Tuesdays are a hot mess

Hello ladies!

I am so tired right now. I had this great plan yesterday that, instead of procrastinating on my chemistry lab for a whole two weeks like I did during the last two weeks, I would start the next lab report tonight because my lab from today is all fresh in my mind.

It’s not going to happen.

Today’s lab was a hot mess and when I say hot mess I literally mean that it was awful and that the words “hot” and “mess” directly apply.

It was a mess because lovely white goop (spell check thinks gloop is a word but not goop, interesting) kept sticking to the stirring rod and all the beakers and flasks and funnels and anything else it came into contact with. Also the compound we were supposed to be drying with suction filtration WOULD NOT DRY!!! It stayed a lovely goopish consistency for its entire existence which, let me tell you, makes it VERY DIFFICULT to get down a capillary tube!

With that we have reached the hot part of this mess which is that we had to take a melting point for our substances and had to stay 12 minutes after the three hour lab period was supposed to have ended because we had to heat the sample to ABOVE 200 DEGREES CELSIUS! That’s really hot and takes a really long time even when you have the MeltTemp on at twice the voltage recommended by the lab manual! Gah!

After escaping the chemistry lab, and it did really feel like escaping, with the lowest possible mark for lab performance (it’s not my fault my unknown had the highest possible melting point on the sheet!!!) I ran to the SLC to get some food and then ran all the way to the other side of campus to make it to my lecture on time. Sad news is that I wasn’t in time to snag a seat where I usually sit beside two awesome people whose names I don’t know but probably should and that, had I managed to snag a seat on that side of the room, I would have been sitting next to the cute software engineer (don’t laugh, they actually exist) that I’d met in the class a few weeks ago because today he was sitting next to my friends who do not yet have names… Darn! *snaps*

I have to go grocery shopping soon, and by soon I mean when I stop typing this, because I have run out of food that I can easily cook and would like to eat and also because the grocery store that I go to gives discounts to university students on Tuesdays.

Now I feel like I should write something about pants even though I have not had the pants yet and won’t for quite a while…

The jeans I am wearing right now make my bum look absolutely fantastic! Dawn, you would appreciate them very much.

DFTBA!