Thursday, June 16, 2005
Ersatz
I know I didn't post yesterday, so just pretend yesterday was a weekend. Hope you enjoyed it.
Just spent the last hour mopping up a flood in our lab. No we did not cause it. This flood has been ocurring whenever the lab next to us runs their condenser overnight. Basically it's fancy glass tubing that filled with running water that cools the vapor coming off of your sample in a hot water bath. Like distilling your favorite boozy refreshment. But less fun and probably more deadly and definitely tastes worse.
But it has been going on for about 2 1/2 years now. Seriously. We keep calling maintanence, they come over, look at some pipes, see nothing is wet and then leave. Yeah, today is number 5 or 6 that they were called over, but the flood was much worse today and luckily the head secretary was up here running around so she saw the flood too, so now we have witnesses (like we have some lab vendetta against our nieghbors).
But a groupmate physically went next door to help the maintanence guys look in the lab next to ours. Lo and behold that is a pipe that has come loose from its fitting and is basically draining into the floor. But it's fixed now and I hopefully won't have to waste any more time practicing my custodial engineering.
I have jock itch. Don't know how I got it. Joan suspects the humidity of the South combined with the heat combined with my tendency to sweat and that is a perfect formula for crotch fungus. Ew. But I got some Lamisil and it should be cleared up in 4-5 days. This is the second time I have had jock itch. The first was in high school and was playing soccer alot. And I had sex with a mushroom.
But I did get to have a funny encounter with the pharmacist and his pharm tech. I couldn't find the crotch cream section in Bi-Lo so I went to go ask the pharmacist if he knew where it was or could recommend something. So I go up to the window and see that the person standing there is not the pharmacist. It's Betty the Pharmacy Technician. I say, what would you suggest for an OTC remedy for jock itch? She gets a deer in headlight look and turns to the professional. He is very helpful, and a little bored I think.
So stick in there Betty and one day you'll be able to help people with their jocks.
Edit:I'm sure some of you know that Congress is now voting on how it feels about medical marijuana after the Supreme Court voted against it last week, which was the right move. According to the laws on the books, federal law always trumps state law. But HR 2087 is now before Congress and it's looking to secure state's rights to medical marijuana and reschedule it from Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug. Right now it's a 1 because it has "no medical use" which is complete nonsense. But here is what I wrote to my Senators and Representatives:
edited to prevent searches
but you can email me if you really want to know what I wrote.
Just spent the last hour mopping up a flood in our lab. No we did not cause it. This flood has been ocurring whenever the lab next to us runs their condenser overnight. Basically it's fancy glass tubing that filled with running water that cools the vapor coming off of your sample in a hot water bath. Like distilling your favorite boozy refreshment. But less fun and probably more deadly and definitely tastes worse.
But it has been going on for about 2 1/2 years now. Seriously. We keep calling maintanence, they come over, look at some pipes, see nothing is wet and then leave. Yeah, today is number 5 or 6 that they were called over, but the flood was much worse today and luckily the head secretary was up here running around so she saw the flood too, so now we have witnesses (like we have some lab vendetta against our nieghbors).
But a groupmate physically went next door to help the maintanence guys look in the lab next to ours. Lo and behold that is a pipe that has come loose from its fitting and is basically draining into the floor. But it's fixed now and I hopefully won't have to waste any more time practicing my custodial engineering.
I have jock itch. Don't know how I got it. Joan suspects the humidity of the South combined with the heat combined with my tendency to sweat and that is a perfect formula for crotch fungus. Ew. But I got some Lamisil and it should be cleared up in 4-5 days. This is the second time I have had jock itch. The first was in high school and was playing soccer alot. And I had sex with a mushroom.
But I did get to have a funny encounter with the pharmacist and his pharm tech. I couldn't find the crotch cream section in Bi-Lo so I went to go ask the pharmacist if he knew where it was or could recommend something. So I go up to the window and see that the person standing there is not the pharmacist. It's Betty the Pharmacy Technician. I say, what would you suggest for an OTC remedy for jock itch? She gets a deer in headlight look and turns to the professional. He is very helpful, and a little bored I think.
So stick in there Betty and one day you'll be able to help people with their jocks.
Edit:I'm sure some of you know that Congress is now voting on how it feels about medical marijuana after the Supreme Court voted against it last week, which was the right move. According to the laws on the books, federal law always trumps state law. But HR 2087 is now before Congress and it's looking to secure state's rights to medical marijuana and reschedule it from Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug. Right now it's a 1 because it has "no medical use" which is complete nonsense. But here is what I wrote to my Senators and Representatives:
edited to prevent searches
but you can email me if you really want to know what I wrote.
# posted by Seth @ 7:44 AM 
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