so it's almost the end of the week and i've managed to get through quite unscathed. i'm proud of myself ;)

as a little point though, this has been a rather slack week timetable-wise and the Interesting Things of The Day have included first aid practical tests, like today. i have to admit that i was actually quite worried about the test, mostly because i am completely devoid of any psychomotor abilities, as all my classmates over the years will attest to. i am, like, a psychomotor freak. doing things the normal way is just uninstinctive for me, which is why i tend to make totally awkward movements and miss catching objects which are thrown at me. anyway, being a psychomotor freak means that i might actually kill a person while trying to perform CPR, instead of bringing him back to life, which is a problem because saving lives is one of the things which doctors are expected to do. for example i always end up positioning myself to do chest compressions directly onto the dummy's rib cage instead of its sternum, despite the fact that my hands actually find and start off at the right spot. mark says my hands have a way of wiggling into awkward positions no matter what, and i hate to say it but i think he's right! anyway the good news is that it was just a dummy and not a real live person, plus we got 3 tries each to save its life. haha!

what wasn't so funny though was discovering the station after adult CPR yesterday: INFANT CPR. at this point you're probably going wtf?! and guess what, that was exactly what i was thinking too! and the guy demonstrating was so anal that he kept making us practice flipping the stupid baby dummy over and whacking its back and then kept pretending that it couldn't breathe so that he could keep making us do rescue breathing into its gross little plastic nose and mouth. it seemed as if he was actually getting a kick out of watching us give frantic mouth-to-mouth to a plastic dummy, and i wanted to throw the bloody baby at him. anyway after all that i started worrying and having a minor panic attack because i was dreading displaying my lack of psychomotor skills on the baby. but then guess what, they didn't even test it! i feel a bit cheated :( all the worrying yesterday gave me major OCD involving watching excessive tv and eating like mad after dinner. definitely detrimental to the health!

as for tomorrow, i foresee it will be a completely different story because we have cadaver class number 2. we had to take an oath to be respectful of the bodies, which btw i am because i would never be gracious enough to offer mine up in the name of science, but from a completely objective and scientific point of view, the preserved bodies look a bit like terriyaki chicken =P i think to be safe i will steer clear of jap food altogether for lunch tomorrow. and then of course we have tutorial with our professor who talks at the rate of roughly 5 words per minute, so i think i will need a good rest tonight and lots of coffee to get me through the day.

and now, i think i shall go reflect on what a horrible person i really am...