It's time to dissect a fetal pig!!! What fun! I just ate two yummy hotdogs to get me in the mood! things have been flowing rather well the past couple days socially. I've had really good talks with both Ashley and Laura, Shar¡, and I finally met this very sensuous blonde in my honors class. Her name is Katie, but I don't know that yet.
I asked Ashley when Laura would be home on Tuesday so that I could give her a long deserved call of her very own. I have kind of been implying that Shar¡ and I are pretty much over and that I have a rekindled interest in Laura. I wonder how far this will get me. When I called later that night, Ashley answered and I asked right out for Laura so that I could assure her the call was truly for her. Ashley was on the other line and kicked that person off and told Laura the call was for her. Ashley and I then talked for a good ten minutes which was pretty funny. She said later that Jana and Laura looked at each other and wondered if the call really was for her. When I finally did start talking to Laura, Ashley said that she walked right into her room and shut the door.
We joked around a lot and had a pretty good conversation. I tried to compliment her as much as possibly, but not too much. I kind of hinted at an interest towards her. I found out lately through the two of them that I am a topic of their conversation a lot more that I would have thought. Laura noticed my birthday in her calender the other day and told Ashley, who said that she has it in hers, too. Laura asked me if I was trying to get presents or something and laughed. I told her how really bad I felt about not getting her anything for her birthday but explained that was when I first found out Shar¡ and I probably weren't going to work and was kind of depressed. We decided to grant each other our company on a trip to Busch Gardens possibly over Thanksgiving as birthday presents to each other. Cool!
We were doing our usual bullshit to each other about how we love each other and how certain things we used to do at Busch Gardens were for each other. She mentioned her friend Jackie, and I asked if I knew her. She was the girl that came with Laura after she quit Busch Gardens "just to see me" and I remembered her. James was there and they were both going to share their crushed lemonade with me. We talked a little about the party again, but not about Shar¡. I mentioned that I though her cousin, Chrissy, was cute and she complained that everybody told her that her cousin was pretty, but they never told her that. I quickly reminded her that I told her that it must run in the family back when I first said that Chrissy was cute at Busch Gardens. Laura remembered that indeed I did and that went over really well!
We even mentioned how, at one time or another, we mentioned each other to our parents when we would talk about our work. I could tell that both of us were underemphasizing what we were saying as not to sound too desperate. I almost think that's part of human nature. Everybody is always worried that someone is going to find out that they think about stuff like that, but they don't realize that so does everybody else! It's all miscommunication... Ashley and I had been talking about her pig dissection and I brought Stimpy into the conversation. She thought that was mean, but then I said that we'd put him to better use, like food! She said something and then I said that he would be really tender because he gets all of Laura's love. It was really sweet and Ashley really liked it. She told Laura that we had been talking about her later but I was a little embarrassed to tell her what I had said.
Things worked out rather well during our talk, though, and I was really glad and was cheered up. It almost completely took my mind off of Shar¡. I just realized how her going out so much can do the same thing to her about me. Bitch. Laura asked me at the end if I wanted to come down and see them but I said not right now because we had just talked on the phone for an hour! I then realized that we did so even though we were only about "twenty" feet away from each other and that was pretty funny. I told her that she better call me soon as we said goodbye as she got a long distant phone call.
Ashley had me come over to the room and listen to the new Brian Adams song that Daniel had dedicated to her before we went to class. It is perfect and I'd love for Shar¡ to hear it. Speaking of songs... the Anything For Love video is out on MTV now and I watched it separately with both Chris and Jon. It's awesome and Chris loves it. Jon even thought it was really powerful and they now realize why I picked it out as such an awesome song so long ago. It's bound to become a classic love song and I love it! Anyway, we unfortunately didn't run into Laura on the way to class like we sometimes do and like we had planned on the phone the night before. That sucked and I told Ashley so. She was telling me that Daniel called and said that because he has been selected as a candidate for serviceman of the quarter, he won't be able to take his week long leave to come and see her for homecoming. She was crushed because she has tickets for him and everything and this will be her first time seeing him in six months. I tried to comfort her as best I could.
After biology, we went to the gym and worked out for half an hour. We did the rowing machines which I have a sudden fondness for. That had to have been the best workout I have done in a long time and I felt it all through my arms and shoulders... just what I want! I think I'll stick to them and only them for a while now. It's a lot easier than the Nautilus as well because the little computers keep track of your progress and you can set goals for yourself. I need that. I did start getting nauseous after we stopped probably because I drank a bunch of water and hadn't eaten breakfast. I left and as I felt so much better when I hit the fresh air outside.
