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[trinityvixen]

There are times when I get ridiculously simple joy out of my work. For instance, the smell of transfer buffer after it's been subjected to a current of 400mA for hours...it's intoxicating.

Then I go into the cold room and see what look to be brains in a tube. Scratch that, they're mouse fetuses in a tube! SICK!

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[earthrise.livejournal.com]

Gross.

I don't get to whiff transfer buffer, but occasionally I'll get e-mails that include gems such as this:

"There are a lot of women amateur [astronomers]. They just don't often pose for pictures.

Guys do, and that's probably a guy thing, like with their cars."

Yay for simple worktime joys!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: Boys and their phallic objects. Also a source of much amusement.

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

Yep. Don't get much more phallic than a long, hard, thick...telescope.

On an unrelated note: I've been taking my vitamins! Know of any blood drives that you'd be willing to take me to?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh! No, but let's go sometime. I still am chaperone girl out the wazoo. Eat your wheaties! Or, if wheaties aren't easy to come by, try Total. Mmm, whole grain total ::drool::

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

"Joy out of my work", huh? You sure you're not just high?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's an equal possibility. However, I have a better chance at getting the warm and fuzzy chemical buzzy from the fire-proof cabinet. Inside it are xylenes, God's gift to man kind when it comes to things that will kill you so dead and yet smell so goooood.

(PS: Did you get stuff from Carrie? I put them in her bag, so she's no excuse for not delivering them!)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Nope, nothing from Carrie. Nothing from Lisa either.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yell at both of them. They ought to be spanked good and hard.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Hey, I spent my lunch hour waiting for a conference that never occurred. I'd have loved to be delivering DVDs. She'll get 'em tomorrow. :-)

[farniks.livejournal.com]

400mA -- at what potential?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You know, I haven't really looked. I set the parameters as constant for either amperes or volts and walk away, and whichever I don't set fluctuates. Strange device.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

My favorite lab worktime joy was pushing the cart full of hot glassware back from the autoclave room. It would leave a trail of warmth for me to walk through behind it, and the building was cold in the winter--bliss!

[fairest.livejournal.com]

OH! And now I want the mint hot chocolate the deli nearby used to make...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I love the autoclave. It's so happy.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean "mouse unborn children in a tube"?

*ducks*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::chucks tube of fetuses at you:: IT IS STILL THERE.