Shoutout/My thoughts on safety audits/Weird habits meme

[enismirdal]

Happy Birthday cartesiandaemon and rjw76!Not 96, 76...

So, aside from me winning at statistics, other notable events would include:

• Last two bees' data collected for that particular experiment - we can now say goodbye to this useless colony and get set up with the new, shiny one due to arrive tomorrow.
  
• First day of departmental safety audits. From what I can gather, safety auditors don't give two hoots about people's actual wellbeing - their job is to produce laboratories in which there are a minimum number of opportunities for employees to sustain injuries over which they can sue the department. In other words, prevention of ambulance-chasers rather than ambulances.

Therefore I'll jump if they tell me to jump, since otherwise someone will tell me off, but I can't say I will ever like them. Blessedly, they seemed to decide not to visit the bee lab - the only visit I got was from one of them asking if this was the Plant Growth Facility (which amused me - the PGF is a million-pound brand shiny new building with climate-controlled "pods" to grow plants in; my lab seems to be stuck forever in the early 1990s and the only plants to be seen are a couple of sorry-looking cut snapdragon flower heads sitting in a beaker of water).

Also...
1. I save all the till receipts from Sainsbury's until the end of term, then count up how many litres of milk I've consumed over the last term.

2. When I clear all the loose change out of my purse, I always put back a specific amount, on top of the £1, £2 and 50p coins:
5 x 20p
3 x 10p
4 x 5p
3 x 2p
3 x 1p

3. I get annoyed if, when I tear loo roll off, it doesn't tear exactly along the perforated line, so have to take off another sheet to neaten it up. I'm learning to overcome this, however, as the bedder here gives us cheap crappy loo roll that NEVER tears along the line, no matter how evenly you pull.

4. When I eat Smarties at a table, I line them up in rows by colour, count how many are in the packet, and glare at them all if there are fewer than two of any given colour.

5. I insist on writing text messages with full spelling, punctuation and grammar. I've even used a semi-colon in a text message in non-smiley context.

6. I eat dinner at about 10pm when I'm living in college.

7. I hate eating soup with a soup spoon; I much prefer a dessert spoon every time.

I'm sure I have more but either I can't think of them, or to me they don't seem terribly weird! I mean, I guess to some people, the fact that I always always drink coffee black is weird...

I don't seem that odd for someone who's meant to be kind of quirky... Oh, well.

Comments

[rjw76]

...except I'm rjw76, but thanks anyway *bounces* *feels older*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*hastily edits*

Numbers hate me, I swear!

[melime.livejournal.com]

When I eat Smarties (or ate, rather, since I probably haven't had any since elementary school, sadness...), first I make them into a pyramid organized by color, with my favorite color at the bottom. Then I eat down the pyramid so that I go from least to favorite color, saving my favorite for last.

You don't even want to know about what I did with Lucky Charms. :( ... NEXT on anal-retentive eating habits!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lucky Charms just beg you to pick out the marshmallow bits, though!

By the way, talking of marshamallow bits, parents forwarded on your package and so I now have Swiss Miss! *looks forward to next hot chocolate craving* Your letter made me laugh! Was brilliant! :D

[melime.livejournal.com]

Actually, with the Lucky Charms I saved all the marshmallow bits for last (I ate around them... my mom just couldn't understand why it took me so long to eat a bowl of cereal!) and then ate the marshmallows in the order of least favorite (red balloons, I think) to favorite (purple horseshoes).

And huzzah to the hot chocolate. :D I don't even remember what I wrote in my letter though. I'm so absent-minded. *sigh*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you!

You win at stats! Yay! You and bees are 99.9% good? That's amazing.

5. I insist on writing text messages with full spelling, punctuation and grammar. I've even used a semi-colon in a text message in non-smiley context.

I do this by default. Why else is there a semi-colon key? Though I do try to aim for clarity and conciseness, whether that's acheived by using 'thence' or by using '4g8 station' :)

6. I eat dinner at about 10pm when I'm living in college.

I'm just having dinner now. This is sub-optimal, but work shifted late to the point where I wanted to go straight to evening stuff, but not often enough I think to take something in.

I don't seem that odd for someone who's meant to be kind of quirky... Oh, well.4. When I eat Smarties at a table, I line them up in rows by colour, count how many are in the packet, and glare at them all if there are fewer than two of any given colour.

Freak! Just kidding. Do you mean non-strictly fewer? Or do you mean 'one'? (Zero is also a row of less than two, but cannot be glared at.)

2. When I clear all the loose change out of my purse, I always put back a specific amount, on top of the £1, £2 and 50p coins:

Good idea. But I just drop in a few coppers and a few silvers to make me likely to make exact change.

[emperor]

5. I do this, too.

[(Anonymous)]

My ambulances might be popular if they don't want ambulance chasers. They have mountings which can take MMGs although this it is illegal to put one their and use a red cross logo.
Abner

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

erm...*coughs* I used to do that with eating smarties - pretended they were little pills, though it has been forever since I have had them. and I ate all the cereal out of the lucky charms and ate the marshmallows in groups.

And then with Fruit Loops, I would eat all the red first, the orange, then the yellow, etc in the order of the rainbow...I'm odd, yes.

Red