In our psychology class, I missed sitting with Karen again. Professor Griggs did bring up the fact that someone in the class had brought in their psychological profile and his score was plus three standard deviation points! The graph was on the screen and made it look like that was the highest IQ one could have and the room got extra quiet for a moment. I beamed although I wasn't ever personally identified. I went and studied for a while later on, and ran into Jenn on my walk home. She asked me if I was carrying her yellow gloves with me and I had to sadly admit hat I haven't. Chris, her boyfriend, was with her and she introduced us and he said that he was glad to meet me sounding like he has definitely heard about me and is finally getting a chance to see who I am. I know he's heard about me from her and I found that funny. She talked to me for quite a while before I sent them on their merry way. She said that she'll call me sometime next week.
I wasn't home long when someone knocked on the door. I had changed into semi respectable dorm clothes, fortunately, but was reclined watching the television. It was Ashley! She asked what I was doing and then asked if we could talk. I instantly focused my attention on her. She was also in dorm clothes and her hair was somewhat awry, which looked pretty sexy! Jon was in the shower, and she sat right next to me. I quickly realized that she was really upset and was on the brink of breaking down and bawling on my shoulder. She almost did a couple of times but held back. She had just gotten a nasty call from Daniel where he told her a lot of stuff, but it was a bunch of bullshit and wasn't the complete truth. I know exactly how she feels because it's almost identical to what I've been going through with Shar¡.
He said that he is still getting homecoming weekend off, but is flying to Boston instead! That really pissed her off because he's going off with his buddies instead of coming to see her. He also won't be seeing her now over Thanksgiving! She said that he was asking her whether she's been seeing people here in Gainesville and she told him how she's gone to parties and stuff with people but not anybody in particular. He then told her that he's kind of seeing someone there. He also said that he's getting tired of her parents always restricting what she does and that they will interfere with him wanting to marry her and so forth. It kind of looks like he wanted to marry her sooner than she wants to get married, which is in about three years after she gets her degree because she can't just move to Ft. Walton Beach now with him and can't live separated if she's married to him. I told her that he might want some security from her and if he thinks he might not get it, he wants to try and find it somewhere before his "prime time" runs out.
By this time, Jon had finished his shower and I brought him into the conversation. We both agreed that a lot of what Daniel says sounds like mere cop outs rather than legitimate excuses. Like her parents, she is never moving back in with them on a full time basis and he knows that, so that is bullshit. She finished her entire story just as Cecil showed up and she and I kind of tied everything up. She said that he told her again that they really need to talk and she said no shit! There are a bunch of things he's not telling her and she said that all she wants to know is the truth, no matter what it is. I knew exactly how she feels because that's the way I have been with Shar¡ lately.
She told me that her roommates asked her what was up when she got off of the phone and she played it off like everything was all right. She said that she didn't tell them where she was going when she came upstairs and wouldn't when she got back. She said she'll tell them she just went on a walk because she doesn't want them to know to what extent she was crying over Daniel again. Otherwise I would have gone back to her room with her to see Laura. We said goodbye and she thanked us both a lot and I told her that I'm always here if she needs to talk and I think she really likes that. Once again I think I need to become a psychiatrist because they always seem to trust me as someone who can take the brunt of the problems. My best feature is that I listen and can therefore tell them exactly what they need to hear when they need to hear it, instead of just jumping in all of the time with stupid suggestions. Jon actually did that once and it's a shame because I thought he was above that.
I gave Shar¡ a quick little half hour call earlier today just to say hello and see if she mailed me that letter. I slipped that in very tactfully and she said that she actually did! She was cooking tuna fish and macaroni and cheese for the kids when I called and I told her about my pig dissection and grossed her out a little bit. She said that life really sucks down there lately and she is getting her throat infection back again. I let her know again when I'll be coming down for Thanksgiving. I'll be really interested to see what she plans for herself that weekend knowing that I'll be there. We were talking about when she lived in Atlanta for some reason and she has also lived in Marietta. We used to go through Marietta on the way to our property but all I remember about the place is its Kmart. She said that maybe she wants to move to New York now because she's been there before and liked it but I think her little beach bum self would get sick of it pretty quick. I told her to send me a postcard...
I told her that I talk to her on the phone too much just to see what she had to say about that. I let her realize that I talked to her for over an hour on Monday and she was surprised. I said a few other things and then I said it sucks because I don't feel appreciated for doing so. She kind of surprisingly asked me if I was serious. Well I am. I told her that I don't even call my parents even more and have called her a lot more than she realizes. We talked a little longer and I think the talk was pretty much worth it but I really need to cut down even more.
