Away since Christmas for school and classes and conferences, I'm finally HOME!!! =D

My dad brought over some black chanterelles he collected; we're going to go hunt for more later. =)

COMLEX tomorrow. 400 questions, 8 hours. Prayers appreciated.

Pennsylvania Dutch English

So that's why my relatives near Harrisburg have that funny stress pattern on questions and the more rounded O's. They don't use any of those words, but I hope that the sound pattern doesn't fade in the future.

And a little bit of pride that I had picked up on the language being different around there. =)

As long as I'm taking it this easy, I can't really excuse not posting to LJ ( Read more... )

I'm taking step 1 of the boards on June 14th. 8 hours, 400 questions, or something like that. I'm having a hard time getting going on studying. Part of it's from fatigue, part from not having to study so hard to do well up to this point. Part is actually because the material is so beautiful and I'm disappointed that we can't spend four years ( Read more... )

Taste on the anterior two thirds of the tongue is innervated by the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII), which fibers make up the chorda tympani before piggy-backing in on other nerves as components of the autonomic nervous system are wont to do. The areas for sweet, sour, and salty are up here. Touch sensation for the anterior two thirds happens to ( Read more... )

My dad is in India now, there to attend a wedding. This is his fourth trip; previous ones were with the Peace Corps (taught them about raising chickens), my parents' honeymoon, and with my grandfather to see friends from the first trip while they were still alive. He learned to speak one of the southern, non-Indo-European languages (and thus not ( Read more... )