What type are you?

Had a most interesting (and slightly disturbing) lecture today on the colon and defecation in general. Apparently, there's a rating scale for the quality of your feces. I just thought I'd include a copy of this rating system, because I found it rather amusing:




















Who comes up with this stuff?!? And how the heck do you get funding to do research on the daily average of flatulence in the general populace?

So apparently I should be obese

I don't know why our teachers see the need to subject us to assignments that make me feel like I'm back in elementary school. I understand that they're trying to make the course more interesting, but I would rather spend my time more constructively instead of doing things like a diet/activity or a diabetes assignment. The former involves us tracking our activity level and diet over three days, while the latter has us pretend that we're diabetic for a week. I don't think either really provides any benefit to us (how does pretending to be diabetic for a week make you more empathetic towards patients? It seems a little patronizing to me if you do this and think you understand a diabetic patient based on that superficial experience), but that's just me.

Anyways, while doing the diet assignment, I decided to go out to a buffet with some friends and ended up gorging approximately 4000 kilocalories that day and supposedly doubled my activity level. On even a 'typical' day for me, I exceeded my calculated activity level by 800 kcal. In theory, my consumption should approximately equal my expenditure, considering that I have not gained weight in the last couple of years. But according to these calculations, I should be gaining weight at astronomical proportions. So why am I not obese? Because this assignment is stupid, that's why!

Symphony Under the Sky!

Saw Symphony Under the Sky on Friday for my first time ever. If you've never heard of this event, you're not the only one, as it appeared that my friends and I were virtually the only group our age attending this event. Everyone else was a lot older or a lot younger (ie. children dragged to see the symphony by their parents). Even then, it was quite well attended, and I thought it was quite well done.

It's been a long time since I've been to a symphony event, and it reminded me of the last time I played in an orchestra. I don't miss playing the viola, but I have to admit that I had fun with some of the pieces that I played in those groups.

The pianist was excellent and the orchestra was fabulous, but the highlight of the show? When my cousin Katherine took a picture of the soloist (but forgot to save the image!) and screamed out after he finished performing. Who thought that I would ever see that side of her? =P