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I think I am really going to like my Intro to DMS class! The professor was so nice and friendly, which is a welcome change from the rather sour professors I've had lately. Almost all of my classmates are my age or older too, so that's a definite plus.

I kind of feel like I belong here, and that makes me happy inside. :)

All of that energy I spent on worrying about stuff? I think it was wasted...

The only thing that didn't make me too happy was getting up before the sun today, but it's only one day a week this quarter, and I came home to take a nice nap. :)

I don't know why it is, but naps are almost always so much more refreshing to me than a full eight hours of sleep at night. Give me two hours to nap, and I'm ready to go!

I bought the novelization of The Dark Knight today at Walmart, so I'm really looking forward to reading it! I know that it's probably just the movie regurgitated into book form, but I loved the movie and can't wait to get a fix again before it comes out on DVD.

Also, my very first official card sent through Postcrossing was registered today! :) I dropped off a bunch more tag cards in the mailbox today and can't wait to start getting some back!

Schedule

I am trying to make a reasonable schedule so I don't fall behind this quarter, yet somehow still have a little free time. I don't have my first DMS class until tomorrow, so I won't know what the time requirements for that class will be, but so far my week is shaping up to this:

Monday: read one chapter of Medical Terminology; read 1/2 chapter of Anatomy
Tuesday: read one chapter of Medical Terminology; read 1/2 chapter of Anatomy
Wednesday: study Medical Terminology; read 1/2 chapter of Anatomy
Thursday: study Medical Terminology; read 1/2 chapter of Anatomy
Friday: take Medical Terminology quiz; do Anatomy homework and watch Anatomy videos
Saturday and Sunday: review Medical Terminology; review Anatomy

I think that looks okay...

I suppose my DMS stuff will be thrown in on Friday, since that is the least busy of the week days, and I want to mostly have the weekends for myself.

I'm oddly not nervous at all about my class tomorrow (at least not yet). I take this to be a good sign. Maybe I'm where I'm supposed to be after all.

I've been tagging up a storm on Postcrossing and have a pile of postcards to send out tomorrow morning. I can't wait to get some back! I'm also looking forward to some of the swaps I signed up for on Swapbot to get going - I want to shop!

Oww

I went to the gym today for the first time in about three weeks, and my body is telling me that it is not pleased. I've been trying to go regularly for a while now, but then I went on vacation and I didn't get back into the rhythm of going three times a week again. I think that I am going to wake up very sore tomorrow, but it will be worth it.

I watched Sabrina again last night, and it was just as wonderful as I remembered it to be. I'm really surprised that more people don't like it, or maybe I just haven't found the people who do.

So far, so good when it comes to college. I'm a little ahead on my homework already, which is definitely a positive. If I can get a week ahead on my Anatomy class, I will feel much better.

I Survived

Well, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I was almost late to class because I couldn't find a parking spot anywhere near the building my class was in, so I had to walk about fifteen minutes from the middle of nowhere to get to class. I wasn't the last person there though, and the professor hadn't even arrived yet when I got there, so no big deal.

Someone had actually brought her baby to class! Who brings a baby to class? A person who couldn't find a babysitter, I guess. Anyway, the professor didn't seem very pleased about this and made her sit with the baby outside of the lab, since there are Dangerous Chemicals and cadavers in the lab, so the school doesn't allow people to bring children into the lab (for good reason).

The professor herself seems to be very nice and bubbly. I liked her. My classmates, however...well, maybe it was just the table I was sitting beside. They were rude and continually chatted through class, so much so that I had a difficult time hearing the professor at times. I wanted to smack a couple of them upside the head. I think it's so disrespectful to talk when a teacher is talking, not to mention disruptive.

I think most of the girls sitting at my table will be okay though. Two of them, at least. The third was part of the annoying other table and proclaimed loudly that she wouldn't work with anyone else but her friends, even though she wasn't sitting at their table. Ugh. Hopefully she'll move in next week's lab to sit with them, and someone who isn't so annoying will be in our group instead.

Other than that, though, things weren't too bad. We got out fairly early, and then I just had to buy books and then go home.

I went to get a post office box since I just discovered a couple of cool sites (Swapbot and Postcrossing), but I'm not really comfortable giving out my home address to a bunch of strangers. I don't really go to the local PO very often, and now I remember why; the clerks there are so rude and annoying. It took me almost half an hour to get a post office box, and twenty-five minutes were the clerks talking to one another and ignoring their customers. Look, I know it's probably a boring job and it was kind of hot in there, but come on. I guess that's what happens when people have a monopoly: customer service isn't a big priority at all. That's why I generally drive seven or so miles out of my way to go to the St. Louisville post office instead, since the workers are so much nicer. Their lobby isn't open 24 hours a day though, so I didn't get my post office box there. Maybe I should have. :P

Anyway, today hasn't been that great. I'm off to study for a bit, I guess.

First Day of Classes

Well, today is the first day of classes, except that I don't have any Wednesday classes this quarter, so I don't officially start until tomorrow morning. I'm a little nervous about starting back to school; I'm afraid that I'll be a lot older than my classmates. This is a community college, though, so that might not be the case. At least people tell me that I don't look my age! (I take that as a compliment.)

Tomorrow I have Human Anatomy & Physiology for two hours. I also have to buy my books. Then I don't have class until Monday, when I have Intro to DMS Technology for fifty minutes. Other than that, I don't have to go to classes; they're almost all online.

I don't understand why I'm so nervous! I've gone to college before and managed to graduate with honors with a bachelor's degree. It's just been years since I was in that world, and I'm afraid that I won't fit in any longer. Plus it's going to be a lot of work, with all of the studying and all. I just keep telling myself that I can do this, and I will do well. If I keep saying it, hopefully I'll eventually believe it.