I am Awake before Mason!!!!!!

It is 7:30am and Mason is still sleeping. I wouldn't be up either but I have scheduled an 8:20am dental appointment for Mason as he has two teeth that concern me (they look brown and broken). I had nightmares of root canals for him so I need to do this for my sanity. I am going to need to wake these guys up soon but I am so enjoying my coffee in peace.
OK, he is awake now and I have instructed him to give Spike so loving as he is a chatty Cathy kitty this morning. He is now essentially living here other than being out all night, he resides with Misty under my bed. So, I guess they don't mind each other so much anymore. Maybe it reminds Misty of the Guiness days. Love hate type of thing.
So my midterm grades at school were posted and I am getting a B+. This sounds great but I am not getting a lot of points in Lab so I have fears that I may not pass the lab portion of the class. On Tuesday, we had to dissect out the larynx on our Cats but we were also given something called a Sheep Pluck which is essentially a sheep's heart and lungs (we are studying the pulmonary system). So, my lab partner Jackie (who I really like) and I took turns doing the three different dissections that we needed to do. I started with the Sheep Pluck while she did the Cat. I did a lousy job trying to unearth the bronchi and secondary and tertiary bronchus. There was so much fat on the thing that is was slippery and slimy. Well, after 45 minutes we traded and I started to dissect my side of the cat larynx. Jackie found all the bronchial structures and we traded back so that I could dissect out the pulmonary veins and arteries. Well, the only way to find these structures is to slice open part of the heart, insert the probe and see where your probe ends up (as it will go up a vessel). Well, the long and the short of it is that I sliced open the wrong side of the heart (point deductions for poor dissection technique) and was basically hopelessly lost. With 20 minutes of class remaining we still needed to have our teacher give us our eval (short for a 5 point, one minute test on one of the three dissections we did that day). Well, our teacher saw what I had done and grilled me to the point that I was in tears and left to calm myself down. While I was in the bathroom I contemplated not going back to lab and/or quitting the class. Yes, I was very upset but I pulled myself together and went back in and finished taking my eval. She obviously felt sorry for me as she gave me a 4 out of 5 which is the highest score I have received all year. That, and when she asked me to go over the respiratory dissection (bronchi) I started to review the heart (circulation). I was that nervous. She politely told me to think again and start over. Duh. I just get so nervous in there I am a complete mess. I hated the lab portion of these classes at College of Marin and I still hate them today. It is just not the type of learning environment I do well in. So that is my lab story. I am sticking to it! :)
I have to run now but I will post some pictures next time.