Why I Hate Halloween

So I've been awful at this whole keeping a blog thing, I doubt anyone cares though. But I will make a post today of why as a retail pharmacy technician I really hate Halloween.

First I work at a discount retailer won't say which, but we have a hefty halloween section right in my line of sight. I saw so many girls in slutty costumes I wanted to burn out my retinas because most of them had no business being in them. Plus everyone would like thier recreational drugs (also why I dislike New Year's Eve). It's sad when our supplier knows to send us two extra cases of Sudafed 24 Hour in preparation for the fantastic holiday weekend. Note: Meth users don't think you fool us when you come in line saying your buying for your grandma (which is illegal to purchase for anyone but a minor, opposite of alcohol huh), or when you come in line with the sniffles I will send you to the Benadryl faster than you can blink. And we know that hardly anyone in my area (redneck city) with no teeth would be caught dead buying name-brand Sudafed unless it was for the meth. Science quiestion: Why is the Sudafed 24 Hour the preferred pseudoephedrine product for meth users?
A: Because Sudafed 24 Hour puts the most pseudoephedrine in each tablet, meaning more pseudoephedrine in each tablet meaning less filler and garbage the meth maker has to get rid of in the process, meaning a simpler work-up and a higher percent yield (aka less likely to blow up house and more drugs with less shit to dispose of.)

But I digress, because not only do the customers come in cracked out but apparently so do some of the other employees at the store. Woman who works there, we call her Gustapo because she is in charge of the door and will stop little old grandmas with a case Boost because it's not in a bag. Well Gustapo has a lazy eye and is a little bit batty, classic old maid though somehow she reproduced, jury is still out on how the heck that happened. But she comes to work in a wedding dress, veil and all. And not a conservative one either, things that make you go blahhhhhhhh.

Back to recreational drug use, this happened to our newest pharmacy tech (let's call her Eva) and we shall tease her about it relentlessly. A wife comes in for the family meds, and on that list is her husband's Viagra. Which all of the ED medications are quite pricey, and so Eva tells her the cost and the wife asked which one cost so much. Eva says the Viagra is the biggie, and the wife says, "for that price it better be!" Sorry to disappoint you lady but Viagra just makes it go up, not grow up.

Thus ends my "Why I hate Halloween" post, tune in next year when I might possibly have another post.

Washington D.C.

So I recently traveled to Washington D.C. which should be called the city of memorials. We got Paris (City of Lights), Rome (Eternal City), New York, (City that Never Sleeps). So I nominate D.C. as the City of Memorials, there are war memorials, memorials to presidents, memorials to tragedies, and even a memorial to Einstein. I was shocked, of course I got a picture next to Einstein. I also saw President Obama's motorcade, which is a really cool experience because they block of the streets for like 10 minutes, there are about 2 cop cars and a dozen cop motorcycles as well as about 5 secret service/other vehicles all racing down city streets at like 50 miles per hour. It is ridiculous how fast those guys go. But all in all D.C. was an amazing trip, and expenses wise it wasn't too bad because all the museums and things are free to get in. Like the Smithsonian, National Archives, and the Washington Monument to name a few. I couldn't believe that, the most we paid to get in somewhere was $1.50 to see Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was shot which also included the house across the street where he died.

In other vacation notes, if I get a B in Biochem this summer I am treating myself to the dream vacation to Europe that I want. It will be a trip with EF Tours, and seeing tons of sights all across Europe for a month. Pricetag: $4000, not including meals and souvenirs. I need to save some serious bank, but it would totally be worth it. And on that note, I better get back to studying. Going to see Angels and Demons tonight. I'll post a review tomorrow.

Twitter

So today I broke down and signed up for twitter. Reason was simple breast cancer research. Rachelle Lefevre of the Twilight movie, is doing a charity event for every 10,000 followers she gets on Twitter she will donate 100$. There is also a similar quest with a funnier twist, if Peter Facinelli gets 500,000 followers by June 19th then the CEO of Twitter, Robert DeFranco will walk down Hollywood Blvd singing all the single ladies with a sign saying Twitter me. If Peter loses then he has to give Robert his twilight chair. I vote for Peter, because he comes up with much better terms.
If you want to follow me on Twitter my username is sarcasticchem, the ist wouldn't fit.

Again with the delayed post

This post is going to be short. I'm going to share with you guys a true story from a customer at the pharmacy yesterday.

"Where is your generic Tylenol?" -customer, I replied with the location.
"Sorry I meant Nyquil" again I replied with the location.
"Why is the Nyquil there?"
"That is our cough and cold aisle". I thought that would end the conversation.
"But why is Nyquil in the cough and cold aisle?" Those of you that know anything about medications will know that Nyquil is the knock you out make you feel happy when you have a cold medicine. Very widely used, very widely publicized.
Customer tried to save face, "Yes, but when you have a cold don't you have aches and pains?" "Sometimes, there's a pain reliever in Nyquil." I said, mind you this entire conversation I am being a girl and multitasking. I am also dropping and typing scripts, but paying complete attention to the customer, answering his questions as polite as can be when I really want to shout, "You're a f**king retard stop wasting my time."
Customer throws tantrum, complains to my pharmacist that I don't know what I am talking about and that I was rude. Mind you I have witnesses to my sickening politeness. Anyway I am still there working on my stuff and listening to this guy berate me for being an idiot. I was fuming, I wanted to throw something. He left in a huff, pharmacist turned to me and asked "How the hell did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Not jump over the counter and punch that guy?"
"I've worked here for 3.5 years, if I punched every stupid a-hole that acted like that I would face jail time." Oh the joys of working at a pharmacy, it's days like today that I don't even mind the 25,000 in debt. I would still rather have that then spend the rest of my life as a pharmacist because it pays well.

Which leads me to my advice for tonight, don't pick a career that will make you tons of money, but your miserable everyday. Because money isn't everything, happiness is everything.

Wow time goes fast

I can't believe it's been so long since my last post! I bought a new car a 2009 Cobalt, blue with gray interior nothing else matters when you're a girl.

I am working on research with a new professor and I love it, he's super cool and the project I am working on is incredible.

Waiting to hear from grad school everyone please cross your fingers!

Struggling through my senior year, because all hell is breaking loose with my school work right now. I don't know what I was thinking taking the course load that I took! Inorganic Chem (graduate level), Physical Chem 2, Chemical Instrumentation (graduate level), Organic Chem 2, as well as my research and making up an incomplete in my professional presentation class.

I am now working 3 jobs, my pharmacy tech job which is awful I hate people and certain jerkface pharmacists. I also have my on campus job working in a Qualitative Analysis class and in the stockroom. And I am tutoring 3 high school students several times a week. And yet because of the shitty ass economy I am still broke.

Since I last posted I got sucked in by the Twilight phenomenon. I had read the first 2 books prior to the movie, but the movie came out and I devoured the last 2. Now I am working on reading them all again for a second time. I am obsessed with the Twilight Lexicon because they give every little detail about the movies and the cast you could ever want to know. The Twilight guys are literally everywhere I think they are going to take over the world....literally democracy, communism, imperialism, dictatorships watch out twilightism will take over!!!!!!!

Well that is the update I will try to be more faithful to my blog in the upcoming weeks. I'm going to shoot for a post a week because that seems much more attainable than a post a day...what was I thinking?

You think your life sucks....Take a number

So I wrecked my car, into bramble off the side of the road. It is totalled I must look for a new car, I'm a broke college student, I could barely afford the first car... Life sucks, really what else can go wrong?

Professor Jerkwad!

So remember me talking about the professor who was full of himself? The one who gave me the runaround and blew me off, yeah yesterday he insinuated that I was an incompetent idiot and today he kicked me out of the lab because 2 hours is not long enough to do a 45 minute reaction. Obviously I am not doing research with him anymore. But unfortunately he is the only professor teaching a course I need for next semester. I am making damn sure he doesn't play favoritism. I have several friends in that course who witnessed me crying today, I'm sure they would let me use thier tests as evidence of unfair grading. Oh well at least I have already taken the lab portion! Thank goodness.

