Well, life has been confined to the library and coffeeshops lately but here are some interesting developments.
In pathology, there are certain diseases we think we'll never see, sometimes we wonder if they really exist: like hemineglect, where the patient is unaware that one side (like left side) exists. They basically don't do anything with their left side. i know, cool shit. but the one that eats the cake is Kluver-Bucy syndrome. When proteins called Pick bodies cause destructive plaques in your frontal and temporal lobes including limbic system, you get this special dementia where the elderly patient is hyper-aroused, constantly talking about and wanting to do things sexual. They are also hyperoral, wanting to lick things and stick things into their mouth, which if you think about it, goes hand-in-hand with sexual things
well.... one of my Persian classmates was telling me how a family friend's mom, this really old persian woman, has Kluver Bucy and at the last family party, propisitioned her dad for sex and asked her old veil-wearing oldschool muslim grandma how often she has sex, who she has it with, and how she likes it. Apparently she is constantly hitting on and making sexual inuendos on her son-in-law hillarious shit. Poor thing.
Other things: In Lab medicine class, we were learning about fertility tests and the prof kept talking about sperm collection: "so they patient just masturbates, usually, he uses a condom to collect the sample. and when he masturbates" as i kept hearing this old fella dropping the M, bomb, it was really really hard trying not to laugh. everyone could see that i was about to lose it any second now but then he HAD to say this: "any condom will do, as long as there is no spermicide in it, you know, like the kind you can pick up at the drug store or the local truck stop." and with that bening joke, i lost it.
yup, that's about as exciting as my life gets right now...
