A Public Service Announcement

[elvenpiratelady]

So, er, hello, flist. *waves* Yesterday - and the day before, actually - I had a weekend. And on that weekend I made pancakes, and because geology is lodged in my brain in the same way that a cat is lodged in your lap with claws ever so slightly extended into your delicate flesh, I began to see in my pancakes what I would usually need a microscope and a thin section to witness. My pancakes were euhedral rounded grains that appeared brown under PPL and had no pleochroism. I rotated the saucepan to be sure. I regret to say that I don't know what they might have looked like under XPL - if anyone out there knows, please tell me! They also showed zoning (or possibly growth rings) and inclusions. Or possibly vacuoles. I have named this new mineral pancakite.

And the point of this is: I am the sort of person who sees rock grains in her pancakes, pancake grains in her rocks, and everything in between. As I said: public service announcement. If pancakes or microscopes offend you, read no further. Consider yourself warned.

Comments

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if I made crepes?

I've heard that paper looks really cool under XPL, but I can't cut it fine enough. :(

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

I still think crepes would be opaque. You need to make friends with your uni's thin section tech and play with some epoxy :D

Try a tissue?