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During the last annual audit, there were no defiencies in the data collected for one of our studies. This is big news. Huge, actually. An auditor finds absolutely nothing wrong and generates no queries, which is essentially their bread and butter? Yeah, it's giant fucking news. Jigs are danced. Backs are patted. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Anyway, I was one of the team members awarded as I'm the coordinator on that study. One of the head docs (major bigwig) in the institution comes to give a little speech and pass out the awards. Don't get me wrong, it was very nice to be recognized, but whenever I'm the center of attention I turn beet red and grin maniacally. This is my default setting in such situations. Fortunately, it was just my group, most of whom I like or at least tolerate. Plus I got this nice crystal plaque thingamajig with my name and everything etched on it.

But then, at our department staff meeting after that, my boss's boss announced the news and had my boss (also awarded) and me stand up. Cue the blushing and grinning.

Blech.