It's been a busy week here in Jacktown during "Spring Break." All but a few students have left and gone to beaches or mountains or somewhere else nice. I'm not complaining, though.

I've been able to get extra hours at my work to stay busy, and that additional money will be nice. I can always use it, and lately I've been spending some of it on books for medical school. The growing stack of books is getting me excited about starting up, and I'll be honest, the temptation to start reading them is ever present. Resisting this urge is not difficult, however, as there is always something else to distract me in this college dorm.

It's been fun looking at the Match Lists of various medical schools today. Multiple times I caught myself daydreaming about where I'll end up, but then I had to knock myself back into reality. 7 more years!! There's absolutely no sense in making plans or even thinking about that period of my life. Sometimes I wish I could just live in the present more and not think so much about the future. Right now I just need to try and do my best in everything, for the glory of God.

My running is going fairly well these days. I've been trying to increase my weekly mileage gradually in preparation for the Nashville Marathon on April 25. This week I'm hoping to hit 48 miles. That is a good number fewer (Ideal would be a consistent 65 or 70) than is necessary for me to feel adequately fit to run a good marathon, but oh well. This is just a stepping-stone race that I hope will catapult me into some strong summer training and a few faster fall marathons. That's the goal, at least. If I can stay injury-free and train like I did last summer, it should be doable. Also, I need to find some races that I can work around my medical school schedule. Chicago would be nice to do again in October, but we'll see.

Work was interesting/fun today. At my research job I work with a Romanian doctor who is a strong Christian, adamantly opposed to the doctrine of predestination. We discussed it and other things for over two hours. It was a great discussion, and it showed me that I need to be able to back my beliefs up Biblically. I found myself telling her what I believe, and quoting some verse incompletely, without knowing exactly where to find that passage in the Bible. I need to work on that.

Anyways, that's about all that's been going on. Nothing too exciting, but things are good...