Summer is over, as is the break between summer and fall. (I’ll only mention it once, all the green stuff is what I did over the break. Complete redesign of the site, ok, that’s all, it is already a site about me making this site...) So, now that I literally cannot think of anything else about the design that bugs me, or that I need to change, it’s time to WRITE!

Spring semester was kind to me, almost unreasonably so.  I got an ‘A’ in Gen-Chem I, for crying out loud. Summer semester was not as kind. I pulled an ‘A’ in trig, through sheer luck; my professor made it too easy for a college math class. I’m relieved, and it worked out well for me, but a nine-question, two-hour final was a bit silly, I felt totally unprepared going in, but knew it all. Won’t matter in the future, an A’s an A, so time to move on.

Gen-Chem II, however, was cruel, though better than it could have been.  I earned a C+, which is another C that I cannot afford, though I was happy to get even that much. Waiting for my grade in that class was agony.  To that, I added a B+ in the lab, which was worse than I thought it would be, but that one was not curved, so I get what I deserve. 

Already a new semester has started, and the hardest one yet.  I am up early, 8:30 AM, for Anatomy, then straight to Calculus and then O-Chem with accompanying labs and finally Medical Terminology, though I feel that it is not at the best time and may change it. I need to get into the Anatomy class before I can decide.

The biggest change is that I’m trying to quit my job.  I feel that it is time to go to school full time and stop working as much as I am (I have to if I am going to make any progress, some people are machines, I am not, no matter how hard I wish to be.) To that end, I have applied for an overload of studen loans, enough to get through the semester and a little farther in case Mica has trouble getting a job (yeah, right, she’s very good, though she doesn’t seem to believe it.) I’m excited, though nervous, to be going to school full time, I am SO excited to have the chance to LEARN instead of just survive.  If I can actually pull some study time, I might not get behind, I can even jump ahead.  I’m so excited, I’m shaking, seriously, and so scared I’m shaking, it’s hard to tell which is which.  I’m so curious to find out what happens when I can put effort into something, and get some sleep as well. If I can pull all A’s in these classes, I can get my confidence back and maybe feel like I CAN do this. 

I’ve been to a few classes, really like my Calculus professor and my Anatomy professor.  The other’s aren’t bad either, though I haven’t seen the Chem Lab guy yet.  Speaking of Chem Lab, someone really cleaned out my drawer.  Check-in was today and I was missing half the things on my list.  I didn’t even have test tubes! I was far and away the last one out (uh-oh… foreshadowing for the rest of the semester...) because I had to get so many things.  Getting stuff from the stock-room was a pain, though the attendant was nice, for once, it was good not to have some pissed off teenager handing out supplies. 

I wish the labs were a little newer, or at least had newer equipment.  So many things are old and crusty with some sort of chemical residue.  I have no idea what happened to my funnel, it looks, functional, though the edges look… melted, I guess, with marguerita salt around it.  At least in texture, though I think it’s at least part plastic and is not an appetizing color.  Having such an empty drawer makes me wonder who takes it?  Does someone really need a bunch of test tubes and Ehrlenmeyer flasks at home?  Another interesting note: thermometers in O-Chem lab go up to 200 deg celsius… I wonder what we’re going to be doing that is that hot?  (I don’t care as long as it isn’t titrating something with phenolphthalein again.  I’m pretty sure I understand that it turns pink in basic solution.)

The first thing I learned in Anatomy?  What an Acromion is.  Highlight for answer: (The little pointy bit at the end of your scapula.)