#home science

[jeahreading]

hehehehe

[inc0rrectmyths]

Silly stuff my professors do/have done:

1. History Professor:

He LOVES fried cutlets ok? And since he's too awkward to go to the food court and get some, he asks us to go fetch some for him. He gives us the money and tells us to get 5-6 cutlets and pack them up and hand them to him. And also gives us some extra money so that we can buy snacks for us.

2. Politics Professor:

He's so jumpy (he's comparatively young to other profs), most of the days he comes to class and after a few mins of studying, he starts singing some random old Bengali songs. And then again goes back to teaching. He sings like 3-4 times in our 40 mins class.

3. Sociology Professor:

Hates the society but teaches a subject that revolves around the society 💀 so his class is this hilarious combination of learning wonderful stuff about sociology and social anthropology and then a few roasts here and there about how fucked up the society is.

4. Language Professor:

I'M TELLING YOU SHES QUEER! She manages to find queer rep in EVERY piece of literature we study 💀💀 and goes on a rant of different possibilities. Also she makes AUs for some stories that dont have a satisfying ending. She's really cute.

5. Home Science Professor:

This has happened only twice, but still. He gave us an extensive lecture on how to NOT burn a cake/pie. And then immediately burned his own 💀

[ratthewratterson]

Home Lab

Every once in a while I think about how I grew Staphylococcus bacteria in my bedroom and every one was fine with it. I did have special plates to ensure it wasn’t MRSA and like killed it with bleach after but like that certainly was a time period in my life

[the-lab-rat-falls-into-the-void]

Datura/Devil's Trumpet Tincture

I started a new herb/botanical maceration today; I'm turning some of my dried Datura inoxia flowers into an alcohol-based tincture (planning on a finishing concentration ratio of 1:6 ie. each mL of tincture will contain extractives from ~167mg of dried flower).

Hooray for math and having experience making tinctures for the past ~9 years.

[synthetictelepathy]

Possibly a viable means of OTC cyclohexanone.

The boiling points of the product ingredients are sufficiently spaced apart to allow for easy fractional distillation in order to isolate them.

[rgr-pop]

some titles of home economics theses and dissertations from 1964-1966:

person-centered and task-centered styles of organization

decision class and linkage in one central-satellite decision complex

analysis by constructed typology of wives’ values evident in managerial decision situations

income and expenditure patterns related to the life cycle*

derivation of hypotheses regarding family economic behavior

an exploratory model of household decision-making as applied to investigation of decision situations in a household durables purchasing context

*babies: spend no money??

[the-lab-rat-falls-into-the-void]

Recrystallizing 100 grams of 95% piperine powder/extract using hot acetone to yield nice pale-yellow needle-like crystals of decent size. Will post a couple photos of the final product when I get a chance :)