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25 November 2009 @ 07:45 am
So. Equipment was order and paid for by the end of MARCH.

I was supposed to get it for my training. It wasn't ready. We used Peter's kit. Cool.
By the end of training it was supposed to be done so I could take it with me if I wanted to. It wasn't done yet, but he'd have it shipped to holland for me soon as. Cool.
I get to Holland, no equipment. I send him an email asking how long it'll be he says something about having emailed me about plans to go here and bringing it with him but he didn't get a reply from me (because I never got the email) and ended up not going and he apparently didn't have my address (I'm reasonably sure I gave it t some point. Not so cool, but he promises to ship it at his costs and it should be here by the 20th. Cool.
The 20 th rolls around. No equipment. Not cool. I email him asking for a track and trace number.
21st. No equipment. Not cool.
22nd, still no equipment nor a reply from Peter. Not cool.
23rd, still nothing.
24th NOTHING.

What the fucking fuck!? >_< NOT COOL!

Secondly, becuase that wasn't enough yet, I try to find hibitane which apparently you can buy EVERYWHERE according to Peter. I CAN'T FIND DIDLY! Not even a substitute!

I'M SO FUCKING PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW!

At first you think, hm.. maybe something happened and that's why he's not replying to emails. So I ask a friend to ask him a mundane question and see if she gets a reply. Within the day. So either there's some MASSIVE MIX UP with emails not arriving (no fault on my end, I'm BCC-ing everything to my own account and they arrive just FINE for me) or he's willfully ignoring me.

I hope to GOD it's the former, at this point I'm so ed up I might actually smack a bitch.
 
 
Current Mood: pissed off
 
 
SRness
10 September 2009 @ 11:53 am
I did an extraction! DD=
It was y practical exam! *flail*

Good :
I got it done! 
The tooth came out
It was according to plan
I didn't die
The horse didn't die.

Bad:
Apprently I didn't communicate well with the vet. D:
Or the owner.
That was the most disgusting thing I've done in a while... prodding around inthe socket of a recently extracted tooth to take out decaying food... EW! the goob and the grub and the ... eeewww! *shudder*

Just finished writing my report, hopefully I'll manage to pass... x___X
Considering it was my first extraction EVER. So I'm pretty content, considering I got no practice whatsoever...

FINGERS CROSSED! *flail* 
 
 
Current Mood: distressed
 
 
SRness
07 September 2009 @ 06:28 pm
Okay, so with six more days in the course all that rests me to do is a routine treatment (probably at Kilmore with the trotters, which is fine and I'm not too worried about). Aaand a complex case, which will be an extraction of a molar on this horse. I know which horse it is and it'll be happening on Thursday.

What I'm not too happy about is that we pretty much have had no preparation for this complex case. I mean, we got to watch teacher-dude do some but beyond that we're pretty much thrown in the deepend. To make matters worse, the 'INTENSIVE PRACTICAL TRAINING' has sort of dwindled and dwindled to the point where it's not intensive sitting on our asses pretending to be brainstorming about what type of database we may or may not be using.

Yes. I haven't seen a horse since we got home on Friday. We're having more and more days off where we do nothing and less days where we go out and treat horses. We do a couple, but not much. I feel like I ould be doing 6 or 7 horses a day and really pack on some experience and get some hours in the saddle, but no... instead we're sitting around playing with the computer.

And you know when I'M complainign about playing too much with the computer, something is not right! >.<

Okay... I'm on my period, junk food deprived and feeling ghroihgoirh! So now I had my whine...

Practical on Thursday and then by friday I should be a certified equine dentist *___*
No idea if I'll get that distinction or not, but I might... so fingers crossed! 
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SRness
28 August 2009 @ 11:36 pm
Treated a horse today with quite a terrible little mouth. Had lacerations almost down to the bone on the gumline. Which was what caused her problems when she was in harnass. The ownr had complained about her pulling her head around to the left when racing which is obviously bad because you need them to be straight.

