Is it Christmas yet?

So I have made it through close to 2 weeks of my 2nd semester of med school, and so far, I am only failing one class!  Technically, I have 100s in everything except Histology, because I've made a 6/10 on our only quiz so far. [UPDATE: I just took another quiz and made a 4/10 bringing my average to a 50%]  I despise this class.  If someone has some inspirational thoughts as to why the cell and all its organelles are worth sitting in class for 2 hours and learning about, please let me know.  

But these 2 weeks have not been all bad.  

Creepy moment of the week:

A group of us went to a Mexican restaurant on Saturday night.  Not that memorable, the food wasn't amazzing.  But the moment that sticks out in my mind was when this old lady (when I say old, she was probably 50 but looked about 92 because she's probably been smoking 5 packs a day for the past 35 years) came over and asked Jenny is she was Kate's mom.  When Jenny said yes, the lady replied "You better be glad I'm not a thief because that baby is precious!" Check, please?  Luckily, we made it out all right, with everyone accounted for.   

Depressing moment of the week:

About 11 o'clock Thursday night, Florida (and TIM TEBOW) become national champions (not depressing at all),but this marked the end of college football.  Until September.  There's still several weeks of pro football left, but that doesn't fill the hole in my heart that is present in the months from January-August when I'm awaiting the start of college football.  

"This is so amazing I want to cry" moment of the week:

This Sunday I went to "From the Top" which is an NPR show that happened to be filming in Mobile.  They bring on kids that play classical music, interview them, and they play a song.  The first guy that walks out was a sight: 18 years old, dreads down to his waist, and he played the.... drums? electric guitar? maybe even the saxophone? No, he played the flute.  Next was a 12 year old who played Clare de Lune on the piano which was easily one of the most beautiful things I have heard in my life.  And she was so incredibly graceful doing it.  I did tune out for about 30 seconds trying to figure out the movie that they play this song in.  Ocean's 11.  At the end when they are are standing by the fountain.  Next was a guy that played the bassoon and then a 13 year old that played the violin.  

Inspiring moment of the week:

Last night I went to a pediatric interest group, which is always great because they always have amazing food.  A pediatric cardiologist came and talked to us, and she was just really cool to hear from because she LOVES her job.  Gets me excited going to things like this, because a lot of the times I forget why I'm here, focusing on the troubles of the day whether than looking ahead to the end result.  School sucks but I am here for a reason.  

Reality check moment of the week:

I want to go to Europe this summer.  But I also want to go to Honduras, Puerto Rico, and New York.  I realize I cannot do all these things.  Europe would be great, but I don't have plans, I don't have anyone to go with, and I would cost a lot.  I could theoretically do all three of the other things, probably for the same cost as going to Europe.  Honduras is a medical mission trips, hopefully can raise money for that.  Puerto Rico only involves buying a plane ticket.  New York, well Madeline wants to look at schools so thats a good excuse to take a major road trip and visit lots of places. 

"I judge myself and my whole family" moment of the week:

I'm not sure this even deserves words.  Promise this is the first time this has happened... at least I hope.