Good thing I wrote THIS one

Here we are again, at the end of another Saturday... I'll give anyone one guess what I did today...!

Did you guess?

Did you guess that I went on a crazy adventure, and met a wild grizzly bear that was about to eat me until I offered it a piece of my granola bar I just happened to have with me and then after that he didn't eat me but instead we became friends and he took me on a grand tour of the "Great Outdoors" (or as the bears call it "home") and most importantly taught me how to catch salmon with my mouth?

I hope not, cause if you did guess that, you were wrong. I studied all day.

Alright. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. (yet another song...)

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Today has been a day full of learning... and fun. I won't bore anyone with the details of my day, but I did spend the vast majority of it studying Neuroscience. What is that, you ask? Well, it includes everything from the anatomy of the brain, to the little pathways of individual nerve cells, to learning about things like Parkinson's disease. It pretty interesting so far. In a few weeks, we are going to be learning how to properly do a neurologic exam (reflexes, shining lights in eyes, etc.) Which I am looking forward too, mostly because it seems more like learning actual medicine. Which is what I'm supposedly in school for.

In other news, the floodwaters have receded! I have let all of the pairs of animals that I had in my apartment back out onto the streets, and things are pretty much back to normal here. Its even cold. Which is good news, because I was scared for a little while that global warming was HERE! NOW! And that would be bad (I guess...I kind of liked the warm weather). But seriously, it would be bad. Can you imagine what would happen to the price of ice?!? I can, and it doesn't look pretty (i.e. no more ice sculptures).

Anyway, I think I've spent enough time convincing you all that I've completely lost it. So...I think I'll call this one done. Except for this picture of a graffiti anarchy sign I took in the park just down from my apartment:


Classic...

Just call me Noah

For the past few days, we've had some real unseasonably warm weather here, and also lots and lots of rain. Also, there was a lot of snow lying around before it got warm. Put those two together, and you get a river that looks like this. I'm pretty sure this is the St. Joseph River. Anyway, I took these pictures this evening just down the street from my house. I think they speak for themselves.


The end of the road...


From the bank. Usually the road goes along the river there, and then about a five foot dropoff, then the river. As you can see, all there is now is water.


From the bridge over the river (remind anyone of a song...?)


Also from the bridge

Some time later...

It's been awhile since my last posting. Since then, I have experienced winter break. And also the end of that break... My new semester is in full swing, and I can see that its going to be equally as tough as the last one, but this time, I have my new year's resolution. This year's new year's resolution is (drumroll please...): not go crazy! I think its been going well so far.
Last weekend was pretty crazy though (no studying either)... I went down to Indianapolis for my friend (cousin...?) Drew's wedding. I would say we partied like it was 1999. And it was a success... they ended up married.
And as it turns out, even with taking the entire weekend off, I'm still not even that behind in my studies. Which really just goes along with my new year's resolution, showing that I may not have to be doing school constantly to be able to pass.
So building on that, and also the fact that it was about 62 degrees today, I decided to take a little time off this afternoon and go for a jog. Which was a good idea, cause it was really nice out today, but unfortunately I'm a little out of shape. So I was feeling the burn pretty good. But it was definitely a good idea. In fact, I'm not quite sure now why I stopped running last fall. I kind of wish I hadn't... Oh well.

In other news, its really too bad about that national championship game...

Break

Winter break is in full swing, and I have spent the last several days doing (almost) nothing! Normally, that would sound less than spectacular, but in this case, it is great. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I've been working pretty hard, and its real nice to get a break.
We've had a pretty big snowstorm here, and there's a lot of snow around. Nathan's school had a snow day on Monday, and there's a lot of snow around. (Oh yeah, I'm at the lake right now, not South Bend) I've been back in Merry Lea a couple of times, and it was a really a whole different experience back there when there's a foot of snow on the ground.
Other than that, there isn't that much to tell. I'm just enjoying the break.

1/8

That's how much of medical school I have done. With the semester over, I thought it would be a good idea to finally write some more on here. Mostly, I've just been studying, which doesn't translate into anything cool to write about. But supposedly I learned all of histology in 3 and a half weeks... I took the NBME shelf exam today, so I guess when I get the results back, I'll find out if I really did learn what I needed to know.
Anyway, I now have about 2 weeks off of school.
So I guess that about covers it.

I couldn't think of a good title...

If you had asked me today "How are you doing?", I would have said (like Joyce of Wengatz hall cleaning fame): "Doin' pretty good for a Monday...!" Actually, it was a pretty good day. Probably the best thing to happen was that I found out I pretty much rocked my histology test's world. So that had me feeling pretty smart...
However, tonight I went to this talk "they" had at the school about blood clotting and deep vein thrombosis (prophylactic thrombolytics to be more specific...). It was really geared for the orthopedic surgeons in the audience, of which I am clearly not one. After that, I no longer felt smart at all. In fact I felt pretty dumb. Most of the time, I had about a 10% idea what they were talking about. But on the positive side, I got to watch some people argue with the presenters during the Q&A time. So that was interesting. But again, they were mostly arguing about stuff I didn't quite understand.
Anyway, I enjoyed it on some level, mostly on the level of: 'wow, look how much you don't know--now go study!' Which isn't all bad.