Final Countdown

Well, well, well, where has the semester gone? It has sufficiently wound down to the beginning of the final week of classes and I'm fairly certain that my health has wound down with the semester. This lack of sleep thing I've been testing out this semester is bound to catch up to me in my old age. But why worry when I'm still young, right? It is presently 2:34 a.m. and I should by all means be sleeping or studying for one of my two chemistry tests that will be upon me in 6.5 short hours. However, as another health killer, I had my mom by me some vanilla coke to push me through these final weeks. I've gone and decided that pop, one of the very things I used to avoid at all costs in the past because "it is bad for my health," is going to be my life saver for two weeks. It does have caffeine after all, and it is doing a good job of keeping me very much awake right now.

So, with my ridiculous alertness for the hour, I'm sitting in my room wishing that Papa Murphy's Pizza was open because I have a serious craving for some of that delightfully delicious pizza! It would make me feel more at home in my now bare and carpet-less dorm room. I'm kind of scared to go to bed because my parents came up to take my loft down today (despite my protesting due to my need to study!) and my bed now sits on the floor and everything looks different and big and sad. I might wake up in the middle of a chemistry nightmare and have no idea where I'm at.

I re-read my last blog before I started this one, and I've decided that I gave myself bad karma. All that stuff about being excited to hang out with the alumni volleyball players back for the game and having a good time at the spring formal....yeah....none of that happened. What really went down was that I managed to sprain my ankle such that it swelled, and remains swollen, to epic proportions during the alumni game. I spent that night with a very cold foot (ice), elevation, and ibuprofen. Despite walking almost normally, my ankle, foot, and toes are still interesting shades of greens and purples and I have an ankle that is literally doubled in normal size. Hopefully it catches a bad case of ankle anorexia this week and slims down significantly.

As far as summer plans...well, I finally signed my apartment lease, but I am still unemployed. I'm waiting on an internship thing to go through/be found/cooperate, and in the meantime pushing off signing a work study contract. It's quite the stressful balancing act.

My seminar presentation went pretty well. After about 4 hours with Dr. Wu going over questions and learning about intricate details that I wish I had never known the existence of, I felt reasonably confident in my knowledge of the most common form of parasitic infections in the U.S. - giardiasis (a form of non bacterial diarrhea...). I answered the professors' questions afterwards without being completely butchered and I spent a good chuck of this weekend revising my 20 page research paper.

Ok...I'm definitely hearing happy bird chirping....you know, the kind that signifies the arrival of morning. That's just wrong on various levels right now. I think it's a good sign that I should probably hit the lights for the night and bring on the chemistry nightmares. Good night/morning!