Hearts, Food, and Gorilla Men

So...I figured I would start with a picture of the school's founder. I honestly think this man looks like a gorilla. I will let you form your own opinion, though...

Secondly, I've been lax in my vet school entries or any other entries for that matter, so here's another glimpse into my day. I spend the morning looking at fresh bull semen. It sounds riveting, I know, but that's not even the half of it. I will just say, I do not ever...EVER...want to be a semen evaluator. The reason for this revolves around pipetting technique. Here is the pipette we were using.It looks fairly innocuous, right?

WRONG!You see that little red piece on the end?
You apply suction to that end...with your mouth...
That's right...you are sucking up BULL SEMEN into a pipette WITH YOUR MOUTH!
What's to protect you if you suck too hard?Absolutely nothing...That was my morning.
I did spend a lab in the past couple of weeks cutting open a sheep heart. That was pretty cool. I'll put in a picture below. [Note: It's a little gory, so be prepared!]
Those little stringy looking things? Those are chordae tendinae or the so called "Heart Strings"!

I also spent a few hours looking at teeth!That is a very unattractive picture of me holding a lion's skull!Here is Kathy posing with a dolphin skull!

Here's me again with an elephant's molar. It probably weighed somewhere between 8 and 10 pounds!

I also got to take some pictures of the new school campus that will (hopefully) open next year. The vet hospital is up and running, and we're patiently waiting for them to finish the teaching building.Here's the school's flock of sheep that greet you as you drive into campus. By greet, I of course mean stare at you dumbly and/or run away.

This is the teaching building that's still in the works (estimated opening in 2011).

This is the animal hospital. Pretty spiffy!

Last but not least, I complain the food here at Pollock A LOT! I figure from now on, I will post a few pictures from dinner every day with a commentary on the meal. I also plan on keeping a running tally of nights they serve carrots (I would do potatoes, but they have those every night without fail)...You be the judge. If you would eat this, I'll complain less.

These are the scrambled eggs I have for breakfast every morning without fail because blood pudding, baked beans, and roasted tomatoes are not appealing breakfast foods. They aren't really appealing any time. Why are they grey, you ask? I have no clue...I just avoid those bits...

Tonight's Dinner:Crofter's Pie?I have no idea what this is, and it looked too much like baby diarrhea for me to want to try it...This was Spring Mash (Potatoes), Cheesy Pasta Bake, Carrots (Day 1...), and Chicken and Mushroom Casserole.

The potatoes and carrots were just that, no salt or butter. The chicken and mushroom casserole was composed of chicken...no mushrooms, nothing else to make it a casserole...just chicken that tasted like licorice was added to it...Yuck...
The cheesy pasta bake was the worst. The sauce tasted like they'd mixed water with a little milk and added some kind of thickener. There was no taste of cheese at all. On top of that, the sauce was chunky/gritty...Yuck...

Here's Emily looking thoroughly enthused about this french fry (chip), one of the few things that's edible night to night.

One last food-related note:Looks like pretty decent apple juice, maybe a little dark.
This glass is actually half apple juice, half water. The apple juice is so concentrated that the sugar could melt your teeth.

To end on a happy note...