So after diagnosing that I fixed her teeth right up which comes down to 65 dollars worth of treatment AND then Peter gave me the money for it! HUZZAH! 

And then he made me shout lunch... so it's almost all gone, so I was foiled, but still hae 20 bucks left in my pooocket. Which is sweet.
Also getting the tiny-torch-of-win(tm) next week somewhere. Little torch is so awesome and perfect for work... *glee*

Other than that nothing much happened, I'm doing okay filing teeth, have yet to extract anything and aparently we won't get to do much of that until the exam which strieks me as weird O_o; And slightly petrifying. On the other hand not to toot my own horn, but I'm the only one in our little group right now who can actually accurately file the horse' teeth.

Amy is still a bit lost and doesn't know what she's doing half the time. Andrew is still all over te place and a right mess at times (although he's arrogant enough to think he doesn't do shitty jobs... I chose to hold my tongue at that point in the conversation but I think the abrupt silence in the car spoke for itself). So I'm conident I can file a horse' teeth and od a good job, especially after today doing a 16 year old shetland with rock hard teeth and STILL being able to do it. I'm sort of hoping tomorrow's horse is ooold like ... in his twenties! And that us students get to do him and then I'll call dibs and see how I go on it.

Tomorrow we do one horse and then go to this sanctuary park where they have PLATYPUS!!... Platypie? I don't know the plural for platipus! 
Anyway, should be fun ^__^
7:30 start though x__X

 
 
Current Mood: jubilant
 
 
SRness
20 August 2009 @ 05:42 pm
I passed! My Theory! 

I PASSED! *GLEE!* 

I actually did quite well! I got 83.6%! 

45/50 points for my case study! Buahaha! And only because I couldn't finish it
50/60 points for my business plan (major cudos to [info]isabelgou for getting my logo done on time! <3)
And some awesome scores on other things... did only really dreadful in one area 3/10 points... ouch.... but that was the one I kept changing my mind on and second guessing D=

Quite stupid, but major points on my condition scoring and case study, so I'm all happy happy! CELEBRATION TIME! 

And I'm not sure... I'd have to ask Peter, but I think 80%+ is actually passed with distinction.... =O

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Current Mood: giddy
 
 
SRness
17 August 2009 @ 03:35 pm
For the first time in weeks I'm all by myself again! 

It's relaxing to be on my own with no one looking over my shoulder or listening to my sick giggling fits over random crap on the internet.

No, no... fear not, it won't last, the boy will probably be back tonight x__X
Anyway... I've plans! For tomorrow anyway... I will go to Doncaster Rd. Grab the tram to Docklands and shop and take touristy pictures until my toes fall off. Oh yes! 
And then maybe the Zoo on thursday, which should also be fun... and tomorrow I'll wander and see the important Melbourne sights.

THEN... I don't know... where I was going with this...

Oh right! Then a bit of a winge... I don't like people telling me what to do, especially not on things that are none of their business or that they know nothing about. For isntance I don't mind Peter telling me how to stand when filing the teeth. I do however mind him telling me I should not go back to Perth but straight home instead to start treating horses there.

I don't want to go home earlier, yes, I understand I'll lose some of my dexterity but nothing I won't be able to regain. I appreciate the concern but tell me to go home straight after once more and I will yell at you with lots of violent handmovements and uncouth language. I will stay out my Visa and THEN go home. And I'll bloody start working when I'm good and ready and no sooner.

In that same regard; asking me if I'm going to go up to Brisbane and such, I tell him probably not since I don't have the money as I don't have a job. Then he suggests maybe going up there to work with another dentist that her trained, would give me some extra experience. COOL! Right? Except for the part where I'd have to pay for the ticket to get there. Pay for board and lodging and ... not get paid for working. Did you NOT hear how I said I couldn't afford to go there? So what the hell makes you think I can afford to go there to work for someone and not get paid for it? If I had that kind of money, I'd be going there to be a proper tourist...!

