I am a Big Vagina
Quick note- I fuckin DOMINATED my last anatomy exam, baby. I think I finally have this whole med school thing down. Study less, do better. Doesn't make a lick of sense but somehow it just works.
Anyway, Friday night our med school had a little halloween party. I wasn't planning on going because a) I didn't have a costume and b) I was dead set on vegetating for 50 straight hours on my futon. But then my neighbor came over and started pestering me to go, even though neither of us had any real costumes. I resisted initially, because if I was going to go to this thing, I knew I had to go in style. I briefly considered stealing one of the ideas from Jeremy's blog (the superman one seemed easiest to execute)... but then I stumbled upon a costume idea which was just too brilliant to pass up. So with two hours left, we went off to Walmart and Target in search of last minute costume materials.
Here's what I made out with:
2 yards of pink fabric @ walmart ... $5.95
Red sweat pants @ walmart ... $10.88
Set of two pairs of pink mittens @ target ... $1.94
Complete and utter loss of dignity @ halloween party ... priceless
Now bear in mind I had only two hours to brainstorm, shop and put together my costume. So without further ado, here it is:
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That's right, I went as a frickin UTERUS. A little background info- First, this is a medschool party. Also, during our lecture on the pelvis our infamous professor tried to explain to us the folds of the peritoneum by standing in front of the class with her arms out and hands pointed backwards, telling us she was a uterus and that we should imagine a cloth draped over her body and arms to visualize the folds of the broad ligament. While this was a fairly effective teaching analogy, it also had a side effect of killing the sex drive of every male in our class for the next 10 or so years. (FYI the labels on the costume represent the tags they put on the cadavers during practical exams... which happened to have 50 questions).
So it seemed like such a good idea in my head. But somehow during the course of its execution it turned into the gayest looking costume you've ever seen in your life. They literally had to drag me out of my apartment by my nails.
The good news is, it totally worked! In fact as soon as I walked through the door and one person figured out my costume (after 20 seconds of blank staring while I did my pose), a bunch of 5 or 6 scantily clad girls started screaming "oh my god it's a uterus!" and started demanding to take pictures with me. So that was pretty cool until the novelty wore off and they went back to their business of getting piss drunk. If I ever see any of those pictures I will definitely post them up. It's just too bad I realized too late that I probably could've gotten away with putting my fimbriae on anatomical parts other than their heads.
Anyway the costume was a big success. It even kept my fingers warm. The only real drawbacks were that the cardboard was cutting into my neck the whole night and I also had to walk around sideways everywhere I went, even to get through doorways.
Anyway, Friday night our med school had a little halloween party. I wasn't planning on going because a) I didn't have a costume and b) I was dead set on vegetating for 50 straight hours on my futon. But then my neighbor came over and started pestering me to go, even though neither of us had any real costumes. I resisted initially, because if I was going to go to this thing, I knew I had to go in style. I briefly considered stealing one of the ideas from Jeremy's blog (the superman one seemed easiest to execute)... but then I stumbled upon a costume idea which was just too brilliant to pass up. So with two hours left, we went off to Walmart and Target in search of last minute costume materials.
Here's what I made out with:
2 yards of pink fabric @ walmart ... $5.95
Red sweat pants @ walmart ... $10.88
Set of two pairs of pink mittens @ target ... $1.94
Complete and utter loss of dignity @ halloween party ... priceless
Now bear in mind I had only two hours to brainstorm, shop and put together my costume. So without further ado, here it is:
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
That's right, I went as a frickin UTERUS. A little background info- First, this is a medschool party. Also, during our lecture on the pelvis our infamous professor tried to explain to us the folds of the peritoneum by standing in front of the class with her arms out and hands pointed backwards, telling us she was a uterus and that we should imagine a cloth draped over her body and arms to visualize the folds of the broad ligament. While this was a fairly effective teaching analogy, it also had a side effect of killing the sex drive of every male in our class for the next 10 or so years. (FYI the labels on the costume represent the tags they put on the cadavers during practical exams... which happened to have 50 questions).
So it seemed like such a good idea in my head. But somehow during the course of its execution it turned into the gayest looking costume you've ever seen in your life. They literally had to drag me out of my apartment by my nails.
The good news is, it totally worked! In fact as soon as I walked through the door and one person figured out my costume (after 20 seconds of blank staring while I did my pose), a bunch of 5 or 6 scantily clad girls started screaming "oh my god it's a uterus!" and started demanding to take pictures with me. So that was pretty cool until the novelty wore off and they went back to their business of getting piss drunk. If I ever see any of those pictures I will definitely post them up. It's just too bad I realized too late that I probably could've gotten away with putting my fimbriae on anatomical parts other than their heads.
Anyway the costume was a big success. It even kept my fingers warm. The only real drawbacks were that the cardboard was cutting into my neck the whole night and I also had to walk around sideways everywhere I went, even to get through doorways.
