science genius girl
It is only a few days until our contract is due with the Nickle Museum, so Kathleen and I are fully immersed in the last step of Many Metal Multiples. Namely, gold plating. You might be thinking, wow, I don't know anyone else who is neat enough to know how to plate precious metals! And you would be right, you don't.
However it is a very long process, where you cannot get distracted because you are not only working with acids, but electricity in acids. We ran out of conversation topics a few days ago and now have locked in a repetive pattern of jokes.
1. We say "Gooollllddd!" in a way similar to the way a grizzled prospector would exclaim that word after eating canned beans for three months, endlessly panning, and seeing no women but his mule, Bessie.
2. We hand out job promotions and terminations to each other at will. I was fired five times today and declared employee of the month twice.
3.Joking with more and more seriousness each time that we should just spray paint everything gold, and get a midnight flight to Tijuana.
It goes though. It is going. And it is fun to feel like a real scientist with beakers and anodes and suprisingly sexy safety gear. Here is a picture of me in the lab.
However it is a very long process, where you cannot get distracted because you are not only working with acids, but electricity in acids. We ran out of conversation topics a few days ago and now have locked in a repetive pattern of jokes.
1. We say "Gooollllddd!" in a way similar to the way a grizzled prospector would exclaim that word after eating canned beans for three months, endlessly panning, and seeing no women but his mule, Bessie.
2. We hand out job promotions and terminations to each other at will. I was fired five times today and declared employee of the month twice.
3.Joking with more and more seriousness each time that we should just spray paint everything gold, and get a midnight flight to Tijuana.
It goes though. It is going. And it is fun to feel like a real scientist with beakers and anodes and suprisingly sexy safety gear. Here is a picture of me in the lab.
posted by Idoru at 11:40 PM
4 Comments:
Do they still call it aqua regia? Or do they have a dumb name for it now.
...I never knew you looked so goddamn sexy in a smock. ;)
yes, very sexy. But you should tone down the make-up. Subtulty goes a long way!!
you know, i expected to go over there and help int he way that you'd just toss me little things now and then. like teeny crumbs. and i wouldn't really be that effective.
but hey. i totally was. and you are totally done.
hooray.
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