lungs

the theme for today is lungs...

Daily trivia: name that fish

it walks. it breaths AIR. and it can hibernate (well aestivate) for up to 5 years ON LAND (Well kinda)... and it can be really really big.

it's the lungfish. how cool is that?

lung story number two deals with asthma, cold weather, and CLIMBING. cecilia and i decided to tackle some hills today. the weather was ominous with sprinkles of rain and gnarly wind so we did a shortened black mo route cutting out rattlesnake and extending out to meeks lane and home. we were tempted to take a dirt road she had heard about that cut off some of rattlesnake but were unsure of how solid / packed it would be and i wasn't sure where it was.

on the way, i was reminded why an inhaler is a good thing to have - when it gets cold. tight lungs = limited O2 intake. fun fun. also fun was large semi's blasting past us on 220. yes, it was my hair brained id to take that route... don't ask the girl that can't think beyond the difference between anova and ancova, counter-current exchange mechanisms and global warming to coherently pick a suitable and safe route...

studying is taking a turn for the better. while i'm still holed up on my couch, it's like ...

i'm actually learning something.

go figure. funny how that works. confidence is on the rise as is the number of books among my spread of study materials in the living room.

fun fun. and on that note - back to the books.