Friday, March 18, 2005

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

with all the snow right now. I want a big slice of cheesecake.

Why is LP running all over the office? All the nurses that work here are referred to by their initials to make it easier to schedule and whatnot.

I looked up about color changes in animals. This is what I learned on this site

"The color changes in all of these animals are, for the most part, the result of changes in certain star-shaped pigment-bearing cells in the skin, called chromatophores. Different ones contain granules of black, yellow, orange or red pigment. In a dark-colored animal, for example, the chromatophores with black pigment have the granules scattered throughout the cell. When the skin fades these granules become concentrated into a microscopic dot, leaving the remainder of the cell colorless. This exposes chromatophores with other colors. Still deeper in the skin are glistening silvery cells that reflect light like a mirror. The control of these color changes involves the retina of the eye, nervous system, the hormones in the blood, and so forth. The story becomes very complicated."

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