Another use for bran muffins?

It's been a busy and stressful but good week (if that makes sense). The beginning of the week was a little rough as I was trying to get back into the whole class thing again after a week off. Luckily, I only had 1 day that I had to be at class by 8am. I guess because it's the end of the semester, they decided maybe being at class by 8am was asking a little too much.

I spent Wednesday morning with my preceptor (an Orthopedist). This time my visit was much better. The last time I saw him it was right after my "stressful" days, so I wasn't all there. He'd ask questions, and I'd say "I dunno." This time though, I was able to answer maybe half of his questions. I told him that I felt kind of stupid because I didn't know the answers. He said, "I didn't really expect that you would." How should I take that? Did he mean that he thought the I was especially ignorant? Or was he just saying that he was asking questions that no M1 would know how to answer? If that's the case, why would he do that? He's a young doctor. He should remember how stupid we feel most of the time. My roommate asked me the other day if I felt smarter. Honestly, I feel more and more stupid everyday. Maybe stupid isn't the right word. Ignorant, clueless, naive? There is just so much that I don't know that I feel like I should. People ask my for medical advice already. This is crazy. I don't know anything. Everytime someone does that, my first reaction is to do what I've always done when someone asks me a question I don't know the answer to, I make something up (I learned from the master storyteller and am trying to live up to some of his stories). In the past, this was never really a problem because sometimes I'd be right and if I wasn't they would never find out about it anyway. Now, though, I think it would be bad if made stuff up and people actually believed me.

I had my first final exam on Friday afternoon, so I spent most of the week studying for that. I got the results this evening and I passed! So, I have now officially passed 1 medical school class. Now, I just have 8 more to pass this semester...

Last night I went to see The Nutcracker. I really enjoyed it even though it was a local production. Most of the dancers were really talented. Some of the little kids didn't really know what they were doing, but it was cute so no one cared. We sat in the 4th row, so I got a close-up view of the characters and their costumes. One particular costume puzzled me. Actually, it wasn't the costume, it was the man in the costume. All of the men were wearing tights, which I expected. What was puzzling, though, is that one of the men had strange lumps under his tights. Okay, once you stop laughing, I'll tell you what I mean. He had these really bizarre lumps on his butt. Now, I'm in an Anatomy class and I have seen a lot of strange butts, but I have never seen anyone with lumps like this guy had. He was obviously very muscular, so I was thinking "Maybe it's just a strange muscle." Still, it bothered me because I couldn't think of what muscle he would have that would make his butt look lumpy like that. It looked like he had shoved two muffins down the back of his tights. I'm still puzzled.

Well, I really should get some studying done before I go to bed. Hopefully I won't have any nightmares involving the strange muffin butt.