Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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Medical dramaMost of the nerves that supply your body come off from your spinal cord, except for 12 which just sprout out from the brain. A few of these come out through the front of your skull. The boss handed me a scalpel and asked me to follow them from the brainstem outwards. Unfortunately, I knew bugger all about this area, but the problems didn't stop there: I was holding the scalpel wrong, I couldn't separate the membranes, I even cut through some of the nerve fibres. After half an hour of faffing about getting nowhere, I had to get help.
Luckily, I'm a medical student and this wasn't a real operation. The person on the table had been dead for 2 months and their brain was lying on a box next to me, so it was probably a little late to do much.
(, Fri 15 Oct 2004, 10:00, Reply)
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