blog neglected...

not sure, but it might have been a week since i actually posted... something about a horribly disturbing dissection, I'm sure, and maybe i'll comment a bit on that...

anyway, why have i and, by association, my blog fallen off the map for a couple days. simply put:

a final exam

as of this afternoon, i have completed my microanatomy/histology course... none too shabbily, i might add--and that's the first of many completed... again i find myself sitting on one of those horizons far away from a serious evaluatio... i am, of course, giddy at the prospect of all of the non-academic ways my time might be spent (cleaning, sleeping, eating real food, etc.--no, i'm sure i'll do some other stuff)

as for the blog, just a bit of housekeeping, a bit of catching up...

i really wanted to impress upon all of you that of all of the dissections we've done, the testis have been, for me personally, the most disturbing... thankfully, our group didn't actually have to do the dissection (our cadaver is female), but just looking at it and going through all of it... ... it's a bit eerie... especially when one of the TAs is teasing out all of the nuanced structures and fibers while your stomach is churning...

another observation: the male cadavers smell quite different than the female cadavers, and not for the better, my friends... I wonder why that is? anyway...

we had a pretty cool clinical correlation where a radiologist came to speak about the clinical applications to radiology... of all of the presentations we had, this one captured the greatest widespread interest of all of them (and the surgeons never did badley)... there was a lot of gee-whiz bang technology and imagery, and i can understand the appeal of it... it's pretty cool... so, spencer MD, I see what you're saying--there's a lot of interesting stuff possible in radiology... lifestyle and current compensation isn't bad either... just gotta watch out for them shipping all the radiology jobs overseas...

I'm watching the saints pregame here, and there's this BushClintonKatrinaFund telethon thing going on in times square where a bunch of NFL legends are manning the phones to take donations, which is a nice idea... but right now, there's maybe only one of twenty on the phone... i'm watching John Elway twiddle his thumbs... i'm sure it'll pick up, but you have to wonder what's running through those guys heads right now...

and as a parting treat, i'm going to post a photo from a recent wedding that i attended in SanFran, which was a real treat... lovely chance to get the heck out of here and see friends... I swear to you that i'm the sober one in this photo... Morris really got the best of it...

and from the looks of it, i really, really need a hair cut...

cheers,