This week can be summed up in a word: sick. About this time last week I noticed a little post-nasal drip action that seemed rather harmless. By Friday I was technically sick, though I didn't feel completely so. That was a good thing considering I had a date that night. What? Steven Brown dating? Yeah, don't act so surprised, it's happened before and you all had fair warning at the beginning of the semester (for those of you recently joining us, please refer to the first post of this year). It was a good date, all in all. It was my best blind date, which is a plus, and there might be a second in the future. My date was a part of a quadruple date; it was me and three roommates with their dates. If there wasn't such a thing before, there is now. Basically it was a smorgasbord of desserts and then everyone just playing games and having a good time while digesting the gratuitous amounts of food lodged in our digestive tracts.
Everyone needs a good Saturday every once in a while. One that just starts out nice and easy with no sense of rush and keeps that mood the whole of the day. That was my Saturday; just some time to relax and not worry too much about the seemingly immense pressure of school and life in general. Although I was productive, it wasn't enough, unfortunately.
Sunday, which was Mother's Day, was an interesting one. I hope you all respected the day in some way and enjoyed it to the fullest extent. Mothers are a special thing and I'm more than happy to have so great as mine. I called my mother and presented a little musical well-wishing that only a mother could love. Part of it, one could argue, may have been due to the fact that I had woken up that morning able to sing Barry White songs without the slightest exertion. However, those who would wish to argue that point would do well to resign themselves to defeat.
The human skull is more complex than I had imagined. Two hours of my Tuesday afternoon were dedicated wholly to the study and memorization of (what I counted to be) 94 structures that make up the skull. This includes foramena, canals, processes, bones, fossa, plates, sinuses, and lines. Each group had their own skull to work with, which were mostly models. In the case of my partner and I, we had a model and an actual human skull (which, by the way, had seen better days). This class is getting intense. These next 3 weeks will be dedicated solely to the human skeleton as far a as lab goes. While this is going on, we're moving on to things like metabolism and its facets in the lecture. Also, we had the lab and lecture exams this week. I have now completed both and am feeling pretty a-okay about it all. In the lecture exam, I discovered the humor that Bro. Shaw has. I was cracking up during a test--that's a first. What really won me over was the fact that he had a bunch of pictures of Calvin making faces from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. Each picture had a corresponding letter for the bubble sheet and we were instructed to select which one best represented our mood at the time.
As for the rest of this week, I have two tests for Algebra and one exam for Chemistry with homework for the next units already coming in. It's a little daunting, looking out at it all, but taking it all one step at a time shouldn't be too difficult.
In other news, after a few days of rain, the sun is actually appearing again and the weather is turning nice. Although I like the rain, this is a welcomed change. Speaking of change (disregarding welcomed or not), for those of you who know the area, a number of buildings on 1st West are being torn down to make way for a new kind of building for Rexburg: a 5-story one. The 5 buildings from the North-West corner at the 4-way stop from the stadium (the last building to be demolished is the Castle Apartments). It's a little shocking to see, but that's life. I just hope they leave the nice, big trees that are along the street there. There might be naivete in that hope, but a guy can dream.
Anyway, it's time to wrap this up and send it on its way and send myself to bed. This is Steven Brown, once again signing out and headed for his bed!
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