Today I woke up at 5:30 am threw on my basketball shorts grabbed my bag and was out the door in 2o minutes. 

6am - I got to the school’s gym, laced the sneakers, and enjoyed a good hour of basketball. We play every Tuesday and Thursday morning, I LOVE IT!

7:00-ish am – After basketball, I quickly showered there at the gym changed and was in a student government meeting within 15 minutes. We talked about clubs, the disco skate night this saturday that I definitely plan on attending, curriculum, and scheduling issues that are a big concern among our peers at the moment.

8am - Class starts with our first lecture in Pharm. I liked the lecture and am excited for that course.

8am-11pm - Pharm, Neuroscience, and OTM fill up my morning schedule. 

11pm - I decided to go home instead of stay for the Infectious Diseases class for two reasons.  One, I feel that I can effectively listen to that specific professor’s lectures online and get just as much out of it as I do when I’m in class.    Two, I was missing my wife and kids and just wanted a little break.

So, I went home had an early lunch and killed a spider via the classic WD-40 flame-thrower maneuver.  You know… take a match and spray it with the WD-40 and VOILA, you’ve got an instant death machine for insects invading your territory!  The spider had setup camp right in front of our garage door, it was completely self-defense.

Noon - Interview Day Tour Training – As an ambassador I will have the opportunity to give tours to the perspective students who come to interview.  Today they showed us the route and gave us tons of interesting factoids about our school.   For example, 80 miles of fiberoptic wiring was used to make the new multi-million dollar building on campus completely wireless.

1-4 pm- more class. Infectious Diseases, Pathology, and Principles of Medicine. The lectures take on a little bit of a different feel now that we’re having more and more physicians as lecturers.

4 pm – TENNIS INTRAMURALS! I love our intramural program here. I had no idea that we’d have enough people interested to put together football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, racquetball, ultimate frisbee, tennis and more.  My match was close but I was able to eake out a win! Tennis is at its best when you are able to find someone who is at your exact same level or even a little above you.  That was definitely the case today.

530 – 7 pm - I got home and played with my family: Tamara (beautiful wife), Preslee (cute 2 1/2 year old little girl), and Jonah (8 month old stud).

7 pm – My wife left for an SAA meeting. The SAA is the club for the spouses of the medical students. It’s an incredible club that creates a great support group and opportunity for the spouses to meet other people in their exact same situation.

7-8 pm – I played with Preslee and put her to bed.  That might sound like a quick and easy thing to do, but you wouldn’t believe the list of things that need to happen each night for a successful bedtime.

Snacks, brush teeth, read stories, make sure all the appropriate stuffed animals are on her bed, pray, read more stories, explain to her that she doesn’t need a third snack for the night, water bottle for her bedside for when she’s thirsty, kisses and hugs.  That’s our recipe for a perfect night.

830-930 pm - I play on the computer checking emails, facebook, and type this post.  Tamara gets home from her meeting, she helped with refreshments and I think they were a hit.

930 pm-’til I fall asleep at the computer - I study.