it may not have been the best choice, but i decided to try to have a nice weekend 6 days before my 12 station proficiency (a 2 hour long test that basically tests us on everything clinically relevant that we’ve learned in school so far). at the present time, i’m glad i did, but we’ll see if i still feel that way on friday at 4:30pm.
last wednesday was my sister’s birthday. sadly, she had to have one of her teeth pulled, but salvaged the day by getting a new cell phone, the samsung reclaim. it’s a pretty nifty device that’s made out of recycled materials and has a full slide-out keyboard. i’ll never understand why she didn’t get my phone, which is about a billion times better
, since she already has the plan for it, but.. oh well! i will remain the coolest member of the family.
on saturday, we went over for a belated birthday dinner with the family. it was nice to be there and forget about school for a while.. this is definitely the worst quarter i’ve ever experienced.
charles managed to snap this awesome picture of jack..
jack made sure the train ran over the zebra as he exclaimed, "oh, no!" over and over again..
still love atari..
little derek is turning out to be quite a good baby.
i definitely miss the perks of living with my mom, especially now.
interestingly enough, one of jack's favorite games is to pretend to go "night, night."
love this one, too. atari's a great body pillow!
i didn’t take any group shots, but i’m sure bev’s got some of those and they’ll be coming on her blog. i miss my family.. and charles.. hopefully i’ll have more time to spend with all of them once fall quarter is over. i have high hopes for the rest of the year.
now to share some thoughts..
charles showed me this music video and i think it’s the greatest thing ever. hook me up with 8 girls for a reproduction.
has everyone heard about google wave? i’m still waiting for my invitation, and i’m getting impatient. i really wanna try it out. if you don’t know what it is, here’s an explanation that i think is pretty good..
i don’t know if it’s just the pain of this quarter speaking, but i feel like the more optometry school i go through, the less i may actually want to be an optometrist. it’s not that i’m finding the topics less interesting or the profession less worthy.. i think i’m just learning more and more about myself and even though i actually still think i’d make a pretty good optometrist, it doesn’t really bring a big smile to my face to think that that’s what i’ll be doing for the rest of my working life. i got to thinking, and so much of life is about investments. i’ve invested so many years into this career already.. not just the 2 i’ve been in grad school, because it started so much earlier than that.. so no matter how i end up feeling, the need to get a return on that investment weighs greater than anything else. i don’t know if it’s sad or smart that the driving force for our choices is a ROI. i really want to turn the education i’m receiving into something i’m going to be more passionate about in the future, which is why i think i want to teach in addition to practicing after i graduate. there’s a lot to think about.
okay i think that’s enough procrastination for now. i really do tend to blog more when i have a ton of stuff to do for school.














