Last quiz for Lower Extremity Anatomy today. Then tomorrow I have my final lab exam and on Friday the final lecture exam. Pretty excited that this is almost the end (of the first year), but I'm still a little overwhelmed with all the information and such a short amount of time.

As you can see, I have added a last.fm dealie to my blog so you can see what music I've been listening to whether you want to or not. Sucker! But seriously if any of you have a last.fm account, add me as a friend.

Heroes has its season finale next week and The Office has its this Thursday. Both are sad affairs, but at least they will both be returning next fall. I'm not sure how I feel about the Heroes spin-off they are planning (Heroes: Origins), but I'll give it a chance.

Alright I gotta get warmed up for the quiz. Laters fools.

Listening To: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Desperado
Oh Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate.
It may be raining, but there's no rainbow above you.
You better let somebody before it's tooooooooooo late.

Hey guys. I'm deep into finals right now, almost done. 10 days and I'll be road tripping it home. Anyway I've been messing around with Flickr lately, since my brother made me sign up for it about 2 1/2 years ago I figured it'd be good to see what's going on on there. It's pretty cool but I don't think I've had enough time to see all the little things about it. I just hooked up my blog to my account, so expect to see cool pictures I come across while browsing.

Don't read this if you are squeamish about blades or blood. It's not terrible, but just a warning.

Guess who got his first scalpel cut today!!! That's right, me. I was switching blades on my scalpel before starting work in lab today and the handle slipped, locked the blade on and went straight through my glove. Luckily it was a really really shallow cut. It was barely bleeding at all. Our blades come from my lab partner's dad's office, so they are high quality blades. The blade is so sharp that I didn't even feel it go into my finger. Pretty weird, but that's a good thing I guess. Anyway I'm sure by the time that I'm a surgeon, the self-stabbing will be down to a minimum.

After it started bleeding, I immediately went over to the sinks and washed it with soap profusely. Someone went and told a TA that I had cut myself and she brought over some band-aids. While I was waiting, one of my classmates asked me what I was doing and I said I was bleeding and he just goes "Oh, okay" and walks away. Doesn't ask if I'm getting any help or something, just goes and talks to some people at a different table. Great friend, this guy. He's looking for a roommate in the dorms next year and I'm afraid they are going to place him with me since my roommate is moving out. I really hope not.

Anyway the TA came around and put the band-aid on. Initially I was only bleeding at the base of my finger and she put it on that cut. I guess she put it on a little bit too tight though because a couple minutes later a new cut had opened up on the upper portion of my finger. Luckily she had given me another band-aid just in case, so I put that one on myself. It's not easy to put a band-aid on with one hand!

Oh, just remembered. Here's the weird things I was thinking when I woke up in April, 2007:

April 2, 2007 - "I want the !"
April 3, 2007 - "You have the ahhh we got the ayyyyyyyyy"
April 4, 2007 - "I summon Dr. Benjamin Franklin."
April 10, 2007 - "Internal carotid artery."
April 14, 2007 - "Sam Spade is FULL."
April 16, 2007 - "We got the chocolate. Yep, that's right."
April 17, 2007 - "I like to...shoot things?"
April 21, 2007 - "You're familiar with the What If series?"
April 23, 2007 - "The lowest level of high definition."
April 24, 2007 - "Where's the agglutination center?"
April 26, 2007 - "Do they know they have restaurants worldwide?"
April 27, 2007 - "Got a bone..."
April 30, 2007 - "Man, I talked to everyone I came in contact with today."

Listening To: Jerry Lee Lewis - Mean Woman Blues
I got a woman as mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.

How unfortunate. A man discovers electricity, helps found the United States of America, gets his face on the $100 bill and signs the Declaration of Independence but then is almost but forgotten for some 200 years when he is recognized for the Exceptional Long Term Achievement Award at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. This is not how we should treat our national heroes! Next time you are getting a burger at McDonalds, be sure to tell George Washington that you appreciate everything he has done for us. He deserves at least that.

Hey readers. I want y'all to go check out one of the links that you can find on the right side of this page. Specifically check out the one titled "A Gentle Walk". Well I really want you to look at all of the links, but I'm talking about this one for a reason. It's the blog of a good friend of mine from all the way back in kindergarten. He's currently editing down 36+ hours of footage that he filmed in India and Nepal that will be a documentary about a man he met while filming a wedding who makes the yearly ascent of a particular mountain in Nepal. I'm pretty sure that's what it's about. He told me about it back in February, which was before his trip and now he has gone and come back. So for all I know things could've happened while he was there that changed the theme of the documentary. Anyway, he filmed it on this awesome camera so I'm sure once it's done (he says sometime in the beginning of next year) it will look amazing.

Man. The Warriors is seriously an awesome movie. I'm watching it right now for the second time but it feels likes I'm LIVING it. It has pretty much everything you would want out of an R-rated campy movie from the 70s: Cheesy costumes, cheesy music, REALLLLY bad lines ("Hey, little man, you wanna dance?") Seriously, to get that line for you guys, I didn't even have to rack my memory of what's been said so far, I just waited for the next character to speak and that's what came out.

Finals started today. Wasn't so bad. It was just my Fundamentals of Medicine class which according to the professor should just be a pass/no pass class based on attendance, but I guess administration thinks otherwise. I'm sure I did fine on it but it was a little bit annoying because there were 10 lectures to study from, 2 of which were on diabetes. And then on the test there was literally one question about diabetes and it was a really easy one at that. Whoa, this dude is rollerblading down some stairs in the movie. That's badass. Anyway this weekend it's supposed to hit 81 on Sunday but I have another test to study for that is on Monday. 6 tests left to go for the rest of the year and then my friend Dave and I are hitting the road back to California. I talked to a doctor in Mill Valley this week who says I can come in and shadow at his office a couple days every week while I'm at home for the summer. He also said it'd be a good opportunity to network with other doctors in the area which I'm sure couldn't hurt.

Anyway enough rambling. If you haven't seen The Warriors I suggest you do so immediately. The video game is pretty fun, too. I read that Tony Scott, director of Top Gun, is making a remake that will be out in 2008. Color me unexcited and extremely doubtful.