Ticket Me Elmo

Brilliant.

Wassup

Remember those Wassup guys from the Budweiser commercials? They're back, and just in time for election day.





And just for kicks, the original.

Baby it's cold outside

Brrr! It's not even Halloween yet and I just walked back from lab in some snow flurries. My fingers were practically numb by the time I got to my apartment, yet the people from this area keep telling me this is nothing compared to what winter will bring. I better stock up on some good long underwear.

Hard to believe

that there are only two weeks until the first of my final exams. I feel like we just had midterms! Sheesh. Anyway, there will be lots of studying, and very little blogging, between now and then. Cross your fingers, knock on wood, and say a little prayer for me.

Long weekend

I have next Monday off. BMS (before med school) I would have wondered "Where will I go? What crazy shenanigans will I get myself into this weekend?" Now I wonder, "Oooh, how much Anatomy can I get caught up on? Will I have time to go into lab and brush up on my identifications? Can I get an awesome jump start on reading for next week?"

I guess it's good that I'm thinking these things, but honestly, it's also kind of sad.

See, that didn't take so long

So whenever I am in the neighborhoods just south of school, I see these signs at major intersections. I've never seen signs like this before, but I just think they are a riot. Who puts this stuff on road signs? Are things that bad that you have to remind people to be caring at a 4 way stop? I hope people don't forgo teaching this at home or in schools because it's on a road sign.





(PS...I tried taking some pics with my camera phone, but none of them turned out. These are from http://www.ci.highland-park.il.us/community/character_counts_pillarAward.html)

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming

I know, I know. I haven't blogged in a while. But cut a girl some slack! We had midterms last week, so my days consisted of waking up, consuming copious amounts of coffee, and studying until approximately 2 am.

Now that I have sufficiently recuperated, I'll try to blog a little more.

The most disgusting lab ever

Today in Anatomy lab we probed and prodded the pelvic area, and then proceeded to cut it in half. That's right, right down the middle. We cut all the soft tissue with a scalpel, and then had to use a saw to cut through the pubic (poo-bic) symphysis and up through the coccyx and sacrum, up to about L4/L5 (lower back).

Needless to say, I think I am scarred for life. There is something so wrong about turning a dead woman onto her side, raising one leg, and sawing down the middle of her lady bits. Looking around and seeing everyone do this at their lab tables and hearing the saw go through bone was probably the strangest, most disturbing thing I have ever experienced. And there was poo everywhere. Ev-er-y-where. And then we had to clean everything up, and take any remaining poo out of the rectum so it wouldn't smell too bad and we could actually find all the structures we needed to.

I just feel so gross and dirty.

It wasn't just me this time

So today in Anatomy we were lectured on the Pelvis. The professor, who has a strong accent from I-don't-know-where, kept pronouncing "pubic" as "poo-bic". I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing, but at least this time other people were laughing, too. It made me feel a little better that I wasn't the only one getting the giggles from "poo-bic".

Hee hee. Poo-bic.

Breakfast of champions

Iced coffee
Bacon (oops, ate that before I took the picture!)
Chocolate chip pancakes
Physiology textbook

Wait, one of these things doesn't belong.....

Exams

Well, I passed my first exam of medical school. Woo-hoo!

Now back to studying for the other four exams I have coming up. Ugh.

We got to pray

Just to make it today.
-MC Hammer

Spotted this little guy outside my apartment today.
Of course the real one disappeared by the time I got my camera, so this internet picture will have to suffice.

This was after my ECR lab got out early due to a fire drill. So much for learning how to find pulses and take blood pressure. Who really needs those skills anyway?!

What's the word I'm looking for...?

I didn't really want to delve into politics in this blog, but I found this online and thought it was pretty funny.

Anatomy lab part three

We get to use the bone saw in lab tomorrow and I'm disturbingly excited about it!

I'm a 13 year old at heart

In my clinical reasoning lecture this morning, we had a professor demonstrate a musculoskeletal exam with a standardized patient after we, as an audience, obtained an HPI (history of present illness). Our standardized patient had rheumatoid arthritis, and talked about how his fingers and other joints felt stiff when he woke up. The professor asked us what this was called. When no one answered (as is usually the case in a lecture hall of 300 people), he went ahead and informed us that it was called "morning stiffness". And he did this without a smirk, or a laugh, or even an inkling that it might also mean something else (at least that's how it seemed). I, on the other hand, could barely suppress my inner 13 year old from bursting out in laughter. Oh goodness.