Just a few more days of freedom until I must thrust my brain into overdrive for another term. I can already see summer flying by. 8 intense weeks of school peppered with an extravagantly lavish formal wedding in Chicago over the course of 5 days, bbqs and happy hours. Fun? Sure. Taxing? No doubt. I’m not complaining, don’t get me wrong.
Spring term was SO HARD. I just had no idea until I was totally in the thick of it there was no turning back. And now, even though I’m working full time, seriously, I feel like I’m on vacation.
I’ve never used my brain so much in my entire life people. I’m sorry, but college was never this challenging. Not only do I feel like I’m studying much more complicated material, it somehow feels more significant - like I really need to pay attention and get it or perhaps some day, when confronted with a patient, I may make the wrong choice and… oh, now I’m being a big downer and getting so far ahead of myself I’m not really making sense.
I suspect it’s different now because I’m striving for A’s and 18 years ago when I started college I didn’t really give a crap and in fact deliberately went to a college that did not give out grades. Youth truly is wasted on the young.
Here’s my secret to straight A’s: STUDY MY ASS OFF. I mean, study and study and study and study. And surround myself with equally intelligent people of varying age and background. One of the greatest days of Spring Term was overhearing a guy in my class talk to another student and referring to me and 2 of my study partners as “brainiacs”. Oh my god, at this point in my life that means more to me than I can say. Of course it would have really been awesome if I’d overheard him saying, “see that hottie over there talking to the dudes? She is a freaking brainiac.” Hmmm, maybe he was thinking that…
Summer Term = Anatomy & Physiology 232 and Algebra 95, a total of 8 credits. I swear to god I thought I don’t know how I will have any life at all when Fall begins and I’ll tackle 10 credits.
All I know is that I have to keep going. Every term down is a term closer to getting into nursing school, a term closer to leaving my current job and creating a new life for myself.
bretty is absolutely the best. He supports me so deeply and I hope that one day I can somehow pay him back. 11 years we’ve been together now. And I’d say in the last couple months we’ve really taken an upturn. He’s incredibly cute, sweet and totally sexy.
Oh, this is huge news (though it will come as no surprise to those that know me: we’re following the brian jonestown massacre again this September. Thank you Anton Newcombe for planning your west coast tour around my school schedule. We’ll be able to hit 6 shows this year. We were planning on 8 until we looked at the refrigerator and noticed the “save the date” wedding announcement that’d be hanging up there for the last several months. Oh well. I’m satisfied with 6 shows - San Francisco (2), Portland, to Vancouver, down to Seattle, then Eugene. I’m so looking forward to road tripping, visiting friends, doing some record shopping (we bought a record player!) and of course feeling some awesome music.
And my sister is pregnant. About 16 weeks. It’s quite exciting and a just a tinge melancholy, as it makes me feel my age. I can’t help it - I want her to have a little girl. A little girl I tell you!! My parents are of course over the moon happy. I’m happy, too.
Alright, well, that’s it for now. My main goal during “break” was to blog. Now I’ve done it and I feel good. Other goals include cleaning off my desk here in the computer room and tackling the ugly mountain of clothes that daunts me in the bedroom.