A dispute I just quelled using fine American diplomacy:
Two heated tempers from a pair of lab rats who’ve been locked inside the drug-testing facility too long, probably overtired and never liked each other much anyway, and certainly desperately bored- there’s British John and Romanian Marius, fighting about something or other. Marius speaks English fine, but [...]

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The final chapter in the strange tale of the Dutchman, my three-day-a-week roommate in the pharmaceutical testing clinic, ends not with a whimper but a bang! He’s gone, left to stalk the streets of London town with a bulging erection and no shirt, throwing himself out of dark alleys and into the backs of limousines [...]

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Regular readers of the site may know that I am three weeks in to a five-week clinical pharmaceutical research study. What this means is that from Monday to Wednesday, every week for five weeks, I take a train to a hospital in northwest London and stay as an inpatient, during which time I take a [...]

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Check it out, the Dutch guy who sleeps in the bed next to me inside the drug study facility actually does work as a film producer. He is a pornographer.
No, really.
I guess times are tough even for a struggling pornographic film producer, because, yeah, he’s still in here taking drugs for money, but [...]

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And I’m returned to the domesticated primate house for round two (of five), testing drugs for money. Today has been uneventful even by the standards of a drug study, in which event typically refers to, like, dinner. Which means i’m hungry, and also kinda bored. The place is a ghost town today, with just the [...]

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Yeesh, I am bored. They have taken the morning blood, and I am awaiting my next activity- lunch- in three and a half hours.
Hello to readers from Mightygodking.com, where I am guest-blogging for the next few weeks. My name is Dan. I’m in a drug-testing facility in Middlesex, England. It’s kind of like an [...]

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I kept it hush-hush, because I had tried twice previously this month and failed, but I’m in the Parexel Clinical Research unit right now in Middlesex, England. It’s the standard deal with me and drug trials- I swallowed a cupful of experimental pills and have allowed nurses to draw blood from my veins over and [...]

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I’ve been kind of sidelined the past few days. Some people get migraines and things like that; I have a recurring pinched nerve in my neck that pops up once a year or so and nearly incapacitates me. It’s kind of ridiculous, but it makes it extremely difficult to concentrate or get anything done. [...]

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