Another week has passed in beautiful (weather-wise), springtime Jackson. Life is chugging right along nicely. One source of excitement is that baseball season is underway, although it doesn't look like my Astros will be any good. I'm no fair-weather fan so I'll be watching most of their games anyways. I haven't perfected the art of watching baseball and studying effectively at the same time, but I'm working on it. The Astros-Phillies game is open in another window as I type :-)

School is enjoyable as always. Neuroanatomy is the only class that currently requires much work, so the schedule is fairly light. It's hard to believe that the first year of med school is almost over! I guess that comes with getting old. My grandma always used to tell me that time flies by faster as you age, and I'm beginning to believe it. One thing that helps me to enjoy school more is going to the free clinic. Yes, it takes up time, and I'm not always in the mood to go. But afterwards I feel great every single time, and have never regretted going. I not only see the relevance of the stuff I'm learning in class, but it also motivates me to study for something other than doing well on a test. The more I know, the better care I will provide for the patients. Yesterday at the free clinic we were short again on medical students, so I got to see a few patients on my own. Thankfully, none of them had complex disorders.

I'm closing on my house in a little over two weeks. I went by the place today for the first time in almost a while, and it turns out that I have lots of nice flowers in the front and the back yard. Not sure how long they'll be in bloom, but I'm hoping it'll be for a while. They look very nice.

Our first intramural soccer game starts in about an hour. The games are being held over at Newell Field on the artificial turf, and I look forward to getting our butts kicked. That's probably a slight exaggeration, but sadly, it looks like our team will be mediocre at best. Lets just hope all of the other teams are as out of shape as most of us are. I'm going to go ahead and predict that the M2s will win the championship. For some reason all of the athletes ended up in that class.

Nothing much else is going on. I've seen a lot of good movies lately. Read and am reading a few good books.

I'm excited about this summer! Starting in the lab the Monday after school gets out. I'll be in two weddings. Doing some (hopefully) fun research. Good times!