Yes, yes, gain experience blah blah... I can gain experience on my own. And I'd rather do it later and make money from it, than sooner and put myself deeper in debt.

</whine > Tired of people, this break is sooooo needed. I might kill someone if I have to smile and be polite and non-responsive once more.
 
 
SRness
15 August 2009 @ 08:22 pm
Okidoki so a period of rest starts off with a killer headache~ ! 

Had my theory exam yesterday, I'm pretty sure I broke something in my brain because I've been suffering from a killer headache all day today.
Anyway... exam went... erm... well it went. No idea how I id really had some big ups and some major downs... I wasn't as horrible as I thuoght I would be on the anatomy part... did decent in the physiology part.

Then the questoin about lymph.... now... I studied the lymph bit so hard... and still I drew an utter blank on it! It's like my brain just refuses to accept what it is and what it does D=

I did good on my business plan apparently, which is  huge relief as it was a good third of the grade for my theory so ... here's to hoping I didn't fail spectacularly.

The boy is gone for a good chunk of the week. I have the week off too. So no being frustrated with him for a while, no more noisy brats running and flailing around.
God he makes me so glad I didn't have a younger brother growing up.

But he's gone for now, so its nice and quiet. =D

Also, new userpices! Well some of them.

That is all. As you were men, as you were! 
 
 
Current Mood: bored
 
 
SRness
13 August 2009 @ 12:42 am
From [info]isabelgou

Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence and these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

"In the forelimb body weight suspended from scapula tends to flex the shoulder joint which is maintained in extension primarily through 'passive' activity in the predominantly tendinous inelastic biceps."

Oh yeah! If anyone would like to borrow a medical dictionary...

From "Horse Anatomy" by Peter Goody.
I hate studying... *weeps*

Theory exam on friday though, have to study hard now D= So gonna die! 

 
 
Current Mood: tired
 
 
SRness
27 July 2009 @ 09:57 pm
So another day spend at the knackery to get filing techniques down. And it was the worst day yet. x__x

They were doing a ton of horses, because it's a monday and they're clearing out or something so they were quite fast with the turn out and stuff. But it's was... just... awful. George can't hoot worht shit and we got to see the killing today, not that we wanted to but when you hear a loud bang and horses freaking out whether you want to or not you turn around to see the second one get shot =/

Anyway.. .aside from that... did alright, filing went pretty good except I bugger my knee getting up, twisted it or something so tat hurt like a bitch and effectively stopped me from crouching down again and continuing my work D=
I was quite upset about that, there were tears because I was feeling like shit already (I think I caught a cold or something.. or swine flu) so I had a massive headache, the whole knakcery experience was just terrible today AND buggered my knee something awful.

After we got home I had a bit of lunch (sushi!) and then went for a good long nap while stoned by painkillers, feeling much better now but am now just annoyed I didn't get to finish the teeth on the horse head...

Anyway! Before I broke myself, Peter took some pictures of us working dilligently on our bloody patients. So for those with a macabre fascination I'll post some. I'll post them from least bloody to most bloody so if you feel it's getting too much, it'll only get worse.

They're not TERRIBLE, in fact the pictures make it look a lot cleaner than it really is in the knackery, and there's no pictures of the carcasses, just the heads... weak stomached people might not wanna look though...

Under a cut for obvious reasons... )

The pictures don't half convey what it's really like, in fact, the pictures make it look really clean and tidy!

Tomorrow we go up north, I probalby won't be around until friiiday.

 
 
Current Mood: listless
 
 
SRness
24 July 2009 @ 02:40 pm
I  filed my first horses today! =DD

I'm all sorts of happy and gleeful, it's really hard and tiring and my back is killing me and I think my knees might wanna have a word with me tomorrow but weee! It was awesome!

After being stood up by the first client (hurhur) we ended up at this small racing stables to do a few horses. I was first up to have a go and having only had some minor practice on a dead horse up until now I was all "D8 I'm gonna hurt him!" 
But he was all sorts of gorgeous and stood perfectly still for me, he was really patient and an excellent study for me. Didn't need a lot of work done, just the medial edge of the 3 arcade and the caudal edge of the 2 arcade taken off and the corners of the mandible 06s </jargon>.

