Physics never treated anyone this way

Yesterday, I went out to do a couple of zooplankton tows. Upon reaching the dock I realized how that wasn't going to work. There were hundreds of jellyfish. I know, you're saying "Maggie, you like jellyfish." And usually, I do, but they are not acting right. First of all, they are way too early. The water is way too fresh and way too cold for them. I don't understand, and I'm kind of supposed to. Second, they were in my way. You cannot do a quantitative zooplankton tow when there are hundreds of jellyfish in your net. My first mistake was even bothering to try. I should have known. But I'm not a quitter. I tossed in the net, but within half of the length of my regular tow, I saw that there were more jellyfish than my cod-end could hold, so I aborted the mission and cleaned things up. Which meant handling lots of jellyfish and things that had been slimed by jellyfish. As I dragged all of my stuff back into the lab, I ran into a friend and we started talking, and I completely forgot priority number one: washing my hands. Then I sneezed. Violently. Into my hands. Thus touching my sweaty face with my slimy hands and stinging my own self on the nose and eye. This is what you get for studying biology.