The title of the post is from one of the lab group's way of remembering one of the muscles in the neck. It's not a mnemonic I use to remember the muscle, but it sure is funny! And indicative of how demented we already are as a group.
Bacteriology today was incredibly boring. I looooved my undergrad micro class and lab, but the professor we have this semester teaching us is...not so great. The upper classes warned us that he would be the "dud" of the semester, and so far I have to agree. He's very nice but extremely disorganized and inefficient in class. He skimmed through a whole section about environmental requirements for bacteria by dismissing it as "boring", which doesn't really help me on an exam or later in clinics. Lab was also kind of a waste. We had a twenty minute talk on how to do a gram stain and streak a plate (headdesk) and THEN had to watch him complete one of each in front of us - another ten minutes. Again, he's a super nice, sweet guy but just not the best teacher. And this is only our third class with him? Eeep.
Our lab groups in anatomy switched it up today. Unfortunately. My group very reluctantly gave up our pit gal Maude for one of the nasty rotting cats. And let me just say that while I didn't envy the people dissecting cats for the musculoskeletal system of the forelimb, I feel even worse for us that are now stuck dissecting them for the veins, arteries, and nerves! Holy crap, they're tiny! It's like trying to dig out these little blue, white, and pink threads from a mass of congealing, cottony playdoh. Oh, and the whole thing is so incredibly friable that the muscles are falling apart and shredding left and right. Identifying stuff for the next week is going to be a nightmare.
But we did get to practice live palpation on dogs today! We are using the dogs from the animal research lab on campus - today we had two incredibly sweet shepherd mixes named Chloe and Libra assisting us. And boy did it feel great to snuggle with a real live animal during class and also learn skills that will, you know, be practical in the field. I can now locate superficial cervical lymph nodes, the spine and acromion of the scapula, and most of the major bones in the brachium, antebrachium, and carpus. Saweet! Too bad I don't have a dog of my own here with me to practice.
Definitely miss Jesse and Ginger. I know that they're not getting nearly as much love and attention without me around. My dad loves them but he's so busy and not even home half the time. My mom could hardly care less about them. Wish I could bring them here to live with me but my apartment's so small and very few places allow GSDs, so Jesse's out. And I'm really reluctant to separate them or move Ginger now that she's pushing twelve years old. She's so used to going outside whenever she wants, strolling around the yard, and having a big house to explore and call her own. *sad face*
Oh, and it's T-minus seven days until our first anatomy exam. Already feeling slightly nauseous...
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