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[fahye]

!!! THERE IS NEW BONES. IT EXISTS. SOMEWHERE.

WOE UPON MY STUPID COLLEGE INTERNET & ALSO MY COMPLETE, UTTER, CRAZY LACK OF MONEY.

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Oh thanks be to the the deity of dancers, medical students, and all other exhausted mortals: tomorrow is Saturday. Sleep can occur. Well, sleep & all the homework I have been Not Doing all week because of Revue.

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[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

Is your school internet too slow for streaming video? (I know mine is. Fuck it, I want to watch The Daily Show.)

[octavius-x.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I'm watching it right now. Here baby, come enjoy with me (http://www.allybox.com/watch/tv/bones/yanks-in-the-uk-1.html)

If you can watch tell me what you think?

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD, I missed Bones like OXYGEN. We have been doing cadaver dissections all week (and will be doing them until we know EVERYTHING EVER) and I have been dying to have new Bones to watch so I can be all "sternum! intercostal space! costovertebral joint! I KNOW YOU."

[fahye.livejournal.com]

You are so lucky to actually have cadavers to dissect! We have prosections that have been pre-dissected, because so few people donate their body to medical schools here that there is no way they can let a whole cohort of students have one each, even in groups. The university only has the one small collection of carefully-prepared cadavers so we can't damage them at ALL.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

It's not slow exactly, but it a) has restrictions on how large a file can be downloaded at any one time, and b) would cost me $7 to download a 350MB file, and while this does not seem like much, I have no income and constant tiny demands on my wallet and I'm worried that my Europe trip at the end of the year will wipe me out ENTIRELY if I keep spending at my current rate.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

We're the only school in Canada that has them, it's this amazing program - one for every four, plus a bunch of extras that they prosection for exams and demonstrations and stuff. I have no idea how they've cultivated such a community of donors.

But it is INSANE. We have to go through the entire cadaver by the end of January. That is SO MANY PARTS.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I rely on my Grey's and my Netter flashcards and my very old photographic atlas that belonged to my father :) And we don't do it all at once, we do it as it applies to particular blocks -- so far we've covered the limbs during musculoskeletal, and the lungs/head&neck during respiratory.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha, my anatomy prof has a serious business vendetta against Netter - he told us on the first day that if we bought Netter's books and got questions wrong on the exam, we deserved it.

We're organized differently - we spend a year doing healthy anatomy (although usually it's in context of disease state - right now we're looking at the anatomy of the thorax, but he clarifies function with things like "what if there was a tumor here?") and then a year doing disease states.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Huh! That sounds like a sensible way to do it, though I do like my school's way of immersing you in the lungs for eight weeks at a time -- you emerge feeling SO KNOWLEDGEABLE. Although apparently then you get to hospital in third year and realise that actually you know nothing.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

It is kind of nice. I feel like if we did lungs in the beginning of first year, by the time I got to the end of the second year and we were doing gut or something, I would have forgotten them. Which is ideally not the point of medical school, I hear.

*weeps* So many bits. Although actually, I feel more on top of things now than I did on Monday. Hopefully this is a coping mechanism and not just dangerous complacency.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*pats encouragingly*

Sleeeeeep. Yeah, I'm sort of ridiculously looking forward to it, too. :D And I don't even have those excuses!