What am I supposed to do about cleaning it up?
Tell my kids I love them.
How to clean up: http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl.
Hang in there, don’t panic, you’ll be fine.
ETA: Instructions are from the EPA.
OP hed and OP content is the funniest “Need answer fast” without saying so I’ve ever seen.
The worst thing that can happen is you’ll clean it up in the dark.
you’re going to die*
glass chips can travel 20 feet, clean the whole floor.
after sweeping/vacuuming wipe with a damp paper towel, it will pick up if there are any small slivers of glass.
wash hands afterwards before rubbing eyes, picking nose, eating food.
- sooner or later
Wipe the counters, too. Flourescent bulbs have some kind of powder in them… which you probably don’t want on your counter top surfaces.
I just thought I’d point out that the official guidance is to avoid vacuuming or sweeping if possible, and if not possible, to do so only after you pick up as much as you can otherwise. You want to minimize the amount of powder that gets into the air
But the key thing for the OP is that it’s just not that dangerous. Unless you start breaking every bulb you own just for the fun of it, your lifetime exposure to mercury from this source is negligible.
I put on gloves, picked up the pieces, and put them in a Ziploc. I then used a damp paper towel to “dab” up the tiny slivers I couldn’t see.
Then I vacuumed because YOLO, BITCHES!
Thanks for your help.
I think this might be the only time in the history of humanity when YOLO was actually used in a clever and funny way. Congrats!
That might be the first and last time someone ever vaccums because YOLO.
After totally cleaning the entire floor, it wouldn’t hurt to clean the baseboards, then (you never know) the walls. Then clean as many other surfaces as you can, including windows, because that mercury vapor has flown in all directions.
After cleaning the ceiling, you will be very tired. Relax by reading Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl.”
One time my plastic cup broke and I had to vacuum because SOLO.
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I presume you’ve peeled yourself off the ceiling.
As a matter of fact, I have. I’m even almost done writing a book about it. 
I had no idea. One broke on my floor a few years ago and I just cleaned it up with no concern.
Am I going to die from this soon? 
There is a non-zero chance that some of that powder and glass found its way into my kitchen, so to really been on the safe side you should come over and clean my floor, walls, and baseboard. Just to be safe.
Unless, you know, you’re going to be a jerk about it…
Actually, in many areas your exposure to mercury in the air from the coal-fired power plants that generate the electricity to make the bulbs light up is FAR greater than the mercury exposure to one busted bulb. Which makes the OMG! HAZMAT! reaction to a broken light bulb ridiculous.