OH HAI

Today was a shit day.

Until I got this text.

She Had A CT Scan Yesterday.

And now it's waiting, waiting, waiting....

Overachiever's Anonymous

"So, the answer you're looking for is stratified columnar ciliated epithelium with goblet cells, right?"

My professor looked at me. He raised his hands to stop the lab. "Say that louder."

I instinctively curled into myself, awkwardly ashamed of knowing the right answer. I repeated what he had asked, the full description of tissue from part of our histology section.

He smiled genuinely. "Some of my students are so smart. Please don't try to take my job."

I felt my buccal blood vessels dilate. I try very earnestly to stay under the radar.

Just in case you were wondering what happens.

With the exception of an exhaustive amount of frustration in an online sociology class, I'm maintaining well. Years of memorizing really esoteric contemporary music has left me capable of knowing the difference between sudoriferous and sebaceous glands after a single reading. #humblebrag

My mother is in Williamsburg, on a legitimate vacation. Ed is in respite care, and she is partying it up with Rita, drinking, eating, and enjoying life. I don't know anyone in the world who needed a vacation more than her.

Yes Queen.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the transition from summer to fall, and from mental relaxation to academia.

Bones, Bones, All Types Of Bones