Random Anatomy Fact of the Day

A few weeks ago my fascinating fact had to do with the reason your nose runs when you cry.

Today's random anatomy fact involves obesity and high blood pressure.

If you have an increase in the number of blood vessels in your body, your blood pressure is higher.

The reason obese people tend to have high blood pressure is this:  For every extra kilogram of weight that a person puts on, the body develops approximately 650 kilometers of extra blood vessels.

650 km.  How crazy is that?

Daily 5 - Day 350

Today's Daily 5:
an introduction to the daily 5 lists can be found here.

1. made it through all of the anatomy material I needed to make notes on today.  And let me tell you, that is huge, because it was hard slogging a lot of the day.  my brain is pretty exhausted right now, and to keep pushing through and adding more and more material is becoming a huge daily challenge
2. 350 days of writing these lists.  15 days to go to the big 1 year!
3. lighting candles
4. using a bible reading plan that is designed to give you an overview of the entire biblical narrative in 100 days.  quite enjoying it actually.
5. especially enjoying mornings like today where I do the reading sitting in the sun, while I wait for the bus.  it's good whenever I get it done, but I particularly enjoy the days that start that way.
6. had the first mug of tea in a while this morning (it's been too hot for tea, but a friend of mine mentioned that she was off to get some this morning and it made me want some.)  it was pomegranate green tea, and was a good way to start the day.
7. didn't get everything on my list for the day done, but I made good headway and got through most of the important items.
8. spent 20 minutes just laying on the floor, using this thing my mom has that basically vibrates and loosens up your entire body.  so I laid there and got loosened up, and listened to a sermon at the same time.  it was a good way to reward myself for getting through all of the anatomy
9. steak and green beans and baby potatoes for supper
10. restful evening, with no school work.

On the agenda

Today's "To Do" List looks something like the following:
(and, I am, of course, procrastinating about actually tackling it, by recreating it in a blog post)

• Finish making notes on an anatomy chapter about blood
• Make notes on an anatomy chapter about the heart
• Finish the 4th of 6 stats assignments (only one question left!)
• at least begin to tackle some of the reading for the next session of the christian leadership class I'm also taking (I've had weeks to do it, and keep putting it off because I've been so busy, but one of these days the next session is suddenly going to appear on my schedule, and then I'll really be in trouble!)
• fill out some government employment paperwork
• RSVP to a couple of wedding/parties that I've been putting off RSVPing to
• do something that is healthy - exercise, or a treatment, or something.
• try not to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of school work on this list
• stop procrastinating by writing blog posts, and actually start the list, aiming for the goal of a highly productive day.

Daily 5 - Day 349

Today's Daily 5:

1. that rare grin that comes in the middle of writing an exam when you realize you studied exactly that question, and can answer it with absolute clarity and certainty.
2. the relief of finishing an exam I'd dreaded
3. fresh blueberries
4. a postcard of the Sistine Chapel that L mailed to me from the Vatican.  She told me that she'd been told that if you spent only 1 minute looking at each individual piece of art in the Vatican museums, it would take 13 years to view all of the art.  This is a challenge I think I'd love to fulfill someday.  Does anyone know how I can bankroll 13 (more actually, factoring in the need to eat and sleep and have bathroom breaks) years in Italy doing nothing more than hanging out at the Vatican museums?
5. time spent in good conversation at house church tonight

Another Day

Schoolwork is somewhat all consuming at the moment.

Add that to limited energy again as I work through some emotionally draining stuff, and I'm finding myself generally with few words.

I'm struggling to find words even for those I share life with on a daily basis, online or "in real life" (or both!)

Last night I re-took an anatomy quiz from last weekend that did not go well.  I passed the retake, and that was pretty much all I was looking for.

This morning I wrote an anatomy midterm on the same material.

A week from today I write another anatomy midterm.  Before that midterm I have another quiz, and an assignment to submit.  And before the quiz and the assignment, I have five chapters of material to absorb.

All that to say that it might be a little quiet around here for the next week or so, again.  Unless I manage to find time on the weekend to schedule some posts.

But I am still reading emails and comments, and they're often making me smile.

So there's that, I guess.