My Time

Today I started up my internship again, and after a 9-month siesta, it only took me about an hour to remember all that time had made fuzzy in my mind. It felt really good, whether it was only because it was my first day back, or whether it was because I missed the pharmacy so much, I can't really say. But it's knowing this contentment exists within me that gets me through the mental stress that school brings on every year. If I didn't know I would love it in the end, there would be no salary large enough to drive me through.

Dan is giving me a $2 raise for completing my second year of P school, and he says I can even wear my white coat now! :D

Summer has kicked off, and I'm not sure where the last two weeks went. Perhaps they were lost in moving, driving across the state with my life packed in the backseat and with gallons of gas worth $4 in my tank. Or maybe it slipped away while I gave a toast at one of my best friend's wedding, and danced the night away. Now the internship has started, and Chris's last day of high school is tomorrow. Next week he graduates, the following week Mike moves back to Lansing, and the week after that is Chris's open house. June will be half over.

I've been with Mike for almost four years. By this time next year, it will nearly be five, and I will finally be able to say, "I only have one year left at school." I will have waited six long ones to say that. Though I am very young, and though I know I will want many, many things throughout my life, right now there is nothing I want more than these two things: to be with Mike, not just when I can, but wherever I am, and to be a pharmacist. I am now so close to having both. There are silly, indescribable moments when it becomes nearly impossible to wait another second. What great reward it will be. My time will come. It's coming.