Oh Joyous Weekend
I love summer weekends.
This is exactly how I want my life to be. Wake up an hour later, listen to Weekend Edition on npr, make a weekend breakfast, have a cup of tea, bike into work. Keep work going so that there's real stuff to do on Monday and not boring catch-up that requires no creative thinking. I'm extremely happy about the research I'm doing this summer. Most probably because I have so much control over all of my work.
Yesterday there was another oberlin summer science student event. We went to the Cleveland Science Center, located right next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to go to the Body Worlds 2 exhibit. Through this technique called plastification, doctors and scientists had preserved cadavers' muscles and nerves and everything but fat and fluids. The bodies were positioned and dissected in different ways for people to gain a greater understanding of the human body. It was really enlightening. I enjoyed seeing different joints, diseased organs, how different people do have slight differences inside, the example of surgical cuts that surgeons must learn in order to prevent a large injury, and the one woman who died while five months pregnant. That may seem morbid, but curiosity took over any squeamishness. There was also a body that they were able to save the fat in and had a vertical cut-away like a tree. This guy was about 300 lbs. and died of heart failure. It was easy to see why. The fat had just taken over and the heard had become enlarged to compensate. It was frightening and scared me into making sure I never get that big.
I came home and had a nice adventure making Stacey a birthday cake, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. Especially the icing which had double the sugar it called for!
This American life comes on at 11, so I should be off. I love the weekend!
This is exactly how I want my life to be. Wake up an hour later, listen to Weekend Edition on npr, make a weekend breakfast, have a cup of tea, bike into work. Keep work going so that there's real stuff to do on Monday and not boring catch-up that requires no creative thinking. I'm extremely happy about the research I'm doing this summer. Most probably because I have so much control over all of my work.
Yesterday there was another oberlin summer science student event. We went to the Cleveland Science Center, located right next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to go to the Body Worlds 2 exhibit. Through this technique called plastification, doctors and scientists had preserved cadavers' muscles and nerves and everything but fat and fluids. The bodies were positioned and dissected in different ways for people to gain a greater understanding of the human body. It was really enlightening. I enjoyed seeing different joints, diseased organs, how different people do have slight differences inside, the example of surgical cuts that surgeons must learn in order to prevent a large injury, and the one woman who died while five months pregnant. That may seem morbid, but curiosity took over any squeamishness. There was also a body that they were able to save the fat in and had a vertical cut-away like a tree. This guy was about 300 lbs. and died of heart failure. It was easy to see why. The fat had just taken over and the heard had become enlarged to compensate. It was frightening and scared me into making sure I never get that big.
I came home and had a nice adventure making Stacey a birthday cake, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. Especially the icing which had double the sugar it called for!
This American life comes on at 11, so I should be off. I love the weekend!