Dishes, Theatre, and Weird Disorders

Since I got home I've been waiting for a day when I didn't have dishes in my sink to provide you with a triumphant picture of a clean, empty sink. I'm still waiting. Ever since I ran out of paper bowls my motivation to wash my dishes on a regular basis has taken a nose dive. So, refer back to my original picture of my kitchen and that should give you an idea of what it looks like right now :(

In unrelated news, I recently saw the Greatest Show on Earth:

Point Break Live

Random disorders I just learned about:

Remember the movie Blink? I do. I just learned that there is a visual disorder that is very similar to the one the chick in the movie experiences. It's called palinopsia and it's quite freaky.

Also, a recent National Geographic had an article on sleep and described a rare sleep disorder called fatal familial insomnia which renders a person unable to fall asleep ever again.

As you all know, I want to go into neuropsychology as a profession. Why? Because of crazy shit like cysticercosis.

Today in class we learned about a dude who contracted a parasitic infection from eating improperly cooked pork in Mexico. The parasite LAID EGGS IN HIS BRAIN which later hatched and died, and left holes and scaring in his brain. He was left with significant cognitive impairment [due to other issues as well like a seizure disorder and stroke] and we had to examine his cognitive testing results.

Is that not the grossest thing you've ever heard of? Check out the MRI of a patient who had cysticercosis.