I am obsessed with skeletons, specifically the bit crammed into my header above. First comes the acetabulum. My favorite word and the name of a pet fish, the acetabulum is a concave surface of the pelvis: the cup where the head of the femur sits. Then comes the sacrum that grounds mind into body, spine into pelvis. I love the pelvis and, more accurately, my own pelvis.
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March 20, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Sara
Mmmm, bones. I like to do a little chant sometimes — scapula, sacrum, sternum, ribs; humerus, radius, phalanges, patella! I memorized every damn bone in the human body in high school, and now it’s one of those mostly useless bits of knowledge that is reassuring for no good reason.
Also: I dig your blawg. I wish there was a better word for it.
March 20, 2008 at 1:42 pm
lethal
I took anatomy & physiology in college and it was awesome because we had to memorize these enormously long lists of processes and parts & damn!! Also, we had a coloring book. I didn’t really study with it, but I used it as stress relief & then gave it (mostly unused) to Rayven, who wants to be a doctor when she grows up.