Weekend Away...

So this is my weekend away from school... I'm in Baton Rouge visiting my bestest friends in the world. I love being here, and how it just basically feels completely normal to just sit around and do nothing with T. So far we've slept til noon, went to lunch and a movie, and now just watching tv and talking. I don't realize how much I miss her until we're together again. I guess it's just one of those "meant to be" kind of things.

Anyway, guess I might as well try to get a little studying done. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I know I sure will!

Getting back down to business...

Well after 3 weeks, yesterday was finally our first test of the semester. Physiology... I'm still not sure what I think about it. The class that is. Thanks to my gunner friend and a very early morning meeting at Methodist, I'm pretty sure the test went well enough. Definitely better than I expected. It was all on cardiology, and I probably would have felt a lot better about it if I had kept up all along. But instead, I studied a little and played a lot. Of course, I have a wonderful group of friends to both study and play with... Dessert night was a blast, studying was productive and fun, and plenty of girl talk with some of the best girls on earth. I don't know how I made it through so much of the first semester without them, they make studying fun, they keep me sane, and they're definitely entertaining. Oh yeah, this is what school is meant to be like. :)

In other news, I performed my first surgery on a live patient a couple weeks ago. Granted, it was on a pig and involved 3 other students and as many instructors, but it was so cool. My partner and I were awesome at the femoral caths, and actually seeing/feeling a beating heart... Wow. It was absolutely incredible. But I'm just still not quite sure that surgery is for me. I don't think I have the confidence for it, but maybe that'll come with experience. I also applied for a job doing peds research and clinic work this summer. My options are that or a clinical observership that the school also offers. I'm pretty excited, I think either one of those would be awesome. I can't wait to actually have real patient interaction, and a reminder of why I'm going through this in the first place. That's why I want to start going to the Jackson Free Clinic too, I'm planning on being there next weekend. And starting tonight, I'm staying caught up (and maybe even ahead) in all my classes.

Last night was our "med school movie night". A whole group of us went out to eat and went to see Extraordinary Measures. It was a good movie, an AWESOME night, and reminded me yet again why I was called to be a doctor. I'm not sure what kind of medicine I want to do, but I know I want to treat people, both the sick patients and their sick-with-worry families. M keeps telling me that I'll be a good doctor, I hope she's right. Of course, she also keeps trying to convince me that I'm going to do peds hem/onc. I guess we'll see where that goes.

And now, since I'm out of things to say and needing to go get busy before my sucky mood comes back with a vengeance (oh, by the way, thanks to M, N, and RA for giving me ice cream and laughter...you know that's the best way to turn a frown upside down)... It's time to crack open the phys book and start learning renal. Joy.

I wish you all health, happiness, and lots of love. I'll try to update again soon.

The World's Worst Day... And Snow!!!

I woke up this morning thinking that today would be the world's worst day. Why, you ask? Well, let's start from the beginning. My wonderful boyfriend of 2 years left to go back to NC at 6:00 this morning. I always hate it when he leaves... I'm in such a good mood when he's here, and we're both miserable when he leaves again. And on top of that (which would have ruined my day already), school started today too. After 2 weeks off, the idea of going back to daily grind of constant studying just does not appeal to me.

But then, when I pulled into a parking spot at school, something magical happened. It was SNOWING. In Mississippi. How can you be upset when it's snowing? And every time I walked outside all day, it was still snowing. Granted, it didn't come anywhere close to sticking, but it was SNOW!

So all in all, I didn't let the day get to me the way I thought it would. I'm convinced that the snow was God's way of telling me "buck up, cause it's all going to be ok". And I'm taking that message to heart. I finally found my New Year's resolution: to look for the bright side of everything, stay up and excited about school, and just in general make my life HAPPY again. Hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday season, and I hope the week brings you plenty of happiness and good fortune.