Friday, April 3, 2009

you know you're a chemist when ...

I was walking to work from the Metro station and could hear a shitload of fire trucks and ambulances. All I could think was: "Please, please, please don't be my hood!".

5 comments:

james said...

doing something dangerous?

scientist 1 said...

No more so than usual. I just happened to have a 100 g NaH reaction waiting for me to work it up, and another refluxing in ~500 mL of TFA.

Jim said...

Danger is his middle name.

person 1 said...

You could start a whole Jeff Foxworthy nerd, chemist thing. If you dream about benzene rings....you might be a chemist. If you engage in name reaction pissing contests....you might be a chemist. Etc.

Ben said...

Ooo...time to redirect some intellectual property.