Argh. *bitch and moan*

Got woken up at 3:30am with one of the nastiest headaches I've had in ages (a weird one, though -- not migraine; feels more like a hideous tension headache starting from my neck, where I had a muscle trying to spasm last night). If I had the PTO time, I would've stayed home in a heartbeat. I'm feeling somewhat better now, but exhausted from the lack of sleep that resulted, and I have a ridiculous amount to do today before I leave for PA at 10pm. Work's still busy, but not anywhere near as bad as yesterday, thankfully. Yesterday's final ticket total (only newly opened calls, doesn't count reassign calls and such) was 150 on the dot. Ridiculous.

Time to go stare blankly at my "to do" list, even though most it has to wait 'til tonight when I get home.

Hey, fabulousmisst...

An article just came across the Kaiser Daily HIV report (kaiser_hiv) that seemed like it might have interesting cross-connections with our discussion the other day about bubonic plague resistance and HIV resistance.

I don't know whether the two issues are directly related, and some of the distinctions between "avoiding infection" and "controlling infection" suggest not, but I wish I could find more about the research the PBS show was looking at, especially differences between people carrying one copy of the gene versus people carrying two. And if the two issues were directly related, given the prevalence of the CCR5 gene I'd expect them to be able to find more elite and viremic controllers, at least in european populations, but I find the similarities interesting nonetheless, and figured I'd pass along the article.


( Since I'm not sure when you'll be online to look at this, here's a copy of the article from the LA Times )