It's 1:00 in the am, and I feel no closer to being prepared for tomorrow's final than I was two hours ago. I gave up on making index cards when I realized that I still had eleven pages of notes to go. Someday I will learn to keep up with things as I go and stop overestimating my abilities. It seems as if the only things I have retained from anatomy are relatively worthless but oh-so-interesting bits of information. For instance:
Estrogen promotes vascularization, which means that women lose more body heat. This explains why the girl who was once constantly hot is now a woman who is constantly freezing.
Parking meters freeze up when the wind chill reaches -50 degrees.
The carnival "Dancing Duck" was moving his feet to the music as a result of hot coils in the floor of his cage.
If one finds just the right position, his or her vehicle can ride the wind behind a tractor trailer.
Queen Victoria was a carrier of hemophilia, which explains why a large number of European princes were hemophiliacs.
When someone is completely color blind, orange is a concept...not a color. What is beige?
Steroid hormones attract mosquitoes.
Joints are still cartilage at the time of birth, which explains why babies can't walk.
One can tell a lot about an animal's lifestyle by simply looking at the color of the meat. For example, tuna and salmon are darker in color because they are highly active. Flounder is lighter in color because it is relatively inactive with only brief spurts of energy. This all relates to fast twitch and slow twitch muscles, but I don't feel like getting into it.
Oh dear. Say a prayer for me around 10:30 Thursday morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment