A Waxy Situation.

For art we're doing moulds. I don't know if it's spelled molds or moulds, so I'll stick with the one my spell check says is wrong. The material we are using for these moulds is wax, and plaster. I got specific directions to never put any plaster down the sink. Seems obvious enough. The instructions I was neglected to hear was not to pour the water you used to boil a can with wax inside of it down the sink.

I brought my wax project home to work on and melt here, because the melting takes a long time. I used a Monster can, because Daniel is addicted to the green Monsters and I cut the top of it, because I didn't have an empty soup can readily available and didn't feel like eating soup. I put a small pot, the smallest we own, own the burner, with some water in it (about an inch and a half) and placed the can with chopped up wax in it into the pot and it boiled. It gave me a huge headache and I got a cough, either by coincidence, or because it's toxic. My prof said it is toxic and to use good ventilation, but google says it isn't and we even eat parafin wax sometimes in our food products. Anyway, the wax melts and gets in the air and so some of it gets in and on the pot. I knew that. But right when I was finished I dumped that water out, and the next day went to use the sink and.

It's plugged. Really plugged. Like, nothing will drain at all.

So Daniel boiled all four burners worth of water to try to solve the situation. I can still see the steam from the sink but it doesn't appear to be sinking. I bought the wrong kind of draino, the one that isn't for "standing water", so afterward we'll go and return it and get the right kind. I'll let you know what happens.