School was completely canceled this week. Good-yes. Bad-yes. We have a fall break, thanks to Ike, but we will have to make it all up. This means that our crazy lives are all about to get even crazier. We were supposed to have our first anatomy test on this coming Monday, September 22. It was to cover lectures 1-6. We have been informed by the Director of the School of Physical Therapy that there are to be no exams this coming week. I am happy, yet freaked. Check out the email that my anatomy prof just sent us... HA (= nervous laughter):
"I have been informed that we are not to give exams next week. So no exams. I was just afraid that pushing all the exams back would just "stack" one on top of the other, making for a unpleasant week. But don't worry Dr. Costello and I will get our pound of flesh one way or another. Pay us now or pay us later!!!"
He cracks me up. He is being funny yet totally serious. You think I'm joking... If you're a faithful reader, you'll see that I'll be missing a pound of flesh pretty soon.
4 comments:
please don't lose flesh. tell your prof i will beat them up.
Can't you, like, steal a pound of flesh from one of the cadavers? Does it have to be, you know, yours?
Okay, in case you don't know, here is how Antonio got out of paying his pound of flesh to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice: he got an excellent lawyer (Portia, dressed as a man) to argue for him that the agreement for the pound of flesh did not include blood (which would have been extracted with the flesh when it was cut off); also, if even slightly less or more than one pound of flesh was cut off, Shylock would be in violation of the agreement with Antonio, and would therefore have had to face a stiff penalty for breaking a contract.
So, maybe you can argue using one of those tacks and your professor will have to exempt you from the exam.
Or maybe the literalism of Todd's idea could be more persuasive. I think you have a lot of options here.
(Yes, I had to go look up Act IV of The Merchant of Venice. Yes, I still have it on my bookshelf...I feel like an old person...)
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