I'm Still Alive!

I haven't blogged in a while, but I AM still alive and going to school! The days seems to all bleed into one lately, I think the general overcast that has blanketed Glasgow is to blame. The sun never moves until it's all of the sudden night, and I'm studying so I don't even realise it until I'm tired and realise its time for bed! Not too much exciting has been happening here. Last weekend we had a Halloween party at my friends place that is, conveniently, right up the street. I was Zombie Alice in Wonderland, which actually turned out better than I thought it would since I kind of threw it together. It was weird being blonde for the night, and we all had a good time!
Dissection lab this week was really fun. We have some new TAs who are really helpful when we harass them about where things are and how they will look on an exam, a crucial question since a lot of the time the cadavers are ambiguously labeled, especially nerves and random recesses in the thorax, but I digress. I got to practise my surgeon skills, since I'm apparently really good at dissection? But I'm not complaining, its really fun! We cracked into the chest cavity to look at everything that we had been studying in situ. Then we had free range to bust into the abdominal cavity, which we did obviously, and had a wee poke around there, and I got blood all over my lab coat sleeves. At least we have new protocols which basically turn us into human condoms (hair nets, gloves, aprons, lab coats, and booties, we look hot), but it means that I stayed relatively clean while searching for kidneys! On wed we did and ECG lab that was pretty fast, but really cool and I actually learned a lot from it, so I'm glad that we got to do that, plus our professor is really helpful. Though I did have to help him lift the fake dog onto the table to have his 'ECG' taken, but he didn't tell me that I was supposed to pretend that it was real so I was just kind of holding it awkwardly, but still very informative! He asks a lot of questions, which is nice because I can answer them (in my head or outloud) and see if I'm close to being right or way off the mark, so it's a nice way to read into what kind of things he's going to look for on the exam.
We started digestion today, which is my favorite system, so thats exciting! Though we're still just in the mouth, less interesting, and we are learning more muscles, even less interesting. But its with a professor who we all like so he makes it fun and fairly straightforward, which is nice. Other than that just trying to keep afloat of studying, we have a few kind of busy weekends coming up and before we know it it'll be time for exams! Yikes!