The Sodium Chloride's Bonded to the Leg Bone...Wait

Hello again, ladies, gentlemen, and others. This post's title is brought to you by the striking similarity between my Anatomy and Physiology homework and my Chemistry homework. We're on to chapter two in both classes and are getting into chemistry for Anat. and Phys. while getting into the Periodic Table of Elements in Chemistry. There was a point when I was reading my A&P book when I thought it would be a good time to wrap up my chemistry homework and get to my A&P homework. There are slight differences between the classes, of course. A&P's chemistry is fairly basic and focuses on the uses in the body (as one would hope), whereas chemistry goes more in depth and even delves into physics to help explain a thing or two. There are border-crossings every which way with these subjects; no science is sacred.
Anyway, you might be wondering about the odd-looking drink at the top of this. In case you can't read the label, it's called a Green River and is one of my favorite soft drinks. I first happened upon them at Scout Camp at Camp Meriwether, which sits right on the Oregon Coast. Ever since then, I've been looking for them (not very hard) with no luck. Only recently did I find out that they're made in Chicago, Illinois. A dear FHE Sister and good friend actually had a few shipped out. With my birthday rapidly approaching and my resolve to be a good home teacher, I received two bottles. If you live close by and are itching to see what they taste like, I might be persuaded to share...for a modest fee.
At any rate, life chugs along like it always had. Epithelial and connective tissues swirl and mix in with Church doctrine, elements, fundamental particles, conversion factors, mathematical functions, etc. to churn out a potent syrup of chaos in my mind. That's not including the other areas that require my attention, such as job-hunting. Really, I, like Bilbo Baggins of The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, feel like butter spread over too much bread, but only sometimes. We're only two weeks into it all, so I'm still feeling out the groove and rhythm that will make this all manageable and like clockwork. And with that, it's time for this Jack to be a dull boy.

And We're Off!

I suppose it's high time I get to the blog this week. So here we are a few days (3, to be exact) into the semester. Yeeha. Already I walk around looking nervous with a large bucket to hold my brain in when it tries to escape for a better life. So it's not that bad, but I have the feeling that it very well could get to that point if I'm not careful.
So far, all my teachers are great! That's very comforting considering I was half-expecting one of them to spend most of the time as Dr. Jekyll's counterpart. I think one of the best qualities a teacher can have that is revealed in the classroom is a healthy sense of humor. If that sense of humor is unhealthy, then I might suggest heading for the hills. Well my chemistry teacher, math teacher, anat. and phys. teacher, and religion teacher all seem to have healthy senses of humor. So there's a lucky break in that. Homework balances it out nicely though. It's most likely due to the fact that it's the beginning of the semester and therefore natural to feel like one's mind is scattered throughout the stratosphere, but there's a foreboding air about my homework amount. This will probably be a rigidly-scheduled semester. I almost joined the University Band because I have an opening for that hour, but doing homework during that time would be more beneficial. Another thing is that all of my classes are structured so differently from any other class I've had so far, except my religion class since I've had that teacher before. For example, in my Bio 264 class, it's optional whether or not we show up to the lab. We still have to do the work, but physically showing up is an option! The teacher said it was a change due to better help the students get out what they're putting in. So far for that class, I've learned about the 6 levels of organization (chemical, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism), and 6 systems in the body with the major functions of each. The first part of the class, my teacher said, will be mostly histology (cells and tissues) before we get into the fun stuff.
That's about all there is to tell this semester. I'm loving that most of the campus is free now; no longer carrying a huge blemish of construction but just a little one. The school is now working on an amphitheater right in front of the Smith Building (for those of you who know where that is). The renovations are very pleasing for convenience and aesthetics.
Before I sign out of here, one thing I've missed aside from the friends up here was the weekly campus-wide devotional. They are now held in the BYU-I Center and are as good as ever. "Devo Days" are just good days, enough said. I'm signing off and headed for...something!

I'm a-Back!

Well folks, here we go again! Yes-siree, the blog is springing back to life like a 90 year-old arthritic man springing from his bed after a deep sleep. Indeed, I bet some of you are just as excited at this blog coming back as the previously-mentioned man is about getting up. All I have to say is that nobody's forcing you to read this, so there. I can't imagine this new streak of blog posts will be any more exciting or any better than Fall semester's posts. At this point, I think the most you can all hope for are potentially humorous dating stories and potentially boring human anatomy tidbits.
It's hard to say what this semester has in store for me, honestly. I can see a good work load every day with the classes I'm taking. Speaking of, they are as follows: Math 110 (college algebra), Chemistry 105 (with, from what I'm gathering, the hardest teacher for the class), Biology 264 (Human Anatomy and Physiology I), and Religion 324 (Doctrine and Covenants). I'm technically also signed up for Math 109 (Precalculus) which is a mistake and a class that I can't, for whatever reason, seem to drop. So there's potentially another source of humor for the semester...We'll have to see.
Anyway, classes don't start until Tuesday, so I'm up here kickin'-it in Rexburg, waiting for more people to show up. Job searching will be fun, as always. Competing with 100 students for one job is not something I take pleasure in.
Anyway, it's windy (like it always is in good ol' Rexburg) but beautiful outside and I'm getting cabin fever. As for my chemistry teacher, we'll see if he's really all he's cracked up to be, or if he's just one of those teachers that most students don't like but turns out to be one that I do like. At any rate, I'm keeping you posted, signing out, and headed for something great!