I went to my honors class and the sensuous blonde took the chair right next to the one I usually sit in against the wall in the back. She did that for the exam as well but I didn't figure she'd be back. Of course I just had to talk to her and I heard her tell someone that she is from Atlanta again. I brought that up and told her about our cabin in Blue Ridge. That was pretty cool and at least we've started talking and sitting together now. That cheered me up a little bit.
On my walk home, I made it almost past the swimming pool when along comes Ashley. Oh yea, I ran into Jana and Laura in the elevator this morning when I went downstairs to check the mail. We said hello and talked for a second and she grabbed my arm again as she left on her floor. Anyway, Ashley smiled and we ran right into each other in an automatic embrace with her face implanted again in my chest. The people around us noticed, too, and I liked that. I asked her how she was doing and she started telling me how everybody at her sorority at lunch was asking her what was wrong and so forth. It was cute. She was in a grungy navy blue shirt, as was I, and she mentioned that she looks like crap. I said that we match, because I look like crap, too, and she laughed. My excuse was my dissection, though. She had class in the computer science center and since I didn't have lab for two hours I told her I walk with her to class and she thanked me and really sounded like she meant it. I am more than happy to be there for her and love the fact that I've found such a dear and close friend.
Now for Laura...
But anyway, I dissected a pig and had an awesome time doing so! I happened to be walking through a doorway as Karen, the gorgeous blonde, was coming and I waited to hold it for her. She smiled and said hello and we talked for a second. Once she made it to class we started talking about our classes for a few minutes. Eva never showed up which sucked, so I decided to work with Donald who was probably a much better choice. We picked the biggest, prettiest, piggy all of the bags. Our's was a tricolored black and pink one compared to the normal little plain pink ones. Ours was also much more developed which I figured would make the anatomy larger. I remembered many of the techniques and mistakes we made back in high school and thus had our pig tied up and ready for its operation quicker and better than anybody else. It sucked that all of the gloves were extra large, with short, stubby fingers that didn't fit or work worth a damn! They are definitely a bunch of stupid idiots.
Donald had also dissected a pig in high school, so we took a different approach to the dissection. That was the beauty of college lab, you can take it as far and detailed as you want, and I wanted to actually learn from this pig. Donald called it Beavis and Butthead lab and I laughed. I kept making really funny jokes that somebody else would come up with in the back of the room about five minutes later. We were laughing really hard that everybody kept stealing my jokes! After quickly exploring the systems as a whole, I decided to go further and isolate each organ and dissect it. I would do my best to remove it cleanly and in tact, and Donald would make the agreed upon cross section or whatever. He first did the heart and went on to all of the others. I removed the intestines and tried to unravel the small ones but hey proved disappointedly weak in structure.
The kidney was especially interesting because we had just learned about the medulla and cortex and were able to make a perfect cross section. We would have Natalia come and explain things to us every few minutes and I actually learned quite a bit and was very satisfied by the end of lab. I removed the stomach with small extensions of the connecting tubes intact. I opened it and washed it out for both an external and internal view. Donald then went for the excretory and female reproductive system as I attacked the head. I removed the tongue, an eyeball which I dissected and saw the internal aqueous humor which impressed me, and finally the brain! Chris had told me to do so and was probably the spark of my creativity. The brain was very soft and I exhibited that by plunging my thumb into it as we finished the dissection. By the end of lab we had cleanly and efficiently massacred the entire pig and I probably learned more and got more value out of the pigs life than anybody else in any of the labs.
Karen finished up at about the same time. She asked me once if I had gone to class on Wednesday and then asked if she could borrow my notes. That's why she didn't sit with me! I asked her then if she was going home and she hadn't yet made the connection. I asked her if she didn't live in Beaty and suddenly she remembered me from there! She was more than happy to walk home with me and we talked a lot. She is a sophomore microbiology and pre-med major that will have sixty credits at Christmas but won't yet be finished with general education. Exactly like me!!! Plus she extremely gorgeous with beautiful straight blonde hair, a dark tan, has a sister in Tampa, and lives in Beaty East! What more could one ask for. (Love...true love!) We talked about a lot of stuff including how we like living in Beaty. It was awesome to finally meet her enough to make her stick around. She'll be sitting with me in Psychology tomorrow as well if she wants my notes. Hurrah.
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