they've been fixing up the shielded room that we're eventually going to use for fNIR testing, which has made the whole (very poorly ventilated) office smell of epoxy or whatever stuff it is they're using to fasten the panels to the walls. in the morning this is just mildly annoying, but by mid-afternoon it feels like one has spent most of the day snorting a line of bad coke very, very slowly. there has to be some WSHA regulation against this; i really should, in fact, march myself down to the MRI scanner and investigate for neuronal cell death. who feels like a court case?