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i’m usually pretty good about it, but this is awesome. and when you answer they tell you to have a good day!
September 2010
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Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
bbook:
tamburina:
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when...
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my professor is famous! and for a great thing:... →
as usual, i haven't been posting.
but really, i haven’t been doing that great of things. i mean, nutrition sounds like it could be interesting, it really does. but we spend a lot of time talking about these:
and the things that they eat. which really isn’t that exciting. i mean, i guess it is. because there really is a science to it. and you have to make sure they’re eating the right proportion of...
March 2010
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Creature Comforts - Asha foundation animal shelter... →
this will be me in 3 months. but in thailand instead of india. and i *hopefully* won’t be coming home with a dog.
and people wonder why i want to be a vet... how...
in 21 hours i'll finally be done with midterms. 6...
then i get to see my boyfriend :)
cows secrete about 200 L of saliva day
remember: happy cows chew their cud!
today, i had my last anatomy exam
there was a question on comparative bird anatomy. as in being given a dinosaur fossil, having to identify reptilian and avian traits, and decide if it was a bird or a dinosaur (my professor is a paleontologist). well thanks to my awesome 6 year old friend Ruby, who I spent countless hours going to the natural history museum and playing dinosaur bingo with when I watched her in NYC, I correctly...
February 2010
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black gerbils
nearly 100% of them are epileptic. something in their genes. so next time you find yourself at petco searching for a new pet gerbil, maybe go for a brown one.
oh yeah but don’t get a hamster, because they’re mean.
oh yeah but even better, i'm going back to...
this time though i’ll be going with some other penn kids to bangkok and a few other cities to do spay/neuter/vaccine clinics on street dogs. and we’re also going to cambodia for 4 days beforehand, just for fun. can’t wait until june 6.
also, chickens are weird.
females only have one function ovary/oviduct, the left one. and it’s yellow. if they develop a problem with it, it will atrophy and the right one will grow in. as a testicle. so your little hen will then be a little rooster. oh and only water fowl and flightless birds have a penis - it’s just too much extra weight for the fliers.
today in anatomy lab i dissected a chicken. it...