Nerdgasm: "An MD's World"

Hello smarty-pants university-type people!

It's been a very long time.  I know.  It's my senior year, and right when I thought I'd have more time for creative ventures, some heinous thing called "organic chemistry" happened.  It's like anatomy and physiology all over again...but this time I can't physically see anything that I'm learning about.  Not directly anyway.  I find that after my daily mind-fuck I'm anything but creative, so you'll have to excuse how aberrant my posting habits have been.  It will get better; I promise.

And you know what?  Today I'm bloody well flattered because I just found out that THE Janice Lapsansky (my anatomy and physiology professor) reads my blog.  On top of that, I literally got thrown a bone with an interview at a local spine and joint clinic, so I'm excited and terrified at the same time.  I told my boyfriend that if I end up working directly with the MD there that I will "shit butterflies"...and then proceeded to go off on a tangent about how shitting butterflies is a direct biproduct of that feeling of butterflies in your stomach.

ANYWAY, in light of all this happening, I decided to opt for another Nerdgasm post.  There will be more Field Guides and Sanity Checks soon!

I present to you "An MD's World", a parody of "Part of Your World"from The Little Mermaid.

Nerdgasm: "Bio-Anthro Style"

Greetings nerdy-pants,

In the past few weeks, my boyfriend has been going through a bit of a craze over a certain song of South Korean origin.  It features a 38 year old overweight man dancing suggestively in possibly one of the most brilliant, subtle social commentaries ever to grace the music industry.  Ok...so that might be a bit of an exaggeration.

But seriously, if you haven't seen Psy's "Gangnam Style" yet, you need to.  It's shot WONDERFULLY, cleverly, and is full of little details that I love.  It's making waves in South Korea because it satirizes wealthy society in the country, bringing light to how superficial the culture is.  Think of this as a parody of LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem":

Fucking brilliant, right?  Well my not-so-inner nerd could not just let this sit un-dorkified, so ladies and gents, I present to you...

Nerdgasm: "Platelet Rhapsody"

Greetings nerdy-pants!

The Pocket Protector now has a Tumblr, where all things outrageously dorky/geeky/nerdy can be found.  You can also stay up-to-date on my latest blog posts by subscribing there if you'd like.  Click here!

Ok, this is the last anatomy-related post for a while.  It's been my life for the past 18 weeks, so give me a break, alright?  My original intention was to record this and put it to a slideshow of blood-clotting that only iMovie could deliver, but I quickly found out that a) I'm very busy and b) have no idea how to begin to do that with high sound quality.

REGARDLESS,  I give to you my blood-clotting song that saved my ass during my final.  It's all about platelets, little packets of chemical messages that flow through your veins, and how they stop blood from draining in a wound.  Sung to "Bohemian Rhapsody"...and yes, nerds, I mean ALL of it.

I've included an instrumental version so you can sing along if you'd like.  Without further ado...

Nerdgasm: How to kill someone you really hate

Hellooooooooooooo university-type peoples!

I've done it!  I've escaped from the clutches of the Lapsansky monster's claws ONCE AND FOR ALL. Join me upon my scintillating pedestal of academic GLORY, weary travelers!  THIS BITCH IS A SENIOR IN COLLEGE.

After stepping out of my human physiology final yesterday, I had no idea what to do with myself.  I felt like a slave that had just been set free from the clutches of her evil master, a survivor of a nuclear explosion, like Snookie if she had been told that all tanning booths had been shut down forever.  I keep getting these horrible feelings of impending doom as if I've forgotten that I have something due in lab or a poster project or some random bodily function to memorize.  But I don't...and...well...it's absolutely brilliant.

I feel like it's an end of an academic era for me and a bunch of my friends, and I think the only appropriate thing to do is to impart onto you the most important lesson I have learned in human anatomy and physiology with Janice Lapsansky at Western Washington University, which is, of course...

Nerdgasm: All Them Artsy Folk

Greetings to all of my hyper-cephalized companions out there in cyber space!

Welcome to a new edition of It Came From the Interwebz!  This edition, we're going to be talking about art and some of the really cool stuff that I have found in my time between anatomy chapters and trolling on the Craigslist "Missed Connections" section.  I've been finding a lot on the web from those gosh darn artsy folk, so it's time for them to shine in this alcove of supreme nerdity.  We are going to cover the entire spectrum here, so be prepared!

Nerdgasm: Science Edition

Hello to you, my hyper-cephalized companions!

Welcome to a long due "It Came from The Interwebz"!  I know that most of you were expecting, perhaps, a Thanksgiving blog, but I really have nothing to say about such a lukewarm holiday.  Warm and fuzzies do not make funny blogs, nor interesting reading material for you all.  SO INSTEAD we're going to talk about a virus that killed 5% of the world population, among other super cheery topics related to mad science, k? ^_^

It's like I was made for this or something.

Nerdgasm: World Domination at It's Finest

Hello to you hyper-cephalized people, and welcome to a new edition of The Pocket Protector, specifically the first installment of (Click this first...) "It Came From the Interwebz"!

I think this is pretty self-explanatory, especially with this AWESOME music playing in the background, don't you think?   At the hotel, I have plenty of time to be on Stumbleupon, also known as "The Procrastinator's Worst Nightmare", so I find things constantly, not to mention that my friends are constantly posting stuff they find on SU on my wall.  This section will serve to show you the highlights of the internet for this week!