Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?

I LOVE VET SCHOOL.


I don't know if I've ever actually enjoyed learning this much.  First of all, I'm learning about stuff I care about.  I like all of the medical stuff that I'm learning and it makes it much easier to study when you like what you are learning.  
Second, it's really cool to see how things actually affect your life.  For example, in physio, we are learning about muscles (among other things) and I learned how one of my medication works in relation to the smooth muscles in the blood vessels of my brain.  Another example, I learned in nutrition that sodium is one of the few things that we can actually tell we are running low on.  So if your body is low on sodium, you actually crave salt (you don't crave potassium or calcium or anything else like that even if you are deficient).  So I got to thinking, maybe I have naturally low sodium levels which is why I crave salt a lot.  Granted, this might not be true, but it's a connection to my real life.  
Third, pretty much all of my classes are constantly intertwining.  Last night when I was thinking about the aforementioned medication (physio) I was also thinking about how maybe the smooth muscle is taking in too much calcium causing my blood vessels to contract too often (giving me way too many headaches).  Let's relate this back to nutrition, shall we?  I'm taking in all of this calcium, and how do the calcium ions make it through the ion pumps?  With sodium ions.  So for some reason, I'm thinking that my calcium concentrations are way off and the constant deficiency in salt is just trying to keep up with the calcium concentrations that my cells want to take in.


DID YOUR BRAIN JUST MELT??  I apologize.  But thanks for hanging in there.


Also, microanatomy is in there too.  It's all about cells, which, as we know, is the basis of all living things.  Why I'm still learning about it after about 7 years of biology classes, I'm not sure.  And I've studied cells in all 7 years.  Whatever.  At least my professor talks about her mastectomy in class.  Wait, that's not a great selling point.


If you can't tell, school is taking over my life.  Literally, everything that runs through my brain during the day relates back to what I'm learning.  For example, when I have to pee, I don't think, "Crap, I've gotta pee."  I think, "Man, my transitional epithelium is really squamous right now" (microanatomy) or "the smooth muscles in my bladder have definitely stretched out to their maximum tension and can't adapt to a longer length and they are going to contract any minute."  Meanwhile, I'm peeing my pants.


Let's run through my weekend real quick, shall we?  I'm really proud of how productive I was.


Saturday:
Woke up at 7:00 am
Horsemanship class (learn the basics of how to work with and be around a horse safely)
Visited dogs in the kennel
Showered
Studied anatomy
Lunch
Grocery shopping
Practiced small animal palpation
Break time - played facebook games.  My new addiction.
Studied anatomy
Studied physiology
Studied more anatomy
Bed


Sunday:
Woke up at 10:00 am
Obedience training with kennel dogs (with the Canine Medicine Club)
Practiced large animal palpation with horses
Studied anatomy in the lab
Showered
Dinner break
Studied physiology for about 4 hours
Relaxing before bed
Bed


I definitely got a ton of stuff accomplished this weekend.  I felt really confident about everything.  I have two exams this week and I almost feel like I could take them right now and get a decent grade (pass for sure, maybe an A in one of them).


Since I've already mentioned how school is my life now, it should come as no surprise that not  much else has been going on.  I've been social, but not really going out.  Just studying with friends.  We did get some info in off campus housing for next semester, so I looked at that stuff Friday night, but that was pretty much it.  My roommate and I didn't really decide on anything or apply for any places, but we'll get started on that soon.


My intramural volleyball team played their first game on Friday night and the team isn't totally put together, so we only had 4 people, but it was still really fun.  We got to go to the beach and play volleyball, which are two of my favorite things.  I also got gnawed on my mosquitos, which is kind of strange because mosquitos don't usually bite me.  But my legs are COVERED in bites.  It's really itchy, so I've been covering my legs with benadryl but then it just feels really gross and sticky so it's a no win situation.  Next time, let's not get bitten by mosquitos instead.  And then I woke up the next day with spider bites on my chest.  I think the bugs really like all of the sweat I've been producing down here.  Grooooooooss.


And that, my friends, is my life.  Guess what I'm going to do now...study physiology. :)  Also, I miss my mom :(