"Of course, some people might not want their DNA indexed. Hence, the robot army. It's crazy, it's brilliant—typical Google."
that's the quote that finally woke me up today...
i've been walking around, going to class, doing errands and whatnot today, but i've been in a total haze--until i read that quote... just something about it just shocked my brain awake, and I realized that i haven't posted to my blog in a couple days, and certainly nothing particularly substantial in about a week...
incidentally, the post that previously went up a few minutes before this one--I started writing that on Tuesday night, I think, and just to fill you in, I haven't taken advantage of my time to pick up my apartment or anything. In fact, my first loads of laundry just went into the washer a little while ago. I think i just need a couple days of sleep after the testing marathon that i just ran... the good news is that i overstudied for the most part, and if I even things out, it should be relatively reasonable to deal with future evaluations... but evalutions and doing well on them really isn't the point... it's much more about knowing the material and doing well on the one eval that counts--the boards...
so, what's going on with me?
well, despite there being no more tests this week, there's a heck of a lot more class... two days we have 7 hours of class, and the rest of the week we have four or five hours... which is a bit much for us...
in anatomy, we're dissecting the thorax... the lungs are amazing... I would never have imagined how substantial they are... I always picture them as crumpled won ton wrappers--very soft and fragile, but they look like rejected grey footballs... very interesting... as for friday's anatomy lab, we're doing the heart, which i'll have to miss much of in order to catch my flight to San Fran, but I'll hopefully be able to watch the TA's do the dissection in the morning, and I'll be able to go through our groups dissection later, and check it all out...
(on a sadder note, one of my partners cut herself yesterday in lab--she was trying to load the scalpel blade onto its mount, and she forced it, slipped, and superficially cut her palm... i think it was a bit embarrassing for her to be the first one cut in the class, and I felt for her... also, it's a pretty busy place in there, and cutting yourself is stressful, and for some people, seeing their own blood is a bit much to add on top of all of that, so she was quite the trooper... back at the dissection table before you knew it... although she unfortunately missed us using the bone saw to cut through the ribs, which is one of those precipitating anatomy experiences, if you ask me...)
on a totally different tangent, we have this all school celebration next week--it's one of the few times of the year that the whole school is together, and as the new class, we have to introduce ourselves creatively... our class has decided to do this saturdnight live sort of theme and put together a couple sketches... i'm in a group that's putting together a travel video about rochester, and I spent much of this morning putting the script together... it's pretty decent, if you ask me, but i'm curious what the rest of the group is going to think of it--we'll see how my right-coaster, liberal intellectual elitist out-of-towner sense of humer plays here... hopefully well, but I couldn't care less at this point... I had a lot of fun writing a script, and hopefully they don't change it too much... if they go with it, i think it'll be a pretty funny little film... all this writing and filming brings me back to the high school play writing and film making components of my education... those were some pretty ridiculous, but good, times...
anyway, I just realized I'm supposed to be somewhere right now, so I'm going to take off...
if you see a robot coming after you with a laser, just let him sequence you're dna... probably easier that way...
cheers,
i've been walking around, going to class, doing errands and whatnot today, but i've been in a total haze--until i read that quote... just something about it just shocked my brain awake, and I realized that i haven't posted to my blog in a couple days, and certainly nothing particularly substantial in about a week...
incidentally, the post that previously went up a few minutes before this one--I started writing that on Tuesday night, I think, and just to fill you in, I haven't taken advantage of my time to pick up my apartment or anything. In fact, my first loads of laundry just went into the washer a little while ago. I think i just need a couple days of sleep after the testing marathon that i just ran... the good news is that i overstudied for the most part, and if I even things out, it should be relatively reasonable to deal with future evaluations... but evalutions and doing well on them really isn't the point... it's much more about knowing the material and doing well on the one eval that counts--the boards...
so, what's going on with me?
well, despite there being no more tests this week, there's a heck of a lot more class... two days we have 7 hours of class, and the rest of the week we have four or five hours... which is a bit much for us...
in anatomy, we're dissecting the thorax... the lungs are amazing... I would never have imagined how substantial they are... I always picture them as crumpled won ton wrappers--very soft and fragile, but they look like rejected grey footballs... very interesting... as for friday's anatomy lab, we're doing the heart, which i'll have to miss much of in order to catch my flight to San Fran, but I'll hopefully be able to watch the TA's do the dissection in the morning, and I'll be able to go through our groups dissection later, and check it all out...
(on a sadder note, one of my partners cut herself yesterday in lab--she was trying to load the scalpel blade onto its mount, and she forced it, slipped, and superficially cut her palm... i think it was a bit embarrassing for her to be the first one cut in the class, and I felt for her... also, it's a pretty busy place in there, and cutting yourself is stressful, and for some people, seeing their own blood is a bit much to add on top of all of that, so she was quite the trooper... back at the dissection table before you knew it... although she unfortunately missed us using the bone saw to cut through the ribs, which is one of those precipitating anatomy experiences, if you ask me...)
on a totally different tangent, we have this all school celebration next week--it's one of the few times of the year that the whole school is together, and as the new class, we have to introduce ourselves creatively... our class has decided to do this saturdnight live sort of theme and put together a couple sketches... i'm in a group that's putting together a travel video about rochester, and I spent much of this morning putting the script together... it's pretty decent, if you ask me, but i'm curious what the rest of the group is going to think of it--we'll see how my right-coaster, liberal intellectual elitist out-of-towner sense of humer plays here... hopefully well, but I couldn't care less at this point... I had a lot of fun writing a script, and hopefully they don't change it too much... if they go with it, i think it'll be a pretty funny little film... all this writing and filming brings me back to the high school play writing and film making components of my education... those were some pretty ridiculous, but good, times...
anyway, I just realized I'm supposed to be somewhere right now, so I'm going to take off...
if you see a robot coming after you with a laser, just let him sequence you're dna... probably easier that way...
cheers,
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