You can find me in the club!

So this is about a month late but I just thought I would post two great pictures from the end of term 1 party that took place on the 16th of december. I had some people over and then everyone converged on the Double Deuce and proceeded to rock out until they shut the place down.




This first pic is Simone and I showing off our gangsta poses. The MPT program is only for hard assed thugs like us!


The second is of Jaime and Regan showing off the best skill that they learned so far in the program.

more great things come out of Pathology

well as promised here are a few more gems from my Pathology class

- talking about automatic responses in the body - "If you sneeze your eyes close automatically and you are blind for 30 seconds. So if you are driving and have a sneezing fit you should pull over."

- discussing terminology used in Physical Therapy - "What term do PT's use for the people they treat, do you say clients or patients?"
"We use both"
"Well do you know the use of client from olden times? Let me just say it was only used in the Red Light District"

- defining different types of bateria - "Facultative bacteria are like 18-19 year old children. They have the ability to leave home and live on their own but sometimes they come back when they need to do laundry or have a good meal."

-on the subject of names - "Tanielle, what is the origin of your name?"
"It's German"
"Really? It sounds too nice to be German."

- on the reaction of the immune system - "Don't think bigger is always better. Just like in life, what matters most is performance."

- explaining the process of Chemotaxis - "The immune cells are like us, they become activated by kissing the foreign body."

- further on about chemical attraction - "The cells are just like men. Some are attracted to blonde hair, some like big boobs, some long legs or big bums. And some just like it all."

Is anyone else getting goosebumps thinking about X-Men Origins: Wolverine?

I know that the trailers have made it out to seem like just a bunch of explosions with a jacked up Australian (check out his arms! he should change his name to Huge Jackman) flying around. But you have to look past the trailers to the underbelly of the movie. I'm not sure what that means but it doesn't detract from my excitement for this movie.

I mean look at the characters; Wolverine, Sabretooth, Weapon X, Deadpool, Gambit, Silver Fox, The Blob, Merry Brandybuck, a member of the Black Eyed Peas..... I mean you don't get any tougher than Will i Am or a hobbit.

Anyways, what I am saying is that the movie looks cool and nobody can change my mind.

Keanu Reeves is a Cowboy Bebopper

I just found out that the movie that I have been waiting so long to hear more about has cast Keanu Reeves as the main character.

Let us all take a moment to allow that to sink in........

Other than being lanky, having dark hair, and proving that he can do spin kicks I just don't see how anyone could have allowed this to happen. WHY?! Why ruin a perfectly good idea before it can even be filmed?

Damn you Neo, damn you straight to Hell. Oh wait, I guess you already have proven that you don't mind hell that much (stupid, stupid Constantine. Why do I even watch movies with this guy in them?).

I can't believe this hasn't been invented

I just love the simplicity of this design plus the way it solves that problem I have every morning.

"I've had this idea for a while. I've come to the conclusion that I'm never getting around to getting it made, so I at least want it publicized.
An ordinary towel right? Correct.
But, it has a distinct blue square in a not so used area of the towel.
Maybe I'm a slob, but I usually don't get a new towel every single day. And, I've got to dry my entire body. Some of which don't always get 100% clean.
I dry my ass, then the next day I use that same spot on the towel to dry my face. There it is, and it sucks.
The blue square is the designated section of the towel to dry your ass"

Now isn't that a great invention?

my Pathology prof is damn funny

So a new term has started and already I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above the water. Thankfully I have some great instructors that make the lectures interesting. One of the new ones for this term is for my pathology class. She is a doctor from india who must have lived in england for a time because she speaks in this very proper english accent that is just wonderful. Anyways, so she seems to be the kind of prof that doesn't take herself too seriously and just likes to tell it like it is. Because of this she has been the source of some rather humorous quotes already. Here are a couple of the better ones.

-when talking about chemotherapy and how it affects cancerous tissue- "the USA is like cancer treatment, they go into the world, stir things up and start war and fighting within a country, then they sit back and hope the bad guys kill themselves. Of course the good guys usually end up getting hurt too"

-when talking about free radicals and how they cause damage in the body- "free radicals are like single people, just wandering about causing trouble and wanting to pair up with someone. Until they pair up they cause a lot of mischief."

-in regards to the typical University students approach to studying- "I don't believe in bulemic learning. Before a test you go (munch,munch,chew,swallow) then you go to the test and (bleh,spew) and you don't remember anything"

-explaining the difference between two kinds of cell changes- "The poor cervix, getting battered and bruised all the time. Of course you are going to get some metaplasia. The poor thing needs to protect itself."

and the best quote ever!!

-after explaining the process of apoptosis in regards to menstruation and the uterine lining- "you know menstrual bleeding is like the bloody tears of the uterus from unrequitted love."

Maybe you had to be there.

Movies are stupid!!

towards the end of last term I for some reason had a strange desire to see the movie Innerspace again. I remember that movie as being hilarious and fun, the perfect blend of sci-fi and comedy that had a solid story combined with great actors (Quaid, Short, Ryan). I recall the amazing special effects and realism of the mini-sub travelling through the body. At the time I had thought it was a superb omage to the much older Fantastic Voyage (which is aparantely getting a remake in 2010). Now remember that it was 1987 and my impression of movies might have been skewed.

So during the last week of classes I was home during a 4 hour break and thought I would watch some TV while I ate lunch. To my surprise there was the movie I had so fondly remembered only the day before. And more to my surprise that movie was bad! I won't go into too much detail but here are a few choice moments that I thought were truly terrible.

1. car chase scene between an older scientist on a bicycle and menacing bad guy driving a death mobile (black of course) in which the scientist easily pedals faster than a speeding car.
2. the fact that the menacing bad guy had a fake hand that was also a gun! He could use the hand normally but it also shot a bullet out of his index finger. All he needed to do was cock back his thumb and point. To reload he needed to change the whole hand though.
3. the "science of shrinking" that stated clearly that Dennis Quaid would run out of air in 24 hours if they couldn't get him back to normal size. Why can't he just open the hatch and take a breath of fresh air? Because that would cause instant depressurization and blow up his mini-sub.
Now none of that makes sense because if pressure was the only issue he could just slowly repressurize.
Also in a scene not too long after that Martin Short drinks whiskey so that Dennis Quaid can get some whiskey to drink. How is this accomplished? Well he just opens a hatch and sticks his flask out into THE OPEN AIR!! catching the alcohol as it goes past. Too bad he can't get any air with his whiskey.

So I don't recommend watching this movie again unless you want your childhood memories shattered. Unless you haven't seen it yet, then I would put this on high priority the next time you are looking for something to rent.

p.s. The scene where Martin is talking to Dennis (who is inside of him) while he is using a urinal... priceless

Manbabies!!

So I was checking out my friend Shauna's blog and was reminded of this wonderful website that makes me laugh so much. There definitely is something hilarious about seeing a grown man's head on a babies' body. Too much funny!! Here are some of my favourites.