Art dump! Huzzah!

Been sketching and doodling on computer paper while sitting and watching TV. Here are just a few of the things that randomly appeared...

An ANBU with really screwed up feet...I should bully my roommate into posing for a picture so I can at least get human anatomy and positioning right...

My sword which is just chilling in the living room next to our DVD collection. I actually did half-assed shading too! Go me!Ok, so this one's been sitting around a while, but whatever. Its Moriko! Just kinda sitting somewhere... I've got no clue...
A Pig! Its cute and I'm going to re-do this on Photoshop sometime...
And a hand which was mostly an up close study for the ANBU I did earlier, but the wrong hand. Again with some partial shading. Woot.

And yes, I do realize I'm a dork, but I can't help what I start to doodle. These are only like 1/3 of the total doodles I've done recently, but these are the clearest ones, sooo... :)

Off to pack for my weekend in Seattle!

Dark Knight = an ABSOLUTE must see (on pain of death by lack of awsomeness and adrenaline)

Yes it is 2:55 in the morning. Yes I realize I'm insane, but

OH

MY

GOD

and I'm not religious!

The Dark Knight is the best movie I've seen in forever.

See it or suffer.

More once I don't feel ready to pass out...

Again, OH MY GOD.

Praise be movie junkies at BioMedics

It never fails to amuse me that no matter how boring work is in the morning (although this is getting better as I'm getting further into The Lord of The Rings on my iPod--I'm to Bree finally! Tom Bombadil scares me, and hearing his rhymes aloud makes me want to whimper) I can always count on a good movie to be playing down at the BioMedics plasma center I donate at. Every Monday and Saturday I get to stretch out and have a ginormous needle shoved into my arm and enjoy many a good comedy or 'I-haven't-seen-this-in-ages!' movie (extra points for Nightmare Before Christmas being played last time I went in). I know that doesn't sound too relaxing, but I'm really weird and somehow chatting with the guy sticking me with a needle and watching movies makes me relax. It could be something to do with some side affect of the anti-coagulant they use but...whatever.

Back on topic. Today I caught the last 1/3 of Joe Dirt, which is amusing but not that good of a movie, although I'm fond of the whole "I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron" bit at the end. After that, they all proved to be the most awsome movie fans and put Empire Records in, which I hold as one of the essential movies for any teenager to see along with Ferris Buler's Day Off and Princess Bride.

All that needs to be said is... "Attention Rex Manning fans! To your left you'll see a shoplifter being chased by night-manager, Lucas. This young man will be caught, deep-fried in a vat of hot oil, and served to our first 100 customers. Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records."

New Media

So I've FINALLY got my hands on a working copy of Photoshop and started to teach myself how to use it. This will take a while. As a project to work on while I'm learning I took one of my doodles for my still in progress painting and scanned it. This is what I've got so far:

Does any car I drive have a neon target on it?

Seriously! Not two years ago I'm in a hit-and-run, which leaves my car disabled in the middle of the road. No injuries or anything, just my car battery jumping out of its spot. And just today a freekin' Semi truck backs into me and pushes me into another car, which is then pushed into one more car.

Its not like I wasn't initially a good distance back from the car at the stop sign, I was a full car length back. I don't like semis.

Its not like I, and the other cars behind me, and the pedestrians on the sidewalk weren't yelling and blaring our horns. Oh, believe me, we were.

Luckily the only damage done to Edna are some paint scratches and a busted headlight wiper (which i don't know if it worked anyways).

It did however leave me in a bad mood.

Police report is being filed, insurance was exchanged, and I seriously just want my bad day to end.

Parting Gifts

We extracted our DNA today in lab. It was really easy. We also got to take our DNA with us, in little plastic necklaces. We also got little temporary tattoos that say: "I love your DNA" I haven't used mine yet.

In other news, I finished my lab report. Its just barely under the 15 page limit (by 3 lines). Spell-check is the tool of the devil when you need to write a biology paper though. For example, my two unknown organisms were Enterococcus faecalis and Enterobacter aerogenes. Those are spelled right, despite what my computer says.

I'm off to watch TV and relax now (Finally!).

Two days left.

A Procrastinator's Rant on the Mechanisms Behind Population Blood Type Distribution

Trying to avoid working on my 'Unknown Report' for Micro. I've got my flow chart done. It took me 3 hours and is crazy. This is one of my many things to do when avoiding writing a 10-15 page paper on lab procedures that's not due till Thursday... On with procrastination!

Classes are almost done. I just need to get through fridays' finals and I'm in the clear. YES! ONE MORE LECTURE, ONE DAY OFF, AND....damnit...2 finals...and the damn paper. I've sworn to myself I won't play the Sims2 tonight because I'll get sucked into it so easily, especially with the new skins I found that prove I am the biggest nerd ever...

Did you know that the best way to get through a day at your monotonous work is to put audiobooks on your iPod? It's working great for me, especially because my normally very pissy iPod is cooperating. I've got Michael Crichton, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis keeping me entertained while I find more books to distract myself with. :D

Nori, my TA confused me in class today. We're talking about blood typing and will get to type ourselves on Thursday (even though I already know mine). She was talking about population distributions of blood types and said O type was the most common. What she forgot to say was that O+ is the most common, then A+, then...I'm not sure...but I do know that what I was thinking about, my blood type O-, is pretty rare. The whole Rh + or - thing kinda makes a big difference... 38% of the population...versus 7%...hmmmm.... that's, what, almost 1/3 of the national population?

Do you know why O+ blood types are so common and AB- is the least common? Its because, O+ blood types have the most circulating antibodies in their blood. They have antibodies against A and B type blood cells (or more specifically the markers on it) and have circulating Rh antibodies. All three of these will not only kill any A, B, or AB marked cells, but any antigens that resemble A, B, or AB marked cells. The same is true in reverse for AB-. They have the least circulating antibodies in their blood and are more at risk of getting an antigen infection. The reason O+ blood types aren't even more numerous is that O blood type is a recessive trait, while A and B types are both dominant.

Another fun thing is that Plasma donor-recipient patterns are reversed from blood donor-recipient patterns. AB type is the universal plasma donor and O is the universal plasma recipient. Probably because of circulating antibodies in plasma (which isn't a big deal in blood transfusions because the concentration of antibodies from the donor to recipient blood type is so low). This still doesn't give me enough reason to not get some extra cash by donating plasma instead of blood. I'm a college student. I don't even own a car. I need money.

Yes, I do realize that was a total nerd rant right there...I'm sorry. I'm a science geek... [sigh]. Maybe I'll go write the introduction to my paper...