Damek.

This semester I’m taking the second half of college-level Biology at BMCC, and as insurance, should I need to go to grad school, I’m taking a requisite college-level American history course, too, covering the Civil War through the 1980s. I just had my first history midterm yesterday, and I think I did OK. We just covered WWI, including looking at the 1917 Espionage Act and its 1918 extension, the Sedition Act. Scary legislation. Interesting to read the actual stuff.

Anyway, we also got to look at some groovy U.S. Government Approved WWI Propaganda posters, which should explain that image about cottage cheese. Somehow, it just spoke to me.

I also really liked this “Together We Win” poster, nobly depicting the valiant labor classes marching in lockstep to doom and exploitation. Hey, is that sailor winking at me? Oh, how easily that image could be repurposed for propaganda about the insidious dangers of the Gay Menace!

In Biology we’re learning about organ systems & functions, like the digestive & circulatory systems, and we’re finishing up dissection in lab. Kind of exciting, since I excused myself from dissection in high school, so I’ve never done it. We spent two weeks with a large frog (complete with a bellyfull of eggs!) and a fetal pig (the skin was tougher than I’d imagined, the organs more discreet and accessible than I’d thought). Last week we focused on just a heart (cow or sheep, I’m not sure). This Thursday we get to review it all as we see fit, and then next week is our second lab practical, where we’ll get to go around identifying various organs.

So I’m doing a lot of interesting stuff, but the classes are keeping me fully busy. I feel that everything else in my life has been put on hold, and I’m really looking forward to summer. So let me leave you with a fun summer thought:

Clear the way! Wowsers, isn’t lady liberty looking mighty hot?! I wouldn’t mind going swimming in her waters! And our boys’ muscles are positively rippling! My, isn’t that a big gun they have!