stones on a cold cement roof

i'm in the new biological sciences library at uni. it is very new and nice and whatever but it is pretty empty. it reminds me of the qut one. so lonely! and it has this crazy 'natural lighting concept, with heaps of windows everywhere, and the lights adjust to match the outside. they can get really annoying switching between different settings every couple of minute. total seizure material no not really. and because it is so overcast today it is sorta dim in here. i dunno what they do at night. and i dont like how you face diagonal. i like having a wall against my back. but here no matter where you sit you are accessable from 360 degrees around you. anyway it is actally a really nice library but today i don't like it.

Yesterday i had my first prac for anatomy. we work with actual dead people. not even just plastecied peices of them, which aren't very scary, actual wet specimens. here is a quote from my book thingy. "Potted Organs should be removed from their containers and placed in metal trays obtained from the sink areas either side of the Labratory. The Potted Organs should be returned to their respective containers after use, including any liquid that has collected in the tray." Eww. Today they opened the people for this semester, and because we are first years they let us work in a different lab. Apparently the smell is unbearable, and they are bodies that died between the beginning of semester and now. So we aren't working with them until next week, when the smell won't be as bad. The actuall lab is one of the strictest in the uni. They have video cameras in the hallway outside, it is fully restricted access. And if you are seen holding a mobile phone or camera in the lab it is thrown away and you have to explain yourself to the dean. also if you treat any of the dead people with disrespect you get criminally charged and are banned from the uni for life. It is totally understandable because they are full bequested remains, and they obviously need to be treated super respectfully. but still. so strict.

We work at the same time as the third year science students. i guess they cat them up then we play with the bits. Mabye next year i will be in the same lab as erica. doubtful but still cool. anyway when i look out the ridiculously large windows i can see the first level roof next to me. and it has all these stones on it. like purposely, like a rock garden. i can't possibly understand a) why they needed to make a shadefor sitting under out of cement and b) why they then covered it in stones. i'm sure somebody has done a thesis on this topic and that is why they are there. anyway it is weird.

yeah so yesterday after having a prac in a room half taken up by students and half taken up by dead people (thankfully coverd by a sheet) we had our big intro thing. they told us to bring bags to put our lab coats in because they could get 'matter' on them. gross. i really don't want to get dead person on me. one day i wanna give my body to science. i keep imagining people poking my leg. hehehe. that tickles. OMG i am so weird. i need to be neutered immediately.

anyway that was yesterday. i went home and cleaned and painted a bookshelf. fun. oh and also my brother was talking to mum about his english assignment. and i was like what is it on? and he goes 'sexism in netball'. i was like 'did you pick that topic?' and he goes yeah, we have to report on reports about sport. PROUD. PROUD!!!! proud. yay for blake being a feminist. sorta anyway.

anyway yes i am really excited because tomorow i finally get to do a subject that isn't anatomy! seriously the fact that i have been at uni three days, done 1 2hr tutorial, 1 1hr lecture and 2 2hr pracs and only done one subject is beond ridicoulous. but tomorow i get to do occupational therapy stuff!! but then friday i am back to anatomy. but yay for tomorow. i cannot belive how much stuff i am already ment to know for anatomy. fricken terminology.

i am already about a chapter in readings behind, and that should be impossible. but no. hmm. today i played with bones for two hours. it was uneventful. but then i went to sarahs victoorian womens litereture class and it was cool. i sorta studied and sorta listened. really reminded me of barbie: princess and the pauper. especially the part about seamstresses. and my fone went off and i ate sarahs lollies. ok i am going to print stuff off now. i am excited because i am getting a lift home with sarah.

kisses!!!