Saving up my sleeps

For my 8:00am class, I try to get up at 6:30am every morning so that I have time to get ready, eat breakfast, briefly read the Bible. However, my body naturally feels rested after about 8 hours of sleep. It's so frustrating though, because I get up early but then I get really really tired in the afternoon. I used to nap, but today I forced myself to stay awake so that I can just go to bed by 10:30pm.

But of course, I can't sleep. :(

God answers prayers

For most of my childhood, I was a chubby kid. I didn't necessarily see this in myself (and I thank God, otherwise I might have had serious body image issues in adolescence), but from the teasing and comments that others made, it was obviously an undesirable trait. So what did I, who learned that God answers prayers, do? I prayed about it. I wasn't sure how he was going to fix this, but I still prayed that something would happen.

Guess what-I turned 12, had a growth spurt, and all my baby fat went away. Again, I wasn't conscious of the change as it occurred, but I remember being inundated for a while with questions on how I lost weight.

This is truly a God-answered prayer, and to this day I credit him for responding to such a simple, relatively shallow prayer request. It's a funny one, but it also reminds me that God answers prayers in ways that I don't expect. As an 8-year-old, I had no idea about puberty-induced growth spurts. But God did. haha.. I can't believe I'm talking about this on here. All glory to God. :)

So yeah. I think that episode tells me that it's ok to ask for what I truly want. But God may answer in a pretty unexpected, crazy way.

School reached out with its claws and drew me back in.

After a week of summer vacation, I am back in school for a month. On top of this, I scheduled to take my boards (national standard test for licensure, part 1) July 9. This means that for the next month and some change, I'll be studying hardcore like never before!

My daily life until July 9, compartmentalized. At least it's pretty to look at:

This first week back, I kind of got "Study" and "Misc" mixed up a lot, so learning about pathology has often turned into nap time, blogging time, etc. Adjustment period. :) But at the same time, I'm going try to fit in some breaks/fun whenever I can. Because it's summer! And I refuse to be burnt out. Life is more than academics, even though I need to prioritize it for the time being.

Rest

Sleeping at Last-From the Ground Up

Do payphones still exist? And the end of the school year

I hate 99% of pop radio music. Actually, that's a lie. I actively dislike about a quarter of it (enough to switch the station), tolerate more than half, and get addicted to only 2-3 songs at a time. Though usually, these songs get so played out that I can't stand listening to them anymore, or they just get "old", and are buried underneath another pile of new, unceasingly awful tunes.

But one song I'm kinda feeling is Maroon 5's "Payphone". It's catchy. This, and that "Call Me Maybe" song.

Hey, we all have our musical guilty pleasures. :)

Anyway, that's what I'm listening to as I type. I cleaned out my bench table in lab today. It was oddly reminiscent of high school, emptying out my locker at the end of the year with a sense of tangible finality. The humid heat, promising summer, as I left this afternoon heightened the similarities.

It felt good. Seeing the drawers that used to hold all my dental supplies completely devoid of any trace of my presence suggested symbolism: I survived the year. I made it through.

I just have one more competency tomorrow.. hope I pass!