Mornings have always been interesting to me. Particularly the first 30 minutes or so. I've never been the type to be garrulous or ebullient immediately upon waking up, and I'm always envious of those who LOVE to wake up early. Often when I wake up I'm slightly disoriented, and I tell myself that I would do or give anything if I could only curl back up into my comforter and go back to sleep for a few more hours. Other days (today, for example) I have no trouble waking up, and I'm alert and ready to go almost I guess it has to do with sleep cycles and such, but I still find it weird.

Another factor that compounds the problem is that I tend to stay up too late. Maybe next year when I've finally moved out of the dorms I'll be able to go to bed early. My problem is, I like to socialize, and I have trouble going to bed if I think anything exciting may be happening anywhere near me. I need to force myself to have a more regular sleep schedule. That would help things.

As far as news goes, I e-mailed a physiology faculty member (Dr. RH) I'd like to have as my advisor in my PhD work. He wrote me back promptly and asked if I would meet with him this upcoming Monday to discuss things, and said he would be very interested in being my mentor. That's exciting, because I would love to work under him. He's a great guy, his research interests me (studies obesity, and how it affects blood flow in exercise), he has solid funding, he just had an MD/PhD student in his lab (so he'd know what to do with me), and he's an outdoors enthusiast! I hope things work out with him.

On another note, it looks like I might be teaching a kinesiology course at Belhaven over the next few months. The Chair of the Sports Medicine Department, a close friend of mine, asked if I would sub for one of the professors that will be in and out for the rest of the semester. The only downside to this is that the class is on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8, and those are the only two days I get to sleep in. It should be a good experience for me. It'll force me to go back and review all the muscles in the body, and to re-familiarize myself with the origins, insertions, actions, and innervations of each one. This should make gross anatomy a bit easier this fall. Also, I've never taught in a classroom setting before, so that'll be interesting.