... Sorry. I have to practice my jargon or Peter will have a scowl at me.

Anyway! I figured I'd only get to do the one horse and Amy and Andrew did one too and then they brought out this awesome palomino quarter horse stallion (at a racing stables mind you) and I got to treat him! *glee* He had terrible serrations and hooks on the maxillary 06s, so needed quite a lot of work done. He was good too, a bit more of a headtosser than the first so I got smacked to and fro a bit but it was all good.
But with so much filing I got tired real quick of course, and Peter (Dentist guy) finished it all of (as with the first horse) .

I'm still exited though because yeah... okay, I'm awkward and half the time don't know where I'm filing or am just plain lost in the mouth, I did manage to at least get most of the arcades done, at trust me when I say that's a lot harder than it seems. Because of the technique that's involved and how to hold the horse' head and handel the files, especially the off-side (right side) of the horse for me because I'm left handed is really awkward and hard to reach but I managed to at leat get the files onto all the arcades and did some filing though the near-side (left side_ is easier than the off-side...

Still pretty proud of myself though, I now just need a lot of practice and work but I can do the file-y bits of this course! =D
Totally worth the early (6:30am) start!

Now to study! Because apparently we have a test on the 14th or so... theory exam. And for those wanting to know... I don't suck as much as I feared. I know as much as the other students, and we all fail at anatomy and yeah... no ass-making out of myself.

<3 for all the kind words though! You guys all rock my socks off! <3
 
 
SRness
22 July 2009 @ 08:32 pm
Knackery gore! No pictures... )
 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
SRness
20 July 2009 @ 06:15 pm
Guess who has to go to the knackery repeatedly in the next two weeks to work on dead horse heads? Including but not limited to dissection of the head? 

... Oh yeah, my vegetarianism will be so much revived.
 
 
Current Mood: indescribable
 
 
SRness
20 July 2009 @ 04:34 am

"I'm going to bed soon!" Says hte other students.
"Wow... that's rather early...?" I say with a glance at the clcok which barely reads past 9pm.
"we have a 6am start...!" He complains dramatically.
"Oh..." I reply and let him do whatever.

5:45am SR is up all bright and shiney... NO ONE IS UP! 
6am ... not a peep.
6:05 I'm all groomed and ready... nothing.
6:15am survey of the house shows no one is up.
6:30am I'm still the only one up
6:36am FINALLY SOUNDS OF PEOPLE WAKING UP!
 

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Current Mood: annoyed
 
 
SRness
12 July 2009 @ 01:24 am
Oh yes... that time of the month cannot come and go without some serious self-doubt.

I've been doing all this studying and stuff in light of the impending doom that is my practical training in Melbourne. Catching up, reading back... and I feel... dumb. I read the things bt it's like I'm not actually learning or absorbing any of the information. I know it for a day or so and then it's gone again and then it got me thinking about school and studying and...

How much do I actually learn? I've always had this awesome regime of studying that got me good results in school. I'd study a day in advance, read the synopsis, the bullet points, breeze over the stuff and ... I'd know enough to get me through a test. Hell, that's how I got through my exams, but thinking back... did I actually LEARN anything? Did anything stick around? 

I have a vauge idea on just about everything, but the same way I had a vague idea about the book I read for fun. I know what happened but the specifics and the details are all lost on me, and well... with stories you can visualize, with studies... a lot less.

So I'm sort of in a mild panic mode about it now because do I actually know enough to not make a complete and utter fool out of myself? I've a bad reputation when it comes to learning and discipline in learning and I know I've not gone all out on this thing... well.. with some things, but most things, not so much... and it bothers me to no end now that I'm all self-oubting and second-guessing myself.

