packing up and on alert

well, it feels like i got laid off today. i'm packing up by desk area and i have to be out by friday. most of you know about the flood drama that happened at the office 2 weeks ago now - demolition of the office area will start on saturday. in the meantime, i'll be sitting in the lab, which means no coffee at my desk and loud freezer noise for a week. joy.

if you haven't seen the flood pics yet, go here.

in other news, someone hacked into UCLAs database and got a hold of information on over 800,000 people affiliated with UCLA (former and current students, faculty, etc.). the info includes social security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, etc. they are recommending everyone whose name was in the database (unfortunately, that includes me) to put a fraud alert and/or put a security freeze on their credit file. i'm not quite sure what i'm going to do yet. ARG! getting my credit screwed up or my identity stolen would be a bad, BAD thing for me.