Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Quick how-my-week-is-going update:

I made it to the clinic on Monday, to re-do the TB test, so I go back tomorrow to have it checked. As I pretty much expected, yesterday sapped more spoons that was immediately obvious at the time -- I did make it to 3LF rehesarsal but was feeling a bit ragged, and today I am very glad I don't have to walk anywhere. Right now I'm basically just trying to coax my body into cooperating for the rehearsal I have tonight, and eating extra garlic because it feels like I'm coming down with a bug and garlic seems to help my body deal with that. I guess the parsley craving last week was an early warning after all (though usually that craving comes when I'm already sick).

Television news just announced, as though it were a New Interesting Surprising revelation, that "depression affects more than your home life; it can also affect your performance at work." Can I get a "well, duh!" from the congregation here?

The study they were talking about still matters (and still counts as news) because a) one important aspect of Science! is experminentally confirming (or refuting) the common wisdom, and b) if I understood the report right, the study was more about quantitatively comparing different employer approaches to dealing with depressed workers than about verifying that depression sucks. I just bristled at the "Oh look, something nobody had suspected yet!" tone with which it was introduced.

And as for the "other shoe dropped" bit, I finally realized (I think) why the nurse at the clinic can't just take my description of the injection site for the TB test, but has to see it himself to write it down: I bet this is at least as much a Public Health issue as it is a preventative-medicine-for-the-individual matter. TB is one of those things where the state wants to identify latent cases and get them treated before they spread it wider, right? So even though my getting the test was presented to me as optional, I bet there's some regulation about reporting the test (maybe with certain identifying info filed off per HIPPA?) once it's been given ... I should really Google that instead of guessing; maybe I'll look it up later.