Oda a la urea

Another reason to brush up on my Spanish.

Laughter is the best medicine

My neighbors must think I am crazy because all they could hear this morning was my hysterical laughing as I read this story.

http://www.drunkrepublic.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97%3Awhen-your-credit-card-signature-fun-backfires&catid=34%3Ahumor&Itemid=60

I don't know how I survived today

First I had my Biochemistry midterm. I realized this morning at 5:30am that there were a few pages of practice problems I had forgotten to do. Oops. Worked on those for a couple of hours before the exam. I got a B though, so everything worked out okay.

Then our Physiology professor, in his lecture about the male sexual response, proceeded to tell us how penile rings work. Mind you, this man is probably near 75 years old. And this was his lecture. On a sex toy. Innnnteresting.

Then, in the afternoon, this same professor lectured us on various things that can go wrong developmentally, like girls who turn out to be boys and boys who later turn out to be girls, complete with pictures. Of course being the perpetual 12 year old that I am, I couldn't stop humming Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady". Thank goodness I sit near the back, so our professor couldn't see the tears streaming down my face as I tried to stop laughing and pull myself together. I think I was just punchy from lack of sleep and extreme stress. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

Heat Wave

It's supposed to get up to 47 degrees on Saturday! I am so excited! A day with temperatures above freezing! Yay! Exclamation points!!!!!

EDIT: It actually got up to 51 degrees today, and in celebration I kept my windows open all day. It was fabulous! Bring on Spring!

Feel your doctor doesn't listen to you?

It's probably for your own good.

Check out this post over at The Happy Hospitalist. Happy has a lot to say about the dwindling trust in doctors as well as the dwindling paychecks for primary care physicians. I definitely recommend checking out his site whenever you can if you want to find out what I will be up against in a few more short years.

Wow.

Just wow.

So sorry

I know I haven't posted in a while. I've been a bit preoccupied with midterms, and my whole car debacle. I'll fill you in. First, I came back from break to find that someone had stolen my hubcaps. But only from one side of the car. Who steals hubcaps? Seriously? I guess I should be glad no one stole my car, but still, the tires on the driver's side just look butt ugly now without hubcaps. Then, my car died. I know, I know, it's a Subaru. It was built for this kind of crazy -15 degree weather (that was the temperature it was when I went to class today. Crah-hey-zy!). So after several days of getting it jump started by the roadside assistant guys (after a lengthy wait, of course), I made it into the Subie dealership in town to have the service guys take a look at it. Apparently the battery was so close to dead that it was just not starting in this freaky cold weather. So now Subie has a new battery and is happy. And I'm happy because it was still under warranty. And I now know not to go a week without starting my car in this kind of cold weather. It's a win-win-win!

PS...I survived midterms and am still passing all my classes. Yippee! And, I only have one more Anatomy lecture and two Anatomy labs left before the class is over. That's crazy! I am so excited to never come home again smelling like formaldehyde and having to shower before I study because the smell is so overwhelming I can't concentrate.

Check these out

I don't think I have ever seen icicles this big before, at least not in real life.

You've only got one

We need more commercials like this in the US.

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...

...how plastic are thy branches.

Since we are still snowed in (our neighborhood is very small and we live on a side street, so it doesn't get much traffic, meaning there is still quite a bit of snow), we were unable to get a Christmas tree this year. We were supposed to get one on Saturday after I got home, but we all know how that went.

Anyway, we decided to improvise, so this year we have the Christmas Ficus. The fake Christmas Ficus.

Deck the halls!

Home for the holidays

As anyone from the Pacific Northwest knows, we have had quite a bit of snow and freezing rain for the past week and a half. I was originally scheduled to get back to Portland on Saturday the 20th, but due to the weather my flight was canceled and I could not fly back until Monday. And even Monday was iffy, as there was still snow in Portland (about 10 inches or so, in a city that shuts down after only a light dusting). But we departed at 8 am from O'Hare, and everything seemed fine. Until we got to Portland.

Apparently the runway was too icy to land, and we didn't have enough fuel to circle while they de-iced and cleaned the runway, so we were diverted to Seattle. Yay. So we landed in Seattle, only to wait over an hour to get to a gate so we could refuel. We finally refueled, and off we fly back to Portland. We landed at 2:20pm (we were originally scheduled to land at 10:40am), but we had to wait for a gate in Portland, too. So wait we did. Until 5pm, when we finally had a gate open up so we could disembark. But the fun doesn't end, because then we had to wait an hour and a half for our luggage to show up at baggage claim. Thank goodness my express shuttle driver was kind enough to wait for me. Otherwise who knows when or how I would have gotten home.

Anyway, after my 4 hour flight turned into an eleven hour flight, I was very glad to finally be at home.

What does it mean

When several times after introducing yourself at a party, the other person says, "Oh you're Timzie"?

I don't know what to make of that.

You know the weather is bad

When they close school in northern Illinois.

I feel so bad for the guy outside on the little 4 by 4 at 4:30 in the morning, trying to keep the walkways somewhat clear. He's definitely fighting a losing battle.

You can even see little Subie-doo (the second car in from the left) covered in snow.

Favorite quotes from Anatomy Lab

While working on the neck...

"What is that hanging from her? Is that her ear?"

While working on the skull...

"It says we're not supposed to open that yet."
(Tear) "Open what?"
"What you just opened."

Love ya Mom!

I got a good chuckle out of this one. It reminded me of an essay I wrote in second grade for Mother's Day. I wrote that my mother was just like the Virgin Mary, but not a virgin.

She was thrilled.