You may be a Chemist if:
• you wash your hands BEFORE going to the bathroom.
• you can't see the word
molasses without thinking of a joke.
• you can sing the
periodic table.
• you can think of six
mnemonic devices but can only remember
what one of them
represents.
• you can't watch a
pharmaceutical commercial without correcting
the pronunciations.
• you become preoccupied
thinking about the wave function of a
duck.
• you think about
designing a container for a universal solvent.
• the only lab experiments
you remember are those that you
screwed up.
• the only lab experiments
you talk about are those that somebody
else screwed up.
• you read the word
"unionized" without any thoughts of labor and
management.
• you look at yourself in
a mirror and try to decide which is D and
which is L.
• you truly believe that a neat desk indicates a
frightened mind.
• you think mathematicians
are less nerdy than physicists.
• you worry about how they
get Teflon to stick to the pan.
• you think of the
laboratory as "the real world".
• several of your
colleagues remind you of John Forbes Nash, Jr. in
the movie "A
Beautiful Mind" - without the brilliance, of course.
• you observe National
Mole Day on 10/23, and have even
calculated the
"mole second".
• you think Chemistry is pHun.
• you put your coat on
after you get to work.
• after a few drinks, you
think you're spinning at your "magic
angle".