If not leave, puke.

I don't think I've ever taught a lab that went so wrong so quickly. I had 5 or 6 students just not show up, taking today's lab as their dropped score. I had about 19 or so people show up. I think there were maybe 6 or 7 that were actually not breaking the dress code in some way, shape, or form. I told them they had to go get proper attire, and they went down to Dr. Davis's office to complain about me. He chewed them out. Apparently he told the ones with sandals to go change, and the ones with capri pants or shorts to wrap paper towel or something around their legs.

But wait, it gets better.

The experiment today involved peanut combustion to calculate the amount of heat that was contained in a peanut. First of all, we had no matches. It took about 20 minutes to get matches. The peanuts would not ignite. Dr. Davis went to get an alcohol torch. 4 more students left out of frustration, leaving me with 5 students. We tried immolating the damn nuts in the torch. The peanuts wuold not burn AT ALL. The last 5 students were told to just go, as we couldn't do anything.

I am seriously underpaid here.

I tried a new hair-removal cream on my legs yesterday. Yeah, that was a mistake. I'm hoping my thighs will not be puffy and red and bleeding anytime now. Hell, the sooner the better. I fucking hate leg hair removal. I cut myself every freaking time and get irritated skin when I shave, why the hell would this be different?

My plants. Ahh, the subject I LIKE talking about! I had six tomato seedlings, which have now been thinned down to three. I thinnied my parsley down to three, but I should probably go to two. I only had two basil seeds germinate, so no thinning necessary. Still no green pepper sprouts. Grow, dammit! I thinned my chives down to three plants. That thinning was fun, as I just plucked out the slow seedling and ate it. First chive...yummy.

I have an exam tomorrow and a paper to write and work to do.

Must drag ass away from internet...

Whoops. Found a stupid lawsuit article. Apparently someone thinks their free speech rights are being violated by her inability to bash certain minority groups...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6596503.story

Interesting meme from mtu_squirrel and <lj site="livejournal.com"

Go to Wikipedia, look up your birthday, excluding the year, and list three interesting facts, two births, and one death that occured on that day.

November 5th
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
1992 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.


Births
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician

Deaths
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)