Step off, Murphy!
Apr. 7th, 2004 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhYou would think that I'd be able to run this experiment without stabbing myself with a needle.
You would think that, but you would be wrong.
Last year I injected myself with a needle containing propidium iodide. . . Oh, the memories!. . . and then suffered two more stabs of injustice in the same day.
This year, I'm starting the same type of experiment. As I was injecting cells into the system, I discovered that the caps on the pre-needled syringes were a little difficult to remove. Knowing this and remembering what happened last year, I was super-super-super careful.
Didn't matter. I got two opened and injected just fine, but number three. . . gentle, gentle, gentle, POP-STAB OUCH!
In the words of another scientist I know, fuckitalltobits!
At least it was a sterile needle this time, so I don't have to report it. Besides, I got my tetanus booster last time I did this.
Now I have a purple boo-boo on my left index finger. It would have matched quite nicely with the purple boo-boo I had on my right index finger last year. Between that and the wasp-sting on my left thumb, I'm well on my way to poking all my fingers! Only seven left to go!
You would think that, but you would be wrong.
Last year I injected myself with a needle containing propidium iodide. . . Oh, the memories!. . . and then suffered two more stabs of injustice in the same day.
This year, I'm starting the same type of experiment. As I was injecting cells into the system, I discovered that the caps on the pre-needled syringes were a little difficult to remove. Knowing this and remembering what happened last year, I was super-super-super careful.
Didn't matter. I got two opened and injected just fine, but number three. . . gentle, gentle, gentle, POP-STAB OUCH!
In the words of another scientist I know, fuckitalltobits!
At least it was a sterile needle this time, so I don't have to report it. Besides, I got my tetanus booster last time I did this.
Now I have a purple boo-boo on my left index finger. It would have matched quite nicely with the purple boo-boo I had on my right index finger last year. Between that and the wasp-sting on my left thumb, I'm well on my way to poking all my fingers! Only seven left to go!
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Date: April 7th, 2004 07:35 am (UTC)Adorable new icon!
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Date: April 7th, 2004 07:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: April 7th, 2004 07:53 am (UTC)Back in grad school, I stabbed myself with a syrine needle that contained di-methyl mercury. Having read all the safety forms about what the side-effects of getting this into my blood (brain damage being the major)....I was worried.
The joke around the lab.....'yeah, of course any incident report he is involved it contains the phrase "just a little prick"'
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Date: April 7th, 2004 07:56 am (UTC)Wonder what my new nickname will be?
Probably something simple, like Clutz.
arg
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Date: April 7th, 2004 09:26 am (UTC)(Hope yer feelin' alright.)
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Date: April 7th, 2004 10:30 am (UTC)Hey, speaking of doing odd things, it's only one week until our birthday! What shall we do?
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Date: April 7th, 2004 11:57 am (UTC)Whip out the confetti!
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Date: April 7th, 2004 10:02 pm (UTC)You'll just have to celebrate both before and after you trip to make up for being away on your birthday.
And remember, it's okay to prick your finger, but not okay to finger your prick. (It's a pity there's no clever feminine counterpart to this joke. Otherwise I'd just have WOWWED you!)