Amelia

I am having horrid cramps today. They seem worse than usual (but I think I always say that, maybe because I don't regularly get cramps I always think they're horrible?, maybe I'm just a wimp?)

So it seems appropriate that I came across this site where a woman takes pictures of her cervix. (You should be able to determine the workplace appropriateness for yourself.) She took a picture every day for a month and also tracked how she was feeling. (She's a doula and student midwife.)

How interesting! It's a little strange to me that there are areas of my own body that I have never seen but that are routinely inspected by medical professionals (cervix is the most obvious, perhaps also eardrum, back of my throat). Also areas that aren't really touched often (and having a pap smear is a really odd feeling, isn't it?).

My only real visual memories of a cervix are the rubber ones that were passed around in health class so that we could see what cervical cancer looked like (also there were the beanbag-like boobs and testicles that we felt trying to find the hard sphere hidden inside so we knew what to look for during self-exams). This was 9th grade as I recall the girls sort of went with it and the boys giggled a lot.

As arallara quoted nakedbee "If you have any interest in boy bands, women scientists, or automated pipetting equipment you should watch this music video/commercial immediately!"

This video is mindblowingly random and awesome. When was the last time you used a pipette?

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OMG there's more. There's this. I have no words.

Best line: "when you need to know who the daddy is"

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And to properly mark the historical moment I should include a link to the Large Hadron Rap. I'm sure most of you have seen it, but for future reference.