Wow! i'm gettin good at this updating thing :-P

hey kids! sheesh, i think i'm starting to get the hang out this updating thing. hmm...so what's new?

i just started my 3rd term @ ECPI. my new classes are communications (aka public speaking) and anatomy and physiology. my communications class looks like it's gonna be pretty fun. it'll be a good amount of work, but if i put in the effort, i know it'll be worth the outcome. it's weird....ever since i started at ECPI, i've come to realize that i like making presentations and speaking in front of class. don't get me wrong, i still don't remember everything i wanna say, but i actually like being up there. it's kinda fun...that rush. hopefully my comm. class will help me with the remebering everything i wanna say thing. i have high hopes.

my other class, anatomy and phys, is kinda blah. i guess it's just the first chapter, which is alot of review from medical terminology, but i'm ready for the fun stuff....like learning how diseases work and all that stuff. we just covered cells today and it feels like it'll take forever till we get to the fun stuff. luckily, we have a project where we have to give a presentation ( :-D) about a disesase, surgical procedure, or something else. i just heard about this aggressive type of breast cancer on the news last night and i'm thinking of researching that. it seems pretty relevant and i wanna know more about this cancer bc it's seen more in younger women. my prof is different from most of the ones i've come into contact with at ECPI, but i'm determined to do my best and get the most out of this course even if i have to teach myself everything in the book.

so for some reason, this term seems different. i guess the newness of the school has worn off a little and i'm just getting used to everything, but it's weird. i mean, something as little as having a class in the other side of the hall for the first time makes it feel weird and different. i know it probably doesn't make sense, but whatever. there's just something about it that i can't put my finger on. hmmm...

anyways....what else? o yea, thanksgiving break is coming up. woohoo! it'll be nice to be off school 2 more days. and i only have to work 2 days next wk. and yes, i'm working the day after thanksgiving. it's gonna be a madhouse there. and i'm working til close, which means returns galore. o well, i think we're gonna have a good amount of staff there, so hopefully it won't be too bad.

well, my mind's been wandering for about the last 5 min, so it's probly sleepy time. i hope everybody's doing well and i love hearing from you guys! have a great rest of the wk ya'll!

"we bend but we don't break"

So many roads we're left to take
So much history to make
We bend but we don't break

there's a little excerpt for any shedaisy fans.

so not a whole lot's gone on since my last post, but i just felt like another post. (which is probly inspired by my desire to procrastinate on my paper that's due tomorrow, but hey...there's time :-P welp...hmm...

work's still goin pretty well. actually, really well. i mean, nothing really big is happening there, but i'm loving it. i love working in a craft store. whenever i have to do recovery and returns, i just start looking at everything in my aisles and thinking of fun stuff i could do with it. my favorite aisles are the wood aisle and what i like to call the "africa aisle". i love painting wooden things. it doesn't matter what it is. it could be a little wooden pig ornament and i would love painting. but i really wanna get one of the birdhouses and decorate it. the "africa aisle" is fun too. i call it that bc it has all these home decoration thingies that either have elephants or leopard print, dark wood, or whatever on them. i love it bc everytime i walk through it, i think that chelsea would love that aisle and it makes me smile. plus, the stuff in that aisle is really cool and beautiful. in general, i just love walking around the store. it's such a fun place to work and everyone's so nice there. or at least sarcastic. if i didn't have school and hw i would seriously wanna spend more time there.

so we start a new term a week from tomorrow and i'm pretty excited. i'll have anatomy & physiology and communications. i know it's gonna be alot of work, but i've been getting used to that with medical terminology. plus, in anatomy & phys. we get to learn some of the whys about things. that should be interesting. but this term (as with the first one) has just flown by. i'm glad that terms are this short and compact bc i know that i can handle the intake of info. in fact, i'm thriving on it. i got kinda bored before when semesters were so drawn out. i mean, i'd have 5 classes at once, but it just took so long to get through them. this way, we cover the information and learn it, but we get through it. i'm really loving that. and we'll remember it bc all our other classes build on the classes we've had before. i'm just glad that my clinicals aren't til a little later though bc i'm not really to draw blood yet. i know it'll be fine once i start doing it, but i'm just glad it's not right now. i think the only downfall for the program going so quickly is that sometimes i don't feel like i have time to just hang out and take a break. i mean, i do anyways. but some days i wish we'd have a wk off or something. it's ok though...christmas break is coming up and will be here before i know it. i mean, it's already november. where'd that come from?

so i went to boone this past wkend. it was so great to be up there again. i miss boone and everyone up there so much. the drive up is always so beautiful and relaxing. the leaves are turning so the lookouts were incredibly beautiful. it was so good to get to hang out with everybody and have some good talks and good times. we didn't do anything big or whatever, but i love it when we just hang out and talk. it makes me wanna move back up there. :-)

so this wk, i've got 1 presentation on a paper i have to write, 1 test, and 2 finals. then i'll be starting new classes. well, i'd better get back to the paper, i've procrastinated long enough. i hope everyone's doing well! i'd love to hear from ya!

-shan