Thoughts on family, hoorays for school, and smiles for tango
I just got this picture from my mom of my trip to Florida. My god, it's good to have family. As my brother aptly pointed out on our trip home, we're all isolated here on the west coast, while the rest of our families live on the east coast or in texas, essentially. It was really good to go on this trip and feel connected to so many people, even those I hadn't met until the day I left. Blood ties me deeply to these people, and THEY bind me more deeply, because they're all wonderful. I'm really blessed. Kat said the other day, that I may well be the only friend she has who has a genuinely stable family life. I thought this is how everybody got to live...
That being said, I have another reason to rejoice. I finished my SRP presentation today and SPH is done! Holy pharmacokinetics, batman, there's NO MORE PHYSIOLOGY! Woohoo! I mean, yes, I realize that I have to deal with drugs and phys for the rest of my life, that's what I got myself into this whole med school mess for, but I'm thrilled to have a break from it for a little while. Our next class starts on Friday, and it's a class where we finally get to explore what goes WRONG with the body and how to fix it, not just how everything works. I'm really excited. It's really good to be excited about school again. I was really burned out before spring break, and my hard SRP week after spring break didn't help.
Speaking of my SRP, here's the update: we didn't get results in time to present today. I developed the film of the oocyte immunoprecipitation on Monday and it was too faint to really see anything. I can set it back to develop for another two weeks and get results, who knows maybe my group solved the problem of cystic fibrosis and made huge break throughts, but we don't get to tell our class about it. Phooey. We were all very upset about this until 9:00AM today when we finished our presentation and said "thank GOD, we are DONE!"
HOOOOOORAY! Yippee! Yee-haw! YES, lord, YES, I am DONE!
(woohoo!)
In other news, I'm really digging on learning tango with Jamie. He's picking it up RIDICULOUSLY fast. I mean, really--it's just wrong. No one should be this talented at such a difficult dance from the beginning. .....Tango is, in my opinion, the hardest dance to learn, especially for a beginner with no concept of frame or comfort with lead and follow. West coast is probably the only other super hard dance to learn, although it is challenging for entirely different reasons. Ballroom is easy because it's so technically laid out and choreographed, salsa is gimmicky and you're great if you can spin a lot and keep rhythm, but in tango, you need rhythm, an intensely keen ability to communicate with your body, you need to be able to interpret the music and anticipate rhythm and melody changes, and the lead-follow relationship is entirely different from any other dance I've ever done. ......Anyway, I was really freaking out at first, seeing Jamie dive into this (off the deep end, of course, being Jamie), because I felt threatened by his progress. I am, after all, the one who "knows how to dance." But after tango yesterday, I don't care. I had a wonderful time with him, and with the rest of the class. I got stuck leading for about half of it and even had a great time then. He's a talented lead, and I'm happy to learn something new with him. We're taking a private with Alex next Monday, and I hope to do more tango with him between then and now. *grin*
That being said, I have another reason to rejoice. I finished my SRP presentation today and SPH is done! Holy pharmacokinetics, batman, there's NO MORE PHYSIOLOGY! Woohoo! I mean, yes, I realize that I have to deal with drugs and phys for the rest of my life, that's what I got myself into this whole med school mess for, but I'm thrilled to have a break from it for a little while. Our next class starts on Friday, and it's a class where we finally get to explore what goes WRONG with the body and how to fix it, not just how everything works. I'm really excited. It's really good to be excited about school again. I was really burned out before spring break, and my hard SRP week after spring break didn't help.
Speaking of my SRP, here's the update: we didn't get results in time to present today. I developed the film of the oocyte immunoprecipitation on Monday and it was too faint to really see anything. I can set it back to develop for another two weeks and get results, who knows maybe my group solved the problem of cystic fibrosis and made huge break throughts, but we don't get to tell our class about it. Phooey. We were all very upset about this until 9:00AM today when we finished our presentation and said "thank GOD, we are DONE!"
HOOOOOORAY! Yippee! Yee-haw! YES, lord, YES, I am DONE!
(woohoo!)
In other news, I'm really digging on learning tango with Jamie. He's picking it up RIDICULOUSLY fast. I mean, really--it's just wrong. No one should be this talented at such a difficult dance from the beginning. .....Tango is, in my opinion, the hardest dance to learn, especially for a beginner with no concept of frame or comfort with lead and follow. West coast is probably the only other super hard dance to learn, although it is challenging for entirely different reasons. Ballroom is easy because it's so technically laid out and choreographed, salsa is gimmicky and you're great if you can spin a lot and keep rhythm, but in tango, you need rhythm, an intensely keen ability to communicate with your body, you need to be able to interpret the music and anticipate rhythm and melody changes, and the lead-follow relationship is entirely different from any other dance I've ever done. ......Anyway, I was really freaking out at first, seeing Jamie dive into this (off the deep end, of course, being Jamie), because I felt threatened by his progress. I am, after all, the one who "knows how to dance." But after tango yesterday, I don't care. I had a wonderful time with him, and with the rest of the class. I got stuck leading for about half of it and even had a great time then. He's a talented lead, and I'm happy to learn something new with him. We're taking a private with Alex next Monday, and I hope to do more tango with him between then and now. *grin*