week 2...

*sigh*
week 2 started off... interesting. a couple friends of mine and I went to the baseball game (memphis redbirds in the cardinals organization) Sunday night. They had fireworks afterwards which were AWESOME! then we walked down to Beale St to catch up with some other classmates, but we didn't really like the choice of establishment, so we went back to their apartment. I parked in the resident area, close to their apartment even though I'm not a resident at their complex. When I got back to my car, I realized it wasn't there.... TOWED... crap. 165 bucks later and 13 miles to the tow yard, I get my car back... It's a lot of money when you figure it into "how many groceries could I buy with 165 bucks...?" oh well. I'm not even going to figure out what it will cost with interest...

School is school. I really like Methods lab. We are doing retinoscopy- shining a light and watching the reflex of the light in our schematic eye's "pupil" and neutralizing it -- finding the Rx to make it emmetropic OR corrected to 20/20 so it can "see" clearly... that is if a black cylinder with a red paper "retina" in the back of it can see. We are actually doing optometry... not just learning histology and physiology and stupid things like that... Dr. Newman reminded us why we have to learn anatomy... the eye is part of the body and connected with everything else- joints, blood pressure. so even though we couldn't give a rat's behind about the foramen spinosum and the nerves that run through it, we have to know just a little less neuroanatomy than a neurologist - as we can see brain tissue by looking in the pupil through to the retina.

It's really warm down here again. It was nice for a while with a little cooler temperatures, but now it's muggy and icky as ever. But, I think I should head to bed... We don't have class or lab tomorrow, but I need to get some studying done bright and early in the morning...