Ooooohh boy...

Maybe no one else has experienced this before but I'm going to put it out there anyway. Have you ever noticed that there are certain mirrors that make you look really good? Your skin is clear, your eyes are perfectly shaped and evenly sized and your hair is perpetually fabulous even when you've just woken up? The mirror in my bathroom is NOT that kind of mirror. So when I woke up today, not quite all the way down from my benadryl high, and took a peek at myself, I had to do a double take. Could that blotchy face be mine?! School hasn't even started, for goodness sake! I calmed myself down, put on Michael W. Smith and went into the shower. I've always thought that showers are therapeutic but I think they are also transformative (yes, this is a word). My face looked much better when I cam out, thank God. I just couldn't roll up like that on the first day.

I read Matthew 6:25-34 before heading out because it ALWAYS puts a pep in my step, I always feel especially invincible after reading it. And I did today :) I walked into the building and sat waiting for people to show up (I'm chronically early/on-time for stuff). After a while, I'd met a good number of other students. Believe it or not, a lot of the students are from the West Coat. A lot. God help them come December.

*moment of silence*

We had orientations all morning with everybody telling us in the nicest possible way that we were all going to die. "Try not to procrastinate," "Rewrite your notes so that you become more familiar with the material," "We are here if you need any help," they said.

Translation: You are going to die.

So after we were all sufficiently panicked, they fed us (happiness) and threw us in our first official class, pharmacology/pathophysiology. This class is for sure going to make organic chemistry seem like a walk in the meadows eating strawberry ice cream. I'm glad it's in the first semester so that we can get it out of the way. This lecture wasn't that bad, though. The material was pretty intuitive and the case study that we did at the end had a lot of cardiology. I know and love cardiology :) Our professor kept telling us not not expect an A, I squirmed a little at that. As are just so... symmetrical. How could you not just adore them?
We get our stethoscopes tomorrow and I can barely contain myself. A real stethoscope!! God knows I won't know how to use it but I get to learn!
I also have a nursing assessment lecture tomorrow and then some optional academic support classes. No, I don't care if they are optional, I will be going to every single one of them.

Please keep praying! Your prayers are holding me up like you don't know :)
I'll try to post tomorrow.
Love.