Saturday, February 9, 2008

Anatomy lab

I broke my "rule of thumb", no camera. I left just a few minutes ago to study on campus while Megan and Ashley studied anatomy. My plan was to go to the library and study while they look at parts of things that once barked and meowed. I now at this very moment find my self sitting in an "office" smelling less then pleasant surrounded by all sorts of parts of various animals, some real some plastic all weird. My plans evolved as I remembered Megan mentioning that all the lecture halls are open to study in if I wished, so I decided instead of being clear across campus I’d study at the lecture hall next to the anatomy lab... getting off the but Megan mentions "Oh there's an office that you can study in off the side of the anatomy lab." With the mental picture of an office separate from the lab in my mind I agreed and followed them in. My first surprise was to walk through double doors into a large room filled with stainless steel tables with drain spouts and catch buckets below... and the smell. How do I describe the smell, hmm? Let’s just say it didn't knock me over but it wasn't pleasant either. So walking through the lab (which I thought I’d be steering very clear of) I looked around lightly focusing mostly on where I was headed, slightly curious to see a partial animal spread about a table, but mostly hoping I also didn't see that very thing. Entering the "office" I find my self in a long room which more closely resembles a storage room with a long narrow table on one side and tall counter on the other.
Take a guess what might be in storage like room next to an anatomy lab... parts. Yes, lots and lots of parts. I'd call them "spare parts" but since you can't really re-use these there more like excesses or used parts.
A quick tour of what I can see includes a pictorial printout of how to dissect a lizard, plastic human brain, a plastic body part that I’ve never seen before, what I think is a real baby pig incased in plastic, and a number of jars (the contents of which I have yet to have the guts to explore). The two girls just returned to adorn themselves with rubber gloves and scrubs... I don't want to know why.
Hmm just down the table from where I am seated about 10 feet or so is... uh... well something that was once living and inside something much larger. I think it's an organ of some sort. All I know is its real, very dead, and sitting on my same table. I would get a lot of weird looks but man I wish I had my camera... you reading this probably am glad I don't but a picture is worth a least a million words in this place.
OK so the point of me being here was to finish this awful paper for my Global Market Place class... back to that I go.

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