Chemicals...
Still working on my report. Been sleeping late for the past few nights. Urghh....now...then there's more progress. Aim to finish another 2 sections tonight before I bunk in.
*sighs*
Well, work today was rather busy. As expected, according to the schedule, there would be a lot of QC samples coming in. But at the end of the day I achieved something. I managed to finish up all of my wet work so that I am left with only paperwork tomorrow morning.
Something happened to me early this morning. I was re-analyzing all the retain samples' densities when I accidentally knocked onto one of the retained samples and half of it splashed onto my body. The F-word came out of my mouth and everybody looked. It took everyone some time to react. I quickly stripped off everything...more specifically..my lab coat, gloves and goggles and ran to the toilet. SOme of the chemicals got onto my jeans and my safety boots. Lucky for me, it didn't splash onto the top part of my body cause lesser protection and thank God it didn't make contact with my bare skin!
I've got lotsa experiences with chemicals coming into contact with my bare skin for the past few months. That's why there are light black spots on my arms. I know how it feels to get acid as corrosive as sulphuric acid splash onto my skin even though it's only a small lil dot. I know what's the effect of hydrogen peroxide when it got onto my skin. That was damn worst... Well, there were minor ones...just a lil itch here and there...
Other than making contact with my skin, there was also inhalation. I remembered once when I was preparing EDTA. The content of EDTA consists mainly of ammonia. I was damn stupid enough to pour the solution outside of the fume hood. I got choked by the strong ammonia fume. You know...nobody loves ammonia smell. And it's not as mild as the ammonia you smelt in the secondary school chemistry lab. This ammonia smell can stick to your clothings if you handle it for too long. Other than ammonia, there was also hydrochloric acid...with it's fumes. And not forgetting nitric acid and smelly acetic acid. The only smelly chemical that I enjoy smelling is ethyl acetate. It smells like superglue...hehehehe...
Well, this is work...Accidents happen. THe main thing is that, we should know how to handle these situations.
Haiz....while I was busy preparing for CVS, he messaged. I was rather surprised cause I actually planned to message him during lunch time. Luckily...I didn't lose my focus. Hahaha...but in one of my bad days like this...I'm glad that he messaged. He lights up my day...
Oklah...have to continue with my report....Nitez everyone...
QueenLiyn@23:31
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