Of course.

I love my 1994 Subaru, but it has its quirks. The air conditioner works most of the time, but on Sunday when I was moving the cat to Parker it decided not to work. As I descended the hills I realized the air temperature was increasing and the cat was beginning to pant, so I turned the AC on, no problem. The problem was that I needed fuel, when I turned off the car to get gas that was the end of it. From Boulder to C-470 we were without AC, the cat was yelling because the bumping of the windows freaked her out and without the windows open the car was just too hot. Fortunately I was persistent at trying the switch and it finally turned on. The rest of the move happened without incident.

Early Monday I woke up ready for the first day of orientation. I had felt a flood of other emotions but had yet to be nervous. As I got in my car to drive to school (because I do not yet know the bike route) I became so nervous that I almost went back inside. The day was inconsequential, a lot of talks about how the curriculum works and how the next 4 years of my life are going to be ruled by school.

The school itself is housed in a brand new, state of the art building where each lecture is recorded and posted on a website to recall later. It is a block schedule with the firs unit being Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms, basically all of undergrad molecular and cellular biology in six weeks. I am so excited! In addition to the block portion of the schedule there are clinical medicine classes that extend through the whole semester. The schedule looks pretty packed right now and so we will see how chaotic it really is!

Last Week of Work

Today I began my last week of work as a free and easy wildland firefighter. After this it is school, books, and learning...I am so excited (it is okay to call me a nerd). It appears that everything is in place to head down to school, most of my stuff is in my new apartment and I realized that I have to buy over $1,000 in books. No adventure worth taking ever started off without major speed bumps.

It will be a rough transition from the forest to the classroom, but worth it.

The beginning...

I am officially in the last weeks before I head off to Parker and start my journey as a medical student at Rocky Vista University. As my summer winds down I will spend my time moving, hiking, wrapping up my underwhelming fire season and thinking about what is to come. At some point this winter it would have made me anxious to be moving and starting school, but meditation has been a wonderful addition to my life. It seems I am ready to go, I have an apartment, a student loan, everything but books!
I can’t wait to start my journey.