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I'm starting to take interest in my Human Nutrition class. We're learning about the digestive system and just barely covered gastrointestinal diseases and afflictions, ranging from diarrhea and constipation to ulcers and GERD (acid reflux). I never knew of the severity that ulcers could reach: you can die from them! It's true, if they get bad enough, they can eat all the way through the lining of your intestine or stomach or esophagus (wherever it may be), leak contents into your body cavity and infect everything or make you bleed out. Pretty. I think one of the main messages of what we learned in this part is this: Take care of your body, for crying out loud! Yup.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the act of making new friends kind of funny sometimes? Even talking to certain friends that you haven't talked to in a long time. For me there's a slight anxiety about the whole thing. However, after it's said and done, I feel great that I said and did. I mean, there are times where I don't want to be social with certain people, whether I know them or not, but when I do, I usually, if not always, come away from it glad that I stepped outside my minute comfort zone of the day and socialized. I find it funny in the way that it can keep happening with certain people even though I know it's going to be a good time. Does anyone else feel that way, or am I just shy like that? Why would anyone have reason to not want to talk to a friend? I don't understand it, and yet I do it. I guess that's something about this life.
Anyway, since I'm jumping around like a caffeinated jack rabbit, I might as well fill you all in on what else is new. Not much, is the thing. I'm now an Elder's Quorum Instructor, yipee. It's actually going to be great, I just haven't taught a classroom setting on a regular basis in too long a time. It actually got me a little excited to start my lesson preparation, though I haven't gotten around to preparing my lesson just yet...ha ha ha. School and work are demanding my time right now. That's about all that's been happening as of late, really. Making friends, trying to keep up with older ones, working on this and that. Hooray. Anyway, speaking of all that, duty calls.