anatomica

[fahye]

I tell you this: if I make it though this anatomy course without my brain exploding from the sheer number of words and facts and images I am going to have to cram into it, it will be a miracle. A miracle that will result in me feeling smugly well-educated, as though waltzing into a cocktail party and casually listing the features of the C1 vertebra is going to win me any friends at all.

Fahye: *in highly put-upon tones* Today we did the vertebral column! In 50 minutes! All of it.
Mum: There, there.
Fahye: This is possibly the one week of my life where having a father who is a spine surgeon could actually benefit me academically. So of course he is in India being world-famous and knowledgable about spines to other people.
Mum: Well, he has a plastic model of the spine at his office, we could go and get that. And we also own an entire set of bones that could help you study for the practical exam.
Fahye: ...oh.
Mum: *enters Dad's study and emerges moments later with a plastic baggie full of, yes, vertebrae* Here you go! They're numbered and everything!
Fahye: *weakly* I don't know if I ever thanked you properly for raising me and feeding me and letting me play with your set of real human bones.

Real bones, you guys, this is so awesome.

Anyway, you know what this means, don't you?

Yes. Yes. Everything I write for the next five months is going to be crammed full of anatomical terms and thus be absurdly indecipherable, and I will glee quietly to myself and pretend that describing the muscles of Sam Winchester's back using the proper medical terminology counts as studying. What. What. He has a nice back. DON'T JUDGE.

Comments

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Everything I write for the next five months is going to be crammed full of anatomical terms

Please, please do that. It will be awesome. (Did I ever geek out at you about the anatomy class I took for my degree that let us touch ACTUAL BRAINS? It was the greatest experience of my life, although I think your parents having their own spine kind of wins.)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I knew you would support me in my further descent into scientific elitism!

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Well, it's nice in here! They have lots of books.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Books and bones? Bring me coffee and I may never leave.

[silveraspen]

I will glee quietly to myself and pretend that describing the muscles of Sam Winchester's back using the proper medical terminology counts as studying.

I fully support you in this endeavor. Your studying. Yes.

(Also, that IS cool!)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

My crush on Sam is certainly proceeding apace.

[silveraspen]

You mention that almost as if you think I'm going to try to dissuade you.

Not a chance in hell.

*is laughing*

Do you like picspam?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Picspam? WHO WOULD SAY NO?

*bounces*

[silveraspen]

*grin* Sorry for delayed response, had to relocate self rather far before finding Internet access again.

Anyway, here's a start! Link I left in Ji's post.

[nextian.livejournal.com]

Of course it is proper medical technique! Just like writing essays about food counts as cooking.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Real bones, you guys, this is so awesome.

... Jesus god if I can't have your life will you at least marry me?

O_O BONES.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

You only want me for my bones :( You might MURDER ME IN MY SLEEP.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I might crawl out with a knife and kill you when you're sleeping?

... aww, no. You write too well for me to do that.

[genarti]

I fully support THIS ENTIRE PLAN.

And, dude. Real entire spine on hand. I boggle at the awesomeness!

[setissma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did it too - eight months, but admittedly large chunks of that were spent on histology and dissection. The bones, they are... unique! ;)

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Just don't play pool with the bones like my classmates did. I feel there must be a line somewhere.