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06 March 2007

Welcome to My Job I have a room that has high fungal counts, and→[More:] lo and behold, I move this humongous TV cabinet/consul out of the way and find some nice stuff growing. My job now is to figure out the various species growing, and whether they correspond with the fungal spores I have been finding in the air.

Several more pics on my flickr page, IF.

post by: danf at: 16:51 | 19 comments

Ewwwwwwww!

posted by matildaben 06 March | 16:55

wowee! Not only fungus, but a purple room! This is, like, the hell room where you put newbs and rabid dogs, right?

Pretty, though!

posted by taz 06 March | 17:02

Ugg. Gross.

posted by viachicago 06 March | 17:04

It is a school. The school colors are purple. This is a room off a gym that the varsity football team hangs out in.

posted by danf 06 March | 17:05

Oh wow. I wasn't expecting actual mushrooms! That's bad, man.

posted by jrossi4r 06 March | 17:06

≡ Click to see image ≡
What's that at the bottom?

posted by arse_hat 06 March | 17:15

Well the green thing is a piece of scrub pad stuffed into a hole, presumably to keep mice from using it, and the brown thing is a mass of fungal material, the kind one sees on hikes in the forest. It's a mess but it's also an easy cleanup, IF the species match what I am getting from air samples.

posted by danf 06 March | 17:18

Good grief! I expect the fungi have grown from spores cast off from the varsity footballers' socks.

posted by essexjan 06 March | 17:30

groooooooooooooooossss!

posted by chewatadistance 06 March | 17:42

maybe it's hallucinogenic. That'd make the work day fly by faster, right?

posted by jonmc 06 March | 17:46

Uuuugggghhhh!!

posted by redvixen 06 March | 19:18

Uuuugggghhhh!!

posted by redvixen 06 March | 19:24

So, you are to fungi what Bill Murray & Dan Aykroyd were to the Stay Puft Man?

posted by GeckoDundee 06 March | 19:28

Oh man, that's nasty.

posted by deborah 06 March | 20:05

hey, how'd I do that?

posted by redvixen 06 March | 20:11

There's asbestos removal two doors down from my classroom. The door windows are covered with an eerie red crepe. Still...

posted by Pips 06 March | 20:59

redvixen, are these blackouts common?
heh.

posted by arse_hat 06 March | 21:16

Well Pips, since you noticed it, I would venture to suspect that they are doing it right, under negative air pressure, which means that air flows from spaces that you inhabit INTO the spaces where they are removing the asbestos, hence, no fibers being released into the evironment.

One way to tell is the entrance to the "containment" having air flow into it, as in the plastic flaps drift inward, not outward, if that makes sense.

posted by danf 06 March | 22:05

Thanks danf... yeah, there were some concerns initially amongst the teachers, and the adminstrators and our union rep. have assured us it's being removed the right way, as you described. There's EPA oversight, too, with air quality tests, and they're only doing construction after school hours and on weekends (new science lab).

posted by Pips 07 March | 11:18

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