Teabagged

I nearly flipped a shit today.
I had chem lab. We actually did this pretty neat experiment where we extracted caffiene from tea. It was a group project, meaning that we had partners. It is a 3 day lab, with today being the second day. Last Friday was the first.

It started Friday. The first thing you do is brew tea. You have to bring the water to a boil, which takes forever on the tuff hot plates we use, and then soak the tea for 10 minutes, and then repeat the whole process. After the tea soaks you have to gently squeeze out the moisture in the bag, without ripping the bag. If you do, you have to start over. I didn'r rip it... she did. So that as the beginning. But in the end, it turned out ok; we were just behindeveryone else by about 15 minutes.

Today we had to finish up what we didn't have time to do that day. It was a series of boilings, evaporations, adding things, decanting, evaporating, etc. etc. In the end, you have to finish by evaporating acetone from the caffiene product. We were maybe 1 minute away from finishing... when she spilled it.

But you know what. I had looked over and anticipated that she was going to spill it. I knew it, I and put my hand out and caught the beaker the moment in fell over, so only about half fell out.

Oh, I didn't talk to her for the rest of the lab period.

And I don't even want to talk about the second half of the lab period. Let's just say that I hate melting points.