One new page and one new preview page. SIGH. It's getting harder and harder to find time to create these pages. Anyway, I am became bored with drawing static images with the characters talking...so I started playing around with perspectives. Didn't come out as smooth as I'd like, but it definitely made drawing the page more challenging and fun. Plus, I assume using different angles would help me improve my understanding of how objects (and people) are oriented.
Nevertheless, I think the reason why I'm bogged down is due to the three labs I'm taking this semester. You know, it's rather ironic that I'm required to wear a full laboratory coat when doing my Physiology lab where we measure heart rates...but am only required to wear goggles when working in my Organic Chemistry lab where we work with chemicals that can burn through your clothing or are hazardous when inhaled. Either my university's Biology department is too high-strung about safety, or the Chemistry department is too lax... (it's probably a little of both)
Actually, I kind of know why Physiology requires a lab coat...it's because a while back the Physiology course would handle live animals. I remember my professor explaining a lab where they drilled out the heart of a living (but sedated) tortoise and placed it into Ringer's Solution to keep the heart beating for hours despite being out of the (now dead) body. But then came the PETA movement and those kind of experiments are not allowed anymore for us students (unless it is a "technical" course). Now, all we do is dissect dead frogs and measure each others heart rates (in other words, little kid experiments).
I feel like we're moving backwards. I mean, now we're saying stuff like, "oh my gosh, I can't believe the heart sounds faster after exercise!" But if we were born twenty to thirty years earlier...we could be saying "oh my gosh, I can't believe the heart is still beating after we surgically removed it from a living organism even though it is technically inhumane but as long as PETA is not active no one really cares!"
SIGH. Anyways, during an Organic Chemistry lab, I found it amusing that there was a warning on a chemical we handled that said "could reduce fertility in males."
...
Splendid, simply splendid.
Nevertheless, I think the reason why I'm bogged down is due to the three labs I'm taking this semester. You know, it's rather ironic that I'm required to wear a full laboratory coat when doing my Physiology lab where we measure heart rates...but am only required to wear goggles when working in my Organic Chemistry lab where we work with chemicals that can burn through your clothing or are hazardous when inhaled. Either my university's Biology department is too high-strung about safety, or the Chemistry department is too lax... (it's probably a little of both)
Actually, I kind of know why Physiology requires a lab coat...it's because a while back the Physiology course would handle live animals. I remember my professor explaining a lab where they drilled out the heart of a living (but sedated) tortoise and placed it into Ringer's Solution to keep the heart beating for hours despite being out of the (now dead) body. But then came the PETA movement and those kind of experiments are not allowed anymore for us students (unless it is a "technical" course). Now, all we do is dissect dead frogs and measure each others heart rates (in other words, little kid experiments).
I feel like we're moving backwards. I mean, now we're saying stuff like, "oh my gosh, I can't believe the heart sounds faster after exercise!" But if we were born twenty to thirty years earlier...we could be saying "oh my gosh, I can't believe the heart is still beating after we surgically removed it from a living organism even though it is technically inhumane but as long as PETA is not active no one really cares!"
SIGH. Anyways, during an Organic Chemistry lab, I found it amusing that there was a warning on a chemical we handled that said "could reduce fertility in males."
...
Splendid, simply splendid.
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