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Was teaching today. The teaching lab is used for all kind of practical sessions, including chemistry.
We were doing a simple practical that was entirely theory, on cladistics and whatnot. What could go wrong? Safe, dry, nothing pointy, reactive or allergenic.
Oh no. Because the bench had had something - probably NaOH or CaOH - spilled on it in a previous session that wasn't wiped up. And in a moment of youthful high spirits when I sat on the workbench to see the room better and rest my tired feet without becoming invisible, I managed to position my dear and shapely butt on that spillage.
It soaked through my lab coat AND my combat pants, and I now have a stingy alkali burn on my butt! Owies! *patheticwhinge*
I guess I should learn that benches are not safe to sit on, even in dry practicals.
I suppose I should put some new trousers on before flatmates get home.
In better news, my slot in next week's postgraduate symposium is the very first session of 2 days. Although this is painfully early (9:30am) and to some extent "sets the standard", the audience will be fresh (though not numerous I daresay) and I can get it over and done with so no stressing over things for 2 days the way some people will have to! So I can give it, then relax and stop worrying.
Does mean I'll need to be in at 9am though to get set up, and all the technical problems that can go wrong will go wrong in my sessions. Ah well.
We were doing a simple practical that was entirely theory, on cladistics and whatnot. What could go wrong? Safe, dry, nothing pointy, reactive or allergenic.
Oh no. Because the bench had had something - probably NaOH or CaOH - spilled on it in a previous session that wasn't wiped up. And in a moment of youthful high spirits when I sat on the workbench to see the room better and rest my tired feet without becoming invisible, I managed to position my dear and shapely butt on that spillage.
It soaked through my lab coat AND my combat pants, and I now have a stingy alkali burn on my butt! Owies! *patheticwhinge*
I guess I should learn that benches are not safe to sit on, even in dry practicals.
I suppose I should put some new trousers on before flatmates get home.
In better news, my slot in next week's postgraduate symposium is the very first session of 2 days. Although this is painfully early (9:30am) and to some extent "sets the standard", the audience will be fresh (though not numerous I daresay) and I can get it over and done with so no stressing over things for 2 days the way some people will have to! So I can give it, then relax and stop worrying.
Does mean I'll need to be in at 9am though to get set up, and all the technical problems that can go wrong will go wrong in my sessions. Ah well.
