Today I had the most wonderful and bizzare lecture on rabies. It started out with the professor playing a clip from an episode of CSI involving rabies. He'd lecture and then play pertinent parts of the episode that aligned with what he was teaching us about. Then he gave us all copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. To keep. And we had story time, where he read aloud the part involving the rabid dog. Prior to which, he said "And your goal is to try to figure out what stage of rabies this dog is in and how you would take it to the D[iagnostic]-lab if it existed at the time." FYI, the dog had the paralytic stage of rabies and it's best for diagnostic purposes not to shoot rabies suspects in the head.
On Boo Radley: "He's kind of the weird character who never says anything, Kind of spooky. We all probably have a neighbor like that."
And then went on to discuss if Dracula was a legend or a dude who had rabies, as both rabies and vampirism are spread by biting, result to sensitivity to light , originated in Europe, and are associated with wolves and bats. And apparently there are scientific journal articles discussing this. Oh, and both have an aversion to normal beverages. Dr. L was so excited about this topic. It was adorable! And then he was talking about the like "I never drink...wine" which he followed up with "It's a pretty funny l ne because we know what he drinks!" while giggling. He's a fantastic professor :)
That's pretty much the most exciting part of my day.
It's an interesting topic, though, and I kind of wish I had researched something similar for my undergrad senior honors project. It could have been pretty awesome. I am pretty satisfied with my Beauty and the Beast project, though. I stumbled upon it recently and read the beginning. It was better than I remembered it being. I may post it on a day I have no time to write for NoJoMo if anyone feels like reading a 25ish page paper. I have moments when I really miss writing liberal arts type papers. Though not ones quite so long.
I'm trying to study for my Large Animal Digestive Disorders final on Friday. It involves a lot of cow diarrhea
This is my "Wow, that's a lot of shit" face:
Also, my lamp vaguely looks like a skeletal pterodactyl flying over my head.
Time to try to be functional again. Joy.
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