Check it out, I have decided on the new name! Who knows, in about a year and a half I will be graduating and perhaps moving and this new name may be obsolete, but for now, just soak it in.
So, since last we spoke, or rather I spoke and you read, I've had some great adventures. I got to go to Washington DC for Thanksgiving, as I alluded to last time. It was fantastic. I saw the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, which is fantastic, but I guess I think that about all of the memorials and monuments down there. I also toured the capitol building. Then it was time to get ready for Thanksgiving. Kyle and Janae (my brother and his wife) were there, as well as Brittany and Dane (my sister and her husband). We held it at the house of Janae's cousin Murissa and her boyfriend Jay. They have a great kitchen to cook in, and a couple of very large TVs to watch football on (the second one came in handy when the ladies in the house decided to turn on a "chick-flick"). I was spared watching that and instead moved seamlessly from the NFL games earlier in the day to college football in the evening. So, in other words it was the perfect location for having Thanksgiving. Also of note at this Thanksgiving I found out I'm going to be an uncle, so, super-stoked about that.
Of course, with all that going on I barely studied at all over the break, which would be fine if we hadn't had tests the following week. The tests started the Wednesday following the break, so needlessly to say there were a few nights earlier in the week of "burning the midnight oil." It all worked out, as I sit writing this I have checked my grades for the semester and all is in order. This means I have one more semester of classes, then I go out on rotations during the last year of the pharmacy school curriculum. In some ways I'm really looking forward to that. I think hands-on is the best way I learn, so that'll be really exciting to get some more experience in settings where I might actually work after school is over. In others I'm a little nervous. It will definitely be a test of how much (or how little) I've retained from all the classes we've taken. I feel like I've come a long way, usually working at CVS these days, I at least know what illnesses the drugs we dispense are probably being used to treat. And usually I can think of the brand name-generic name combinations...so that's a start. On the other hand, people will ask me questions from subjects I've definitely learned about, and I will freeze and not be certain that I know the right answer. All part of the process I suppose.
Anyway, I'm on a much needed one month break which will include trips to Utah and Arizona. And as for right now, I think breakfast followed by some video games are in order. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all!
