Argh

[j4]

I feel like I desperately need a break from the office. And I also feel like I need food.

Now I have to convince myself a) that I don't really need food, and b) that if I have a break from the office it must be to somewhere with no shops.

Am doing one of those get-paid-a-fiver-for-ticking-boxes psychology test things tomorrow lunchtime. I need to find more of those.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not... (btw, your link doesn't work!).

I'd love to have photos taken of my brain but I suspect they wouldn't want me for those sorts of things. Last time I volunteered for one I had to back down because they said I had to have never ever taken a single sniff of any controlled substance EVER in my life, and, well. Um. It was horribly awkward, because they didn't seem to believe I could possibly be really admitting to having done something so horrific, but I felt I had to tell them, and they kept saying things like "Really, only illegal drugs count", and I was there (at work!) going "Um, really, believe me, I can't do this experiment in the light of what you've told me".

I've avoided doing the proper GlaxoWhatsits medical research things for the same reason, though they're apparently very lucrative; can't face going through all the "sorry, you're UNCLEAN" stuff. Ticky-box stuff doesn't have any of that, at least.

[duncanneko.livejournal.com]

I don't seem to remember them asking me that (and given I've eaten controlled-brownies before, I wouldn't imagine they would have let me do it either..) so it may have just been for that individual experiment. And they certainly do plenty of ticky-box experiments (I did once get paid to sit in a comfy armchair and watch TV for an hour or so).

Link should have been www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk, sorry, done from memory of my mum's e-mail address...