Well, now that things have died down a little bit from the last couple of days I can sit down and update this blog. Ever since the exam for BME314 ended, I've been still going full steam. Fortunately, it wasn't all for school.

Since I couldn't do any grading on Tuesday due to being sick, I had to finish it all on Wednesday. However, my prof and I were sending out our research paper on Wednesday and so a lot of my day was taken up in a meeting. By Wednesday late afternoon, I had only graded 1/3 of the exams and therefore needed to finish 2/3 of the grading, plus tallying up the grades and reporting them online. Fortunately I had some help with the grading. My friend Abby came out and helped me with some stuff so that I could focus on grading the tough math-y part of the exam. She helped me out until about 11pm, and then I was able to finish the rest up at home. I got to sleep around midnight which would have been impossible had I had to do all of this on my own.

On Thursday I went into the lab briefly just to tie up some loose ends. Then tried to begin my Christmas shopping. I got a little bit done but cut my shopping short with a visit with my old high school friend, Warren. I haven't talked to this guy in over 8 years. We saw each other briefly at our class' 5 year reunion but never got to really catch up. Things had truly changed a lot for both of us in the last couple of years. It was really good to be able to hang out once again. Hopefully I'll be better at this whole keeping-in-touch thing in the future.

So since I didn't get the bulk of my shopping done on Thursday, Friday was my make or break day. Starting at 9:30am I set out to the stores. Fighting the crowds,I was able to get what I needed and made it home in one piece. By the time I had gotten all my packages sealed and addressed, it was about 4pm. Now, going to the post office at 4pm on the Friday before Christmas day is not a very good idea. But I had to. Fortunately, the lines at the post office weren't that bad and I was able to make it home around 5pm.

Oh, but that's not all I've been up to. Yesterday, I drove down to Houston to visit my roommate from college, Neema. He's a med student at UTMB. We also haven't talked since college graduation (see a trend here?), so I was looking forward to seeing him once again. We went to a Japanese/Brazilian fusion restaurant for lunch and were able to catch up on things that had happened in the last 4-5 years. Though we shared about tons of things that had changed, many things had not and we were still laughing about the same things that we had laughed about our freshman year at Hopkins.

Today I found myself a little sick (again), from being around some sick people (again). Fortunately I was still able to go to church and hang out with some friends afterwards. With tomorrow being Christmas, I'm looking forward to a(nother) relaxing day.