Spring Break

Although P4 students have no official Spring Break, I sort of got a surprise unofficial one! I was supposed to complete my March rotation yesterday, the last calendar day of March, but my preceptor was on vacation this week so she released me early!! :D I already had Thursday and Friday off for Easter, so I ended up having the entire week off.

My March rotation ended well--I didn't particularly like the Apothecary Shoppe and I didn't exactly give them as nice a grade as they gave me, but that's the way it goes. I pay a lot of money for each of my rotations, and I spent most of this one working on things that the pharmacists didn't want to work on. That aside, it's over now and I'm still rocking out a 4.0 for my final year of school. :D

The NAPLEX is fast approaching and I'm scared to death. I've been studying but it doesn't feel like I know very much and it's putting a huge damper on my graduation excitement. I suppose I'm going to have to separate those two events--I worked so hard that I deserve to really enjoy my graduation. If I'm still far away from being prepared for the NAPLEX then I'll have lots of time post-grad to prepare. And just leave it at that.

With my week off I visited my sister downstate for a few days, which was great fun as always!! We went to see How to Train Your Dragon which was awesome! As some of you may already know, I'm a little obsessed with dragons so seeing this movie was a must for me. I've found that even really, really crappy movies are enjoyable to me if they have a dragon in them. However, such was not the case, for I loved this movie and can't wait for it to be released on video! :D Kristen and I also stayed up embarrassingly late playing Zelda: the Ocarina of Time on the N64 (one of my all time fav Zelda games). I'm really terrible at this game, especially without my brother Chris who has been my walking, talking game guide for every video game EVER since his birth. Even so, I made it all the way to the end!! And luckily Kristen enjoys watching me so that worked out well. ;) I was sad to leave on Tuesday. :(

Now I'm spending the remainder of the week with Mike in Ionia, even though he has school until the end of today. Speaking of Mike, he's like the Super Teacher, which I don't think I've mentioned yet. On top of all the other things Mike does to teach (which is a LOT btw), he's also leading a Google Docs training class for other teachers AND he's been coaching the all new Ionia Lacrosse team!! So he's pretty amazing, but I knew that already. ;)

Monday I start my last month of pharmacy school. OMG. But that's a blog entry in and of itself.

It's also gorgeous out. It's so sunny, warm, and open-the-windows-at-night worthy. Somehow I find myself suddenly on the other side of another winter; a winter that for some reason seemed to be the longest of my life. Yet now it seems to be gone in the blink of an eye, and I realize that nothing is far away anymore. Nothing that I've been counting down to is so far away that I can only stare at it wistfully and wish for time to pass by faster. I don't have to do that anymore. It's so close I can taste it.