Subaqua Sternal Rubs

It's off to Tobago for a weekend of scuba diving… (Now up to 8 dives in 2 days…) Hotel says it has wireless, so if it's free, then I'll update from there, but if not, I'll be back on Monday!

Microbiology exam is hanging over my head. (It's on Friday.) So what am I doing? Planning a vacation, of course. After the exam a few friends and I are treating ourselves to a weekend of diving somewhere else, most likely Trinidad/Tobago. Looks like some good diving with lots to see (including mantas and hammerheads), yet not to touristy. We also were looking at Dominica, which is supposed to be the 5th best diving in the world, but we couldn't get any flights. Maybe next time. Though since someone wants to stay at the Hilton, there might not be a next time. Oh well, I can always get more loans, and it should be worth it.

Back to studying, in my 90 degree room (half the building is out again because the chiller shut down for no apparent reason.)

Update: The chiller is back on so my room is more comfortable, and the dive trip is booked complete with plane, hotel, and 7 dives potentially in 2 days, with the 3rd reserved for off-gassing that nitrogen. More to come, but need to go to bed now, so I can get up early to study tomorrow.

Update 2: Chiller back off again. Hopefully Maint. fixes it before tonight so I can sleep without sweating to death before my exam…

Bad: The two power outages this morning that occured just as I was supposed to be getting up for today's first pathology exam.

Good: Redundancy, consisting of battery back-up and multiple alarm devices, so I made it to the exam on time.

Bad: We had our first pathology exam today.

Good: The test was relatively easy, and I scored within a personally acceptable range. (Guess studying does pay off.)

Bad: I lost my Palm Tungsten C.

Good: I found it again, completely unharmed, (and not stolen) laying in the gravel of the parking lot next to my car. Luckily the rainy season seems to be subsiding somewhat…

Ugly: Microbio midterm on Friday. Ugh, more studying.

Since there was a complaint that I have not been posting enough, (I really don't have anything interesting to say — just studying for the first exams starting Monday), and someone was tired of looking at the same "nasty" picture, here are some more pathological pictures for you to identify/guess on:

It's official - pathologists love food. I mean why else would you call dead/dying tissue cheesy, or the characteristic staining of something apple green?

When I saw this slide in Pathology Lab, the only thing I could think of was a nice prime rib steak:

So you can see I am in great need of a nice steak Pop quiz: So what organ do you all think it actually is?

This has been around the internet for a while, but it made me smile, so I thought I'd share it:

Thoughts for the Day:

Number 10 - Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8 - Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich!

Number 7 - Give people a fish and you feed them for a day; teach them to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Number 6 - Some people are like a Slinky…..not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Number 5 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Number 4 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3 - Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?

Number 2 - In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2005:

We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as
to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.