4LadiesandaBeaker...and a dude?

Our organics room is notoriously full of women. Before our group there have been many other women that have advanced forward or left these laboratory halls forever.  For my time here years have gone by without any sign of testosterone.  Recently and for a short time only we got a new hire that was a man!  And he enjoys graffiti as much as I like to doodle so that was fun.  He still works in the building, but was moved to a different room. 

Here is his graffiti for our room OEP

 A view from farther away to capture both of his hoods

This is a closeup of his other freehand.  I requested this spot for graffiti so the SPE counter would have a good view of it!  I thought the colors turned out great and it really brightens up the room.  We deal with mostly water samples and I love the flowing feel of this piece.  I couldn't quite get the feel of the record to come through even in a close-up, but this record is pretty perfect and looks so legitimate you want to reach out and touch it. 

Throwback Thursday Lab Style

I was going through books recently and found a journal I had to make for school in the 4th grade. Apparently science has always been my favorite subject.  I have no idea what the witch experiment was, but maybe that partially explains the old time look I went with here.  The design isn't much but kitchen supplies and random shaped objects in what seems to be a dusty wizard's lair.  When I was young I'm pretty sure I thought science was closer to magic.  Science was and still is fascinating to me in the way that magic is, but reality is usually different from imagination.  I imagined scientists more as crazed alchemists in caves making concoctions from recipes in ancient books, and creating bubbling explosions of liquids and gases of various colors.

So here's what 4th grade me thought science looked like vs. what a real life science laboratory looks like.