man, i'm never around anymore. i never even remember to come here and read journals.

i finished my summer semester with a B+ in one class, which i'm filing an academic grievance over because that's utter horseshit. i won't go into all the details why, since everyone would probably be bored by that, but it is. and my GPA has become extremely important because i've decided to go to med school. which is a pretty funny thing to decide when you're almost 29 and almost have your A.S. in math and science. spence and i move to kings bay, GA in october and i'll still be doing online classes at SUNY through december. then i'll start elsewhere (probably Jacksonville). I'd really like to complete a BS in Psychology with premed requirements, since my ultimate goal is Psychiatry.

we get out October of 2008, by which point I hope to have my BS. I'll spend the fall/winter studying and take the MCAT in the spring of 2009, then hopefully enter med school in fall of 2009. this is where it gets challenging. originally, we'd planned for spence to get a job around chattanooga/knoxville. there's no med school there. commuting isn't really feasible since at some point i'll go on call. ETSU is my preference for med school, and is only 3-3.5 hours from connor, but i don't know what kind of job spence can get there, or how much it will pay. i'd like to go to med school without sacrificing our comfort level or proximity to connor, but i don't know if that will be possible. we won't know until 1-1.5 years from now when spence starts looking for jobs and we find out what our options are.

so, yeah, my fall semester just started and i'm taking a couple of PE courses, second class in my bio series, statistics, and elementary french. then i'll have earned my AS in math and science, woohoo :) during the following 2 years i'll need to take 3 more semesters of chemistry (i've had one) and 2 semesters of physics.

i'll be 40 by the time i'm really a professional, but at least i finally found what i believe i will most love to do :)