Tuesday, May 23, 2006

It's official




I'm losing my brain cells

um..well...when I wrote that post before, the one that I already deleted, I was having one of my neurologically imbalanced "seizures", but it's over now, and therefore I retract my statements..

the truth is that i am a completely overworked, totally sleep-deprived, and a very very anxious human being. I'm supposed to defend in 3 weeks. stand up there convince people of why the past 4.5 years of my life were not a complete waste of time.

and so here's the problem:


on the right is a picture showing normal neurons with extended axons which will form synapses and transmit signals from the brain to the body

on the left are abnormal neurons lacking synapses, and these my friends, would be mine

18 Comments:

Blogger Ghassan said...

Uh.. well.. like I said..
Laila, they are forcing you to do primary cultures from your own brain cells. those Canadians, those McGillians. the horror!

5:10 PM  
Blogger raed said...

ma fhimt shee min shee...

You took me 10 years back... 7atta inno i experienced nafs l tosteele te3eet saff l biology back then.

5:18 PM  
Blogger J. said...

hey you had this post about how people never listen to you. Did you delete it or am I losing my brain cells too?

5:21 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

yeah, i know i´m drunk all the time here but i could swear there was a post earlier!

5:32 PM  
Blogger Hashem said...

what post, and what are these neurons now. Sho baddak bil7ajjeh, ma hada fahman shi min shi...
Laila, good luck in whatever u do.

5:41 PM  
Blogger Eve said...

shu sar! :)

5:47 PM  
Blogger Mar said...

Validation :) Why Laila? Your argument was totally legit !!!

6:09 PM  
Blogger Hilal CHOUMAN said...

ha? what?

6:54 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I was totally with you (though I've taken posts off for less of a reason myself, so I understand that). There is still way too much functional prejudice based on gender. I can't get over the tendancy of American commercials to steriotype based on gender. Men are portreyed as fools and women as vain and selfish. Hard to believe, in a so-called egalitarian culture.

And I'm not just saying that because 90% of my blogmunity are female.

7:07 PM  
Blogger _z. said...

hmmm... to me, losing brain cels in montreal, can only be due to one thing... Are you smoking too much ya laila? are you good friend with sweet mary-jane?
good luck for your thesis (defence)... you'll do well I am sure...

7:13 PM  
Blogger Ghassan said...

hahaha. a riot. I guess she got no more neurons left!

7:16 PM  
Blogger the perpetual refugee said...

I will come back to you shortly...I have a few planes to catch :)

8:18 PM  
Blogger Laila K said...

hey guys dont worry i'm better now, nothing a bottle of leibefraumilch couldnt fix. for those of you who dont understand whats going on, I had a post on earlier and I decided to delete it, no big deal. and I'm defending myh thesis in three weeks, hence the anxiety attack.
thanks for the support though
mar, I know it was, but I was being unfair to some as well. (validation!)

9:56 PM  
Blogger Mia said...

I missed that one didn't I? lol

10:47 PM  
Blogger raed said...

Best of luck.

8:43 AM  
Blogger Amal Ziad Kaawash أمل زياد كعوش said...

Who needs synapses anyway ?

4:20 AM  
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