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2. Glitched Augmen-Tina

Who: Tina Belcher and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Paisley
When: February 5th

[When Tina turns the camera on, she's... quite chatty. And speaking a lot faster than she normally does.]

So is it normal to have a huge burst of energy come from nowhere because the last time this happened to me I was hooked on espresso but I haven't had a single drop of that magic liquid in years pretty much no thanks to my mom pawning the espresso machine but anyway I can't keep still and this really isn't like me is there some way to make it stop??

[She pauses to take a breath.]

... actually I don't want it to stop BYE.

Action

[Sorry, Paisley shipmates, but your new cook is twitchy and running here to there, compulsively cleaning, when she's not experimenting with food in the new kitchen. Quite a change from her first week here, where she was very retiring and shy.]

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maybe it's the chip in my brain. maybe they're using it to inject me with caffiene.

i don't, no

Well, you're about to learn.

Use two of your fingers to find your pulse on your wrist. If it's too faint, use your fingers to find it on either side of your windpipe, just under your jaw.

Edited 2017-02-09 06:29 (UTC)

okay. What am I looking for, a really fast pulse?

Just follow my instructions, don't get fancy with it.

Do you have a watch or something else you can use to time the seconds?

Oh, this communicator has one. Neat.

[She's really focusing on the important things here.]

[ok well if she's dying at least she learned something new first] Great.

Set a timer for 15 seconds and count how many beats you feel in that time, then let me know.

hold on I lost count, let me try again

[PATIENCE........patience, aizawa. she needs to learn. it's a good skill. BE ENCOURAGING, y'know, that thing you never are]

Keep trying. I [how does it go] believe in you. [nailed it]

[Good thing this is over text.]

I counted around 20.

Okay. Multiply that by four, since we want to know the beats per minute.

An adult human has a resting heartbeat of between 60 and 100 beats per minute. You don't look that young, so you should fall in that range.

the energy must be coming from something else, then!! i'm 13 so i'm close enough to an adult I guess

but where??????????

I don't know, but I wasn't trying to figure out if your heartbeat was CAUSING it and more trying to determine if it was going to make you go into cardiac arrest.

But it looks like it won't. So don't worry about it.

Any shortness of breath? Dizziness?

nope. I don't feel any different than I normally do aside from the excess of energy

that and I'm a lot more talkative than usual which does remind me of being on espresso except I think I already mentioned that

You did, once or twice.

As long as it's not causing you any physical distress, it's best to let whatever this is run its course. If you experience any of those symptoms I listed though I want you to contact either your ship's medical officer or me. Aizawa.

I'll do that

thanks Aizawa :)

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