Week 2

Today is my mom's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know she reads my blog so....

This is an email I sent this morning about school yesterday. It was my second week or class on campus. Up until now all of my classes have been online, which is good when you have a full time job and a family to take care of. I'm posting this because I think it will be amusing to go back and read it later in the semester or even a few years from now when I'm graduating.

Just wanted to give you an update on how my second week of A & P went. I wasn't in as much of a rush to get to Atlanta yesterday. Last week I got out of Covington at 8:30 and got there with about 5-10 minutes to spare. Almost too close for me. Yesterday I left Covington around 8:15. So I was more relaxed for one thing. But who cares about my driving time? Let's get to the school part.

I'm actually all into the lecture. See, I enjoy learning about anything biology. It interests me more than "In 1492, Columbus sailed..." We covered 3 chapters in 2 1/2 hours. Impressive. Even more so that I kept up! LOL By the last 15 minutes of class I had to pee so bad. That just happened to be the part when he talked about cells in the bladder and how the bladder stretches to accommodate extra urine when, for example, you're taking a test and can't go right away. I about raised my hand and asked him to speed it up because my bladder had reached full capacity. But I made it ok. (The bathrooms, for the record, were NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lined the entire stall with toilet seat covers and still hovered)

We learned about the chemistry of the body (we've all taken Chemistry, so he didn't focus a whole lot on it). Then we learned about the cells in the body. It was very interesting. It's extremely detailed. It's difficult and there's ALOT to learn but I'm so interested in it that it might be to my advantage.

At lunch I had a pleasant, quiet lunch in the student center. Noone else was around, except for the occassional vending machine visitor. I had one of those soup at hands (Vegetable Beef) and that sucker filled me up!! I could barely walk. But then again, I'm back on Byetta and it does that to me.

Lab was SOOOO much better than last week. A couple of us were talking about it and agreed it went better today than it did last week. We looked at cells under the microscope. We looked at cheek cells, sperm cells, muscle tissue cells, and red blood cells.

We took a quiz on body parts/names, the microscope, and directional names (anterior/posterior/distal/proximal...) I got a 92%, which I consider good. I missed two. I forgot the name for the hip (I put iliac) and the forearm (I put appendicular, which somewhat technically is true LOL). I think the correct answers were coxial and antebrachial (or something).

We got out of class early, at 2:00. That was nice. Last week I didn't get home until almost 4:00. People in traffic really bother me. I hate being stuck in the fast lane, when there's real slow people going the speed limit in the other two lanes and I'm stuck behind some nasty chick and her junked out car going only 1 mph faster than the cars in the other two or three lanes. You can't pass her and you want to go 20 mph faster! Finally there's a break in the other two lanes, does she get over? Oh no. She owns that lane. So it's a race between me and 8 other cars to command the middle lane and to pass her. I encountered that 3 times between Atlanta and Covington. Ohhh made me mad!

But I made it home without seriously injuring or killing anyone, which is good, I suppose. I'll be there next weekend. I'm actually excited! Althought it's hard work and it's eating up my precious Saturday it's like recess for my mind. I LOVE A & P! Save this email. Maybe I'll update you each week. Compare this email to the one I send you in 8 weeks LOL (PREVIEW WEEK 8: "I hate that freaken class! I hate it! I hate the people, the teacher, the school, my desk! I hate the freaken cat I dissected! I cut through it's liver and then I threw it out the window!)