Inspiration.

I think we should all try to be a little more like the Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.  And possibly Randall.

The Challenge in Studying for Boards

Really, the only challenge is...

how am I supposed to study with this animal all over my desk?

The Decks' Deceit

So I've been studying for boards lately, and I've been using Dental Decks, a set of pre-fab flashcards, to do so.  Now these decks aren't cheap, mind you.  They charge $245 for the set of them, and while I agree that they are helpful and I must say I didn't pay for my set (thanks, sister!), I am still a little irked by the apparent laziness I've found embedded in the decks.

I usually like to supplement or cross check information while I'm studying with the ever so fabulous internet.  This usually takes me to Wikipedia, where many of my questions can be answered.  So while reading a flashcard about the way a nephron works, I sought out to find some good images to accompany my studies, and ended up on this Wikipedia entry.

And then I noticed...

hmm.. this description sounds oddly familiar..

YOU COPIED FROM WIKIPEDIA!?

How many cards have I studied that are copy-and-pasted from Wikipedia?  Doesn't everyone say to use Wikipedia cautiously since its entries can be edited by anybody?  Does Dental Decks know this? Do they care?  Do they like charging us pathetic dental students hundreds of dollars for Wikipedia entries chopped up into conveniently sized blocks of hell?  Thanks a lot, Dental Decks. I guess at least this eliminates my need to read Wikipedia entries to compare descriptions of biochemical and physiologic processes.

The Minnie Update.

So as we know, Minnie's big day was today.  A couple days before her surgery, I was instructed by the vet to administer Clindamycin (Dr. Ganda's favorite!) twice a day for two and half days.  That cat may seem small and sweet, but she is strong and does NOT have a taste for medicine.  My solo struggles in squirting 1mL of Clinda down my cat's throat was sorta funny to me, so I thought I'd record one of my efforts for all to see.  

Anyway.  So I dropped Minnie off this morning, and then an hour and a half later, I get a call from the vet. I panicked because I wasn't supposed to pick her up until 3:30, and it was only 10:00, and I had signed a little thing on the release form saying that if something went wrong, I wanted them to call me ASAP.  So I freaked.  Then the nice hippie vet doctor man informed me that my dear Minnie's teeth were all barely hanging on by a thread.  We're talking loosey goosey, kind of just chilling on the alveolar crest, waiting for a good moment to jump into the back of Minnie's throat.  And they were sore.  Really sore.  So sore, when she was under general anesthesia, if you touched any of her teeth, they would automatically chatter.  Since she was in such bad shape, all of her teeth but the canines had been extracted.

My POOR baby.  So I cried and said thank you to the doctor man, and waitied patiently for the next five and a half hours to go by so I could go get her already.

When I finally went to pick her up, she was awake and seemed okay.  The vet gave me some before and after pictures, we had a little chat, and they sent us on our merry way.

Minnie's mouth right before surgery

Minnie's mouth post-surgery.

Salad anyone?

Matt had a "salad" for dinner tonight.  I guess salad is code for nachos now? (He claims everything below the toppings and above the chips is lettuce.)

somewhere there is lettuce. 

PS - this would be a great addition to the menu at Hidden Fats.

New Ketchup, WHERE ARE YOU?

It has been over a year now since I heard rumors about a new and magical ketchup packet - one that facilitates both dipping and squeezing (that's what she said?).  At the time, I couldn't have been more excited.  All of my wildest dreams were coming true - the way I fast food dined was about to be revolutionized!

So I waited. I perused local fast food joints.  In-n-Out? Nope. Still the ketchup pump + tiny paper cup disaster over the trash cans.  McDonalds? Nope. Still stingy with their sloppy "fancy" 1/2 oz ketchup packets.  And since we are on the topic, where do they get off calling these things fancy?

not fancy.

They are the lowest form of ketchup.  Nobody likes little ketchup packets - they are for ketchup beggars, people at McDonalds trying to douse their fries with another form of sodium, while the cashiers withhold it from us and get a God complex out of the whole ordeal.  You want fancy ketchup?

THIS. is the fanciest ketchup.

yes fancy.

Just so we're on the same page here.  Tiny, glass bottled, single serving ketchup.  FANCY.

Anyway.  I continued to search.  My active search became more passive as months passed, and after a little while, I had almost forgot about this new ketchup completely.

But sometimes every now and then, something will remind me - a french fry, a difficult to open "fancy," a large chicken nugget, and I suddenly feel alone and misled.

Please. If anyone finds the new ketchup, please fill me in on the whereabouts (so I can stock up).

What If You Were Attacked..

with POO?

Ok, now imagine you are wearing your favorite outfit, just hanging out on the street corner, and some dude, some old nasty dude with nothing better to do with his time than to look for innocent victims to shower with some filthy, smelly, stanky POO, comes up to you and throws

frozen cubes

of POO,

all over you?

Because, my friend, that is what happened in Norway to some poor, innocent cars.

The horror!

http://ejoh.se/fs/the-poo-poo-terrorist.html