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Have been very bad about updating lately. But it has been a good day. schneck128 drove down last night and we stayed up late discussing Farscape. :-D Then today we went shopping at Ikea, and saw Love, Actually (which was WONDERFUL!!), and had dinner at Applebee's, and now I'm teaching her to crochet. And then I think some sleep is in order. It's been rather a full day. But my Amy will be leaving us soon for colder pastures, so we gotta make the most of our time while we're in roughly the same area. :)

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Have been very bad about updating lately. But it has been a good day. schneck128 drove down last night and we stayed up late discussing Farscape. :-D Then today we went shopping at Ikea, and saw Love, Actually (which was WONDERFUL!!), and had dinner at Applebee's, and now I'm teaching her to crochet. And then I think some sleep is in order. It's been rather a full day. But my Amy will be leaving us soon for colder pastures, so we gotta make the most of our time while we're in roughly the same area. :)

Oh hell.

I've just now remembered we have a quiz in physiology tomorrow morning. We're supposed to read this background chapter on the kidney, because God forbid the professor should actually *teach* us about the kidney himself in the FOUR DAYS he's been assigned to teach it to us. He'd cover twice the material if he didn't ask the class a question after every sentence:

"Okay, and the basal membrane is connected to the extracellular matrix via....?"

*dead silence for about 15 seconds, because even though we all know the answer, we're really sick of him continually asking stupid questions rather than just TEACHING*

*finally someone gets sick of it and mutters "Integrins."*

"Integrins, right, and inside the cell those connect to...?"

*another dead silence, which someone finally breaks with a barely audible "actin cytoskeleton"*

"Did someone say actin? Good, okay, and the integrins connect to what in the extracellular matrix?"

***

You get the picture. Question after question after question, all pointless, all stuff we've *just* learned (or had refreshed) in cell biology, and all preventing us from doing any actual learning. Drives me up a freakin' wall.

And now that I've ranted, I should read this chapter, so I don't fail this stupid quiz tomorrow.

Oh hell.

I've just now remembered we have a quiz in physiology tomorrow morning. We're supposed to read this background chapter on the kidney, because God forbid the professor should actually *teach* us about the kidney himself in the FOUR DAYS he's been assigned to teach it to us. He'd cover twice the material if he didn't ask the class a question after every sentence:

"Okay, and the basal membrane is connected to the extracellular matrix via....?"

*dead silence for about 15 seconds, because even though we all know the answer, we're really sick of him continually asking stupid questions rather than just TEACHING*

*finally someone gets sick of it and mutters "Integrins."*

"Integrins, right, and inside the cell those connect to...?"

*another dead silence, which someone finally breaks with a barely audible "actin cytoskeleton"*

"Did someone say actin? Good, okay, and the integrins connect to what in the extracellular matrix?"

***

You get the picture. Question after question after question, all pointless, all stuff we've *just* learned (or had refreshed) in cell biology, and all preventing us from doing any actual learning. Drives me up a freakin' wall.

And now that I've ranted, I should read this chapter, so I don't fail this stupid quiz tomorrow.