the question on your minds may be where have i been.
or maybe not.
but i'm here now.
hi there.
yeah i made it to my second year. and i had been so busy "makin it" that i didn't have time to make it over here. what a lame-o excuse i guess. you know i had an amazing summer. a super wonderful fantastic experience like no other. i will try and briefly describe what i did. hopefully i'll write more later on the specifics!

cruise - fantastic. it was my first time on a cruise and i loved every minute of it. (not having to pay also helped a bunch.) it was such a reward after working so hard all year. and it was nice to get away with the boy.

camp - i don't even know how to talk about this. i volunteered at a camp for hiv positive kids. this was probably the most rewarding and most emotional thing i've ever experienced. i hope that i had as much of a positive influence on them as they did on me. whether or not i'll see them again, i don't know...but i'll never forget them.

moving - thank god i got out. i went to apartmentratings.com and looked at all the complaints listed and was glad to be gone. note to all of you... if you are moving to a 3rd floor apt, get HELP and lots of it. two small-medium build people who are not adept in manual labor are never enough. and 90 degree weather does not help either.

cuba - when people ask me about cuba, i always tell them that it was a lesson. that lesson is: things aren't always what you expect them to be. i had a lot of preconcieved notions (good and bad) about the place, but when i experienced it for myself, it was so much more.

teaching job - well it wasn't really a teaching job...but that's the closest i can come to describing it. it was a camp-like program for "young leaders" interested in medicine. the students were just about polar opposites from the hiv camp. i really thought they would be obnoxious, spoiled brats. and some of them were indeed obnoxious, spoiled brats. but many of them were really bright, and gave me a little bit of hope.

i guess that's the brief summary. i am currently working my ass off in school. well not really working my ass of, because i could be doing so much more... but i am doing 10x more than i was last year. a few weeks ago i got my first "A" in a real, major exam. the joy from this was smashed the next day when i got a failing grade on another exam. at least i'm not getting too big for my britches. i'm making efforts to just be better. i'm calling people back, and going to the gym, and not rolling my eyes as much. that, for me, is better.we'll see how it goes.thank you for reading. i'm back now (sort of).