bad things come in 3's

i think i flunked my exam. what a way to start the sem with, huh? was checking through the answers and i got most of them wrong.... i need to buck up before it's too late. practical class didn't go that well either. phillip asked me a few questions and i couldn't answer any of them. this one question made me feel really stupid. he asked it is noted in the notes that the cervicle spine is only able to rotate 5 degrees. but why is it that you're able to turn your head about 90 degrees? i was dumb strucked. i stared at him with the most innocent look i could muster and told him i didn't know. the answer? because the whole SMU (spinal motion unit) rotates together with the cervicle as you turn your head thus allowing further rotation to the cervicle spine. simple enough. so simple that i nearly topple over my seat. how the hell could i have missed that?! then he was talking about subluxations. complex thing that one. well, of course, otherwise they wouldn't have called it subluxation complex. what is a subluxation? it's when the SMU aren't moving as they were supposed to.... i suppose. can you see it with your eyes? nooooope. it's an abstract 3D entity. =-=" whatever that means. you can't cut a subluxation out from a SMU and put it on a table for show. it won't show on the x-ray (well, that's the reason why chiropractors aren't recognized by law as doctors.) can you feel it? well, only if you THINK that it's there. it's all about what you THINK. one chiropractor may feel that there's a subluxation on a particular place but the other might not feel it. there's no definite answer. so then it got me thinking.... i spend over 20k a year, for 5 years, just to learn about what i think i'm feeling during palpations. great. just great. came home to find that dinner hasn't been prepared. yay. just can't get any better than this, now can it? i'm just so tired today. so tired to the point where i'm actually feeling faint. i'ma take a long hot shower and go to bed.