Internet Musings From Lab 96c
There is nothing in the world more boring than watching a 50-something scientist stare intensely down a microscope.
I swear to God she hasn't moved a single muscle in 15 minutes.
The reason for this almost camel-like level of boredom (and my rather unusual title) is that I am currently sat somewhere within the deep, dark confines of Leeds University. I'm here because my mother has the keys to the main entrance and I was under the impression that she would "only be 2 minutes". That, my friends, was 45 minutes ago. Every 2 minutes, on the minute, she declares that she's going to be "another 2 minutes". I'm starting to suspect that she may be lying.
I think the woman at the microscope might actually be dead. Every time I look up she's exactly the same. Fortunately, I have a healthy supply of IKA Laboratory Equipment stacked next to me which I can throw at her. If she doesn't react to a test tube to the head, she's either deceased or waaay too into her job.
I can't believe how little entertainment this computer is providing. It's connected to the internet, for God's sake. The internet contains everything in the world. How can everything in the world be boring me?
Usually when I'm somewhere close to being this bored, I enter a highly annoying state of hyperness...
(flashback to walking backwards on an escalator in Borders bookstore, trying to see the back of a book being read by someone on the balcony above me)
... but there's something so fundamentally boring about this place that I don't even seem to be doing that. Maybe it's the fact that the world of science is so desperately sad that some person (probably with a moustache, if I'm being brutally honest) - who not only obviously doesn't get out enough but, when he does get out, should probably stop using all his time to find stamps with pictures of trains for his Stamps With Pictures of Trains Collection - has designed a syringe holder in the shape of a chromosome, possibly to provide some scientific humour. Shudder...
There, I think I've given you an insight into just how bored it's possible to be.
As I wrote that last sentence, our comatose-scientist-friend stood up, got her coat and walked out into the real world. Lucky bitch.
I swear to God she hasn't moved a single muscle in 15 minutes.
The reason for this almost camel-like level of boredom (and my rather unusual title) is that I am currently sat somewhere within the deep, dark confines of Leeds University. I'm here because my mother has the keys to the main entrance and I was under the impression that she would "only be 2 minutes". That, my friends, was 45 minutes ago. Every 2 minutes, on the minute, she declares that she's going to be "another 2 minutes". I'm starting to suspect that she may be lying.
I think the woman at the microscope might actually be dead. Every time I look up she's exactly the same. Fortunately, I have a healthy supply of IKA Laboratory Equipment stacked next to me which I can throw at her. If she doesn't react to a test tube to the head, she's either deceased or waaay too into her job.
I can't believe how little entertainment this computer is providing. It's connected to the internet, for God's sake. The internet contains everything in the world. How can everything in the world be boring me?
Usually when I'm somewhere close to being this bored, I enter a highly annoying state of hyperness...
(flashback to walking backwards on an escalator in Borders bookstore, trying to see the back of a book being read by someone on the balcony above me)
... but there's something so fundamentally boring about this place that I don't even seem to be doing that. Maybe it's the fact that the world of science is so desperately sad that some person (probably with a moustache, if I'm being brutally honest) - who not only obviously doesn't get out enough but, when he does get out, should probably stop using all his time to find stamps with pictures of trains for his Stamps With Pictures of Trains Collection - has designed a syringe holder in the shape of a chromosome, possibly to provide some scientific humour. Shudder...
There, I think I've given you an insight into just how bored it's possible to be.
As I wrote that last sentence, our comatose-scientist-friend stood up, got her coat and walked out into the real world. Lucky bitch.
posted by MunkyMan at 3:19 PM
6 Comments:
awww...bless ya...at least you had a computer to keep ya company think yaself lucky...but i know what u were going thru...my mams like tht
"Oh dear God..."
" Maybe it's the fact that the world of science is so desperately sad that some person (probably with a moustache, if I'm being brutally honest) - who not only obviously doesn't get out enough but, when he does get out, should probably stop using all his time to find stamps with pictures of trains for his Stamps With Pictures of Trains Collection - has designed a syringe holder in the shape of a chromosome, possibly to provide some scientific humour."
And the award for "longest sentence in blogland" goes toooo... Peeeteeeer Hebdeeeen!
*nudges you and whispers - that's you!*
Ill leave your acceptance speech to your (and everybody else's) imagination.
Should look nice on the mantlepiece next to your "most flavoursome underwear of the year" award... my God I hate to think what shape that award is...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I think I've done al the damage i can do around here...
Bye!
Cat ;-) xx
p.s dontcha just love award ceremonies? They're so exciting! I can almost taste the brick!
MunkyMan, there are 12 students here at USC chemistry department who want to tell you how refreshing it is to have found your blog. Currently we are working on a chemistry lab equipment project which requires that we list our favorite blogs of interest. Even though the content isn't an exact match, we are going to include it anyway. Your Internet Musings From Lab 96c post has given us the idea of changing our chemistry lab equipment site into a blog. So when we ace this project, just know that your blog was a huge inspiration. Thanks from our lab.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!!
I have inspired another human being(s). This is a big moment for me!
Wow! Good luck with the project, university people! Glad to be of (extremely unintentional) service!
MunkyMan
bonjour master peter!!
stuck in a science lesson with steph i thought i would read your blog and see all the inspiration and im pretty impressed so u get a SHINEY GOLD STAR!! for your enjoyment!! cya lois xxx
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