Studying

I don't have class today so my goal was to get some studying done, specifically working on my study guide for Pharmacology. My four year old nephew Kellan wandered into my room about an hour and a half ago and has been here ever since. Reading of Parkinson's has been punctuated by questions like "what happens when you warm a car up", "Heavenly Father loves all of his creations" (yeah my heart melted too), and for some reason, a repeated chanting of "nude! nude! nude!". My room is very warm because he likes to have my heater on, smells like popcorn (we each have our own bowl), and there are Skip-Bo cards everywhere.(I was trying to keep him entertained).

So while I haven't gotten a whole lot of learning in, at least I got some aunt-nephew bonding. Okay better go- I think he is going to break my heater...

Respectively Agree

http://www.newsweek.com/id/216210?GT1=43002

It Happens Every Year

Actually it happens twice every year. Around September and April, my mom would always comment "Look how light (or dark) it is at five o'clock." It happens every year- the days get shorter (or longer), signaling either the start of school or the beginning of vacation. Well the days are getting shorter. I've been trying to deny it for awhile now but here it is, 8:30 and its completely dark outside. And its been like that for a good hour. More things I've tried to ignore? The leaves aren't green anymore but vary between crimson red to golden delicious yellow. School buses appear in the morning and afternoon. Grocery stores now carry pumpkins and advertise costumes. Normally I LOVE autumn. I'm all about covering up and what better season to break out the new hoodies and long pants than when the weather dips into the fifties and it rains every other hour. But this year, I go back to school. And I like school, especially since I'll be learning something that I can earn a living off of and help people (working in scrubs is a nice plus). I just really dislike change. Any kind of change. I didn't want to leave Astoria last June. I don't want to leave Portland this September. And I'm pretty sure when graduation rolls around next June, yes of course I'll be ecstatic but you know that nagging feeling that sometimes happens when you have a paper to write that is ten pages long and its due tomorrow? Or how you have a great weekend planned...right before finals? Its that kind of feeling. Ugh. I really would rather things stay the same. Or at least change a little bit slower.