The Thursday Overload

I've had an eventful 24 hours, let me tell you. Ok, I will.

Last night I was supposed to visit my co-worker Alice, whom I'll be house-sitting for next weekend, so she could show me around and such. Now, I expected her to live in a nice house and everything, but I never imagined what I finally got to see. She lives in a gigantic house, with a tiki bar and hot tub.

That's right. I said a tiki bar and hot tub. And she's paying me to stay here all weekend.

O
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It'll be like a mini-vacation before my vacation. I'm soooooo excited! :-D

Well after that Mike gets a call from his sister and she informs him that his mom is in the hospital again after having bad chest pains. She recently had a heart attack (around Christmas time) and the balloon they put in her artery isn't working--so she has that blockage as well as a new one. The doctors say her heart is too small to operate on, but a surgeon was coming in today to have a look himself. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything works out ok--something more permanent than medication needs to be done. Mike's doing really well with it--he's definitely better at not freaking out during emergencies than I am, though I can tell he's very worried. So if praying is what you do, give her a thought for me. Every little bit helps.

We spent the night in East Lansing with his sister and got up early this morning to visit his mom in the hospital. We got back in Kzoo just in time to go to class at 11.

I got my first biochem exam results back today, and they're just as bad as I was expecting--I haven't done that poorly on a test since freshmen year. Luckily, I've heard from several people that this one is the worst of Stapleton's exams and it gets much better from here on out. It also helped that not a whole lot of people did very well at all--I'm not the only one up shit-creek. o_O I studied my butt off for that one too--read all the chapters, did all the example problems, took great notes in class... then wham. The exam raped me where the sun don't shine. In my defense, it didn't help that the professor was gone for almost half the material that was covered on the test.

On a brighter note, I've done very well on all my other exams. I aced my Religions exam and I know I did very well on my first Anatomy exam--I studied that one to death. Labs have been just fine too.

So that was my Thursday. Thank goodness I can launch into the weekend now. In conclusion I leave you with this:

Mike: Wanna touch my whale bacon?