OBAMA

WE DID IT OBAMA WON! America is about to undergo a massive change and it's been along time coming! I am so proud of my nation tonight. Now I shall go and study for a test, man being a college student sucks!!!!

A post on how stupid people can be

A patient came to the consultation window to ask the pharmacist a question. The pharmacist was on the phone taking call-in scripts off of our voicemail. They will be in on the phone awhile. Patient didn't want to wait so she just asked me her question. I love being a second choice, she had a box of suppositories in her hands. "Now, honey it says to insert these rectally. What is a rectally?" No lie, I explain that it means your rectum. "What's a rectum?" Your anus "What's my anus" the butthole "I got three holes down there honey which one do you mean?" The one in the far back "My asshole? Why didn't you say that in the first place" And she walked off like I was the dumb one.

I am in the midst of hell in my life, so I figured I should at least talk about someone who has it worse than me. Because I don't have to shove anything up my ass.

Mole Day/National Chemistry Week

So this week is half done and it looks like I might survive. That was a questionable prospect. In a two week span I have taken a biochem test, the GRE general test and my major field acheivement test. Along with a hospital visit, bakesale, chemistry demonstration and a whole lot of other bullshit that has been tossed my way. I am safe to say I might survive, but because of everything I am severely behind in my research and Dr. Want-it-all is pissed at me. So I am running four reactions tomorrow when I normally run one and if I pull an all-nighter tonight I might be caught up with everything I have to do. I hate Thursdays and it is Mole Day.

I should explain a little about Mole Day and why in my world it is like an occult holiday. Some old dead dude named Avogadro came up with a number (6.022 x 10^23) that is used in every bit of chemistry ever done. This number signifies how many atoms/molecules in a mole, and a mole is a unit of measurement that chemists use to compare amounts of different elements and compounds. So on October 23rd from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm we celebrate Mole day, my school has a professor who dresses up like a mole. The American Chemical society has t-shirts for sale as well as little moles with safety goggles on and all other sorts of weird quirky Mole Day things. There is a Mole Day official website and there are 10 Commolements, I do not kid. Mole Day is huge.

In addition to Mole Day the entire week is National Chemistry Week, which means as the Treasurer of my university's Student Affliates of the American Chemical Sociey, I am being ran ragged. Monday: There was an hour long chemistry demonstration out in front of our school. Wednesday and Thursday: Booksale/Bakesale which I made cookies for and gathered the books for. Friday: We will be making t-shirts for our participation in the homecoming parade on Saturday. Then all this week we are collecting money for a Pie Your Professor contest that we will do next Wednesday during the Chem Club halloween party and at the party I will be blowing up another pumpkin. Yes, I said another we blew up pumpkins on Monday as well. Well I better go I have papers to grade, research yields to calculate and flyers to make.

My life sucks........

Bad Blogger

So my post a day idea, failed it failed miserably. So what I have I done these last 14 days. I worked too much at the crappy pharmacy job with the most arrogant shit of a man I have ever met. I took the GRE it didn't go well, so do not ask. My nephew said his first words, he can do a few things in sign language as well. He is only eight months old and absolutely amazing. I am so tired I am going to bed and I got absolutely nothing done this evening. This is a bad thing, a really really bad thing lol. Well until my next post good night.


DON'T FORGET TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 4TH!!!!!!!!

