Courtesy of the explosion and how our negative air pressure ventilation works it's been raining a small but steady amount of soot indoors these past few days. Today a bunch of guys came in near the end of the day and cleaned out the air vents with a mixture of chemicals and giant blow-dryers; I am now waiting for Claritin to kick in because I started to have and am having a mild allergic reaction to something and it's making me want to crawl out of my skin.

Labmate joked that she was getting high off of the fumes. I couldn't help but think how potentially dangerous it is to be high in a lab setting. Or, you know, it could lead to a scientific break-through.