23 October 2006
Mole Madness
This year's theme for National Mole Day, which is today by the way, is Mole Madness. I am privy to the celebration of Mole Madness because only NPR would find it important to remind me to celebrate Avogadro's number (6.02 * 10^23). Evidently it is celebrated every 10/23 from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm. Uhhhh, why? Basically National Mole Day was created to excite the little ones about chemistry. Naturally I find it exciting too, being that I consider myself a little one at heart. After hearing the news about this special day I called my favorite chemistry professor, Diego, to wish him a Happy Mole Day! He thought I was referring to the mole that digs underground or the thing above Cindy Crawford's lip. Seriously, Diego wasn't celebrating this great day. How can said chemistry professor not celebrate and honor the elemental measuring unit of chemistry? Well, while he keeps busy determining the chemical composition of moon dust and polymer whatcha-ma-call-its for NASA spacecraft, the rest of us, including myself, are happy (or maybe just bored enough) to commemorate the fact that one mole of a water molecule, for instance, is 18 grams!!! Exciting shit, eh? Because I have nothing better to do or celebrate tonight, I will be celebrating the mole! I am about to fix some guaca-mole for dinner and listen to some rock 'n' mole. I will toast to the mole by schwilling down some cheap wine and if I drink enough maybe become im-mole-bile!!!!
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Ok...so here's your comment. Mole Day, huh? Well I was born on National Beheading Day...that's just creepy! Am I dumb that I didn't know a mole was a unit of measurement????
ReplyDeleteWell Aurora, you have outdone yourself. You can find humor and fun in everything around you... you're simply amolezing!
ReplyDeleteKeep up the random postings... I love it!!
I wish I was a lizard in the spring
ReplyDelete'cos if I was a lizard in the spring
I'd hear my darlin' sing,
and the mole in the ground
tear that mountain down