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**offbeat post warning** Like most, I am a creature of habit. Most of the time I am able to settle into a daily schedule that is healthy and productive, but over the past couple of months my world has been…

***Warning! This post is graphic in nature an my not be suitable for all age groups.***

Two nights ago I had the opportunity to visit the cadaver dissection lab at a medical school in Center City Philadelphia. Over the past couple of years I’ve been a welcomed guest at the school as I’ve dated a grad Student who is matriculating there. As a business student at Villanova I was unable to take a strenuous anatomy course and was unable to take one during high school due to a conflict with another one of my classes – German IV if I remember correctly. In any event, this was the first time that I had been introduced to human dissection. It was, quite simply, an amazing experience.

I have always been one for hands on learning, but strapping on a pair of latex gloves and pulling back another human’s flesh, muscle, and tendons and cutting away their fascia to get a true understanding of how it works, is on a totally separate level. I believe there is great value to this and my experience left me with a deeper respect for those who’ve dedicated themselves, even in the afterlife, to the cultivation of the intellect. After my experience I am more open to the thought of this as my final donation.

For the past few months I've been hitting the gym with a degree of consistency. Today I accomplished a new personal best in the bench press: 285 pounds. If you have lived under a rock, the bench press, as defined…