here, nerds

stitches

recently one of my favorite blogs -Street Anatomy- has posted some images near and dear to my heart...and knuckles. i LOVE the stuff from margot knight and HATE the type by luke lucas.

look. look at those pictures! my favorites are the top one and the feet on the bottom right.

i hate this. not gross enough.

Welcome to the Greenhouse

The babies are really starting to take off. So far there is a lot of basil and tomato success. The green beans are out of control. Nothing from any of the peps yet, but I am optimistic.

Happy Poison Prevention Week

I know that I am jumping the gun a bit on this one. But with exams coming up and the stress piling on I'm afraid that I will either forget to post this, or will have died from sudden sniffing death (preferebaly from "poppers"- yay sexual enhancement!)

From March 15th-21th I want to wish you all a happy Poison Prevention Week. So please, for this week and this week only, try not to do anything stupid.

4th grader Dylan Pettigrew

DPIC's number is 1-800-222-1222.

But if you want to be an idiot, here are some stupid things you should never do (but you would probably be fine if you did)

-drink Clorox bleach. this will make you feel really sick but it isn't corrosive so your insides will stay in tip top shape. surprising, I know

-eat rat poison. this only applies to certain kinds of rat poison (don't eat rat poison). but the kind with warfarin/ coumadin in it wont kill you. warfarin is an anticoagulation medication that takes several days to have a therapeutic effect (measured by INR times). warfarin acts by inhibiting the synthesis of clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X which have half lives of several days. this means that if you eat a bunch at one time, it likely wont have any effect.

-eat the mercury out of a thermometer. this is elemental mercury. it is not absorbed through the GI tract. mercury salts are absorbed in the GI though, so don't eat those



Seriously. Don't do that stuff, I will not be held responsible if you eat the wrong kind of rat poison or drink swimming pool bleach --both of which will actually kill you. Oh also, don't huff anything. EVER. You can blow up. Sudden Sniffing Death isn't a made up thing either. Don't huff- go big or go home.

4th grader Katlin Woods

homg!spring!

Sam Spenser's Umbrella Bloom

I have been having some serious spring freak-outs lately. Freak-outs include: avoiding school work (more than usual), spending money like I have it, laying down to nap outside, a compelling need to fly kites and blow bubbles, and an irrational desire to have a vase full of fresh cut flowers (I can't afford that). It was lovely out for a few days running, but Ohio is a bitch.

The most important thing about spring is taking care of my plant babies so that over the summer I will have lots of yummy foods to eat.
This year's family of plant babies:
cherry , heirloom mix, beefsteak, and roma tomatoes
green and sweet mix peppers
green beans
lavender
rosemary
lemon/lime, siam queen, fineleaf dwarf, genovese, and sweet basil

getting "TURPed"

what happens when i am uninspired but still looking to procrastinate- i blerg about awful things you hope will never happen to you.

in my Therapeutics of Renal and Electrolyte Disorders class we learned about BPH, blah, blah, blah. but you wanna know what's probably worse than BPH? fixing it by getting TURPed.

TURP = transurethral resection of the prostate

Even though I think the image says it all, don't forget that "electricity" is included in the diagram

F.Y.EYE

Back in The Creek my neighbor only has one eye. I forget how she lost it....either running with scissors or in a car accident. I made up one of those stories but time makes fools of us all and I have no idea anymore which is the truth. Anyways if you ever get the chance to look at a prosthetic eye up close I highly recommend the experience. Some general factoids about fake eyes:
-not round, you're an idiot if you thought they were
-not made of glass either
-made out of tupperware
-the blood vessels are red carpet fibers
-make sure you wash off all the soap on them before you put them back in, evidently it burns pretty bad
-even though it looks like the person wearing one can see you, they really can't. this comes in very handy when sneaking-up on them
-threading needles is very hard to do
-also, fake eyes are totally gorgeous

I used to want to make prosthetics- I figured it would be a good way to combine creativity and nerddom. I should have done it. Pharmacy school is demoralizing.