Inspired by Katherine’s photo of her desk at work and new issue of Nature Chemistry, I decided to photograph my own desk at work.
At the moment, I don’t have anything as exciting as an issue of a new journal to peruse. Instead, I’m preparing a preview guide for the teaching assistants, for a lab session on spinal cord anatomy and lesions. The students get bombarded with Powerpoints for lectures, so I’m encouraging a more interactive “chalk talk” (actually dry-erase board talk) approach for the lab sessions. On my desk are the lab manual, the textbook (Haines’ Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications), my notes and developing preview outline, the American Association of Anatomists newsletter, and a Thieme Color Atlas of Neuroscience. On the computer monitor, there are spinal cord section images from the review CD for the course. The Medical Neuroscience course is one of two that I’m teaching over the next months … the other is a graduate course in developmental biology.
The “cuss” part of the title of this post comes with the territory of a Dell PC running Windoze.
I like your owl. I went through a phase of collecting owl ornaments in my teens, I wonder what my parents did with them?!
That particular owl was a gift from a student who did an undergrad research project in my lab one summer. She was attending the same university as I had, as an undergrad – the mascot is an owl. I have a pretty good-sized collection of owl tchotchkes.
There’s that Bader-thingy syndrome again! I heard the word “tchotchkes” for the first time on Sunday, and now here it is again…