Hello, my name is Dan and this is my DT Log.

Consider this – an honors chemistry supplement to our regular curriculum for those who wish to receive a 5.0-A instead of a 4.0-A.  Our three-hour seminar lab is mostly wasting time.  That doesn’t matter – it’s fun anyway.

So, on May 20th of 1991 at 6:50 pm PDT, I write a supplemental log (first of the year) of the highlights of this three-hour weekly event:

• Mrs. Rosenburger tries to lay a half-eaten apple on the overhead projector.
• Tom Edmonston supercharges tap water through his burettes and dampens Brad and Kenny’s Periodic Toilet paper of the Elements.  Note – he nearly got me too.
• Travis Hanssen recites poetry – the nursery rhyme cited in the beginning of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
• Redox equations
• Travis trying to mooch French fries from Krissy Carlson
• Determining reducing and oxidating agents.
• Laura Russell sneezing.
• Mrs. Rosenburger passing out numbers.
• Closing the curtains.
• James Gladstone, 7:44 pm, quote: “Dang it! I’m tired of getting this stuff on my fingers!”
• Me working with Kevin Cody, who makes Brad seem as garrulous as Garrett.
• Laura breaking a burette worth $2.
• Titrating H₂SO₄ with FeSO₂
• Spraying Kevin with water twice, getting his jacket wet.
• Me realizing that I’m chemiphobic and cassephobic.

chemiphobia: fear of chemicals

cassephobia: fear of breaking things, especially glass items.

• Paying $1.65 for a can of Dr. Pepper

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Originally hand-published as DT Log 11.17 supplemental on May 20, 1991. Entry is slightly edited for grammar, spelling and clarity