2/3 done!!!

I am 2/3 of the way through this semester. How crazy is that. While time seems to crawl most of the time, when I look at it in terms of the big picture, it has moved rather quickly. Onto business

So I did a lot better on the written than I was expecting to. I was elated when I saw more score. Plus, we are getting at least one of my wrong ones back (miss keyed) and maybe even one or two more. If we get three back, I will be even more excited. The practical was the practical. We don't get those results back for a little bit, so no use in really talking much about it. I felt as if I passed. It wasn't as bad as previous classes talked it up. The thing is, every artery in the abdomen is really just named for where it is going. The hard part is finding where it is going. NOTE: possibly some graphicness ahead in reference to lab. We have started into head and neck. I quickly got over the whole seeing-the-face thing...mostly because we are now just down to the muscle. I don't like the hair part though, a little too real then. Tomorrow, on Halloween, we take the brain out. Ahhhhhhh. I hear it is going to take a long time. Tomorrow will be a practice in patience.

Today we did our CV evaluation with a partner. Our doc was cool and didn't make me and Liz actually do the exam on each other. He asked us questions and had us show him where to listen and stuff, but we didn't have to pretend to actually be doing an exam, which was nice. I took a nap this afternoon; it was too long.

Yesterday was Amy's birthday, so we had dinner at her house. Champagne and wine and lasagna and cake. It was good. Early night though. We all crashed by 10. I had to come home, however, and write note service for ethics. Boooooo. This week is a busy one. Quiz on Friday, which I hear covers 18 lectures. That is almost more than what was on the anatomy exam. Ick. Matt comes in town this weekend though...YAY!!! Back to studying then so that I don't have to do much when he is here.

At school

At school updating right now. Imagine that, Becky is at school on Saturday night....again. We have an anatomy exam on Monday, which means I am a bit loopy right now. We had our practice practical on Friday night. Didn't go great. Meh. I am just going to try and rock the written since it is worth more. Don't worry, I am not neglecting the pracitcal, but I am just blah about it right now.

Seeing as how I am studying, nothing much has happened to me since the last time I updated. School....driving....thats it. I am hungry right now. Don't even know why I updated right now. Guess I just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive.

Passed

MCB exam today. I passed!!! Did a lot better than I thought I would. Even after taking it and before checking my score, I thought I didn't do well. Then I checked, however, and was very surprised and happy. Wish I could relax tonight, but alas, anatomy exam on Monday. No rest for me.

Parents got back safely from their trip. yay! I am very jealous though. Went to the store today to get healthier snacks than I have around me. The house has "cookies" as a staple. Weird. I was going to buy some highly caffeinated, diet soda, but I decided that I am going to try to not rely on soda to keep me up while studying. We will see how long this lasts. I meant to buy a snow scraper also, but somehow got distracted and didn't buy one. Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite me in the butt. Don't worry, I will get one eventually.

It's been a while

I know, I know. It's been a while. Lets see all that has happened. I did my interview of Tuesday. Don't think it went too poorly. I like my small group and all, but we aren't very good at constructive criticism. All we say are the good things. I would really like someone to say, "Work on this and this." I didn't talk in MCB small group. Imagine that. Can't remember what I did in the evenings. We have an MCB test on Tuesday. I haven't been studying too well for it. I blame that on the fact that we really didn't study at school that much. Grrrrrrr. The problem is, your brain can really only fit so much. This MCB test will have about half DNA stuff, half biochem. The problem is, every time I learn a DNA fact, I lose one from biochem. And vice versa. It's bad. It's real bad.

I cook on Thursday; I also have several other things to do on Thursday and all week.....not to mention studying for Anatomy exam. Holy crap. This is going to blow. Bring on the caffeine.

