Inspiration and Such

For a school project, I was asked to interview someone who was in a career I was interested in. I immediately elected to interview one of the doctors I work with. At first I thought the assignment was just a bullshit busy work kind of deal. It forces hermit introverts like myself to interact in uncomfortable, planned conversation. This actually turned out to be a really positive assignment for me. Our talk was deep and intellectual in levels I wasn't quite prepared for. I wasn't treated as an inconvenience, but rather as a person. I got so much information out of it. I was shocked. What made it more valuable is that it made me a contact that I could use in the future. Yes, the assignment had served the purpose it said it would. I hate it when school work assignments are smugly relevant. It was highly motivational and inspirational. I feel good about this whole thing still. I guess I can keep on going with the path I'm on now.

In other news, my first half semester block is almost finished. I can hardly wait. I can feel the burnout becoming stronger with each passing day. Losing a couple of these dead weight classes will be a burden lifted off my mind. I'm also currently sick with a minor cold. Which pisses me off. Again, I am tied with last years record with being sick 3 times in a year. I've been hoping to tie my best record of only being sick twice in a year. I guess it could be worse. I could be catastrophically sick with some horrible illness that destroys my ability to participate in school, work and social life. That would really screw me over. For now, it's a minor sinus congestion that is bothering me just enough to not go to the gym.

I'm hoping to go to San Diego at the end of October with my dad. I could really use that sweet vacation away from school, work and everything else in between. After that, I have a sweet trip to Seattle in November to see one of my good friends. This is all exciting and all, but I realized that if I can successfully go on both of these trips, this will be the most I have traveled within a year since I was 18. Kind of sad. I hoped to travel a lot more in my 20's. I guess I just haven't made as much time for it as I would have liked. Oh well, that can be easily remedied.


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