Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer@witches.town

@lmorchard @TrollDecker @jalefkowit some confluence of having the riches of Croesus, a gnawing need to prove oneself at a conventionally masculine activity, and LOTS of Gran Turismo in youth

@witchfynder_finder that's cool! I'm so into it that I almost don't mind that I'm not one of the people doing it *wry chuckle*. well, I _do_ mind a bit, but I've gotten so much enjoyment out of chemistry over the years anyway

all right, the amber incense cone I chose is maybe prickling my nostrils a little _too_ much. it was fine while it was actually burning but it's leaving a slightly irritating afterburn in my nostrils. the dragon's blood was better

@witchfynder_finder honestly, chemistry is so badly taught to undergrads that I think you can safely blame the curriculum and not yourself. and there's a sink-or-swim attitude in some chem departments

@Louise I think it's pretty fascinating stuff. that's all chemistry is, in way, the dance of electrons. (I feel that this very simple fact sometimes gets bizarrely obscured when chemistry gets taught)

@fatboy and that's why I work in a factory *chuckles* it was the best I could do after my failure to get an actual lab job outside of school with my chem degree.

@witchfynder_finder huh! rather sorry to learn it didn't "take". what ended up not working out (presumably in college?)

@Louise Oh! I believe that "mesomèrie" is likely equivalent to the English term "resonance", which has a rough synonym in the now obsolete term "mesomerism". So it would refer to the way in which the electron distribution of a molecule can be thought of as the combination of a number of different "resonant structures", e.g. in between these two structures for the nitrite ion, NO₂⁻ https://witches.town/media/1bHO1MNoLXOPlmPO0Hw

@srol oh GOD...I swear that every high-school chem teacher has to crack at least one pun on "mole". I ought to do a podcast episode just on "mole", which is such a weird word and concept in chemistry. I find myself wondering how well most novices grasp the purpose of the "mole" as a unit, or whether maybe they think it's just some arbitrary chemistry thing that makes no sense

@srol ah, gotcha. yeah, I'd say "bit from column A, bit from column B" there...I'm guessing he was a bit of a droner, too.

@srol depends on whether you stayed awake in _other_ classes perhaps...

@srol was he any good? like, I've had a pretty cool 11th-grade chem teacher but he actually wasn't that great at teaching XD

@stuxnetsource not coincidentally I'm also into cooking ^^

Oh, I want to ask folks here a question, in connection with a project I've been thinking about off and on the last few months. the question is...what do you think, in general, about the subject of #chemistry?

and I mean, _any_ thoughts at all. I want all the answer. think chemistry is the worst subject you had in school? let me know about it! do you think it's a dismal, second-rate science? that's cool too. if you think it's interesting chiefly because you get to set things on fire, I want to hear that as well :p

@Irick Thanks! :] I need to do more stuff again, now that I'm not totally wiped out from work any more. but I have a really difficult time apportioning my diminished free time :(

anyway, thanks for the vote of confidence! and thanks for your optimism.

oh, seems like #introductions are a thing again

I'm Kara Dreamer, human (for now; I've been eyeing "catgirl".) I'm 42, a factory worker from Seattle, WA; I'm a transwoman who only realized that about four or five months ago; I'm in a happy poly relationship with my girlfriend Daria and my metamour Gravis, but I'm always hoping to fall in love with more people *giggles*. I describe myself as a chaos witch, though those are big words for someone who's really just playing around on the edges of a magical practice. Also I'm "plural" (see also @kel and @chara) I'm a chemistry nerd, I literally worship Undertale (and other entities), and I write very long posts.