This is my yawn-y face...

[xp_cypher]

Wedding was fantastic. Congrats again, Mr. and Mrs. Dayspring. ;-)

In other news, jetlag sucks. I think I'll go back to bed now. :)

Comments

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Happiness is having a completely arbitrary REM cycle, and thus being totally immune to jet lag. Granted, it's got the downside of having no "internal clock" whatsoever, but I bet I could actually fix that once my new gear's up to 100%...

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

See, and now I have this mental image of you walking around with a ticking sound coming from your spleen. And having to punch yourself in the stomach to hit the snooze button.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Ha-HA! I have no spleen!

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

You don't have a spleen? ... WHat IS a spleen anyways?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Nope, I have no spleen. Lost it, part of my large and small intestine, and almost a kidney in the same accident that resulted in my metal bits. Well, the first one. Nothing other than my arm got hurt the last time. Unless wounded pride is a medical condition.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but what's a spleen DO?

Woundeditis pridicus. Or something like that.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It's like a filter for your blood. You can live without it, obviously, but because it got really messed up, I tend to be at more danger of septic infection in my system than normal folks. Hence why I'm on these pills for the next few weeks.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Maybe that's what makes mutants like me get sick not as much? Bigger spleens?

Man, organs have funny names.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Like the islets of Langerhans, which are inside the pancreas.

Both of them are really fun to say. And without them, we'd have a lot more trouble digesting proteins and fats. And we'd all be diabetic. Handy little funny-named organ, the pancreas.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

you forget the every-popular Gaelea Aponeurotica - a tendonous sheet holding your frontalis and occipital muscles together.

and Peyer's Patches in your small intestine.

Oddly enough...

[x-jetstream.livejournal.com]

They'd actually managed to _save_ mine.

I take it you've got an implant that does the same job?

Salaam,
Haroun

Re: Oddly enough...

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Nope, I've been running without one, just taking a lot of precautions to not get massively injured or risk things like blood poisoning. Dr. Smythe talked about the possibility of a replacement, but wants to hold off until I'm older. Assuming I pass all my finals, I'm going to lean a little heavier on the organic sciences next semester, and see if I can't come up with something.

Re: Oddly enough...

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

of course you will pass, you're a genius.

me? not a genius so passing is questionable.

I wasn't too much older than you...

[x-jetstream.livejournal.com]

When I burned. Of course, my cybernetics were a crash install, do it or he dies sort of a thing. So they didn't spend much time worrying about the niceties.

Haroun