Bleagh!

[neotoma]

Today was supposed to be an easy day at work, just inventory inspection and receiving some ambient samples. The samples labeled 'wet tissue' on the manifest turned out to be mice heat-sealed into bags of formaldhyde.

I had to open the boxes for all of them and count them. Ick.

When I got home, I bought myself a bar of Lindt chocolate as consolation. Because after that, I deserve a treat and there is no good cupcakery near me.

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[madripoor_rose]

Ewww.

OTOH, I think I'd take neatly bagged dead mice over the one running around inside the storage closet stuffing corn into things and peeing on a month's worth of laundry that I just dealt with.

Definitely a day that calls for good chocolate, tho.

[neotoma]

Did I mention that the mice had been eviscerated to get their organs for glass slides (which were also in the shipment)? It was really quite icky.

[madripoor_rose]

....okay, that does increase the ew factor considerably. Science is always an adventure? Hugs.

[molly_o]

Oh, god, I'm sorry. That really just sounds awful.

[neotoma]

I'm not that squeamish about specimens -- my grad school work meant I skinned a lot of birds, among other things -- but these were totally unlike what we usually get and really really unexpected.

'Wet tissue' is a totally misleading euphemism and it turns out the co-worker who is supposed to partner with me on this contract is completely phobic about rodents. So I got to count all 240 of them. It took a while.

Mainly, I was just tired because I worked on the material from when it came in at 10:30 to right up to 4:30, with only a break for lunch -- I skipped my afternoon break to get it all done today.

[ayalesca]

Oh geez.

I spent a couple of months this summer sampling mouse, ah, excrement. I think yours is grosser. D: