Fr-Fr-Fr-Friiiiday!

for today...
(-) statistics class in general
(-/+) watching vascular graft suregery
(+) playing with a pig's heart valve
(+) seeing holly and eric
(-) finding out that my room is being changed
(+) the high-five-ers
(-) calculus
(+) laying out with my favorite ladies
(+) what i'm doing now

So statistics class was, as usual, horrid. Don't you hate it when you go to class with everything the teacher asked for, but you get there and they could swear they asked for something else too? Especially when he insists he mentioned it, even though every student is disagreeing with him. Yeah...and then there's the genius who thinks we should have our final replace our last test grade. What final has ever been a higher grade than the tests?!? Stupid boy. And because he's louder than me, that is probably what will happen. Did I mention that I think he's a stupid boy?

On a whim, I started taking count of the ratio of guys to girls in my classes today. Here are the results: statistics was 5 to 1, bioE was 1 to 5 (because the other 5 guys weren't there), calculus was 8 to 1. You could say I'm in a lopsided major. Or, that my classes are majorly lopsided.

In BioE, we watched a vascular graft surgery. It was really cool to watch (they staple the collagen graft to the actual blood vessel with these impossibly small staples) until they shoved a rod into the incision at the ankle and wiggled it all the way up the leg to the opening at the groin. NASTY!!! There is something majorly unapetizing about seeing something wriggling under the surface of the skin. On the up-side, I got to play with the heart valve of a pig. It was stitched into a dacron (it's a fiber...a polymer) sheath that works as a scaffold to support the chordae tendoneae (the tendons that pull open the valve). The valve is then stitched into a human heart, provided that several undergraduate students have not handled it first. It is much more biocompatible than a mechanical valve, but it has a tendency to calcify. Anyway, I got to play with it. I kinda smelled like formaldehyde for a while afterward. It was really little.

Big fat YAY!! for seeing Holly and Eric in the library. It has pretty much become a part of my Fridays to see them there.

I got a call from my dad telling me not to get too upset if my room is in total upheaval when I get back (he didn't use that word, but I like it...upheaval). Apparently mom is getting my dresser and I'm getting the dresser I had when I was little. The dresser that is the reason that I got the new one in the first place. Because it's tiny. I'm getting the other dresser too, another smaller one, but I'm still perturbed by this. At least my desk is finally gone!!!

Went to lunch with Joe and Rachel. That was fun. Went and colored a poster for the high-five guys while they did their thing. It was REALLY hot on the bridge.

Had to go to calculus after that. BOOOO!!!

Got to lay out with Julie and Rachel after class. That was nice. I am getting a nice little tan. Not too much, just enough. Just enough to say that I have a tan.

Currently, I am sitting in the most awesome deck chair ever, out on the porch. It's a bit polleny, but not too bad out here. Don't know the plan for tonight yet... Don't know that I really care that I don't know.

Oh yeah... had a lovely date with Joe last night (that gets a ++). hehe. yeah.