I’m still thinking about what I want to get for the commemorative tattoo I was talking about here. Starting to narrow in down, and right now I’m leaning torward an armband featuring a Nepenthes pitcher, or possibly one of the bright red child’s microscope.
I am, after all, technically a botanist. Nepenthes are some of the most striking plants, and I have a deep love for them. I’m already starting to add it to my mental self-image. The biggest question is, which species?
I like the sassy look on this guy
But this one's more shapely
And so on.
I got the microscope for christmas when I was 5. I still have that microscope on my mantle. For a little while, I slept with it under my arm like a teddybear.
Either way, when it’s done, I’ll have to post it to the gallery here. The Science Tattoo Emporium has given me more entertainment than it should.
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I’ve been considering, on and off for a little while, getting another science-themed tattoo to celebrate my (hopeful) transition toward being a Real Grown Up Scientist (for one possible value of ‘grown up’). And because my other tattoos are getting lonely. I just stumbled on this in The Loom’s science tattoo gallery. And whoo boy am I tempted to crib the idea, maybe with a little graph–it’s a fairly simple equation that, when graphed, produces a heart shape. On the other hand, I apperently told a friend who planned to get the equasion for the Fibbonacci sequence on her arm that she’d be explaining it to strangers at the grocery store for the rest of her life. I don’t remember saying that, but she recently told me I was more right than she could have imagined.
The original tattoo-ee’s story is very sweet–she and her siblings all picked out tattoos after their mom was diagnosed with breast cancer (but is doing very well). It’s such a great design. I just had to share.
I <3 this tattoo
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