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 13, 2008
In the history of weird days, I think my Friday today takes the cake. I offer the following evidence, quoted directly from a text message I sent Robert this morning:
Have I been having the most bizarre day so far!
1. I had bed head so bad that even my goatee was all over the place.
2. I [...]
Phil | December 10, 2008
“I’ve never had those before.” That was my reply when a friend of mine in clinic offered me a Starbucks Frappuccino this afternoon. The look on everyone’s faces when I said this led me to believe that, with the exception of those aged three or younger, I was the last person on the planet to [...]
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 17, 2008
What do you do when there’s wildfires burning throughout the city and you’re not keen to go outside and frolic in the lack of proper sunshine? You do this:
Of course, this is also what you do when you have a huge mid-term exam approaching on Tuesday that threatens to disembowel you if you don’t properly [...]
Phil | November 13, 2008
The lesson of the day today is this: if you’re checking the scheduled pay period for the month, and you suddenly find out you get paid Friday instead of next Monday, it’s completely understandable if you want to jump for joy. Just refrain from doing so until AFTER class is over, because people will look [...]
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
I made a great new friend today. He’s five months old and cute as the dickens. He doesn’t talk much, but he’s got really big eyes that tell you that he’s thinking all the time. Plus, he’s really fun. He lets me carry him around and chat with all the girls at the department (thereby [...]