Professor's Are Full Of Themselves

I'm working in a research lab this semester and the professor I have been working with has given me the run-around to no end. First it started with our enability to make the initial meeting. Then the intitial meeting being 5 minutes of bullshit and making a second meeting. Second meeting he explained the research to me. Then he let me fly on my own, well that works for awhile when you are working in one solvent and have no major setbacks. Until the paper that I keep in the lab in my notebook disappears. I go to get a new one from him, of course he's not there and will not be there the entire day because he is sick. This was Thursday, Friday he leaves me a copy of the lab. I come in on Monday to pick it up and find out what my next project will be. I hit a wall I can no longer continue in the solvent I have been working on for it has been done already. So new solvent means new procedure, new work-up. Things I need the professor for, guess who is sick again and will not be in for the rest of the day. Professor screw up, so I email him again tell him that I have hit the brick wall because he didn't tell me how to work anything up in other solvents. Causing me to lose now 2 days of research work. You know what he has the audacity to tell me?! That I should plan ahead for these things and the fact that I have missed these 2 days will affect the outcome of my grade. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This is supposed to be a GPA booster class, a way to earn some real world experience and help a Professor out with his goals. And Professor screw up who is never there and too lazy to tell me what to do is berating me for it!!!! Grr! Professors need to wake up and smell the roses that they need me and that they aren't infalliable. So I will be getting up on my only fucking sleep in day to go talk to him about how to do the lab, so that I can get my grade back on track. I was there ready to work, mind you I always come into the lab at the same time. He knows when to expect me and he said he would be around while I am working in the lab. Sorry that the only time I get 4 hour blocks of time between 9 and 5 doesn't work for you. Be a professor and teach me so I can fly solo and not need your assistance. After tomorrow he will see that I will not need to talk with him for the rest of the semester, unless he doesn't take my NMR samples. I already have 4 waiting for him.

McCain Lies about huge issues. Here is the proof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

Do what is right in November!

Vice-Presidential Debate

Of course I watched the debate last night, Biden kicked Palin's arse. And I enjoyed every minute of it. Palin may be a better speaker than most of the country thought, but she still seemed uninformed and very unsure of herself. Which is what happens when your isolated up there in the Alaskan tundra. She kept getting kicked in the teeth when it came to McCain's voting record, because she obviously didn't know it. She tried to get Biden to stop doing it by telling him to stop looking backward. She said the election is about change, but did she say how McCain would make things different? I don't think she did. You can watch the entire debate if you missed it or if you want to dissect it even further here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FbCPzAsRA

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER! VOTE RIGHT!

Scatter-brained Professor

It is official I will one day become the scatter-brained professor. I am currently trying to clean my apartment because I wasn't able to do my research today because I lost my copy of the procedure. Maybe that's a good thing because the apartment needed to be cleaned. Laundry still isn't going to get put away. Sad thing is I did laundry last weekend. My ACS dues have been due since like August and I just sealed the envelope to mail it off. Hopefully I can get that mailed today. Oh I also need to get my things paid for the community college class I took over the summer so my current school can get the transcript. See told you scatter-brained. Or maybe just too much crap to do. I like to think it's the latter, oh well I should stop typing and get my butt to work and today might actually feel productive!

I'm tired

Today's post will be short and rather brainless on my part because I am tired and I am doing my best to keep my post a day promise.

Life at the pharmacy:
Two lesbians come up to the consultation window. They say they're going to Texas to get a sperm donation.Lesbian 1: "Will saline solution keep sperm alive?" Pharmacist: "No it will probably kill them." Lesbian 2: "Oh okay, would you think a medicine dropper work for implanting the little guys?" Pharmacist: "Probably not, I would suggest a turkey baster."After lesbians walk away. Pharmacist: "Suck it up and have sex with the guy it'll be over in 10 minutes and all you have to do is lie there."

That is a true story that my pharmacist told me a few years back. There are many more where that come from.

Sarah Palin/ Tina Fey: I love comedians

So I find the whole Tina Fey mocking Sarah Palin on two consecutive episodes of SNL highly amusing. I know all the news people are asking will this damage Palin's chances, and what should she do for damage control. I say do nothing Sarah Palin, do nothing and let Obama be president because we already have a president/vice-president team that is a mockery and we really don't need a repeat.