It doesnt help that the last few attempts at actually learning and studying resulted in... me dropping out of high school and then me dropping out of college... So here i am sitting around sulking teling myself I should study an learn more but do I actually do it? No... instead I mope arond. I partly blame it on hormones and painkillers making me all bleh and woozy in the brain but that doesn't really stand up as an excuse, now does it? 

grhoiehoighreioh! I HATE THIS! D8 I don't wanna be so bloody insecure and anxious all the time, it's not good for my health and it makes me sulk and brood and be useless... *sigh* 
So... good intention: I'll go to bed now so I won't freak myself out more, get up timely and go work through that medical article you've been putting off. Then go study more anatomy an the periodontal disease thing again since that just fell straight back out of your brain again after you read it last... and ... take notes and stuff.. and... try to quiz myself. And then if I have any energy left write up a quick business plan, doesn't have to be good, just has to exist... and then work on the last bunch of lectures... *chants to self* You can do this...! ... Right? 

Someone tell me I won't make a complete ass out of myself for being dumb and undereducated in comparison to the other students? All... two of them... I actually think this would've been a million times less stressful if I knew there were 25 other stdents to hide behind and leech off of... I don't like this whole responsiblity thing, it's yukkie, make it stop D=
 
 
Current Mood: stressed
 
 
SRness
10 July 2009 @ 08:36 pm
Talking to Eve about going to Melbourne next week.

[ SR ]: also "Dear Strangers who I am hoping to live with for two months, I'm coming over on the 19th of july and will arrive at 5:30AM becase I stupidly booked a red eye flight. What time can I come knocking on your door?"
Eventus: xD
Eventus: You're living with two strangers?
Eventus: That's kind of creepy
[ SR ]: I'm iving with an unknown number of strangers
[ SR ]: I have no idea... I know they've got accomodation and I asked for it
[ SR ]: that is all I know
Eventus: xD
Eventus: What, is it just some random house or something with a room spare?
[ SR ]: I have no idea!
Eventus: Or student accomo
Eventus: ahhaha
Eventus: Well planned then? xD
[ SR ]: oh yes!
[ SR ]: becuase life wasn't stressfull enough yet XD
[ SR ]: I think I'm moving in with the instructor dude or some of his friends or something
[ SR ]: I have no idea x___x
Eventus: That sounds kind of like you're whoring yourself out
Eventus: FOR GOOD GRADES
Eventus: SHAME ON YOU!
[ SR ]: hahahah
Eventus: Is he creepy?
Eventus: If he's creepy you're screwed
Eventus: xD
[ SR ]: I don't know...!
[ SR ]: I've never met the dude!
[ SR ]: he's dutch
Eventus: I'm not really making things better, am i
Eventus: xD
[ SR ]: no!!
[ SR ]: SHUT UP EVE! DX
Eventus: DON'T WORRY
Eventus: IF YOU GET IN TROUBLE, SHINE A GINGER LIGHT INTO THE SKY
[ SR ]: ...
Eventus: I'll hop in the gingermobile
Eventus: Which knowing me is likely a giant dick with wheels
[ SR ]: ...
Eventus: Sorry
Eventus: That just kind of...came out
[ SR ]: you were funny without the dick joke...
[ SR ]: the dick joke killed it XD
Eventus: Damn.
Eventus: I couldn't help it
[ SR ]: I do know dude lives in the stone age!
[ SR ]: can't open .docx files.... pffft...
Eventus: xD
Eventus: So he can't open .docx files..
Eventus: He might not be an internet predator
Eventus: Wait he's dutch, he's probably stoned all the time
Eventus: He probably doesn't even know what day it is
Eventus: You could hand it in next year and pass
Eventus: Oh man, stereotypes
[ SR ]: hahaha
[ SR ]: he's dutch but been living in Aus for the past 23 years
[ SR ]: so he was from before the legalized weed period
[ SR ]: I know the most useless crap about this guy...
 
 
Current Mood: amused
 
 
SRness
23 June 2009 @ 01:49 am
Form the to-do-list from before...

