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scrawls

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4.11.06

Perfectly sensible.

Plus, it was only a matter of time. Every scientist accidentally starts fires. every single one - and if they say they haven't, it's just because they're too embarrassed. My fires are particularly lucky because both have happened when nobody else was around and both were entirely controllable and this one really wasn't even a fire. There were no visible flames.

So yesterday someone (and, yes, i know who someone was) decided to finally eat the leftover fish that had been sitting in the fridge at work for nearly a week, and i hope they enjoyed it greatly, because it made the entire lab reek. And one hopes that the ventilation system will take care of it shortly but it was bad all afternoon. and then i came in today, i had things to do, and it was still bad. And i wanted a cup of tea. only lab reeked of fish, and the microwave reeked of fish particularly badly, and i did not want my cup of tea to taste like week old leftover snapper. because, fucking eew. and so there was some baked goods that somebody had brought in that were getting a little stale and nobody was eating them and so i decided, Lemon poppyseed cake smell. right? only apparently stale lemon poppyseed cake does not like to go in the microwave. because it was working and the lemon poppyseed smell was starting to cover up the fish smell, and then i turned around and there was smoke racing out of the damn microwave. And more smoke inside of it. But no flames! this is very important. i did not start an actual fire.

And the fish stench was to the point that sharply burnt baked goods still smell better than fish. The fish is entirely gone.

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scrawled @ 19:59