"My Kind of Perfect" - David Archuleta

Today I am grateful for my anatomy TAs Brady and Daniel. I seriously believe that I was lucky enough to get the best lab TAs. I don't think that I would have learned or learned to love anatomy as much as I do if it weren't for them. I think I could have a written a novel every Wednesday night from stuff that happened in lab. I have never come away from lab upset or annoyed. I have always come away laughing my head off and loving anatomy. Today was our last instruction day in lab and I can honestly say that I am actually sad that anatomy is ending. I feel like there is still so much to learn! As we were leaving Brady kept telling us not to go, to stay! Then my friend Casey was like we should be facebook friends. Then Brady went on about how we should take a picture together and create our own group.

So many memories from lab. I could just go on and on. Like that one time when Brady told us that when they flushed the embalming fluid through the right common carotid artery everything came out the big toe.

Or that other time when Daniel meant to say he was sorry for not being very engaging when he accidentally said sorry I'm not engaged which then led to a whole semester long joke.

Or the time when I heard Brady coming down the hallway for the first time. I can't even describe what it was like. He had sent out an email before class started and when I heard him I was like yup, you sound exactly like I expected you to.

Or that one time when we ran into Brady and Daniel outside of class and they found out we were roommates.

Or that other time when we walked in and Brady was singing Phantom of the Opera.

Or that one time when Daniel told us he could gleek for a long time after rinsing with salt water and then told us he would bring salt the next week and do it. Then he forgot the salt.

Or those two different times when the lights just decided to go out randomly and everyone starts laughing and Brady is making weird sounds and tells everyone to climb underneath a desk before we can get the lights back on.

Or that other time when Brady kept getting so distracted in class because the Jazz had made a miraculous win the night before.

Or that one time when Daniel was trying to teach us how to remember tensor faciae latea and he imitated some sort of valley girl in the middle of NYC holding a latte.

Or that other time when we met Brady's summer roommate from Alaska in open lab. Then Kristin pretended to be Brady on a tour bus pointing out "Beary" and then made some comment in class about it and five us started cracking up and Brady just looked at us.

Or that one time when Brady was acting like Regis and said "Behind door number 3" and Kristin and I pretty much lost it.

Or that other night when Kristin and I facebook stalked them and found out that Brady knows how to yodel. That pretty much made my life.

Or that other time when Brady started class saying we're going to start with an opening hymn...happy birthday to Kristin!

Or that one time when Kristin and I were sitting outside of lab and Daniel walked up and sat with us and we said how we didn't want to be there and Daniel said he didn't want to be there either.

Or those few times when Brady had taken his gloves off and thought he had turned them right side out and then blew in them so he could put them back and immediately realized that he hadn't put them right side out which was apparent by all the nasty juices that just covered his face.

Or that other time when Daniel was teaching and this one guy in our class pretending that the rolling chair was a wheelchair and "wheeled" himself around the room and Daniel did a double-take trying to figure out what he was doing.

Or when Brady is always saying how Daniel is making up lies about things but in the end he's always right.

Or that time when Brady said he was going start his own anatomy business and said he would make up stuff using words that we aren't allowed to use on our tests like "Fangs".

Or that time when we were coming out of a review and we asked Tomco a question about Brady's embalming big toe theory and we didn't even make it out of the door when Brady came rushing in wondering what we were saying about him.

Or when I was taking my quiz today and Brady was walking around with two squirt bottles of the preserve stuff and we did that little dance number trying to figure out what direction the other was going to go and he pointed the bottles at me and told me to choose carefully.

Or that first day of lab when they told us to go around and tell about ourselves and bones that we've broken. We went through probably half of the class before someone said they had broke two arms and a leg or something and Brady goes "Now we're talking!"

Or that time when Brady showed up to class with a shirt that had a rib cage on it and he didn't even know that he was wearing it in lab.

Or that other time when we saw Daniel in the Homecoming parade on a cancer research float and then asked him about it in lab and he asked why we didn't get a t-shirt.

Or that one time when Brady "pinned" his own ear for the quiz and then asked if anyone needed to look at Number 5 close up.

Or that other time when Daniel was sitting outside the lab with us and asked us what he should pin and then continued to pin some of the things we told him to.

Or that time when we went to go take the midterm and they were telling us all the different ways that we could lose points and cracking jokes during the test. Then Kristin dropped her pencil in a pile of vertebrae and looked up to see if anyone saw it. Daniel saw it said that would be negative ten points.

Or that one time when we asked Brady if he knew what Tomco did with the homeless people in Seattle. He said yeah he asked her about it once and she gave him a look like she had already answered the question and so he decided not to ask any more questions. So no he didn't know what she really did.

Or that other time when Brady told us in class that he used to be an arborist and a gymnast.

Or that time today when we were going over repro and Daniel was going over female repro and when he walked over Kristin and I started laughing. He asked who had placed bets and we both raised our hands and then he asked who won.

Or that other time when we asked both of them what they wanted to do with their lives and Brady said he had no idea (he is like a super super senior) and then Daniel said that he wanted to open a family practice because he really just wants to be a Dad. I pretty much fell in love with Daniel after that.

So there you have it. I could go on and on but I think I already did. Kristin said there's no ways that words can come close to describe lab every week; you kind of just had to be there. Needless to say these are amazing, awesome, wonderful. Kristin and I think that we are their favorites. I am so so so so so grateful I was in their lab.