Wacko party of one, your table is ready

2 hours of histology with 2 separate lecturers.

#1 - this fabulous grandmothery jewish women with the full new york jewish accent. she spoke about the nucleus. she was literally one step away from "and if the transcription factors were made in the nucleus and not the rough endoplasmic reticulum, everything would be bad and the cell would be all faklempt." It was quite fun to listen to her. Geneice put it best "she seems like she's gonna walk up to someone in the front row, lick her napkin and wipe some dirt off a student's face." shmootz geneice...shmootz.

#2 - she read her lecture. no, i'm not kidding. she actually read almost word for word. she sounded so nervous, her voice was shaking. it was about cell membranes - the 3rd class to have a lecture on cell membranes this year. i might skip her next lecture since I don't need to be read to.

a new physio teacher. a nice short indian/hispanic/arab guy. (I sit in the back! and his accent was hard to place) He was pretty funny. Apparently tomorrow he's gonna talk about erections the whole time. should be interesting.

last day of this biochemistry lecturer. she's been great, pumped the lecture out in 35 min and told us all everything we need to know for the exam too. gonna miss her.

i went to mo's office hours for lunch again. have i mentioned i hate pre-med students? This is what I heard: "Thank you for emailing me back responses to the 13 questions I asked. I have some follow-up questions." When there was a lull, he actually went to ask another one! I cut him off "excuse me, I have some questions to ask to if that's alright." Naturally mine were interesting and conceptual, which all got "hmm...that's a good question" or "interesting, i never really thought about that." I guess it's the phd-researcher part of me. but i finally got everything i needed answered.

We had our vital signs workshop today. I actually learned something relevant - how to take pulse, respiration, temperature, and blood pressure. It was useful and we coined the term "shake it like a mercury thermometer." About as current as shaking a polaroid picture. ;)

From there I met with the "board" of the gay-straight alliance group. I think we can actually do some good stuff this year. And it's good to have 2 other "out" friends to talk to. We had a physio review led by the M2s which was quite helpful. I know more than I thought had stuck so I'm happy about that. They gave us some mnemonics too, which are obviously not as good as mine.

As I was leaving, Jonathan asked if I wanted to walk with him to the md/phd lecture. I wasn't going to go, but he told me the email said it was required. Oops. So I went and we had good dinner - pitas, hummus, grilled lamb&chicken&veggies, tasty rice, grape leaves, and baklava! Plus I actually understood the speaker. They implant tiny wires in the brain which emit electrical charges and "confuse" the neurons, allowing removal of pain or maybe even stopping symptoms of Parkinson's. All neat stuff.

Zell Miller is a wacko. His speech was angry, and apparently he yelled at Chris Matthews to "get out of my face" and challenged him to a duel. I hope the Daily Show gets that footage for tomorrow's show. btw tonight's daily show had the most amazing "campaign video" for bush - it was like F 9/11 condensed to 4-5 minutes. It'll be rerun again and definitely worth watching.

And where the hell was Mary Cheney? I need to study and not be watching politics. Well, it was a good break.