So, just who is Toxigal?
it is always polite to start with introductions. i'm toxigal. 31 years old. single. happy. liberal. okay, let's be honest, damned near socialist. popcicle lover. tv addict. i live in baltimore with 2 toxidogs, 2 toxirabbits and 1 toxiroommate. i'm a chemist by education, forensic scientist by training and current doctoral student in forensic toxicology. so, you see, toxi- refers to my career choice, not my personality. mostly.i created this blog long ago on a whim. then i never wrote anything. i'm a chemist, not a writer. when i do write it usually involves words like "buprenorphine" and formulas that i don't actually understand. you see, i'm not only a chemist studying to be a toxicologist, i'm also a fraud. any day now i'm going to go into work and they are going to realize that i don't have a clue what i'm doing. what makes it worse is i used to testify in court. as an expert. i would sit up there in the witness stand and talk about the mass spectra of drugs. i'd peer at the jury and they'd listening intently, taking in every word, weighing them carefully so they could use the information i was presenting ot come to an educated decision on the fate of the accused. okay, let's be honest, they were usually sleeping. which is good, because if they were awake they may have become accutely aware that i failed spectral chemistry. yup, that's right. i failed spectral chemisty. of course, you have to pass it to be given a degreein chemistry so i did manage to squeek by with a C the second time around.
wait, i got way off track there. this blog. i created it but then realize i haven't a clue what i should talk about. i don't have much to say.. but i do like to talk about myself. but i'm boring. so, i decided i should talk about something that seems to have captured the minds of the american tv viewing public...forensic science. CSI is really really popular, so as a forensic scientist people will hang on my every word if i talk about my job, right? unfortunately i don't have the creative minds of the writers of CSI. and i'm quite sure CSI does not have a technical advisor. i've never watched an entire episode because i get frustrated. i get so mad that my job was never ever anywhere near that exciting. i never once got to shoot a pig with an uzi! heck, i never even got to talk to a suspect! on the positive side, the labs i've worked in always had lights. and every forensic scientist i know works day shift.
so...what will toxic thoughts bring to the blogosphere? a little bit of this (fun forensic science talk) and a little bit of that (the softer side of me loves talking about things like shoes, pretty dresses, good food, and every now and then i work up a really good political rant). maybe in the fall i'll start watching CSI and offer my not-really-at-all-because-i'm-a-fraud-but-i-like-to-pretent-i'm-a-forensic-scientist expert opinion on the science in each weeks episode.
posted by Toxigal @ 7:29 PM
4 Comments:
Welcome to the Blogosphere! I'm looking forward to reading your stuff.
Yay, you're a real live blogger now!
YAHOO! I'll hang on your every word!
Finally! Some intelligent conversation! And the science stuff will be fun, too. ;o)
And you spelled popsicles wrong. ;o)
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