Having unrestricted internet access at work continues to be my downfall.

Yesterday we had our annual inpection by the organisation that grants permission for a laboratory to carry out medical testing. As the head of our department was on vacation and I have very white teeth, I was asked to carry out the, quite serious, task of taking her place in this process.

The day went along without any major hiccups, everyone in the lab knew their stuff and the inspectors were impressed with our database that tracks all our activities and results (developed and managed by yours truly). When it came time to interview me about bioinformatics functions, I was asked how a customer can give us feedback about their result or ask for more information.

We actually have a dedicated website to this (http://cow.agendia.com), which I was able to pull up on my dual-21″ displays and demonstrate. No problems, but was that a smirk I detected? Hmmm…

At the end of the day, when all was said and done (we’re allowed to stay open) I went back into my office and looked at the browser window open across my displays, thinking more about that smirk and wondering if I said something wrong. Putting it out of my mind, I went to close the browser but as I moused up to the ‘x’ button, what, dear readers, was the text still in the search field of this window? Text that had been there the whole time I talking to the inspector about very serious cancer related stuff? Yes…

Britney Head Shave

How completely embarrasing.

I’m surprised we weren’t shut down immediately. But seriously, what was she thinking and where can I get some of the hair?!