:/

[opabinia]

My boss was out sick yesterday, and she's also called in for today. I nearly stayed home, but I dragged myself in with what little work ethic I have left. I should've stayed home. I'm irrigating everything in sight with watery mucus.

The boss must have come in at some point this weekend. The desperate scrawlings and phone messages waiting for me here suggest we are being scooped by a rival's laboratory. Joy.

There's a new virus out, so IS has performed its customary drawbridge-raising: I have no access to my web mail. I hate those people.

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[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

we are being scooped by a rival's laboratory.

can you explain?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

My boss's arch-enemy leaned on our weakest link -- our most spineless post-doc -- to find out what we've been up to. It's about as strange as it sounds. My boss thinks he's going to try to spit out a publication on the same stuff we're doing before we finish. Common behavior among evil and/or desperate scientists.