Sep182008
Low Woe
Filed under School,TV by Kim at 8:52 am on Sep 18 2008
Considering the fact that financial panic is staring plenty of people in the face after the past week, I should probably not complain about, say, the fact that my blow dryer was dead when I got up this morning and so I look like a scary 80s chick because my bangs are flipping out all over the place. It’s true, I am entirely blow dryer dependent.
I made it through the first round of exams! I am mostly sure I aced the lecture portion, and entirely sure I aced the lab portion because he handed them back yesterday. My classmates were all very jealous. I got something wrong that I’d circled for which the answer I wrote was “Epicardium” but I cannot for the life of me recall what the question was. I also got something wrong I labeled “Neutrophil” and no one else could tell me what that was either. I know I got at least one wrong on the multiple choice last night – For the life of me I could not remember what it was that the goddamn liver makes out of the choices. And he had told us that question! And 5 minutes before the exam I said to Annette (the one who keeps reminding me it only takes 3 seconds to shave your armpits) “I am going to get this one wrong” and pointed to it.
Ah, well. I still think I am in A territory for the first round, which is amazing considering how sloppy I was about time management and studying. I definitely need to be more proactive and spend more time here:
Look, there is even a fuzzy kitty cat there to make it more enticing. Yes, that is also my new LLBean back-to-school super deluxe monogrammed backpack you see. Part of my success last semester was podcasts, but the podcasts I have found for A&P II are more spotty and less aligned with our curriculum. I also spent breaks at work and lunches studying – so I’ll do a little more of that.
After hopefully rocking the lecture exam, on the way home I stopped at the neighborhood boozeteria and got myself a cheap bottle of chardonnay and went at it like a goth girl at a baby shower. I haven’t felt that relaxed in weeks. Possibly months. Ah, self-medication. We watched Fringe and Project Runway…
Fringe: My first confession should be that the main, or perhaps sole reason I set the DVR up to catch this show is Josh Jackson. I am completely biased in his favor and he can do no wrong. Now, aside from that, I like weird science stuff so great. What I didn’t anticipate was that this show would be a regular gross-out challenge. Or at least, so far that is a huge factor. I could live without that part, but I endure because I love Pacey Josh and because no other enticing fall TV has started up. (I have a backlog of Burn Notice but got rapidly very tired of the plot.) The pilot episode was in many respects pure drivel. The jokes were about half funny and half stale and poorly timed and most of the characters were flat and awful, particularly the main chick. But I try to tell myself the old chestnut “what if you went back and watched the first season of ST:TNG? Huh? You’d think it was awful, that’s right.” I have no fondness for conspiracy theory stories but there is enough held back (and enough on display) about “Massive Dynamic” that I am interested in how the story might unfold. After watching the pilot sober and the second ep on a half bottle of wine, I rate this show “two drink minimum”.
Project Runway: Finally, that dicknose is gone. “Shucks you know how mothers and daughters are.” Yeah, those wacky women. Chauvinist dickwad. I will also note, however, that Leann is a jackass also: “nobody wants to make old lady dresses”. Well at least she is straightforward about it. Nevertheless, I wish some old ladies would punch her in the face. I also thought that there was NOTHING androgynous about what Jorel did. How is a high-waisted skirt with a floofy satiny top androgynous?? Suede’s stopped talking about himself in the 3rd person now that things are serious… and I confess I didn’t hate the concept behind his design at all, but his shoddy execution torpedoed him.
