Morbid indulgence

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

This just in - Donald Trump actually owns a blog! So I guess his business empire became too much of a bore for his vast intellect that he has to conquer the net as well. For a while there, I lost all interest to blog and concede to Mr. Trump's mighty writing prowess, but when I visited his blog, I found out that he only started blogging on May of 2005. I beat him by at least one year! I figured I have every right to keep my blog. Hah! Old man wanna write eh? I wonder how he was able to come up with that template. Oh yeah, he's a millionaire, he can pay people to do that for him. For all I know, he pays people to write his entries for him too, but from what I have read on his blog, I don't think that was the work of a ghostwriter.

I'm sure glad I overcame that short episode of self-doubt and muster just enough confidence to write about the my current whereabouts.

Here goes...

Vacation used to spell R-E-L-A-X-A-T-I-O-N, but that was in the olden days, when the world (at least my perception of the world) was young and I answer only to the calls of gluttony. But those days have left the moment I received that piece of parchment that is supposed to signal the end of silly youth and the start of things that are mature - you know, the diploma. (Side note: I cannot remember where I kept my diploma. I still have not submitted a copy to plm's registrar. Darn documents always making my life complicated.)

Now, my vacation has turned into F-A-T-T-Y S-H-I-T (medical term for this is STEATORRHEA). Literally.

F-A-T
This stands for our patho/pharma research. We have to fatten up rats and then treat them with either mangosteen or lipitor (atorvastatin, a Hmg-CoA reductase inhibitor). I have had previous experience with lab animals, but those belonged to the species Mus musculus. At their full adult size, they could still fit in the palm of my hand. What we plan to work with now are Sprague-Dawley rats, which can grow as big as a cat (well, a fairly big kitten at least). I am now in the process of looking up literature on the fastest method of fattening up rats without perusing a gavage. Inserting stuff into rats' mouth can be fun at times, but when you imagine doing it everyday, you have to admit that it can become a bit of a drag.

S-H-I-T
This is for our FCM research. Heavy stuff man, sobra... We really have to dig shit man. As in, tae. Tae talaga. Fecal examination using direct fecal smear. I am betting a million bucks (which is the amount I normally have in my wallet) that I am going to lose a lot of weight this sem break. Kapag ginanahan ka pa namang kumain nyan, ewan ko na lang.

ganito talaga kapag ibang lebel na e. yung mga undergrad, nagrereklamo sa isang kapiranggot na thesis. pero kami, dalawang major theses sa isang taon, di pa kasama ang sandamakmak na lab exercises at ward works. i'd gladly switch places anytime. tang-ina, swerte kaya ng college.

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