Again.  No joke.  And always the day before an exam.

Yesterday morning I woke up early on my own (9 am!) and went stepped outside only to realize the weather here is finally fantastic and decided to go for a 2 mile run around the park.  Must be weekly soccer practice - but I impressed myself by making the loop around without stopping.  I cooked up some bacon for lunch - probably the fattiest bacon I've ever seen (ie. white with red stripes instead of red with white stripes) and ended up with a pan full of bacon grease.  What to do?  Oh yeah, deep-fry two eggs.  Yum.

I planted myself in a chair outside on the front porch after lunch and read Cell Bio.  And then the cable got cut again.  This time I made sure to go hunt down the cable guy before he left so it wasn't a 2 hour catastrophe again.

I'm not sure why our professor told us to focus on studying anatomy and just take a day for cell, but I was up until 2:30 this morning trying to differentiate diseases that make the skin just fall off.  Gross.  I was so tired after the exam this morning I kept walking the wrong way in the parking garage looking for the car.  Don't know what I'd do without my roommates.

So Yiou's written her first blog post www.runningwithscalpels.com.  Not sure where the scalpel's come into play, but theres definitely a lot about running.

so my landlord says.  Somehow their installation of a satellite dish downstairs disconnected our cable.  I got home from studying at school this afternoon to find we had no internet.  Karen and I had a minor fit - she was on the phone with the cable company - and our landlord was telling us how she tells that she's a lawyer or pediatrician or gynecologist to get them to come out sooner.  (Determination: unsuccessful)

Spent most of the morning and afternoon at school - wasted an entire hour to a disastrous attempt at getting the super SmartBoard/cadaver pictures up.  I ended up just reading for awhile, taking a detour to purchase some noise-canceling headphones, before going home and having a conniption over the cable.

on life, blogging, and especially the anatomy of the upper limb, back and posterior neck.

First block of exams are next week so pretty much I've been spending all my evenings in the study rooms on campus.  I study better in a big white box as opposed to my house or the library where people are constantly moving around me.  Plus we've figured out how to study anatomy on cadavers without having to get stinky in lab - SmartBoards and a CD-ROM with cadaver pictures.  Sweet!

Cutaneous innervation of the arm, forearm, and had by peripheral nerves.  I wasn't very good at this one yet, so I ended up drawing the regions and labeling the nerves on my left arm.  Then I went to the gym at the undergrad campus and stopped between sets to stare at the lines on my arm.  Undergrad kids might think I'm crazy, but hey, I know my innervations now.

Yesterday I spent the morning in the office with a breast surgeon seeing patients, so that was a lot of fun.  Unfortunately, Tropical Storm Humberto was also rolling through north of the city a bit so it was pouring almost all day.  I can't even stay dry with rain boots and a trench coat.  (Umbrellas are apparently moot down here because it's always windy during the storm.)

This weekend end promises to be über boring because all the kids are holed up somewhere studying.  I had a long day of class and practice exams and standardized patients so I was looking forward to soccer this afternoon.  We ad to rove around looking for an available field since IM sports have started up for the undergrads.  At one point we got kicked off a field by the marching band.  (Find the dude from last week with the shirt that read "I drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was gone" and it'd be like a modified version of that Don McLean song.)  We finally found a muddy field in from of the zoo and set up cones there.  I made a lame attempt at slide tackling someone and slipped in the mud, then subsequently got mauled by two guys so now I have a number of large hematomas on my lower limbs.  (Bruises on my legs, duh.)

Now I'm vegging out watching the Red Sox/Yankees game on ESPN (Red Sox are up 4, top of the 5th) and thinking about dinner and maybe reading a bit.