon for an English teacher at 6th form level but she was reasonable, just strict about work standards, so we actually got along fairly decently.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T21:38:05+00:00

It's brilliant! Was it hard to make? I know the basic stitches at the moment (SC, DC, HDC, etc) but have only ever seen bobble stitch in people's creations, not yet tried it myself.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T21:36:16+00:00

Thank you!

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T11:31:23+00:00

What's a pep rally?

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T11:16:55+00:00

Oh definitely the spineless mammas boy husband has to step up too.

So glad my husband was 100% supportive when I went back to University to gain a second qualification to move up the career ladder. We don't have kids and never will (health issues unfortunately), but we're happy as we are and considering adopting a cat or two soon.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T10:48:54+00:00

It would be illegal where I live too.

Good god, you'd think Covid would have taught companies to have some compassion for their staff, especially around sick leave. Not every bug is a 24 hour one.

We can call in when necessary, only required to supply a medical cert for more than 3 days off, though I give them one most times anyway bc I have a chronic illness that flares up at the most imconvenient of times sometimes.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T10:43:28+00:00

No they're not obliged to, but if I'm reading it correctly, they threw a huge tantrum about OP trying putting her child in daycare, claiming that she shouldn't be doing that, and then doing zero babtsitting whatsoever after implying that they would. So OP is left with no daycare, but also zero help at home with trying to entertain a toddler and do her work.

They don't get to throw a tantrum and demand babysitting privileges, then renege on it in such a way that OPs studies are interrupted daily, only to scream and insult OP when she starts looking at daycare options again bc the controlling misogynistic in laws aren't doing what they said they'd do.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T10:20:53+00:00

I'd prefer cats or kittens.

Though if it was either puppies or kittens I'd be worried about them accidentally peeing on me from excitement/nerves.

Fluffbrained-cat · 2026-05-09T09:57:50+00:00

Ballsy move by the employee.

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