Whew!

Sorry for disappearing for a few days there, it's been so busy! February has been going well so far- let's break it down by subject so I have some chance over covering everything...

Superbowl... Many people have been approaching me congratulating me on the Ravens win in the Superbowl. I know why this is happening- I'm from Maryland, after all- but I just have to chuckle. What most people don't understand is that Maryland is a mixture of fans. There are those who are Baltimore Ravens fans and those who are Washington Redskins fans. Being raised a Redskins fan, I never cheered for the Ravens (although I never bore them any ill-will either, since the two teams aren't in the same division.) To be honest, I didn't care who won the Superbowl- I was glad to see a team from my state win, but I like the 49ers a lot, so eh. I thought it was a pretty good game, and that's what really matters.

Weather shenanigans... It snowed all day Sunday here, so I spent the majority of the day reading and being worthless. We got quite a bit of snow- probably 8 inches? I dunno- and I was hopeful that I would get to sleep in on Monday (as is everyone who stays up late to watch the Superbowl. It's the most taken-off day of work back home in the States!). Monday morning came, overcast, snowing, windy and cold, and I rolled over and called the campus hotline to check about school. Operating as normal!? I couldn't believe it. Eventually I dragged myself out of bed and to school, calling the hotline one last time in the vain hope that school would be cancelled. (I would have stayed home, but anesthesia was our first class and its a tough one so I didn't want to miss it.) The moment I walked in the front doors of the school at 8:25am (class starts at 8:30am), there was a PA announcement that school was now cancelled.

I was livid. My classmates were livid. The employees were livid. Everyone at UPEI (except whoever's stupid decision it was to wait so flipping long) was livid. I had driven in to school through the snow and the wind on awful roads just to have to turn around again! Fortuantely I made it home safely (and went back to bed, haha) and had yet another worthless day.

School... Nothing much exciting to report. Classes are busy but continue to be really interesting material-wise. I'm still terrified of surgery (and I think the surgery professors should be terrified that I'm going to be allowed to operate on something!) but I'll get through it. Our semester break is next Thursday through Monday and I'm going to meet up with Danny in Portland. SO excited for that.

February resolution...is going really well! The vegetarian chili I made last Friday (and subsequently froze) is amazingly good. I had meat in the frozen dinner I had last night, but I'm permitting myself three meals containing meat per week (at least thus far...I may attempt to lower even that!) so it's still in keeping with my resolution. I also did two things that could fit into my January resolution today, so I feel really good about that too :) I'm considering adding one vegan day per week just to force myself to experiment with more recipes but that may be more than I can handle just now. Maybe I will procrastinate my clinical pathology assignment and look for recipes...