freezing cold fingers on the keyboard

Why is it that, as soon as it's sunny out, people automatically assume that it's therefore warm enough to turn the air-conditioning up to full blast in every single room of every single building. Hello, people. West coast here. Not warm enough for air-conditioning until July!

This is massage therapy school. We get naked on a daily basis here. Turn off the freakin' air conditioner!

using less shampoo these days

My hair was making my head feel heavy. Like I didn't already have too many random anatomical facts floating around my brain and weighing it down. So yeah, I chopped it off.
.... My hair, I mean. Not my brain. Or the random anatomical facts. Just my hair.

Oh, and in case anyone's curious, those drinks I'm mixing are my version of a cosmo. Mum liked it so much she christened it the 'Matushkapolitan.' Good stuff.

Play within a play, Adventure within an adventure

Oh my gosh.
So Hyper Excited.

First day of class, we had clinic orientation today.
Suddenly, it's real to me. For the last 8 months we've been talking in theory and practicing on classmates with pretend problems and fake pathologies. But now it's real. A real clinic with real patients, who have real problems. People who don't understand, who need it all explained. People in pain, who need help. People who will recommend you to their friends, or complain about you to administration. People whose praise or censure will go on our permanent records to be reviewed by the CMT.
Now it's real, and it's so exciting. And a little terrifying. No more hiding behind our textbooks, away from the real patients. It's time to get out there, and put into practice what we're learning, time to play in the big kids' sandbox.

Ready or not...

WOO HOO!

NO RE-WRITES REQUIRED!!!
Fuu-uun! Lu-cky!

Whew. I mean, seriously, I didn't really think I'd have to. But I just wanted to see the list and see that I'm not on it. It looks like quite a few of my class will indeed need to re-write some exams, and a few will have to re-do the whole term I think. It was a very tough term. 8 classes at once. Granted, PD hardly counts. But still, owch.

I'm going to celebrate by hanging out with Sister and Brother-in-law, and cuddling Nephew.

Next stop, Halo.

Fuu-uun! Lu-cky!

and the term ends...

...not with a bang, but a wimper.

Tired.

On a happier note, I went to Vespers tonight! I haven't been to Vespers in ages, I've just been too busy with studying. But woo hoo, I got to go tonight, and then went back Greg and Rhiannon's to hang out and play video games and huggle with Nephew. I think he's starting to recognize certain people besides his Mum and Dad. Last night at the party, he was getting all fussy, and as soon as I picked him up and snuggled him, he calmed down and nuzzled my neck and started to go to sleep. *grin* I love being an Aunt. Mind you, it helps that Nephew is the cutest and best kid in the entire wide world. Not that I'm biased or anything.

I think I passed all my exams last week, although I'm admittedly not all that sure about Neurology. I was guessing on over half of the exam. I won't know if I failed until late next week though. Really, I don't ask for my customary 90%+. I just want to pass. hmph. It's just a cruel form of torture to make us wait that long. Mean mean mean.

And again, with the tired. Time to sleep. Tomorrow there is church, and family, and more cuddling with Nephew. Always there is time to cuddle with Nephew.

pre-neurology wimper

Okay. SO.
Remember that:
Some sympathetic pre-ganglionic neurons travel through the sympathetic trunk without synapsing and instead synapse at ganglia in front of the vertebrae. They are called pre-vertebral ganglia and the pre-ganglionic neurons which innervate these ganglia are called splanchnic nerves.

And all I hear is "blah blah blah ginger."

Anyone for a nervous breakdown?

haha, get it? 'nervous' breakdown? ah ha ha.........

:(
oh gosh.

too much studying on Pascha weekend leads to...

If You Were Born in 2893...

Your Name Would Be: Terr Aita And You Would Be: An Evil Space Warlord

If You Were Born in 2893

I knew it!!

CHRIST IS RISEN!!

WOOT!! It's Pascha!

Christ is Risen from the dead
trampling down Death by death
and upon those in the tombs bestowing Life!



BACON TIME!!!!