Saturday, February 6, 2010

The day we made capsules in lab


I hate pharmaceutic lab.  I feel like it's a total waste of my time.  I think you should be able to test out of it.  I used to work at a compounding pharmacy and made jillions of capsules, so really this was 3 hours of my life that I can never get back.  I'm not bitter.

So when we started making the capsules, he put us in groups.  I decided to "embrace the suck" and have a good time.  It ended up being so much fun, I wanted to take a picture to commemorate the funnest day in lab so far.  Dr. Al-achi was giggling at me as I had Amanda take my picture with my head next to my capsules, but I don't care.  It's not the first time someone has laughed at me.

The funniest part of lab was when Dr. Al-achi specifically told us not to breath in around the chloral hydrate.  Then poor Brock was having a hard time tapping her capsules out, and we looked over and she was up to her elbows in chloral hydrate.  She claims that it has made her become a procrastinator.  This could have some validity since it is a sedative hypnotic which works via the GABA receptor (can you tell I just took a pharmacology exam).

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