3 weeks since my last post. Not too bad, hehe. Things have been chugging along at the pretty good clip here in Jackson. Not a whole lot of variety in my life right now, other than the daily change in location of my studying. I've been alternating between home, the library, Books-a-million, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Cups, and the Belhaven Student Center. I'm going to tack on another few locations eventually, maybe the Lemuria bookstore and Sneaky Beans.

We're in the midst of the busiest few weeks of the semester, with the possible exception of the week before the anatomy board exam, and I like to think the worst is behind us. And to think that that's the worst it's going to get this year. HAH. It isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Tests are a funny thing. At least that's the case in med school. You think you're prepared, and you don't do well, and then you think you're not prepared, and you do well. That's what happened to me with the anatomy tests today. Going in, I felt much better about the written test, but I think I ended up doing much better on the practical. The written just happened to test everything I didn't know. I'm going to estimate that I made educated guesses on close to half of the 70 questions, which means that I'd be content if I passed it. Normally, I don't like it if I'm not positive about an answer, but by the end of that test I had been guessing so often that it didn't even bother me any more. It was actually pretty funny.

I was in a good mood after the tests, probably because they were over, and headed over and got in a great 2-hour workout with Pedro, a Brazilian friend from Belhaven that I've been hanging out with a good bit recently.

So overall, things are going great. I'm enjoying most of my classes, getting plenty of sleep (little behind from last night, but I'm catching up tonight), running around 50 miles per week, working out three times a week, going to the movies every Friday, trying out one or two new restaurants each week with Pedro, and going to the Jackson Free Clinic about every other week. I'm certainly not at the top of the class, but that was never my goal. I feel like I'm learning the material, but at the same time having a balanced, enjoyable, low-stress life. God is very good, and He continues to sustain me. Church and CMDA on Tuesdays are always a great break from everything.

It's sad that there's no fall break in medical school. It would've been nice. So now I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving, when I'll hopefully leave town for a few days. I have no idea where, but I'd love to just go somewhere random for 3 or 4 days and get completely out of this environment. Maybe go skiing. Hahah, that'd be awesome. We shall see. With such a scheduled lifestyle, it'd be very nice to be able to be completely spontaneous for a few days.

So that's that. Maybe I'll update on here more frequently.