I think I've wasted 16 weeks of my life

[cornerofmadness]

It took me most of the day to grade the muscle practicum. MANY of them did poorly. I'm not surprised there. I was however surprised by just how many of them, keeping in mind these are nursing and people who want to do cardiac ultrasound, would COULD NOT tell the heart from the lungs while still inside the chest. I mean the thoracic cavity has only two organs in it, those two, so how the fuck can you not tell them apart? (especially since there are two lungs and one heart!) Even more of them thought the carotid artery was in the ankle (hint, that was a tendon not some freaking neck artery) and many looked at the quadriceps muscles in the thigh, got them right but when I asked where do these muscles insert, they told me the calcaneus (heel bone)

So am I that bad of a teacher? Do I just talk to the air?

I started drinking. I had half a bottle of margaritas talked to ELD for a while and now late I'm trying to write.

And hoping the that newbuzwuzz is willing to wait another week on her story. It's done. I have it edited it on paper but I want to finish nano first. First thing in December, promise!

34869 / 50000 words. 70% done!

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Oh, just saw this post - of course I'm willing. Excited to hear of the progress, and I get that NaNo comes first in November :)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I'll get it up as I work around my finals. Promise. I mean it's done at this point. All I need to do is clean up the mess a bit and put some shiny new pants on it.

also I don't know why the pants are shiny. I think my brain is broken at this point

[ysilme]

*picks jaw back up from floor* I'd have known these, or guessed right, or at least not made the mistake with the heel bone, and I'm anything but a pro or into any related profession! Just paid attention in biology class at school, and picked up this and that from crime novels and media exposition. How do they come to make such a career choice when they lack such basics?

[cornerofmadness]

There is honestly no excuse for this but someone somewhere in American education 'proved' homework doesn't help people learn (which is pretty much nonsense) so they don't get any any more, they just sit in class, don't listen and end up unable to function in the real world and expect us to give them 50 chances to make it right