Mountain Rains

To start off, I just want to say that I love the rain. I really do. There are a lot of people out there who become upset at cloud cover and absolutely depressed once they detect heaven's blessing of rain; I am not one of them! In fact, cloud cover brightens my day, and rain makes it. While others are walking around gloomy-faced, my eyes are bright with enthusiasm. Warm rains are my absolute favorite.
Now, in Rexburg, Idaho, there is no such thing as "warm rain". If there is rain here, the temperature drops with the water, which is just fine. This whole week has been rainy. Yesterday, I was tempted to go run around in a brief downpour, but remembered that I still had a couple of classes left in the day. Rats. Today, I walked to my 7:45am Bio. 265 lab in a mild drizzle and walked back to my apartment at 9:45am in sheets of half snow, half rain. My mood, aided by the usual sleep-deprivation, has need for improvement. I'm really not that upset, I just don't want the snow here yet. It can wait until late November/early December and that will be just fine with me. Obviously the Snow Demons either have itchy trigger fingers, small bladders and too much "snow juice", or whatever you want to see it as.
Amid the atmospheric higgeldy-piggeldy, there is life marching on like battle-ready ants.
Anatomy and Physiology II is really digging into the endocrine system, and for good reason. It plays such a large role in making sure your body functions properly, that the slightest upset can have serious consequences. This morning, in my lab, we went through a case study that had us diagnose a lady with particular symptoms, like weight-loss, loss of lateral vision, throbbing headaches, warm and moist skin, etc. With two hours' worth of looking at blood test results and research, my group and I determined that she had tumors on her thyroid and pituitary glands. Needless to say, it wasn't easy. Eventually we're going to be busting two case studies in lab; that will be fun. Fortunately, we're going over hormones and the endocrine system in my Exercise Physiology class right now as well, so that will help get this stuff down.
With the Christmas season closing in slowly but steadily (faster than expected, if the weather had anything to say about it), there's a doin' a-transpirin' between yours truly and two musically-talented friends. We had decided last year to get together at the Christmas season, go down to Idaho Falls or somewhere, and play Christmas songs. Brianna and me on the trumpet and Kristilynn on the trombone. It didn't exactly happen last year, but this year, so far, is more promising. We have obtained some sheet music yesterday and tried it out. So far, so good. Maybe that's why there's snow falling right now: we appealed to the snow demons with our premature Christmas melodies. If that is the case, than I am truly sorry.


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