green trend

I like this on the green. (What is it with green shirts lately?)

I love this because it reminds me of high school chemistry class. I loved high school chemistry class. Not really the class itself, or the teacher, or the material, but simply the idea of chemistry class. I sat in the back row, by the windows, and I'd often look out the window across the roof, across the parking lot, and over to the trees that lined the river at the back of our parking lot.

The linoleum in that room was a weird industrial green linoleum color (as it should be), and the walls were cinderblocks that had at some point in their existance been painted white. Everything was dusty, and the room smelled of pencils and chalkdust and old paper, and wafts of whatever chemicals had been last let loose in the lab next door. There was an ancient periodic table on one wall. It seemed like the epitome of the high school experience, something that students had experienced for generations, and will continue to experience for several more.

And that's why I like this shirt.