gross gross gross

ugh, so it turns out i should've done something about that burn i got from the exhaust pipe yesterday morning on the way to work. basically when you're driving the exhaust pipe of the motorcycle gets INSANELY hot, and when you get off, if you're not careful it's really easy to brush your leg against it and give yourself a nasty burn (See Exhibit A)The skin turned grey and waxy, and I figured it should heal itself...and also, the first aid situation pretty much consists of a grubby t-shirt (seriously...that's the extent of medical attention I recieved when i sliced my thumb cutting bamboo for a trellis. it wasn't too bad, it just hurt a lot and bled all over the place. i had to take the grubby tshirt home to wash it afterwards so it was ready to go for the next emergency. i think a first aid kit is definitely something to put on the funding wish list).
Anyway, it hasn't healed itself and it was none too comfortable spending the day squatting picking weeds because the burn would rub against my pants. Anyway, yesterday night i lifted my pant leg and found these impressively painful blisters where the grayish area had been. Now I assume you wait? Don't worry, I'm googling 'motorcycle exhaust pipe burn blister treatment' as we speak, Dr. Google is on the case.
Right, looks like I should've run cool water over the area immediately...and then applied a cool compresses for 24 hours. But it's been more than 24 hours. Looks like I'm going to make it, I just have to wait for it to heal on it's own, and not fiddle with it.

You actually see people with impressively gross burns on their inner calves all the time from motorcycles. I was being especially careful, up till yesterday. Though, in my defence, I was holding a massive bag of REEKING organic material from the office that we were taking to the compost area at the farm. I think the recipe went something like:
Mix together in a garbage bag (with holes in it so that it;s nice and leaky) prawn shells with rice and veggie peels, egg shells, fish scraps and chicken bones plus some sort of...white soupy gunk. Leave in the sun for 2-3 days until it reeks.

Anyway, the bag was leaking this white stuff, and it STANK, so i wasn't going to put it in my backpack (i learned my lesson when i had to throw out my water bottle after taking it to the farm in the same backpack compartment as the office compost contribution), so i had it in my lap the whole time. It was really heavy, so by the time we got there, my arm was thoroughly tired, i had this gunk on my pants, which i was sour about because it would mean I would smell like Michigan for the rest of the day and all i wanted to do was hop off and get rid of this bag.
The things I do for the environment...