Plants Week 4

Gettin shaggy! I can't wait for the little blooms to come up. By the way, I have an odd feeling that these plants I first called pansies then changed to violets are actually marigolds. I guess I'll know for sure when they show off their flowers, but I have a feeling I've seen these leaf patterns before, when we grew marigolds in 3rd grade.

I spent part of my evening in the anatomy lab tonight. My partner and I have a presentation to make to the rest of the class, so we were doing extra dissection. Usually when I go into lab, no matter what day of week or time of day, there are at least a few other people there. But this time, at 10pm on a Sunday, there was no one there. It was just me and Janet and 20 dead people sleeping in the dim, singly-lit laboratory (Janet and I were not sleeping, the dead people were). It was creepy so I switched the lights on really fast. We were both a little skittish until we started dissecting, but as we picked away at the intermuscular fat and strings of facia among the cervical plexus, it seemed perfectly normal to be sitting there, talking about random things, and wiping away strands of hair that were falling into another person's body cavity. We were proud to have found our parathyroid glands, as they are often inadvertently removed during thyroidectomies due to their inconvenient location and size.

Next week we I hear we have to decapitate our body. Now that will be interesting and not a little bit gross.