December 8, 2008

When I started writing this it was still the 8th of December. Now it's not. It is now the 9th of December. I should actually be in bed right now, getting ready for a full day of studying tomorrow, but I can't sleep. Today was a rough day med-school app wise. I got two rejections in one day...tough day. Oh well, hopefully giving everyone an update on our lives at the moment will bore me enough to help put me to sleep.

I hope you like the little playlist feature at the bottom of the blog and if it got you in trouble at work because your computer volume was on, SERVES YOU RIGHT for looking at blogs at work!! Just kidding. I saw it on my uncle Jim's blog and I thought it was pretty cool.

Fran and I are still living separate lives to a degree, but it looks like the teacher that Fran has been filling in for will be back in February. It will be super-nice to have Fran home again. She really likes her students this year and the ratio of morons to non-morons is actually very favorable this year.

Thanksgiving was awesome at the Masino household. Once I figure out where I put the camera I will upload some of the pictures that we took. For those of you that have never experienced and, sadly, never will experience a Masino thanksgiving think about 2 huge meals simultaneously occurring...one very large Italian feast and a thanksgiving smorgasbord that would put Golden Corral or Chuck-O-Rama to shame. Yeah...there is that much food on the table.

As for me? I am trying my absolute hardest not to become a huge cynic and hold on to my beliefs that people on admissions committees are not the spawn of Satan...too harsh? OK, that they aren't Autobots. What is an Autobot you ask? For the love...go watch Transformers and then come back and finish reading my post. Anyway, I am nearly done with my Masters of Public Health. I have two more finals and a final draft of an NIH grant to turn in and that will be it. I have a few extraneous internship credits that I need to register for, but other than that I will be done. I plan to work until med school, earn some scrilla, and depending on where we go, we may have to try and pull off a quick move to get in-state residency. I wish I had awesome news for everyone about med school, but I only have some marginally cool news, and a lot of bad news. If you really want to know what is going on, you'll have to email me, because I hesitate to post important material like that on public forums on the off-chance that a rogue admissions officer googles me, somehow finds the blog, and makes some rash decision based on what is posted here!!!!!!

I guess since I already got denied by the University of Utah I can post this...

I hope Alabama rolls you like a...JD, you know what I'm talkin about.

Well, I think that it is working. I am boring myself to sleep. I am NOT going to promise to increase the frequency of my blogging, because that basically means that I am going to end up making a liar of myself, because I invariably forget for a few weeks, feel bad about it for a second, and then forget about it again until nights like this come around.

I hope everyone is doing well and that when you look in the mirror, you can honestly say that Chuck Norris would be proud of you.