Braindead
Just got my lab timer back. From the autoclave. I accidentally left it in the tray with my media and bottles when I took things down to the autoclave. I thought I had forgotten something but started the autoclave anyway, and then half an hour later when I was trying to figure out when to stop a reaction, I realised the timer was missing, and lo and behold, it was roasted a golden brown by the autoclave. Well, at least the internals are sterile. Also surprising is that the LR44 battery didn’t explode. Cool. I was imagining this toxic clump of plastic melted onto the tray, but it’s surprisngly intact. Also, it looks like the circuitry inside is intact as well - might go fix it.
Perhaps going to uni 7 days a week isn’t a good thing.