twisters in nyc...???

i bet it's been at least fifty years, maybe even a hundred, since anyone saw a tornado in new york city...

there have been two spotted in the last three weeks here in my new midwest locale, and i discovered i'm in no way programmed to deal with tornados. the first time it happened, I was at home watching tv and making dinner. The rain was pouring down at a forty-five degree angle and the wind was really blowing hard, but i didn't think anything of it. a few minutes into my stir-fry, i thought i heard a dull siren in the background, but, as i've said before, there are quite a few sirens around here. it didn't go away, and i attributed to being one of the many sounds that occasionally run through my head...

the next day, in class, i brought up the storm, and my delusional siren, only to find out that i should have been in my basement cowering with toto, rather than wasting the night away, totally oblivious to the danger...

anyway, there was a warning of a potential warning tonight... not really sure what i was supposed to do tonight... a tornado orange alert?


on a school note, the teaching here, especially in anatomy, is just excellent... in our dissections, we've had the aid or two anatomists, one neurosurgeon w/ 20+ years experience, one orthopaedic attending and his resident, and three 3rd year medical student TAs... besides their titles, they're really quite good at explaining and demonstrating the important things we need to know...

getting quite a bit out of lab, but finding a bit more difficult to jam all of this knowledge into my head... if only there could be a hit reality show incorporating all aspects of anatomy...

signing off, House is getting good...

cheers,