Janel's Place

I laughed when I finished parasitology/bacteriology/virology and pulled out my neuroanatomy notes to tear into that... and my nose spontaneously started to bleed. It was a sign. So Karina and I packed up and came home and had a pizza party and watched "Equilibrium." So good to see a bad man reform and massacre many guys to save a puppy. So revolting to see a face fall off. Karina and I are now thrilled to be creatures of emotion and not simply breaths as the clock ticks. I've gotten a little wary of movies since batman's girlfriend died, but despite some brief moments of uncertainly the man in white actually killed ALL the bad guys in a slow-motion ballet of gunfire, and with a happy ending guaranteed I laughed joyfully. Even his children and the puppy survived -- unexpected gifts.

So my brains are mushed in all directions, "The Shack" and this lovely movie have melded into my tortured neurons, and I have reached the pleasant state of learned helplessness. More exams are fine, hit me again, I like it. When the reality that I canNOT learn everything hits, I can begin to learn. Weird. We're all getting socked, even the toughest are tired, and in exhaustion we bond! Such good friends have I.
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Read it! Just do it! Wow. By William Young. I can't talk about it because that would ruin it. Read it during class, read it until 2 am last night, read it this evening... going to start re-reading it tomorrow. Planning to sit under a tree and think about it as well. My goodness. Wow. Had some philosophical breakthroughs during clininal pathology as well. Potentially the best book I've ever read... for me and the things I wonder about and struggle with anyway. English language failing me here since I can only thing of ending statements of "Dude" and "So cool" which are not even close to reasonable things to say about this book.

In other news... Monday took a pharmacology exam, Wednesday took a respiratory system exam, Thursday evening took a nutrition exam, Thursday night took an immunology exam, just finished an anatomy exam, and tomorrow I will take a combined parasitology/ virology/ bactieriology exam and then continue to fight the neuroanatomy exam that I started last Monday. Next Monday I will take a clinical pathology exam. I think there are writing assignments due as well. Just wanted to write that out to see if I could even remember all the exams of this week. Still working at the USDA. Still like it.

I like hearts and lungs and I like necropsy. Might need to remember to keep my mouth closed. Yes the valves are stunningly beautiful but there is also stuff that squirts out of large muscle masses when you cut them up. Blot clots are cool. I like blood. All cows do not have cancer, they just have a lot of large lymphocytes. Dr. Rollins was trying to make a point about ethics when he told us to imagine we had all been ejected into outer space and then overcome with an epidemic of face zits but I really don't know what it was.

I should sleep but I'm a bit wired. Can't really handle a stupid movie right now because I just read The Shack and I don't think I can handle stupid right now. This is a blog where I'm in no mood for exclamation points. Except for READ IT! of course. I really want lots of people to read that book. Potentially my next best activity will be to read the Bible again and see what it looks like now. Wow.

I'm a little sad that its Friday night and I spent it taking exams. Life seems a little too serious right now, all work and no play. Need to laugh tomorrow, will make it a priority. Lots of energy output this week, not a lot of input. Other than beer and cookies night. That was pretty fun =)

The End.
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So it seems that time, money and family are the three greatest stresses most people have to deal with. Who knew? Llamas, horses and Star Wars are the three greatest anti-stresses and I have access to them all. And of course Mr. Maxwell Muffinhead Jonathan Brown who is the bestest poochums there ever was.

This is not going to be a long blog because I need some sleep. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and not enough sleep makes Jack grumpy as well. The return of the amorphous gut-ache has occured, probably to stay until Friday when I face some blank papers that expose just how much of last year's brain-stuffing fell out the back over summer. Meanwhile the new material streams in, and despite the terrors to come I can't help but love blood. Particularly llama blood - so cool. Drugs are neat too.

I'm just not in a mood to blog so this is it. It's windy. People are complicated. Bayley is wonderful. Money is dumb. Rats are gross. Segmented neutrophils are common. Ezra is a cute boy. Amelia makes a fabulous impression of a mouse that will make me smile every time I think of it. Two marguaritas on a Friday afternoon on an empty stomach feels a heck of a lot like laughing gas without the root canal, don't watch the Mummy unless someone pays you for your time, Val Kilmer actually makes me want to vomit, HERDA is a very VERY bad disease, folliculitis with furunculosis is fun to say, and everyone should watch Robot chicken Star Wars. The End.
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