Phil | December 15, 2008
Curiosity got the better of me today. My little house has a tendency to like extremes. The wood that comprises the majority of walls can trap heat, and then turn around and trap the arctic winds. It’s been doing the latter lately, which means that as the temperature outside dips to the high 30’s and [...]
Phil | December 14, 2008
Hey kids, what’s a great way to spend a Saturday night right before final exams on Monday? If you answered going to an ugly sweater party, you are correct.
After spending the better part of my day studying neuroanatomy, I also wiled away my afternoon doing the same thing. Around 7, a very important chat with [...]
Phil | December 8, 2008
Sweeney Todd was awesome on so many levels. Hello, new take on the classic show! The insane asylum idea is pretty cool. I scoffed at the mimed food until Robert reminded me it was a loony bin. This lady behind me at the theater griped all through intermission how Sweeney just looked TOO NORMAL, and [...]
Phil | November 18, 2008
Ever wonder what is the answer to the universal question? The universal question being, of course, What the fuck?
I offer, thanks to my neuroanatomy class, the answer(s):
flocculonodular lobe
fastigial nucleus
vermis
cerebral peduncles
dorsal horn cells
extrafusal muscle fibers
dermatomes
Nucleus Ambiguus
Arachnoid villa
That’s just a tiny sample of the misery I’ve been forcing myself to study. I’d be less opposed to this [...]
Phil | November 12, 2008
My previous post about warning future grad students was, I daresay, a tad misdirected. Specifically, I should have pointed the warning to a specific sect of grad students: speech pathology ones. Between taking courses, working in two clinics, working at least twenty hours per week, and getting all caught up in election fervor and [...]
Phil | November 9, 2008
Future graduate students be forewarned: graduate school eats weekends whole for breakfast and doesn’t even spit out the bones. And if you think for even a minute that you can use your weekend for interesting things like little day trips across the city, trying out new recipes to change things up a bit, or even [...]
Phil | November 7, 2008
After this week, so full of excitement and emotional ups and downs, I’m thrilled it’s finally almost Friday. I don’t know about you, but I could sure use a drink right about now.
Phil | November 6, 2008
As of now, the evil Proposition 8 has passed. First, Prop 8 is an awful thing to have people vote on in the first place. It smacks of laws we struck down not so long ago, that had no place being laws in the first place: Jim Crow laws, laws outlawing marriage between men and [...]
Phil | November 5, 2008
It feels like I’m only halfway there. I’ve never before felt so invested in an election. It’s amazing, though, how much a single measure that marginalizes you as a person can affect how you feel overall. But regardless of the outcome, and as of my writing this, the outcome is not yet certain, seeing the [...]
Phil | October 19, 2008
Make way for one doozy of a list. This one: “All things that may or may not be sucking the life out of me.”
1.) It’s almost Monday, and being the lousy blog-contest host that I am, I cannot yet announce the winners. Jana had a bunch of gigs in a row this weekend, and I [...]
