Sunday, February 24, 2008

Can you hear me now?

I have committed to getting married on Aug. 31, 2008 in California with the help of my family instead of a wedding planner. Was this a huge mistake? I am in Dominica until Aug. 23 with no plans of going home for break. Whats even better is that the internet in my apartment has been so bad, internet phone conversations are practically impossible. For example, while on the phone last week with my mom discussing reception decorations I expressed my concern that there would be no purple if we had too many potted green plants. My mom only hears "no purple" and starts to suggest other colors while promising me there will be no purple at all. So in response to this I'm screaming "PURPLE, I WANT PURPLE" at the top of my lungs into my computer. This is extremely frustrating. Am I going to walk down the aisle in a purple dress now??

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Red Blobs

I am not good at Pathology. This should not come as a surprise to me as I was never good at Histology. Histology is the study of organic tissues, both grossly and microscopically. Pathology is studying those tissues in disease states. If I couldn't recognize normal tissue, how am I supposed to see whats wrong with it in disease! Everytime the professor shows us a slide during class and asks us what we see I just want to yell out "RED BLOBS!" Here is a slide of the transformation of stratified squamous epithelium into columnar epithelium as is seen in chronic heartburn. I swear looking at these things is like taking a Rorschach inkblot test. What do you see??

Thursday, February 7, 2008

System Overload

My hard drive is about to crash, and I don't mean the one in my computer. I mean the one in my head! I was just trying to watch a lecture on mediasite (1 of about 12 that I am behind in), and I realized that I had no idea what the lecturer was talking about. Have you ever driven somewhere and completely had no recollection of how you got there? That is exactly how I feel. Logically, I know that I have been sitting here, in front of the computer, watching this lecture on steroid pharmacology for the last 20 minutes. However, I really feel as if someone just POOF! dropped me in this seat 5 seconds ago. Am I going crazy?