My incredible driving abilities (and possibly some other updates)

I've decided that being a medical student is going to wind up with me dying in a car crash. I seem to have too much school in my head to ever be capable of focusing on driving). My first story- I was with Gloria driving to her program director's house for a potluck dinner. This one actually has nothing to do w/ my inability to focus on driving thanks to med school- we were driving west at like 6:30 so the sun was right in my eyes and I had my little visor thing down so it was blocking my vision too. Anyway, I went right through a redlight. Didn't know it was even there until Gloria told me that I went through it. Luckily there were no cars or cops so whatever, but it was bad. My other one really is cause of med school though. I had a test today, it was my third in a week so my brain was pretty fried. Anyway i went up to a light to turn left. The light turned green so i went. About halfway through turning i realized all the lights turned green and not just the arrow so it was not actually my turn to go. Luckily there was a girl on the otherside of light that figured out that i wasnt actually trying to cut her off and just made a mistake and she let me go, but it couldve turned out rather badly. So anyway, i feel like i should not be allowed to drive while in medical school.
speaking of medical school, i had my first anatomy test on friday. There was one question that was an x-ray of a hand/wrist. One of the questions was pointing to the radius and asked what ligament attached there. I hadn't bothered studying ligaments so I was completely lost so i'm looking at it and looking at it and finally i decide to just bs an answer. So i think to myself, ok its on the lateral side and its in the wrist, I'll call it the lateral carpal ligament. So I'm thinking the graders are gonna be laughing at my answer. Turns out it was the right answer. I was really excited. I was even more excited when I realized the test was out of 210 points and not 220 meaning i got an 80 instead of the 76 I thought I got. Clearly i'm a genius.
Aside from school my life is pretty boring so not much else to talk about. hope everyone is doing well!

Splitting out

Right so, just posting to mention that I've started writing my own blog. Reasoning for the most part is explained here. Oh and in case you don't want to take the time to look - I now have a Job :).

Already posted this on my facebook, but if any of you are interested, I have an extra ticket to ND vs. WSU in San Antonio.

Any takers?

Sup?

Hey guys.
Just wanted to check in and see how people were doing.
For those of you in school, how's it goin?
And job-hunting?
And apartment finding?
And just chillin?
And volunteerin?
I'm gonna end the tech-diet soon (Oct 1st-ish), so expect a call from me sometime after that... or a text... :-)
Hope everyone is doing well!
I know I've been kinda inconsistent on Three|6ix|5ive, but hey, I gotta do work at work!
Peace everyone!
And Go Irish! (Beat those MotherLickers!) :-O

Classes get in the way of college

Hey Bro Montanas,

I'm back at ND, and it's sad that none of you are around (except Rachel, who I saw a few days ago, and Lauren, who I saw the other day, and Ale, who I didn't see the other day but I know is here, and Bridget, because nobody is really sad that she is gone). Anywho, classes started today, and I'm in a deep depression out of it. I scheduled my last one last night (apparently you're supposed to do that before the night before classes start?), but I'm still not happy with my schedule, so I'll probably add and drop a few things before I get it right. In honor of Jeremy, I may even add and drop a German or a French class. You'll all be happy to hear that the bookstore is still committing highway robbery. I bought books for ONLY TWO of my classes yesterday, and my bill came to...$357. I'll update you on the total price when (if) I finish buying the others.

In closing, I may just end up dropping all my classes and living here. I decided that's probably the way to go.

It's been a while

Hey guys,
I read this pretty often but I don't write very much so I decided it's about time. Actually, I started one of these a few nights ago but it was late and I fell asleep. So here goes my second try. Quick rundown of my summer: it's been pretty good, minus the fact that I have no permanent employment yet. Anyway, I went to visit Rachel in Minnesota at the beginning of the summer and then went to Cleveland with Maya to help her switch apartments. I went to South Bend and Chicago in July with Brian, Megan and Abby... it was SO great to see you guys!! (I came across my socks from that classy bowling alley the other day, haha.) At the beginning of August, I went to Montana to visit Jeremy... the drive from my house wasn't actually that bad. We went to Yellowstone, so that was fun. And just last week, my parents and I moved Justin back to South Bend. It was so weird (and sad) to be back there and not be moving myself back. He lives in Regis Philbin's old room this year, so hopefully I'll meet him during a football weekend, haha. In the meantime, I've been working for my dad doing advertising sales and stuff. It's not bad. So yeah, that's about it. When will everyone be back for football games? I'm going back in two weeks for Nevada and I know that Reed and Brian will be there for sure... everyone should come for that one!! FLF reunion? Between my dad and I, we have tickets for a few more games as well, so I'll be back for a couple more this fall.
That's about it. This is pretty long. (That's what she said...?)
I miss you guys. A lot.

I cut open a dead person today

Today was the first day of anatomy lab. We got our table assignments and bodies. My group has a rather large man with very tough tissue. One of the profs said he has two ways of classifying how easily the people cut: either butter or steel wool. Our guy is steel wool. We cut open his back and started dissecting the skin away from some gross stuff. At the end of lab the prof that explained everything to us gave me an imaginary gold star on my forehead for my superior skinning skills. I felt special. Ishould probably try to learn a little more anatomy (such as what the gross stuff is really called) if I want to continue getting gold stars and such.
I am officially done w/ my first med school class- medicine and society. We had our final today. It was basically a stats class. not terribly difficult. I'm expecting that to change quite quickly.
I was looking at old pics today cause i'm trying to figure out which ones to hang up in my apartment and it made me miss everyone a lot. I never really thought about how weird it would be to go to a school other than notre dame and without you guys. I don't like it very much yet but i didn't like nd very much in the first month or so either. I'm very bitter about the fact that i'm supposed to be trying to make new friends when i already have you guys. It makes me feel like i'm expected to replace you guys which is ridiculous cause thats not whats expected and would never happen but when im pmsing and exhausted thats how it seems lol. I should really go to bed. I have to clean first cause my dad's bringing me a tv this weekend and my apartments kinda messy (shocking right?). nowhere near as bad as my room at school was though.
I'm sure there's more but im done typing now