When the person responsible for putting up the cabinetry in your storage room at the new office happens to be on vacation the week you move….
A glimpse of the “fun” I’ve been dealing with this week
Not a good sign
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Older and busier
So I stared the next decade of my life this past weekend. I didn’t do anything special to celebrate it–I just kept things low-key and simple. In fact I slept a lot during the day. (My usual Saturday afternoon M.O),
Friday was very busy as The Work has moved offices. We’ve moved across town. The people responsible for planning the move didn’t plan well, so I’m trying to help out with things all while doing my everyday stuff. I still have a bit of exploring to do in the new area.
I’ve already found the nearest 7-11 (1 avenue away), a place to buy diet pepsi, the nearest Kosher butcher (it’s a block away). A coworker informed me that the nearby Dunkin Donuts is also Kosher (she was let down to find out that she couldn’t get her egg-sausage-cheese sandwich). I consider that to be good progress for a first day.
Now back to reading dry papers on medical reimbursement written by lawyers….
The high cost of a new drug
Via Forbes: The Truly Staggering Cost Of Inventing New Drugs
Having worked in and with Clinical Trials, I can first hand attest to the costs involved in Clinical Trials. These are trials in humans, which means a compound has already passed the rigorous screening process in the lab and in animals.
There’s a myriad of regulations for clinical trials. Not only that, there are additional regulations (computer system validation, filings, audits) that add to the costs.
Ultimately, every drug that makes it to the market not only has to pay for its own development–but also for all the previously attempted developments.
The Pandemonium after the game
This year’s Super Bowl was quite a good game.
The commercials left a lot to be desired, but the game itself was a classic battle. Such a close game is much preferable to a rout in my opinion.
Needless to say, once the final Hail Mary pass fell in the end zone, the partying began on the avenue.
Here’s some videos of the local scene
(Sorry, the embed feature isn’t working)
Football time yet?
Is it game time yet?
I’m a bit tired of waiting for 6:38pm to roll around.
Granted, I’ll admit to being a bit sick of 2 weeks of non-stop pre-game hype–particularly here in NYC.
Still, kickoff can’t come soon enough!
Speaking of Football–anyone else see the Chelsea-Manchester United game earlier today? What a second half!
Life imitates commercials
Today we had some solicitor call the office–trying to solicit advertising for a newspaper (we’d never heard of).
Alas, the solicitor sounded almost identical to “Peggy” the representative in the Discover Card commercials…
Of course my coworker had to put the call on speaker…and we couldn’t help but laugh
A sign?
I’m suddenly finding a bunch of Russian spam on my blog’s comments….um…does this have anything to do with work?