last dissection

Sunday already? Seriously?

The exam on Thursday went pretty well. I think the difference was in the studying. I didn't necessarily study more, i studied smarter. I have a better understanding on how he writes his tests, and knew how and what to study. It was a relief to be over. We probably won't get them back until next Thursday, though.

Yesterday the TAs did the abdomen and thorax dissection. Maureen and Nathan and a couple of other students joined us. I GOT TO WORK ON THE RIB CAGES! No one else but Nathan even touched them. Everyone knows I've claimed them forever, and they're all okay with that. No one else likes to work on the ribs.
i even got to crack the ribcage off! i needed nick and Dan to help me because i had never done it before, but i cracked most of the guy's ribs and helped cut the diaphragm off and other assorted tissues.
awesome!

Our bodies are WEIRD this semester. They pulled me over to the female body and showed me an organ they had cut in half. "What do you think this is, Andi?" I didn't know... i guessed the spleen... Nope! It was a kidney!?! what the ?
the kidneys in each body had huge pockets of liquid on them. it was so strange.
i heard them say the guy's heart was really fatty
The lungs in both bodies are horrible. Smokers, for sure.

The man's stomach seemed small, I guess. I didn't actually see it- i was busy with the ribs.

No uterus in the woman. I'm not sure what we're going to do... Somehow the uterus we've had for years has disappeared (along with our favorite brain/spinal cord, and a few other things). I don't know who decided to send them back to where ever they'd be sent to. It wasn't Dr Bee.. she doesn't know where it went, either.
which is REALLY annoying, because she's in charge of that lab, basically--- so for someone to go behind her back and do that...
I'm protective of lab and of our organs.



I need to be studying for micro... i have an exam tomorrow.
but i really don't feel like it.
i had good intentions of waking up early, studying, going to mass, work, exercise and study the rest of the day
but i don't think that is going to play out exactly like that anymore.
I'll probably go to the 130 mass instead of 11.
i really need to get started on something.

oooof.