- Clean up the table
.
- Print out all lectures
- Change sheets on bed
- Read lectures
- Have a shower
- Study anatomy
- Do some laundry
- Go pony
- Take pictures of pony teeth for assignment
- Take out trash
- Study
- Post some more
- Write that bio
- Study some more
- E-mail some people who I should have emailed ages ago but never got around to
- Make up some more klah mix
- Type up sales ad for Ty
- Study some more
- Get jumping lesson on Ty
- Organize the stuff you've studied and review the things you've done about a million times.
- Defrost the tuna
- Cook and eat the tuna
- Get a cheese pretzel
- Get over yourself
- Get over your lacking self-esteem and fucking ride your little heart out, you don't suck nearly as much as some of the people you've seen lately, so stop fucking doubting yourself about it and have some fucking fun doing it =D
- Find a job that pays for the next month and then some
- Write that bloody business plan already -___-
- Study some more anatomy so you can point it all out
- Sleep pattern. It doesn't have to be normal, it just has to exist.
- Get some vitamins into your system, you require juice
- Buy juice
- Buy new ink cartridges
- Get dentist out for Ty
- Study some more
- Get another cheese pretzel

Addition to the list:

- Work on finishing the new layout for AD.

We're getting there! Slowly but surely! 
I read two weeks worth of lectures today, and did some revision of the stuff I've already covered before. Took about 5 pages of notes too.
I now have an actual workspace to sit and work at that don't involve working around the laptop and balancing medical dictionaries on the edge of the table. It's quite epic. I printed out the last of the lectures I hadn't printed yet after I replaced the ink cartridges which ran out yesterday with only about 10 more lectures left to print. The pile of lectures is also quite epic o___o

AND! We're seeing Ross Noble on wednesday! *cheers and runs around in circles* 
I'm so looking forward to that, it's ridiculous! 

Oh and went shopping today for some plain t-shirts (shirts the can tuck into my pants! never will my back be cold again! *tear*) and also got a looovely new sweater vest *snuggles*
Tried for some new jeans but once again the length of my legs vs. the size of my hips buggered me over. I should be four inches shorter in my legs and I would be fine -___-

And for amusement's sake, your medical word of the day iiiis:
Hypsodifferentiation - This stage encompasses the specialization of the cells within the developping tooth!
It's part of the embryonic development and comes after the proliferation stage of the growth phase in embryology! The dental papilla become ameloblasts which deposit enamel, the dental sac become the odontoblasts which deposits dentin and the epithelium gives rise to cementoblast which deposits cementum.
All these function as the bue print for the teeth to develop further into their eventual shape! 

 
 
Current Mood: bored
 
 
SRness
10 April 2009 @ 05:05 pm
Good; I already know 4 out of the 8 lectures I have to do.
Bad; I didn't realize the last lecture was 12 pages long =/

Your random medica lword of the day iiiis *drum roll * Pterygoid muscle! 
The pterygoid muscle functions as the antagonist to the masseter muscle in the mandicle and the articular disk of the temoromandibular joint!

I feel so smart because I now actually know what all those words mean and what the pterygoid muscle does! ... essentially it means it allows for the lower jaw to do the side-ways fexion when chewing. Doesn't sound NEARLY as impressive as the 'proper' explanation of it. But oh well...

As Eventus put it;
SR: *flexes brain powers*
Eventus: My face just went O_o
SR: haha and by doing that oyu flexed all the muscles and joints I just mentioned!

aaaand...
"Adipose tissue on the other hand has little extracellular structural material but has proportionally larger intracellular material. It has a thermoregulatory function and a protective function but its most important role is in energy metabolism"
...
or as I put it in my notes: "Fat keeps people warm and protects people and can be burned by lack of energy"

Now back to the study mobile! 17 more pages to go before the end of the day! and 7 more hours until midnight!
(and all the on just one can of energy drink!!!! *bounce*)
 
 
Current Mood: chipper
 
 
SRness
28 March 2009 @ 12:43 am

Done! Send the review. I think...? E-mail drama continues!

