[adapted from one of my facebook groups]
...you find yourself applying your titration skills when mixing sauces, dips, instant orange juice, or cocktails
...you look at fireworks displays and flame tests come into mind
...you know what homemade supersaturated orange juice tastes like
...you find yourself smirking and mumbling "phenolphthalein" when some "doctor" says they are using a mildness indicator in a detergent ad on tv
...you have seriously considered having yourself detoxified even without taking an iota of narcotics
...people respond to you, "really? let's make drugs!" when they find out your major
...you find yourself explaining what's in "non-acetone" nail polish remover
...you catch yourself guffawing when you see "no-sugar" pastries
...you pronounce "caution" as cot-I-on just to annoy the next person
...you and your lab partners take turns being "spectator ions" during lab work and not get caught
...at some point, you have considered naming your kids, xylene, ethylene, benzene
...you use a stirring rod/straw to help you transfer iced tea from the bottle to your glass without spilling a drop
...you can "syllabicate" common words like chocolate and helicopter using chemical symbols and their corresponding chemical names
...you are familiar with the equipment in medical or forensics shows like CSI and know when the actors do botched up jobs in sampling, collecting evidence or in performing analyses
...moles are not just "beauty marks" for you
... you can apply the term "confidence level" in describing non-humans
wow. there goes the geek. o_O
i'm tagging ninette, ena, hanna, chemistry haters and chemistry lovers to do the same.
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