#deckswap

Me: Need an adjective for the chemistry department.

Me: Context:

Me: -First thing: pull out a 5 mL conical vial from your drawer, I will come around and swap that with an oven dried one provided by our ___ chemistry department

Me: Going with "assiduous".

Plato: I like assiduous there, if you're looking for alternatives (to mix things up) apprehensive

Plato: also something is not parsing right for me

Plato: "I will come around and swap that with an oven dried one (what?) provided by our...

Me: I suppose that should be: First thing: pull out a 5 mL conical vial from your drawer, I will come around and swap that with an oven dried vial provided by our assiduous chemistry department.

Plato: how are you swabbing a vial with a vial?

Me: Swapping?

Me: I mean, they might have to swab as well.

Me: Just not with water.

Plato: swap!

Plato: I see

Plato: there was my error

Me: Oh!

Me: You thought I wrote "swabbing"?

Me: At first, I thought you had just mistyped that and I was capitalizing on your misspelling for comical effect.

Plato: did you know 'e' is irrational?

Me: I did.

Me: Is that a non sequitur?