Karma

Well, all I can say is that I am glad I stuck it out over the last few rough weeks. Karma is paying plenty of good juju back :)

I found out yesterday that I am on the waiting list at Albany Medical College! I also found out that I am interviewing at Temple School of Medicine in three weeks! 

but the thing I am most excited for...

Someone turned in my iPod at the gym!!!

Yessssssssssss.

I am going to go pick it up right now :)

Funniest Episode EVER

PT Time

I had a double dose of PT today. Physical Therapy and Personal Trainer. 

The first of these PTs was helpful. I love the electric stimulation massager machine. I want one. And I had a fill-in PT who was a granola-awesome-person. In birks with socks. Yes.

Then to the second PT. A little background- I am a member at Anytime Fitness and there is a super attractive gorilla juice-head personal trainer who works there. I have had a crush on him since I signed up. So, as I am a coward and I wanted to talk to him/try to get to know him, I decided I should cash in on my free personal training sessions and do so with him. What was I thinking?!  Oh my jeebus I wanted to die a little after the session. And I couldn't even tell if he was flirting with me or just being nice because I am a client. I am so oblivious when it comes to guys. When I go to the gym with my friend, she is always telling me that guys are checking me out and I am apparently too focused on my curls to notice. Regardless, I wish I had someone observing my next sesh with the PT because I can't tell for myself ha. 

Ok enough of this. It is warm and calm outside. 

That's bad!

It means the snow is coming!

RUN & HIDE!

You've Got a Friend

Thanks to Nikki's awesomeness, last night I got to see SAVION GLOVER!!! It was amazing! (minus the fact that it was at BYU) He was my idol when I was in tap class as a kid. And last night just proved that he is the best tap dancer in the world. Basically. We saw his group BareSoundz and it was just them tapping the whole time. No recorded music - they made the music. He is so talented I am still in awe over it a bit. Also, may I say that he is gorgeous? Mocha-love, dreads, and he taps? I do. Here are some pictures I got with him after the show when he signed my program. and a vid of him doing his thing...

That was the best day of my life tap-dancing! Savion Glover yeah!

- Courtesy of Lisa in Pauly D mode last night

A Little Etymology...and Zombies

           So this Pediatrician I shadow gave me this book (above) and it has been a quick and interesting read. I can totally identify with the feelings of having your first dissection, the use of the term "cadaver juice", all of it. As I was reading in it today they discussed the spleen. The spleen is an organ that is purplish-maroon and about the size of the half of a grapefruit (or a huge orange in today's GMO enhanced world of produce). Anyway, in the middle ages, they thought the spleen was the source of black humour or melancholy. The spleen sits deep under your ribs. A condition, -ia, of something that is below, hypo, the cartilaginous portion of your ribcage, chrondr-, is better known as hypochondria. And, as it turns out, this condition of having poor feelings about your health was thought to stem from melancholy or the black humour. Hence they called the condition Hypochondria. Isn't that nifty? I love when you know the Latin roots of words in science, especially in anatomy. Most things are named for where they are or what they look like....only in Latin.

Take the EYE for example. 

The eye has these extraocular muscles that allow it to swivel so easily. They are named for their shape (rectus - straight, oblique - neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined : having the axis not perpendicular to the base : having no right angle). There are four muscles that are some form of Rectus and two that are some form of Oblique. Why do we care? See the red dotted ring a short ways back from the cornea on the sclera? That is called the limbus region. And that red dotted line is the exact cut I have to make when I am recovering donor corneas from deceased people for my new job. 
Which brings us to our last topic...ZOMBIES. 

I just started watching The  Walking Dead on Netflix. I have always said that eyes and fingernails are the two things that freak me out about dead people. But now I have to deal with dead eyes. a lot of dead eyes. And I am afraid that if I combine a zombie show with the freakiness of dead eyes that I may have zombie nightmares. 

I hope not. 

Fashionista in the making

I love seeing pictures of Alex in all the cute clothes I buy her :) Snow leopard leggings = One very festive Halloweeny baby.