Essentially... upon urging of Peter I took up using thunderbird, because it's supposed to be all sorts of awesome. And it worked alright for what little time I'd used it. Theeeen... got an email from the dad, send an email back to him and haven't heard anything since.
Just now tried ot send the review of the first week aaaand... can't send mail because the server is busy. So I am a bit confused since all SHOULD be working, I log into the server via forefox and it works fine, and I THINK I even managed to send my email from there, leaving me to wonder... wtf? 

Anyhow... We'll see if it got there I suppose... *saves answers*

Review send and a few things I would like to note on this.
"Please send it back by the required date." -- No where, anywhere is there mention of any specific date. Since it's a weekly thing I assume it's before the end of the week but it's anyone's guess really.
"Please... don't refer ot your notes."  -- No, no, I didn't... but I did use google once because the review asked me to differentiate betwene the two different ciruclations in the body. While I know what you were talking about (many thanks to biology in high school) I just looked back on my notes and none of this is actually mentioned ANYWHERE. As such I HAD to google it to figure out what the bloody hell it's called in english.
Lastly... Damn that was easier than I had anticipated and I totally should've gone for it like a pitbull on monday then I could've had it done on wednesday and been the early bird~! Then again I already felt I had to change a few definitions because otherwise it would look like I'd just copied straight from my notes, but that's how my brain works people...! DX

Now it is time for a cookie and some relaxing and ... stuff.

P.s. Dad, if you did get the email please to be letting me know...? x___X "Got it" will suffice.

 
 
Current Mood: blank
 
 
SRness
26 March 2009 @ 05:33 am

I <3 Biology.
And I do not know why. I just do. I can't explain it. I think I'm a biology-phile? Maybe a ...biosexual...?

Either way, I never quite realized how much I loved biology until I just now went back to making notes from lecture sheets about the horse' respiratory system. And while at the top of the page it specifically says "Don't pay too much attention to the internal respiration, just get an idea." ....
But I KNOW the structure of the respiratory system front to back in two languages with my eyes closed while whacking a pinata, I know the science behind diffusion between aveoli and the blood, and understand how the permeation with the carpillaries works, I even already know the science of how oxygen molecules glueing themselves to haemoglobine in the bloodstream.... all of which was only lightly touched on in this lecture, making me feel just slightly bored with it because I know all this crap already...!

And then internal respiration comes across, with big bold font on the scanned in pages... and suddenly, there's all these new terms and indepth explanations on how the energy is released and how the body makes up for the loss of andosine triphosphates and what exactly the efficient purpose of the mitochondria is in all this (which I had learned before but never quite put in the grand scheme of things) and I just got sucked into all of it, despite the fact that it was 5:14am and I had said I would not go into the material but would go to bed instead, but I couldn't resist the temptation and started taking a few notes, to help me 'form an idea' and before I knew it I was scribbling away furiously at my notes faster and faster, barely even taking a glance at the lecture sheet anymore just writing away at my own awesome conclusion and as I hit the last full stop, solidly and definitively on the page I knew that with only a little help and guidances from the book I had drawn all these conclusions myself and that it was correct and that I had LEARNED something and that I LOVED it.

.... and I felt superior because of it... It was beautiful. *wipes away a tear*

It was even more beautiful when I then tried to come up with a small concise definition of both external and internal respiration and what my brain came up with was backed up by the big awesome Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary of win and awesome(tm). Almost to the letter exact...!

*deep content sigh* One of those weird days where homework is very... VERY gratifying. I would say better than sex, but I have very little comparative material.

Maybe I should just go on to study biology after all this... >_>

 
 
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SRness
17 March 2009 @ 06:03 pm
It begins... o_______o;; )

A friendly excerpt from my recently acquired book.

"re-tic-u-lo-en-do-the-li-o-sis, n, pl. -o-ses: any of several disorders characterized by the proliferation of reticuloendothelial cells or their derivatives --- called also reticulosis"
 
 
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