Nail Update

My nails have been TERRIBLE.  I used to think I just bit my nails all the time, and it wasn't really a stress-related thing.  But it's definitely both.  I do bite my nails all the time, but I also definitely destroy them with a lot more vengeance when I'm stressed.  Also sometimes studying is so boring, so boring that biting my nails becomes more interesting than anything else.  I've seen comics about how even staring at walls suddenly becomes interesting when trying to study.  Well biting my nails is my staring at walls.

You are definitely not getting a picture update because they are gross, and I can barely look at them, nevertheless take a picture of them for the world (yes, the world, that's how popular I think I am) to see.  I did buy a bouncy ball at Duane Reade yesterday and here's to hoping that playing with it will help me stop at least a little (if nothing else, it should really make my downstairs neighbor become more fond of me).  Otherwise maybe I should invest in a nicotine patch.

my savior?

Nail-Biting

IHR, Infection and Host Response, comes to an end today (and because all of our course titles require an explanation, this class was Immunology and Microbiology).  If microbiology has taught me anything, it is this: it is a terrible idea to eat someone's feces.  Also, I should stop biting my nails.


A lot of the parasites we learned about are more prevalent in children/toddlers because they can't help but put their fingers in their mouths, so any parasite eggs they may accidentally touch (in the soil, or on any infected surface) get directly into their bodies.  Pretty sure I'm at the level of the toddlers on that one since I have absolutely no self-control when it comes to not biting my nails.

But it's a lot worse for me because first of all, I'm almost 25 and should be done with that by now (ALMOST - I still have two whole days before I'm in my mid-twenties, so stop rushing my life away, goshhhh) and second of all, I'm a med student and have seen the horrifying disgusting pictures of these parasitic diseases - which you think would scare me into never putting my hands near my face again.  But at least I've also learned that my immune system is wayyyy more developed than a toddler's - so ha-ha, whatup now toddlers?!

That's also why we can eat honey but babies can't; their crappy undeveloped immune system can't deal with the small amount of germs that are sometimes found in honey.  Adults - 1, Babies - 0.