  Today is Saturday, and I have work to do. &nbsp; I started my petrographic analysis a half hour ago. You can only sit doing one of those for at the most 45min at a time. For those who don't know what it is,&nbsp;take about 1 kg of stone, think driveway material. Now analyze each stone, and place it into one of 80 categories. Welcome to my Saturday. &nbsp; I have only done 2 of these before, I haven't quite found my niche. I look at each rock a couple times, placing it in different baggies with the assigned number. If one bag has too many stones I think I must be doing it wrong, and re examine the bag. Each stone has to be scratched, and doused in HCL (hydrochloric acid). If it fizzes then half of the categories are gone. &nbsp; Once my hands start feeling smooth and kinda itchy I know it's time for a break, the HCL is eating my fingers.
This stuff is better than Palmolive! &nbsp; So the other times I have done a petrographic analysis was last week, and in third year college. I remember the lab very&nbsp;well as one of the funniest events of 3rd&nbsp; year geology.&nbsp; &nbsp; I was sitting with my friend, we'll call him "Stupid". Stupid and I are goofing off, bitching about how stupid Petrograpics are, he for some reason punches the drywalled column that's by our table. I laugh at Stupid, he's bleeding from his knuckles. Stupid,&nbsp;asks "Dare me to put HCL in my cut? ", I think I replied with "I'll give you a quarter".&nbsp; So he takes the bottle and douses his cut with acid.
Stupid yells "YEEEOOOWWWWWW!!! " At the top of his lungs. Meanwhile I am losing a lung laughing. He shoves his acid knuckle in his&nbsp; mouth and goes to find a teacher.&nbsp; He comes back a while later, after finding a teacher he says that the HCL won't hurt him and is considers a good disinfectant. I think I'll stick to polysporin.
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