Excitement

The Dark Knight was AMAZING! It was everything I wanted it to be and more. I'm surprised I don't have bruises on my arm from how tight I was gripping, it was that exciting! It was so exciting that I couldn't sit still for hours after the movie was over - I was too jittery, too jumpy. Of course, it wasn't entirely the movie's fault - coffee, anxiety, delayed-shock, cabin fever, and other things had a part to play in it. But The Dark Knight was so good! Here's a link to all sorts of Trivia about the movie: The Dark Knight Trivia

Yesterday at work was exciting. I was running a test on a sample that smelled like paint thinner. I added phenolphthalein (a pH indicator) and then added 6M Sodium Hydroxide, which is supposed to turn the sample a pretty pink color. It turned the nastiest shade of green imaginable. Then stuff started to precipitate out - gunk that looked like the offal from frog spawn and pond scum. Well, the samples had to be boiled, so I put them on a hot plate. I used a stirring rod to keep the gunk moving, but as I was stirring one of those nasty samples, it exploded. Boom. The glass shattered, the stuff flew out in all directions. I was very lucky for several reasons: I was half behind a protective shield, the sample was on a hot plate in our fume hood, and my reflexes were so fast that I only got splattered a little bit on my lab coat. Oh, and it was a non-RAD sample. That was lucky too. Like I said...exciting!