I'm not dead yet!...really...at least I think not. :-)
Hello!
Umm...seeing as I haven’t updated since June of 2006 I feel compelled to say something. :-) Life is very good, but continues to be busy and...I really miss all of you wonderful people. :-) I'm sorry I'm so terrible at keeping in touch, particularly on-line, but I do think about you guys quote often. I suppose I should follow through on these pleasant thoughts more often than I have been. :-)
Things are great with Liz and the family, although I do wish I was in Seattle more often than once every-other week, I really have no grounds for complaint. Life is good! ^_^ Unfortunately I did have some business to attend to because my grandfather experienced a long string of decidedly unpleasant health risks and…well, I’m just very glad that he’s alive. I’m getting to know some really interesting people in my classes, although I do kind of miss seeing people my age. Its just…well…a little different. I actually am meeting more young people in my health related courses (lots of young nurses and MDs finishing school/residencies) but…well, I thought I was busy until I started talking to the young doctors…now I feel like a slacker in comparison because I actually do take time off once in a while. I’m not sure the doctors-in-training “ever” really get to have a break, sometimes they even have to leave class when their pagers goes off because they’re needed at an ER. It seems that Friday nights are the worst. I really respect them, but I can’t help but worry that some of them are going to burn out badly if this keeps up. Anyway.
Health wise (physical/mental/emotional/etc) I must confess that I’ve been maintaining a “holding pattern” for about year now. I don’t like it, but I feel kind of trapped in it. In order to keep up with all of my work (I like my teachers, but they’re insane…plane and simple. The work is great but it’s a non-stop torrent) and produce quality work, and maintain my semblance of a personal life and the tentative grasp I have on sanity…I very rarely have much time for anything else. And when I do have short gaps of time, I hate to say it, but I just want to catch my breath, maybe sleep a little, and recuperate. I make a concerted effort to see friends but I never make it 1/10th of the way through the rounds before its “back to work.”
Now I must confess, I am singularly delighted to have such a wonderful problem as having “too many awesome people in my life” and not enough time to see all of them all of the time. Sigh…too many wonderful people to see and pleasant things to do. Ya, I shouldn’t complain, so I won’t. :-)
Some more good news, I may actually be able to graduate by the end of this summer (I might have to tag around for an extra quarter because I’m not quite sure if I can wrap everything up next quarter) which is 6-9months sooner than I originally expected!!! YEA!!! Don’t get me wrong, I love school-er-sort of…ok so I have a love-hate/ highly dysfunctional and downright abusive relationship with school but I really do love it, but graduate school, as cool as it is, is not nearly as much fun as undergrad was, and I’m ready to “be done” for a while. I’ve had 18 years of school orbiting my life and I’m 23, so I’m kind of looking forward to a little change in the proverbial constellations for a while. :-) Maybe get paid to work instead of paying crazy tuition for “the privilege” of working. He,he,he…I don’t know why that amuses me so much. Anyway.
Oh! Got to run! It’s kind of funny, you’d think I’d see my mother often now that I’m here ¾ of the time, but she works during the day, I have classes all evening, then I’m up all night studying so we don’t actually “see” each other very often. So I’m going to take her out to dinner! He,he,he! :-) But I have to go or I’ll be late.
Take care,
Art
Umm...seeing as I haven’t updated since June of 2006 I feel compelled to say something. :-) Life is very good, but continues to be busy and...I really miss all of you wonderful people. :-) I'm sorry I'm so terrible at keeping in touch, particularly on-line, but I do think about you guys quote often. I suppose I should follow through on these pleasant thoughts more often than I have been. :-)
Things are great with Liz and the family, although I do wish I was in Seattle more often than once every-other week, I really have no grounds for complaint. Life is good! ^_^ Unfortunately I did have some business to attend to because my grandfather experienced a long string of decidedly unpleasant health risks and…well, I’m just very glad that he’s alive. I’m getting to know some really interesting people in my classes, although I do kind of miss seeing people my age. Its just…well…a little different. I actually am meeting more young people in my health related courses (lots of young nurses and MDs finishing school/residencies) but…well, I thought I was busy until I started talking to the young doctors…now I feel like a slacker in comparison because I actually do take time off once in a while. I’m not sure the doctors-in-training “ever” really get to have a break, sometimes they even have to leave class when their pagers goes off because they’re needed at an ER. It seems that Friday nights are the worst. I really respect them, but I can’t help but worry that some of them are going to burn out badly if this keeps up. Anyway.
Health wise (physical/mental/emotional/etc) I must confess that I’ve been maintaining a “holding pattern” for about year now. I don’t like it, but I feel kind of trapped in it. In order to keep up with all of my work (I like my teachers, but they’re insane…plane and simple. The work is great but it’s a non-stop torrent) and produce quality work, and maintain my semblance of a personal life and the tentative grasp I have on sanity…I very rarely have much time for anything else. And when I do have short gaps of time, I hate to say it, but I just want to catch my breath, maybe sleep a little, and recuperate. I make a concerted effort to see friends but I never make it 1/10th of the way through the rounds before its “back to work.”
Now I must confess, I am singularly delighted to have such a wonderful problem as having “too many awesome people in my life” and not enough time to see all of them all of the time. Sigh…too many wonderful people to see and pleasant things to do. Ya, I shouldn’t complain, so I won’t. :-)
Some more good news, I may actually be able to graduate by the end of this summer (I might have to tag around for an extra quarter because I’m not quite sure if I can wrap everything up next quarter) which is 6-9months sooner than I originally expected!!! YEA!!! Don’t get me wrong, I love school-er-sort of…ok so I have a love-hate/ highly dysfunctional and downright abusive relationship with school but I really do love it, but graduate school, as cool as it is, is not nearly as much fun as undergrad was, and I’m ready to “be done” for a while. I’ve had 18 years of school orbiting my life and I’m 23, so I’m kind of looking forward to a little change in the proverbial constellations for a while. :-) Maybe get paid to work instead of paying crazy tuition for “the privilege” of working. He,he,he…I don’t know why that amuses me so much. Anyway.
Oh! Got to run! It’s kind of funny, you’d think I’d see my mother often now that I’m here ¾ of the time, but she works during the day, I have classes all evening, then I’m up all night studying so we don’t actually “see” each other very often. So I’m going to take her out to dinner! He,he,he! :-) But I have to go or I’ll be late.
Take care,
Art