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enismirdalWas 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.
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:36 (UTC)O_o I would laugh - but that is one hell of a place to get a burn XD
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:48 (UTC)Is that likely O_o
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:51 (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:43 (UTC)My hubby once managed to get a nasty burn on his thigh because he didn't stop to think that his pant pocket might not be the best place to transport a radioactive sample, but at least that was his own fault...
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:48 (UTC)It's after incidents like this that when I walk round the lab after a practical session and find sweet wrappers and just wonder how long it will take before something really scary happens to someone. :(
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 18:00 (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:45 (UTC)(And double oh no if you have to replace lab coat and combat pants...)
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 17:49 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 18:28 (UTC)I don't remember leaving such a trail of mass destruction behind me when I was an undergraduate, but maybe I did and just wasn't aware of it!
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 20:41 (UTC)Abner
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 18:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 Feb 2009 18:43 (UTC)Ouch!
(On the bright side, it might be handy in the long term to have had non-fatal object lessons in lab safety!)
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 20:28 (UTC)*compassion*
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 20:43 (UTC)Abner
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Date: 10 Feb 2009 21:24 (UTC)Hope your arse heals fast!
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 22:35 (UTC)no subject
Date: 11 Feb 2009 04:33 (UTC)*Mwah*
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 22:40 (UTC)Ironically, the labcoat has cleaned up spotlessly in the washing machine, but the combat pants have a faded blue patch now. How unfair!
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 22:35 (UTC)no subject
Date: 11 Feb 2009 09:07 (UTC)I hope you recover quickly!
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 22:40 (UTC)