Lab Report #10 - 2 December 2013

[acrobatichemist]

It's getting cold again, but it still hasn't snowed. I guess that's good, because now even snow isn't an excuse to get out of work, and shoveling my driveway isn't fun.

Not that I hate work, considering what I get to do, but waking up in the cold is such a pain.

I guess I haven't been on here in a while, so what's going on with everyone else?

Comments

[atoberex.livejournal.com]

My offer from last winter of putting a cot in your office for you is still open.

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

And like last winter, I still don't get how the cot would help. I'd still have to get up and deal with the cold. It's not like I can or want to live in my office.

Is there any chance you'd pay me for hibernating through the winter? Jirou can use me as an experiment or something.

[atoberex.livejournal.com]

I do pay to have the lab heated, you know. Perhaps you should ask Jirou for some handwarmers for Christmas.

No.

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Hand warmers? You mean gloves?

I don't want to live in an office, still. Showering at work is not something I'd look forward to.

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

But winter's fun~ It's perfect hibernating weather XD

And not much. Came back from the month-long trip recently~ It was fun! You been doing anything interesting, Gakkun?

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Winter's only fun when it snows and someone hosts a snow ball fight, since I'm not allowed to hibernate.

Oo, to where? What'd you do? All I ever get to do is work and sometimes drinking.

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

Snow's fun too! But it's nice when it's chilly outside. And the holiday season is always so nice and cheerful and most people are happier~

Ooh, I asked Kei-kun for a break, since I almost never take breaks and I went to accompany my sister while she was touring for unis!Attended some invention conventions along the way as well~ It was fun.

And you went to China for a bit though, right? That musta been exciting!

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you like the cold, I guess, but it's not that great.

Oo, that's cool! Did you see anything really awesome there? And how were the other universities?

China was awful. We got one translator for five people, and no one wanted to stick together so he went with some of my coworkers. The only thing I knew was "ni hao" and that doesn't get you very far.

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

They were good universities! I think she's going to mainly music based stuff though, so I had no idea what they were talking about half the time XD I didn't pay attention in music theory.

And hmm, that does sound sucky. Next time, we should go together or something. To somewhere where they speak a language we know like English~

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Maybe Ootori knows something about them? I dunno. I didn't even take music theory.

We could go to America or England or something. Do we have an excuse? Maybe there's a project there we can work on together!

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

Luuuuucky! Sensei never stopped talking and she was so boring. Not sure if Chou-kun would remember, but I can ask!

Hmm, I have an idea that needs Chemistry in it, more than what I know anyway. I want to try and use some chemicals to try and act as a way of catching criminals. I heard something about how there are unique kinds of bacteria in every human and stuff and how certain chemicals react to certain bacteria.... it's kinda complex to explain here. But there's an expert about it all in England~!

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Why did you even take that? Everyone said it was awful!

... Wait, unique bacteria on everyone? How do vaccines work then?
But how would you make it work so that specific chemicals affect multiple strains of the same bacteria even if they're different?

Tell me what the expert says. I wanna know more about it!

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get art because I missed the due date.... ^^; So I got stuck with music theory 'cause I needed an arts class.

Well, vaccines work on the more invasive bacteria, right? The one that spreads from person to person, that's not been in our body enough to adapt to the different biome.
But everyone has bacteria in them that's like helpful to them, like the flora in our stomach and stuff. And our body doesn't reject it because its reaally helpful, so it stays and it kinda adapts to our body and gets slightly different. That's what the paper said, anyway.

As for the chemicals part, I think there are like common traits to all of the bacteria, that identifies their species and the chemical would have to react to that part. Like how we can differentiate between different humans, but we all know that we're human, yanno?

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's true. So... would this be focusing on the bacteria in your guts? Or where else would you get the differentiated bacteria?

That makes sense. Yeah, I get it.

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

That's the part I need to work on, because it's really difficult to leave the bacteria from your guts at a crime scene ;P

And yaaay~

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Er, are there differentiated bacteria anywhere else on your body...?
Like, in your hair or something?

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

There might be...that's one thing I've gotta ask him! :) Some stuff online correlates it...but I always trust real people a bit more.

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

Real people should be better. It would suck to spend a bunch of time on something that can't work or can only work if the guy like, doesn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom.

Though I bet that would improve hygiene among criminals.

[jirouvolley.livejournal.com]

I bet it would! All the criminals you always see on TV look like they haven't bathed in five or more weeks :|

[acrobatichemist.livejournal.com]

You'll be doing the world a favor no matter where the bacteria have to come from!