martha icon. of course.

[fahye]

What did I learn today?



Bones of the hand, bitches :D

We also had our first ever psychological medicine lecture, which was like coming home and rediscovering all the shiny things you'd forgotten about while you were away, and I got a chocolate frog (the lecturer = very keen on lobbing chocolate frogs across the enormous lecture hall) for knowing why we consider specific phobias of blood & injury to be a separate group to all the other specific phobias.

He also made us watch fifteen minutes of the 1979 original When a Stranger Calls in an earnest, totally non-ironic effort to help us experience a moderate fear reaction. It was great.

So...a good ending to a pretty sucky week, all-in-all. I have absolutely nothing planned for the weekend, so if any Sydneysiders want to kidnap me or go out to lunch or see a movie or something, let me know!

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

why we consider specific phobias of blood & injury to be a separate group to all the other specific phobias

Care to enlighten the curious but scientifically uneducated few?

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

I need to give you your table and umbrella and my Saturday all day class is canceled. Also probably be going for a drive to the eastern suburbs and Surry Hills if you're interested.

[sophistry]

Bones of the hand = totally sexy.

I think this is the fundamental difference between medical doctors and archaeologists. Besides, you know, all the other stuff. We both think bones are AWESOME, but you have a vested interest in keeping them inside their respective bodies, whereas we just like to play with them.

[amayonolune.livejournal.com]

Where in the great universe of evolution did the sesamoid bone become necessary in the functionality of the human being?

Also, yeay raining chocolate frogs

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

I did not before now even know that the sesamoid bone existed. Why does it exist??

Yay, Fahye, you are turning into Martha Jones! soon you will be the most awesome person in the known universe.

[dubhartach.livejournal.com]

Did they have an acronym for the carpal bones? (of course, you could just *learn* them ... then maybe you wouldn't still have to mutter your one of choice under your breath 13 years later, huh)