Things the dwell inside our rectums and other medical school hazing rituals

No one reads our blog so I don't feel embarrassed in the least to announce that I will be culturing my fecal matter in the very near future.  It's quite a procedure really and it will involve a hopefully sterile swab being inserted into at least the most exterior portion of my rectum. I will perform this daring procedure myself during class time and this is all going to be done in the name of science and me passing my infectious disease class. Up until this point I haven't thought much about my rectum and I'm sure you nonexistent readers haven't either until I sort of shoved it in your face by making this announcement. Let's just take this moment to be glad we all have rectums even if they are crawling with E. Coli and Shigella and Cholera and all those other bugs because without them where would we be?  We'd be in big trouble, with a nice little problem called rectal atresia. Anyway, I'm on a rectal tangent. I'll end it there.