Onto Friday. So the big thing here is hay rack rides. Basically, a hay ride. I remember taking one in preschool maybe, but other than that, this was foreign to me. We get there (take the bus rented by the school, didn't have to worry about DD) just as they are getting ready to take off on the ride. Our bus took a while to get there. I get anxious when I am late. So there are 7 hay racks for all of us. Everyone just jumps on one. Every hay rack gets a keg of "adult beverage." The ride begins. It's an hour long. We do some moving keg stands. I drink some hay. I talk to Amanda on the phone. People are jumping off the ride since it is over. Becky jumps off. 30 min later, Becky, while eating chocolate, realizes she has lost her phone. Oh crap!!!! (Flash back to sophomore year of undergrad when I got my dig cam stolen). We look. We call. Nothing doing. I always prided myself on not losing my phone. Take that off the list. Bought a new phone last night (yes, I did call the place where we had the fun to see if they found one - no luck). I kinda like the phone a lot. It is blue. Cheapest one they had. Sorry Bo, we are no longer phone twins. Funny/ironic thing is....Matt had just mailed me my phone charger for my old phone. Dang. I will post pics of the hay ride later.

Other than the crazy busyness (13 hours at school today), life is good. A few relationships around me aren't doing so well, so I would like to take this moment to thank Matt for being such a good guy. The end.

Procrastinating to the max

I thought I would put up a few pics to show that I actually did see Matt. Really though, I just wanted to post some pics. Matt was really liking the black and white, so we went with it. The one on the left is taken 2 min post nap wake-up. I look pretty good considering the situation.









Got up and worked out this morning. Felt good to do it, but it didn't feel like a hard enough workout. I hate that feeling. I guess that is the only reason I miss basketball. Practice always kicked my butt. Betsy and Amy actually showed up to workout also. The place was empty because Creighton (everyone BUT the medical school) gets a week off for fall break. We get 1 day. Blow.

First two lectures were hard. Kept nodding off simply because I couldn't pay attention. Lab felt long. I am starting to worry because I am not having that PANIC feeling I had before the first set of tests. I just worry because it was that panic that got me studying 16 hours a day. No, that wasn't fun and I don't want to do that, but I passed last time. I am just a little worried. Going to take a practice test tomorrow though and reevaluate the situation. Enough procrastinating. Back to enzyme kinetics. mmmmmmmmm

Back again

Back in Omaha again. It got chilly here, which is kinda nice. Weekend was good. Not really much to say. Ate lunch with two of Matt's friends on Saturday at The Ram. My sandwich was delicious. We then saw Amanda that night. Back to Lacey. We rented 1408, which I give Matt props for allowing since he is such a big scaredy pants, and Knocked Up. 1408 wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn't awful like everything else we have rented. We saw Knocked Up together in the theater, so we already knew we liked that one. We watched it in short segments because this kid kept falling asleep on the sofa. Sunday involved church, some good hashbrown/cheese/gravy mess, awkward afternoon thing with Matt's dad's side of the family. Monday was lazy and lovely. Matt worked in the morning and came home at noon. I was supposed to be studying, but I cleaned instead. Oops. Ordered in Chinese last night with his mom. I fell asleep on the sofa. The usual.

My flight wasn't delayed 3 hours!!!!!! Only 20 minutes, which was just enough time to make me run to my second flight. Got there though. And the plane was a new plane. And guess what.......they don't even have the "no smoking" light. It just isn't built into these planes. They do, however, have the "Turn off electrical devices" light. I think the switch is kinda funny. I slept on both flight though, which was awesome. Second flight was delayed 10 minutes, however, which was just long enough to make me miss my 9 o'clock class. We are doing biochem stuff, so I kinda wanted to be there. Sigh. Exams coming up along with busy nights of stuff outside school. Don't be surprised if I don't update a lot. Okay, I should do something productive before class at 10.

MDQ 4

Don't you hate it when you print something online and it is one full page yet a second page prints with just the address at the top but you don't catch it fast enough to prevent the printing??? Well that just happened to me. Gosh darn it. But....I did just print off my ticket!!! Yay for Seattle!!!

Quiz tomorrow. Still don't feel well prepared, but I feel as if I am setting myself up for some good studying for the tests that are coming up. Doesn't it seem like I just took exams?? Well I did. Next ones are on the 23rd and 29th. Whoop whoop....I guess.

I kind of talked in MCB small group today. Thats a start right? Okay, sleep time.