The best part is that Tina Fey just used Sarah Palin's speech almost verbatim....the comedians don't even have to be clever to make fun of her! She is just too easy a target, I can't respect someone who is so easily a target.

So, did anyone else realize that Palin is being commerated as a good mom, because of her daughter getting knocked up and how Palin handled it or some bs like that. I am not a parent yet, but I firmly believe that someone who cannot run their own household with authority (or too conservative to tell her daughter "to be cool wrap his tool") should not be the one in charge of a country.

If McCain and Palin get elected, abortion will be outlawed (one more choice that will be taken away from us. ABORTION=FREEDOM. If you don't approve don't friggin' get one!), separation of church and state will be gone (let's force Christianity down everyone's throats shall we), no child left behind will not be left behind (if you have a child will any brains in their head you better make sure they get the education they deserve. Because Johnny Dyslexia is going to take awhile to learn to read. I wouldn't want my 3rd grader stuck reading the Cat in the Hat), and we will be in even worse of a recession. I do not wish to live through The Great Depression: The Sequel, because sequels are ALWAYS worse! (examples: WWII, Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Gulf War remake, George W. Bush, and Save the Last Dance 2/ Prince and Me 2 (horrible movie, made me want to burn my eyes out. Note to movie people if you have Julia Stiles in the first movie and you want to make a sequel. Make sure she's in it, because otherwise it's a waste of money.)

My brother recently told me that I should march on Washington because I am young, without a husband or kids therefore I can pick up and leave for weeks on end and not have to think twice. HA! Who has the money to do that, who can afford to miss work and classes for even a week? But if McCain gets elected you better believe I will be picketing on January 21st. You mark my words!

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD, VOTE THIS NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!! If you don't vote, and I hear you complain about the president. I will kick your ass.

Super Collider Rap

So people are always trying to make science fun. This is one way to make non-science people understand things and make science nerds fall on their pocket protectors!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

1st Blog

So this is my first time ever having an actual blog. I'm pretty excited to have a place where I can vent and say whatever I want. Yes this will be an anonymous blog.

So why is my blog called the sarcastic chemist? I am a chemistry student, soon to be chemistry graduate. I love when I tell people what I study and get the "Ohhh." And you know the person is either thinking "Holy shit what is she thinking." or "Holy shit she is way smarter than me."

I went to pharmacy school for a brief stint and realized that it was not the place for me. Worst 3 semesters of my life actually...not even exaggerating. I work in a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician, recently a friend asked me if I had ever got screamed at at work. I laughed, I've been screamed at so many times it doesn't phase me anymore. Now before you think I am just a bad employee I need to tell you that I've never been seriously reprimanded by a boss nor have I ever gotten yelled at for a mistake myself or anyone at my store did. People like to yell at us for things the Doctor's office did, the insurance company did, and here is the kicker things competition pharmacy across the street did. Not even lying, one day we were on the phone calming down an angry customer for a good 20 minutes before she realized she wanted the other pharmacy. "1-800-Fake Pharmacy? Why would I want to call them I am talking to Faux Pharmacy!!!!!" No lady you weren't.

I also work on my college campus in labs. 2 analytical labs (there is no misconception that the word anal is in the title. It accurately describes an analytical chemists job) and 3 labs for non-chemistry majors. Those labs mostly consist of nursing majors. Which makes me fear all nurses, I've been a tutor, lab instructor, and acquaintance to many a nursing student and some nurses. I will never let a nurse come anywhere near me. I apologize to the nurses out there that are good at their jobs, wear a sign because otherwise you are not getting near me! I've had nurses ask me what isotonic NaCl solution is...enough said. More than once! Plus I grade their papers.....yikes.

So I will finish up with a brief overview of what I will talk about here (I shall try to blog daily. See how long that lasts.). I will talk about politics and other hot button issues and my feelings on them. Also I will explain scientific things that the general public gets hot and bothered about like evolution and stem-cell research. But I will also tell you guys all about working in a pharmacy, working in labs, and general weirdness that comes with being a nerd and hanging out with nerds all day everyday.