A tad crispy

I hesitate to use the phrase 'burn out' since that implies that I'm no longer able to study (a fact of which would cause me considerable stress) so I'm sticking with "crispy". Just a bit, around the edges. Nothing a little scraping can't fix.

This past week was an exercise in stamina. We had lab every single day as well as class every freaking day. We whipped though bone and neuropathology (oh, and there were a few cpd lectures sprinkled around just to make sure I couldn't sleep in). When the visiting neuropathologist lecturer made some comment about his topic being 'an afterthought' for the course I choked a little bit. Afterthought??? Sorry, but seven lectures this close to the exam is not an afterthought, it's a freaking eulogy to any free time I might have had this last week. I spent every evening in Taylor studying like a good little study zombie (it only took be a year and a half to finally be sucked into Taylor studying) and I still have bits and pieces that I haven't made a first run through of yet. Oi vey. To say nothing of the endocrine monster from the previous week. My study sessions in the car on the way to class may be the only time I ever review adrenal gland related things at the rate I'm going. I hate it when I make the same goal every day and never even get to it. "Oh, I just have those last fifteen pages or so of endocrine to get through, I'll do it this evening...." And then bone path happened, and then neuropath happened. Then I remembered that I still hadn't gone back to finish up studying MGT (remember my total lack of recall on bladder cancer?). Oh, and now cpd has assigned us yet another pointless piece of busy work. What? We have ANOTHER concept map due in path lab tomorrow afternoon? That'll have to happen today too.

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It's not wonder I can't seem to shake this headache. So I've been trying to memorize the differences between types of ovarian cancers while very carefully not moving my head to much. Which is hard when I'm looking at the computer screen and then looking down at my book. I keep forgetting my little brain isn't happy and end up clutching it in pain.

So of course I decided to type another blog entry (head not moving!). Good plan. Right.

I am SOOOO ready to go home right now. As each day passes I start thinking more about 'leaving related things'. What I'm going to pack, what restaurant I should go to first when I get back to the states, how utterly wonderful it will feel to be finished with 4th term. Invariably I have to come back to reality though. Yes, I'm really close to leaving but in between me and that wonderful Boeing 737 is a week of tests. Ugh. Stupid tests.

And on that note, I will be returning to my path notes. Onward!
Listening to: old music from Dec '08