{02} cardiovascular questions

[gotyourbones]

[Action, at Mayfield High; backdated to Friday]

[Yeah, Medic hadn't really known that school was back in session until he'd started receiving annoyed phone calls from the faculty. If anyone is enrolled in Mayfield High's biology class and lab, well, enjoy your couple of days off! When you arrive on Friday, though, you'll find a very annoyed teacher, dressed pretty much nothing like a teacher, leafing through the textbook in irritation.]

Vhell. It seems zhat it has fallen to me to teach you zhe finer points of zhe study of life; however, ve vhill not be relying on zhis textbook to do so. It is outdated und censored und I prefer my vork hands-on. It vhill be a tool, not our source.

[He leans back in his chair, putting his feet up on his desk and wishing sorely that he had a cigarette or his Kritz right about now.]

I expect you to read it anyvay, of courze. Now, I am certain zhat zhe school vhill provide zhe usual rats und frogs und pig fetuses, but I vhill be giving extra credit to anyvone who brings us anyzhing more interesting to take apart.

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[appleknighted.livejournal.com]

[Hand raising. Hand raising! She's raising her hand and waving it to get his attention!]

Um, excuse me, but... um... what do you mean by 'take apart'...?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

...Vhat does it sound like? Take apart. Break into pieces. Dissect. A book can only teach you so much; hands-on experience is vhere zhe learning really happens.

Und calm down. I see you.

[appleknighted.livejournal.com]

Dissect...? You mean... cut up?! [Sora puts her hand down, but only because she's recoiling in horror in her chair.] But I like rats and frogs! They're too cute to cut up!

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

Vhell you vhill have to get over it or you vhill fail my class.

[Headache... forming...]

Do you vant to learn or not?

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

QUESTION.

[no hand raising too cool for that]

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

[Medic gives Annie a flat look -- hey, hadn't she been dead a while ago?]

Answer.

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

[she got better]

You a Nazi?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

[eye... twitch...]

Do you begin all of your conversations zhis way?

[notalwystrthful.livejournal.com]

[ Diana raises her hand. ]

What about a goat's heart?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

Zhat vould qualify, yes. Better if you bring enough for zhe whole class.

[notalwystrthful.livejournal.com]

We couldn't convince the school to do so for us, even if we classify it as an extra credit lesson?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

If zhe school does it for you, vhy vould it be extra credit?

[miraculous]

[Of course she's in this class. She is sitting in the front.]

It wouldn't be difficult to bring in a drone.

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

I vas planning on doing it myself eventually.

[Medic is shockingly not that worried about having Bern in his class.]

If you bring one first, zhe offer stands, but only if you do before me.

[miraculous]

Very well.

Maybe I'll let you use one of my goats.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[raises hand] What is a pig fetus?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

[...Really?]

It is vhat you get if you take an infant pig out of zhe mozher before it finishes developing.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[Terezi looks horrified and delighted.] Gross! What's a mother? What was it doing inside of the mother?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

[Okay, this will be fun.]

Nobody told you how babies are made?

[c-o-u-r-a-g-e.livejournal.com]

Isn't that, unsanitary?

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

Vhat? Dissection? Nein, you are allowed to use gloves.

Und your collection vhill only be as unsanitary as you make it.

[c-o-u-r-a-g-e.livejournal.com]

Well, of course we'd use...gloves... But usually, the animals one might dissect in a lab would be checked for disease or anything--like that.

Wouldn't they?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Uh, uh.... more interesting?

[[Yeah, biology is going to be different this year it seems.]]

[gotyourbones.livejournal.com]

More interesting, yes.

Do you need zhe definition of interesting?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

No, no. I mean... what's interesting to some is something totally different to others around here.