Of Revenge and My Perfectly Good Finger

Going to Oak Crest each week, I always leave feeling that there is so much I have left to learn.  It's a bit frustrating at times, actually.  I've decided to exact organized revenge upon this frustration for causing me hassle in previous learning experiences.  You shall not conquer me this time!  My main weapon in this stage of the battle is Coursera - home to a plethora of excellent online courses, hence the name Course - ra.
Ha, ahe, he.  That's clever.
In particular, there is the "Useful Genetics: Part 1" course taught by Dr. Rosemary Redfield of the University of British Columbia (the Canadian accent shines through every once in a bit) that commenced Nov. 1st but which I discovered Nov. 8th, so I missed the first graded quiz.  Grrr.  I've been rushing to consume as much information as I can to get caught up - upon enrolling the class -, leading up to this very busy weekend of finishing two weeks worth of work in two days by the time the second graded quiz is due - about 2 hours from now at 11:59 PM.  Wish me luck.
This course will reacquaint me with biology and familiarize me with its molecular aspects - a focus of my independent component.  It will also force me to keep my toes in the pond, so to speak, to think about biology everyday, to be born back into it, mounded by it.  Also, genetics is cool.

Proof

Hopefully, this course will be to me what Sam was to Frodo and help me reach Mount Doom to cast my worries into its fiery depths - and  I am NOT wasting a perfectly good finger fighting Gollum for it.  I need that to pipette stuff and things (in the words of Rick Grimes).

Well, if it's not the whole Sam, than his super fresh head of hair.

Did I mention that Dr. Rosemary Redfield has blue hair?

Nice plant