Well what can I tell you that would excite you today. Probably not a whole lot on the personal level. I am still waiting.....trying to be patient...etc.

The head of the world bank is in trouble. Wow...misdeeds at a major corporate institution....It never would have crossed my mind. Nepotism in exchange for certain physical favors...I just didn't think people did stuff like that. But they were in a "relationship". Did anyone see the office last week? This all sounds like one of those art imitating life imitating art things.

Missing government emails.....you must be joking....stuff like that never happens!

Progress in Iraq?.....to paraphrase Jon Stewart "Oh...I see what the problem is, we've been looking at time as though it were moving forward. Linear time is so pre 9/11"

Grandmother is having a maze procedure today, also known as a catheter ablation, which will presumably take care of her irregular heartbeat. My thoughts are with you.

Friend of mine got into med school last week, to the very place that is my first choice, granted since there is only the possibility of my getting into two allopathic schools, the first choice or second choice seems somewhat moot. Anyway, I am so very excited for him. The news however has thrown me into quite a panic about my own situation and my mood has been rather poor of late. For those of you counting...it has been 8 weeks since one interview and 4 weeks since the other. My friend heard from this school in the 7th week after his interview, so perhaps there is some hope in my hearing sooner. Regardless, I am trying to remain as positive as I can be with an osteopathic route in my belt. I have also attempted to keep in my mind that I may end up with having to choose schools. Oh to be that lucky.

School is what it is at this point. My classes are going reasonably well. Our Biochem teacher is currently working on getting her tenure and as such we have had and will continue to have a variety of substitutes. This should make the next exam rather interesting. Lab is fine and interesting although I am not looking forward to class on Monday, wherein we will receive back our exam which I completely bombed. I am hoping that I at least passed with a 60, but that may be asking too much. My other two classes, a black politics class and African civilizations class are really damn interesting. It is nice to use the other half of my brain for awhile. Scored the highest grade in the class on my b-politics exam and recently breezed through an exam the other day in my civilizations class. Give me a map of Africa and I can place all the countries in the proper places.....I feel like I am in grade school again. No....that is too cocky and certainly disrespectful of my professors who are both really knowledgeable individuals. One is a Vietnam vet who has been teaching since 1978. I think I have learned more about this country in that class then I have in most of the other history/political sciences courses that I have taken. For the other class, I really did not know much of anything about Africa other than some bits and pieces about pre-history, Egyptology and the like, so it has been a great learning experience so far.

I will be graduating college with a BA in biochem on 5/31/07, and it will only have taken 15 years. It feels weird, but I think I really need that piece of paper in order to validate myself, not to anyone else, but for myself and my own ego as it were.

Ok so back to work....

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"My mother had a uterus...I used to live there."