Almost there

SO. It's Thursday, April 14. Officially two weeks of "classes" then finals week. Good gravy. I'm so ready for this semester to be over, but at the same time, it just keeps going. I cannot wait for the end of this month, when I will essentially be done, none of us can. It's all we say - "three more weeks" or "I can't wait for May." Bbbuuuttttt. Here's the kicker. Finals week is May 2-6 (technically, more on that later). Then summer classes start on May 16th. And with that comes 5 hour lectures since we'll have 16 weeks of work crammed into about 10 weeks. Plus I'll have 3 clinicals, some of which will be entire weekends spent in Indy. Oof. I'm too brain dead to even think about doing all of that. But here's the good news. Here's what the next two weeks will consist of (school wise that is):

- 2 gero clinicals
- 1 OB clinical evaluation (basically just talking about the semester over lunch, none too shabby)
- 2 med-surg MetiMan clinicals
- 2 regular exams (Med-surg and patho/pharm II)
- 3 ATIs (which are the big things, pass/fail type of stuff)
- 8 more volunteer hours for gero
- 3 case studies
- 1 gero paper
- 1 gero journal (technically like 16 entries...kicking myself for putting that off)
- 3 sets of remediation cards for the ATIs

Not too bad right? Then after that is finals week. Most of my classes, well just two I guess, are using the ATIs for our finals. I'll have a final in gero for sure (that counts for 50% of my grade after not having lecture since March 7th, I could vent/rant for days about that class). The only other possible final is in patho/pharm II, but if I get a level 2 or higher on that ATI (and I better, there are only three levels and level 1 is basically failing) then I don't have to take the final in that class, unless I want to (ha.). SO. If everything goes as planned, I'll be done on May 2nd, after my gero final in the morning. Which gives me nearly two full weeks off. Woot! Which will probably be spent cleaning the barn or scraping and painting the fence, or working on other wedding-related stuff. Eh. Could be worse. As long as I can read a book and occasionally sleep in, I'll be happy. Ha, I'm sure you all wanted to know exactly what my school life consists of, my bad.

Here's some lyrics to the song that I'm taking as my theme song for the rest of the year. If you haven't seen The Princess and the Frog, I suggest looking into it.

"And I'm almost there, I'm almost there
People down here think I'm crazy, but I don't care
Trials and tribulations, I've had my share
There ain't nothing gonna stop me now 'cause I'm almost there"

In other news, we're getting chicks! I think Dad ordered 50ish, not really sure, but I know that he got fun ones, the kinds that lay colored eggs and have funny feathers and such. And we'll have calves soon (hopefully). I feel like the stinkin' cows have been pregnant forever, not really sure when they'll actually drop. I'll admit - I'm a little excited to be here for the summer. It'll be the first full summer since the one after my sophomore year. I was taking classes and working that summer too though. [I also realized the other day that this is my first Midwest spring since 2006. Can you say mushroom hunting?!] Sadly, I don't think being in a demo derby will get checked off my bucket list this summer even though I'll actually be here for the fair. Mom pointed out that we don't have a car anymore (we usually always have at least one derby-able car sitting around), and that I'll have classes, and that the wedding will consume the summer. I secretly think that she just wants to make sure I'm off of her insurance and on my own before I ever do it :) Oh and she pointed out that I was already in my own derby this past fall (when I totaled my car). Very funny Mom.

There's also all the wedding stuff, that's taking up a large portion of my plate now. This weekend is apparently operation Stacie's wedding invitations. Yeah...she still hasn't done them. I told Mom that she and I should start an invitation making business, we're getting plenty of practice. I even said we could get Meg to do photography and make it a big combo wedding package business. Got a bit of a death stare in response :) But really, I'm doing better about all of the wedding stuff. Better attitude. Not going to write much on that, it would all come out wrong.

Well I'm off to do all this stuff on my list instead of just writing about it. Oh, I may also make this thing public again. The permissions stuff keeps messing up and, well, it's starting to just seem kind of silly to me.