Monday, December 06, 2004
We're back, sort of
I'll make this short, well we'll see about that. So Best Buy calls me up and says, "Kid, we fixed your damn machine now come and pick it up." So I leave and pick it up. Lo and behold, it was not formatted! There is a force of good in this world and it has favored me with this gift of not letting HP format my computer.
Why is this such a spectacular event? Earlier I needed my fan replaced and they decided it was necessary to wipe it clean before returning it. I have no mechanical skills necessary to perform open-heart surgery on machines and thus can not appreciate the fine nuances inherent to such a process. However, I know for damn sure that replacing the fan does not involve a bloody mind-erasing format. So the fact that telling Best Buy to tell HP not to do it actually works, if you yell at them everyday for a week.
In other news I had my palpation lab today. As I have not given the grandiose story of where the hell I am I'll have to explain. I have to be able to identify muscles, bones, etc on a living person for this test. Palpate means to feel or to find and I was given 7 minutes to find 8 structures on my lab partner. You have to be professional about this, so if you need to find the femoral artery (above your crotch there is where the front of your hips are, to the right of that and a little lower is where you can find the pulse of the artery. Yeah a little ways from your genitalia). Luckily I didn't have to find the femoral artery or the pectoralis major (chest muscle) on my female lab partner. While I am capable of doing this professionally it doesn't make it any less awkward. Bad jokes come to mind throughout this exam too so that doesn't help either. "Hey baby, want to feel my LCL? (knee ligament)" Being of little width I am an ideal person to find things on, so was my lab partner. I believe that I ROCKED this test so I can now move on and begin studying the same structures on very dead subjects, also know as cadavers.
15 dead people got up to... wait we've cut they knee ligaments pretty bad, I don't think these cadavers will be getting up anytime soon.
-J
Why is this such a spectacular event? Earlier I needed my fan replaced and they decided it was necessary to wipe it clean before returning it. I have no mechanical skills necessary to perform open-heart surgery on machines and thus can not appreciate the fine nuances inherent to such a process. However, I know for damn sure that replacing the fan does not involve a bloody mind-erasing format. So the fact that telling Best Buy to tell HP not to do it actually works, if you yell at them everyday for a week.
In other news I had my palpation lab today. As I have not given the grandiose story of where the hell I am I'll have to explain. I have to be able to identify muscles, bones, etc on a living person for this test. Palpate means to feel or to find and I was given 7 minutes to find 8 structures on my lab partner. You have to be professional about this, so if you need to find the femoral artery (above your crotch there is where the front of your hips are, to the right of that and a little lower is where you can find the pulse of the artery. Yeah a little ways from your genitalia). Luckily I didn't have to find the femoral artery or the pectoralis major (chest muscle) on my female lab partner. While I am capable of doing this professionally it doesn't make it any less awkward. Bad jokes come to mind throughout this exam too so that doesn't help either. "Hey baby, want to feel my LCL? (knee ligament)" Being of little width I am an ideal person to find things on, so was my lab partner. I believe that I ROCKED this test so I can now move on and begin studying the same structures on very dead subjects, also know as cadavers.
15 dead people got up to... wait we've cut they knee ligaments pretty bad, I don't think these cadavers will be getting up anytime soon.
-J
