Gubernaculum!

Apparently I post in twos now, because this just occurred to me and now I have to put it down. My previous favourite anatomical structure in the body was the Anatomical Snuff Box. Now don't get me wrong, I still think it's pretty cool, but at least in name I think it's been surpassed by the gubernaculum. Granted, you can't see this, since it's an embryonic structure, but just say that name again. Gubernaclum. It's just great. One more time. Gubernaculum. Or, to really finish it off; many, many gubernacula.

I'm done now.

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I would like to blame my conspicuous lack of posts in the last month on being busy, but one would think if I were really busy I'd have plenty to write about. So I could blame it on life being too boring, giving me no material to write about, which would be a lie. It would seem the truth lies somewhere in between: I've been busy, and somehow haven't bothered to blog. However, the hints have been dropped that I should post something (you know who you are...) so I believe it's time to put something together. This opening paragraph (and so many others) makes me think of one of Jared Penner's posts which observes this phenomenon of apologetic blog openings as an inherent problem of blogging. But perhaps I'm just too apologetic in general. I'll blame my Canadianness... but this is getting me nowhere, frankly I'm just typing filler.

I suppose the one constant in my life since I got home from the Dominican is my attempt to read my way through "The Iliad." It's been a bit of a slow process, more due to the fact that I find myself with so little reading time, and perhaps a bit due to the density of the material. In some ways, I wish I could be 10 for the rest of my life and read as much as I did at that age. I keep saying that when I retire I'm going to do nothing but sit around and read to make up for all the time I haven't done that since high school on. But back to The Iliad. I'm not sure I'd have enjoyed this read as much without the little bit of perspective that a few university English courses has given me. So many of the literary tools that were discussed in the diverse literature in all the courses I took are found in this story. But the great thing is how this was written a couple thousand years before most of the stuff I've read. So I would say I've enjoyed the story somewhat along the way, but I've got more of a great respect for the writer who, if not the first to use many of these ideas is certainly near their beginning of being put down on paper. Plus, I think now that I'm this far (60 pages to go!), I kind of have to finish it, just so I can say I've read it...