we were warned, all right.
Nov. 24th, 2009 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
levityBecause I had breakfast this morning, I was the BioLab group's designated blood donor. This involves being pricked by a lancet and sploshing droplets of blood over three slides, so that your groupmates can see your blood cells lyse after being exposed to saline solutions. This would have been okay, only Orven doesn't know how to prick fingers with lancets (I don't know if him knowing, this early in his theoretical medical career, how to prick fingers with lancets would have been more assuring). The first prick never draws blood, which doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt. And the first set of slides were mostly only good for figuring out that our microscopes weren't up to the task of looking at blood cells. This is partially because they were here when the Americans were, but still.
But that's okay, since I got to see blood cells lysing, and whitefish blastula cannot compare in difficulty to having to mash up onion roots and then looking for the stages of mitosis in said mashed-up onion roots. (I have the feeling that my English is failing me here.) At sinabi ni Ma'am Joson na dapat itinapon ko si Orven mula sa building, so may pwede akong sisihin.
It's also okay because our lab class started at 7 and ended at 10, and the class after that started at 2:30, which meant we had a four-hour-and-thirty-minute break. I said we could watch 2012. I didn't expect anyone to take me seriously.
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2012 is a comedy about the apocalypse. I don't think the producers wanted it to be a comedy about the apocalypse, but there you have it, gratituous stereotypes, impossible science, Noah's ark references, politicians, and all. There was also man's inhumanity to man, and man's humanity to man, but that's only to be expected. XD
It was fun. Especially the part where we ran to the ticket counter thinking we would miss the last show we would have the time to watch, knowing that after that there would be nothing left but New Moon, and getting front-row seats anyway. Well, we gor front-row seats because hardly anyone else would go to an 11:30 a.m. movie screening. I think I spent half the time saying different variations on "this is impossible", only to have Billy tell me to just watch the movie. She was dressed as Magento, which isn't relevant, but what the hell. The pictures and audio died on us at various points in time, too, but that's okay.
Also, Russian accents are awesome.
But that's okay, since I got to see blood cells lysing, and whitefish blastula cannot compare in difficulty to having to mash up onion roots and then looking for the stages of mitosis in said mashed-up onion roots. (I have the feeling that my English is failing me here.) At sinabi ni Ma'am Joson na dapat itinapon ko si Orven mula sa building, so may pwede akong sisihin.
It's also okay because our lab class started at 7 and ended at 10, and the class after that started at 2:30, which meant we had a four-hour-and-thirty-minute break. I said we could watch 2012. I didn't expect anyone to take me seriously.
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2012 is a comedy about the apocalypse. I don't think the producers wanted it to be a comedy about the apocalypse, but there you have it, gratituous stereotypes, impossible science, Noah's ark references, politicians, and all. There was also man's inhumanity to man, and man's humanity to man, but that's only to be expected. XD
It was fun. Especially the part where we ran to the ticket counter thinking we would miss the last show we would have the time to watch, knowing that after that there would be nothing left but New Moon, and getting front-row seats anyway. Well, we gor front-row seats because hardly anyone else would go to an 11:30 a.m. movie screening. I think I spent half the time saying different variations on "this is impossible", only to have Billy tell me to just watch the movie. She was dressed as Magento, which isn't relevant, but what the hell. The pictures and audio died on us at various points in time, too, but that's okay.
Also, Russian accents are awesome.
