craziness

Its been a pretty crazy past couple of weeks.  My days have honestly been one big blur of waking up early, going to school, going to work, going back to school for a lab/study session, getting back around midnight or writing up lab reports till 2 in the morning, and repeat...but I am doing well in my classes so far!  I got a 104 out of 112 on my organic chemistry exam, and a 90 out of 100 on my biomaterials exam.  Only 12 kids in the class got in the nineties on the biomaterials exam, and there are some pretty dang smart kids in there so it felt good to do so well.  The professor was calling out names for everyone to pick up their exams, and when I grabbed my exam he told me he was impressed with my essay response and that I did a good job.  Cool!

I feel in the zone when it comes to my coursework.  The only class I am not doing fantastic in is Physics...but I'm not doing bad by any means.

I have acquired a lab position!  Finally!  The doctor was very pessimistic and skeptical in the interview and it didn't seem like I was going to have any chance at the position, but he said he would try me out "ONLY" because I had previous experience haha (Thank you Val!).  He also informed me that if I sucked he would let me go but that comes with the nature of any job I suppose so it didn't really shake me up at all.

The position has been interesting and educational so far.  On my first day of work I was tasked with  helping to "rearrange a freezer".  The freezer they were talking about was full of human legs!  They informed me what was in the freezer beforehand but my heart still skipped a beat when I opened it up.  I felt like I was Dexter Morgan for a second moving around plastic wrapped body parts.  Granted the tone is very serious and respectful though, as these were donated by people for scientific purposes.

I am excited I get to gain exposure to dissecting body parts and help prepare them for various orthopedic testing (stress/strain type of stuff).  I also prepare any body tissue/part for the crematory after we are done running the tests by removing any sort of implant or screws we may place in them.  The other day I dissected the L5 and sacrum out of a chunk of back.  Very cool and very educational.  Tomorrow I'll be dissecting some shoulders.

It is a relief to have a little more stability in my day to day schedule.. although a 15 hour lab position makes 18 credits all the more difficult.  My major is cool, my job is cool, my life is cool... just a tad bit busy I guess.  I don't really have anything to complain about.

I've taken a liking towards the writings of Thoreau.  Here is a small excerpt, and although it is random and really has nothing to do with anything I have written about in this post I figured I'd share and close with it rather than just post it later.

"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weaknesses as to our strength. The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.  We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick?  How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties.  So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.  All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant."