Lizards and bones

I can't believe I forgot to mention this last time. Lindsey threw a lizard on me.

I thought we were friends. We've been buddies throughout this whole med school process. We sit near each other. We talk. Then, last week, a little lizard was on her leg and suddenly it all went away. In what she claims was a "reflex," she swatted the lizard off her leg and onto my foot. Fortunately, I never saw or felt the lizard throughout this whole incident. The lizard moved to my backpack, and a girl named Joan said, "It's just a lizard." This was a ridiculous statement to make. I mean, honestly. But it meant we could ask her to rid the classroom of the vile creature, which she did, bless her soul. I don't know what she did with it. I hope it's free and that Joan didn't eat it like Bear Grylls on Man vs. Wild. Because that would be gross.

SO. Yesterday we went to the gross anatomy lab for the first time. We didn't do any dissecting, but we picked up our boxes-o'-bones and met our cadavers. It was weird. The class is split into groups, and my group starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed that Erin doesn't pass out. That would be embarrassing. The smell isn't terrible, though, so maybe it won't be so bad. Maybe.

In developmental anatomy today we watched a video showing development up to the first seven weeks of life. The video does the whole gestation period, but we had to stop. I can't wait to finish it. They filmed development with a camera in the amniotic fluid, so we actually watched the embryo develop. By the way, a baby's skin is only a cell thick for the first several weeks, so you can see all the internal organs start to develop. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Seriously, wish you could have been there. Most of my class wasn't, though, because it was a review session, so you're actually not that far out of the loop.

I need to go read now. And maybe have a snack. Oh, the wild and crazy life I lead.