Call Badger for Improper Protocol! He's not wearing his safety goggles!! XP

I think it's funnier this way! He'll get a good giggle out of this!! Boy does he need it!

Funny story for me. I was making rock candy over the winter break, using my science book. "Goggles? But I'm in the kitchen!" So I figure what the heck, put them on. Sure enough when the phone rings, I throw the spoon and splash boiling hot sugar onto my googles.... I've learned to calm my startle reflex after a few of these!

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Eeps. Certainly glad you *were* wearing safety goggles, then. It's a wonder they're not sold at those fancy kitchen shops... (I myself dodged the goggles requirement in college b/c I wear glasses...and there were seldom enough goggles to accommodate the entire class to begin with.)

Anyways, glad you like the picture!

I had BIG glasses when I was little, but still needed goggles. It may depend on the school. The one time I really, REALLY needed them in school was we were learning about the valves in the heart, and how they work, even postmortem. So we'd pour a beaker of water into a hole in the cow's heart's atrium and watch it pump blood into the ventricles.

After a few beakers, it got too full, and the heart backed up. It was my turn to look in the hole in the heart, naturally.

*SPLAT!*

.........I had my mouth closed, thankfully. But I had to go to math class smelling kinda strange!

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*returns, apparently having been crying some*

The support I've gotten through the illness and through these last stressful months has truly touched my heart. You have my deepest thanks, Jen, for a wonderful gift.

(P.S. The irony is that in my lab, we don't usually wear lab coats or goggles unless we're working with radioisotopes. But for boiling reagents like that, wearing goggles is most certainly a good idea!

Now, that would've been a neat demo....right up to that bit with the overflow.....

Hopefully it didn't turn you against science forever....though I certainly wouldn't blame ya if it had!

The times I missed the goggles most were the dissections and similar. Formaldehyde squirts are bad enough, but between random exploding cockroaches and overly-energetic fighting fish's splashes, some lower- and side-protection would've been quite nice.

Well, I'm certainly glad you like it. You've worked so hard and weathered so much, I figured a little lightheartedness was in order.

(I figured happening across the right combo of equipment and subject matter for the labwork was a longshot, but suddenly peppering you with questions would've tipped my hand. Some friends in cancer/AIDS research mentioned they wear lab coats, and Indigo mentioned the goggles, but otherwise I was left picking between accuracy and more glass/less "oversized copy machines running in the background". It was fun seeing what I remembered...)

Actually, I work as a phlebotomist these days! I draw blood as an application of science. Blood goes into vacuum tubes because pressure is different than human veins, and things always flow from higher to lower pressures to equalize. So blood flows out of high pressure arms into lower pressure tubes.

Though yeah, taking a bath in water, stale cow blood and heart bits, and Formaldehyde was not fun. Nor was the laughing of the rest of my class seeing me wring out my hair, my shirt..... Yuck.

I find science fascinating. Straight A student with passion. I can't wait to go to class and lab and learn, rather than just get a grade. (Except Chem lectures. UGH!)
We did a section on arthropod strength with Hercules Beetles. Other people got pinched badly by these BIG beetles because they harassed things with a REALLY big horn on their head..... you don't need a real theory to figure out why......
I was nice in handling the bugs, my hands more like substrate to walk on than a threatening pale pink warm thing, so it seemed to want to be around me.
Friends? No, probably not. "That human won't harass me, so I'll pinch those that do, and get my wingcases pet nicely by her?" yes!

Exploding roaches? What WERE you doing?? And can I borrow whatever you were doing for my bathroom? I HATE the rare roach we find in my bathtub. It gets chased and put into my frog tank. Deluxe cricket!

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A Polo shirt and dressy pants would work too, but not very sciencesy!

Basic no brainers no-nos would be open toed shoes/sandals, big earrings, untied long hair, rings that would react to corrosive agents, shirts that if got stained with reagents you'd cry over.

..........none of which I think Arch has to worry about. Can't see him with earrings...

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At one point in Animal Behavior, our professor had us dissecting cockroaches. Now, I've dissected earthworms, frogs, rats, cats, and nurse sharks, but roaches? UGLY sumbitches, AND we couldn't really aenestetize them with the materials the prof gave us, so you had to slice 'em quick before they woke up - but if you hit the wrong spot or squeezed the wrong bit in an attempt to anchor your victim to its tray, "splorch!" goes the bugger, all over your group members.

As if that wasn't bad enough, afterwards you needed to up to the front of the room and retrieve ANOTHER one from the giant bell-jar of skittering vermin.

And it most definitely didn't help that lab was right after lunch.



....personally, I preferred Microbiology, where we did neat things like wine- and sauerkraut-making and random-specimen collection and identification.