Best Laid Plans

Amazingly, the best laid plans of mice and men (and medical students) are actually going pretty well for me. That or I'm in complete and utter denial about how screwed I am for monday's upcoming path test. I was recently accused of being replaced with an alien clone for my apparent lack of panic for said test.

I should be so lucky. The alien probably wouldn't need to study. And I'd get to leave the planet! How cool would that be? Even if I did have to leave as an attraction in an alien circus. Aaaand here we have an odd specimen indeed from a small planet called Earth. It's a second year medical student. Behold! It does tricks! *holds up photomicrograph*

"Er, liquefactive necrosis with infiltrating gitter cells?" *rattles cage hopefully*

*crowd oohs and ahh's* Come back tomorrow to see it identify cytoplasmic inclusions!

Hmm, something tells me I'd have a pretty short run as a main attraction. Maybe I'll stick to my initial plan of medical school. But I digress.

I wanted to throw out a 'thank you!!' to the path department for their merciful scheduling of this last week. Not only do we not have path class lab today or tomorrow the blocked out the time in the master schedule so no one else could give us class during their time. How great is that?? The physio and neuro departments should take note of this. And the last two path modules have been relatively light. Environmental was a breeze and the immuno path section is 99% review from Immunology. So all you term 2 people out there - make sure to learn your immuno well! Otherwise it WILL come back to haunt you. I'd be seriously scrambling if I hadn't paid attention in immuno last term. Because essentially, the majority of the immuno class was summed up in path in three hours of lecture. Truly. Just when I think they can't condense massive amounts of material into smaller packages... they do. I'm continually impressed. And this is not to imply that we have to know the material in any less detail this time around. I was actually surprised they gave us the three hours of review that they did. Something tells me though that we won't be receiving any mercy for the second and third exams so I'm going to enjoy it now while I can. ^_^'

For reasons best left unsaid the following has been running through my head as of late:

Anyone remember this old cartoon? Good times.

Back to my multiple of slides on necrosis and things that colonize you and then eat you little bits at a time. Ah, tissue tropism, how disturbing you are.

Listening to: 風と丘のバラード