THIS WEEK ...

... is all about preparedness.

And so far, so-so.

I start Neuroanatomy on Monday.

NEURO-SAY WHAT?!?!?!

I know, I know. It sounds "scholarly" right? A total weeder-outer, so I'm told.

It's all about the brain. And that should be cool, since like, everyone I know has one.

It might be neat to see how it all actually works. Although, I kind of like just giving someone the "stink-eye" and walking away, scratching my head, going (in my best valley girl) what is wrong with that person, anyway? Now I'll be all 'whoa ... their Occipital Lobe is like totally contaminated.' --- or something like that.

Here's the best part, though.

That is my book. The book from which I do MOST of my work. And what? What is that, you say? COLORING? Oh yeah. It is.

It's a coloring book. (insert smirky grin here)

And then I called my sister and told her, and you can SO tell we are of the same bloodline because she was all like "Oh that sounds fun!" and I was all like "I know, right??? I'll bet none of your Master's classes have coloring books." and she was all like "Human Services sucks, I think I want to do your field, instead." and then I was all like "I know. I'm SO. lucky."

And I got so excited, I went to Target and bought about 75 smelly markers. And I can't WAIT to begin! Is it art? Is it science? Is it Pre-K? Is it Grad School? I don't know!!! And who cares?!?!?! It's COLORING!!!! Whoever said grad school was, like, hard was seriously confused.

There is some other stuffy book full of nothing but definitions and big, fancy words that talks about the human brain being the most complex mass of protoplasm in the galaxy... but how hard can that be if the accompanying workbook is a coloring book?

And besides ... protoplasm ... I already know all about that. I saw Ghostbusters, just like the next guy. Or was that ectoplasm? hmm ... whatever it is, I'm sure it can't be that hard.

And forget it if I was having to bust out the online dictionary to get through the course objective on the syllabus. I'm sure those profs just try to sound brilliant and academically initimidating. I mean "Neural Substrates"??? Who even talks like that?

***sigh*** And I was afraid this would be stressful.