Bad day. Terrible bad shitty day. I'm one more curse word away from taking my loved ones and letting this university burn to the damn ground.
At the most optimistic, it's hopeless.
I was in the lab today, doing a nitrogen fixation experiment with Rhizobium...pretty standard Judd Lab stuff (Author's Note: Rhizobium is a soil dwelling bacteria that lives best in no oxygen). A lot of my samples looked good, showed the right kind of growth...however, I got an interesting, chilling result. One of my samples had been exposed to oxygen, so I was going to throw it out. However, instead of showing little growth, it showed a startling supergrowth. I took a sample and found no metabolic activity but, there was evidence that the "dead" colony was somehow ingesting the nearby live colonies, which would then show dead growth as well. I'd seen this before in Champine's micro lab. And Rhizobium was one of the many organisms that could be infected with a specific form of the virus if introduced into media...but this wasn't or the others would show signs.
Oh God.
It's airborne.
I ran to the bathroom, threw up my lunch. This is bad. Terrible...we should all be wearing face masks. Oh God, I've probably been exposed. I can't go near Christina, she'll get it. I need to wear a face mask.
So I donned one and then went downstairs to bring the terrible news to Dad. He remained oddly calm (he always does) and decided we should bring this up at the meeting.
Ah yes, the meeting. That was just damn wonderful.
We walked in, and explained both situations. First I get looks, then chuckles, then they told me...well let's see how well I can quote it.
"You haven't brought any form of conclusive evidence which makes all of this meeting heresay. The government's specialist would detect this far before any undergrad, regardless of your status in the last invasion."
My dad and the other Math and Science professors fought for me, but the administration simply had their mind made up.
But I know it's airborne...luckily the vaccine for the virus only needed a slight modification. (Thank you Biology Professors and Grad Students working through the day and night together.) We all managed to take one, and I already have enough for all my friends. Mass production through the night should take care of the whole campus...but the university would never let this happen. Not enough CYA (Cover Your Ass) for them.
Trevor'll get a kick out of this one. Hell, I'll call him for this little mission. Jesse too. A little mischief reunion oughta get my spirits up...oughta. There are a series of pipes leading under the university that transport water to all parts of campus...which gets put in the food and the drinks. It's not perfect but...well let's just see if this works first.
A lack of post tomorrow could mean I'm imprisoned...
Or worse.
END LOG.
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