Good morning world.

This is the week my panic truly sets in. I have an assessed presentation for Fundamentals of Pharmacology and Toxicology on Friday and well… I have never been one to enjoy presentations. Usually, as with other presentations, I get really anxious, start shaking and sweating profusely, stumble over even the most simple words in the world so the complicated ones are even worse… and in the last one, the lecturer ended up asking me if I needed to sit down, which I did, because my legs turned to jelly and it was rather clear. I may have said a naughty word under my breath too… which everyone heard.

Regardless, I do like prepping and preparing posters and presentations! In the past, I keep getting told I could draw certain diagrams for it, but I never do… usually because I am leaving everything in a panic and focusing more on what I am going to try and say in the said presentation.

I am with a super group for this one though and they are all such a pleasure to work with. Indeed, I worry I am going to let them down with my rather blippy nature at the best of times, but I have made it through other presentations… I can manage this one too!!!

SO this time, I am drawing for my presentation… WHAT A SHOCK! And I won’t lie… I am actually enjoying it, and yet again, I am wondering why I did not do this sooner haha

Which begs the title of this blog, “I never thought I’d use my copic markers for liver diagrams…” because low and behold… I have drawn a liver, and shaded it in with my usual blending flair, with my epic copic markers of which I have owned for years and cost a bomb and I am surprised most of them still work seen as I only use them every now and again on work for myself.

Haha, skills.

And yes, that is Peteacetaminophen popping up there in the corner to say hello. He is our cute presentation mascot, to make light of what is rather a sad tale of events with our case study. You may see more of Pete and a few of his other friends too over the coming months, I hope! They are so much fun to make and well… if Giant Microbes can be a thing… who knows what could happen to my little characters!

Guess I’d better figure out those two non-toxic pathways for paracetamol so I stand a chance of explaining myself in semi-clear English on Friday! Good luck to everyone who will be presenting then and the weeks afterwards too!