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Well summer ended with a frigid bang. This morning I woke up for my eight am lab to learn that not only was it only thirty-five degrees out, we also had a frost advisory. I mean geez--that's practially snow or something. *shakes fist*

Pharmacy school has picked up the pace and everything seems a little nuts right now. I still really like it despite the stress, lack of a social life, and busy schedule saturated with endless studying and reading. I suppose I'll never go back to the 'calmness' of the first two weeks (and it's a stretch to even call it calm), and if this last week is any indication of things to come, I'll be studying for exams just about around the clock. Once one is done I come home and immediately start working on another--this is exactly what I knew would hit eventually. At the moment it still feels a little overwhelming but I'm sure with time I'll adjust like always. I can't believe that tomorrow marks the end of my first full month of school here... just, wow.

Sometimes it feels like I'm a part of two worlds. For instance, when I call Mike at night and talk about the next time I'll see him or what's been going on in Kalamazoo, I'm so relaxed and happy and not stressed at all. Then I hang up and look around my room, suddenly remembering the three subjects I have left to study, and reality oozes back in like some nasty microbial infection. I have to shut off the 'care-free, fun' mode and switch to the 'OMG SHOOT ME' gear. It's difficult to describe how I can enjoy this place but be so eager to get through it. I have to admit, so far it has taken every ounce of dedication that I've built up over the last twenty-one years of my life. It's more massively difficult than I imagined to come home everyday and discipline myself enough to get done what needs to be done. But I'm doing it--and I'm doing ok.

And for a random change of subject, my brother is turning seventeen in November. Whoa. I truly didn't see that one coming. I was only seventeen when I graduated from high school, and that seems like just yesterday. I can hardly believe he'll be in college for two years by the time I get out. *whew* What a long haul. But if these next four years go by as fast as the last four I'll barely miss them. ;)