The end of the semester would probably feel more inspiring if it felt like spring outside. Or perhaps it would be even more difficult to concentrate. I feel a wave of ADD coming over me and almost anything sounds better than doing homework right now. I'm pretty anxious to wrap up the school year, I must admit. I'm kind of tired of my current class load and am looking forward to a fresh semester which will come up soon. I'm still not looking forward to online classes. The best part of school is hanging out in class and talking! It'll probably be even harder to sit in front of my computer during the awesome Minnesota summers... But I'll manage.
I am in project land right now. I'm getting some extra time for my paper for eugenics class beacuse I still think I can make a really sweet paper with a little more time. My final project for Community Health Assessment will be not too bad, I just have to get it done. It's just a short group presentation about finding data on community health topics and presenting how it was found as opposed to the actual data. And then there's a 4-6 page paper that I don't think will be too difficult. Biostats just has a third test. But I will have to study for that a bit. I really can't screw it up.
Although the weather was depressing this weekend, I still managed to get out and have some fun. Friday evening I went to a gathering at one of the faculty member's homes in our division. It was a lovely event with a number of faculty and students there just hanging out. With awesome food. I saw some local theatre at my favorite small venue here, Old Arizona, The play was called Broken Brains and it was about brain injuries and mental illnesses performed by people with those afflictions. It was funny and witty but addressed serious issues. It was fabulous and reminded me how great the indie theatre scene is here. Then I went to Big V's to see a local band called The Deaf. Since the last time I saw them, they've replaced everyone except the drummer. I'm really not sure why they kept the name. Then I made it over to the Triple Rock to see Story of the Sea and Kid Dakota, also fantastic local bands. It was a very entertaining (and late) night. Good times.
And my running buddy and I did 10 miles yesterday! We ran to St. Paul and at one point saw the Minneapolis skyline and it looked really, really distant. I had to ice down my inflamed knees afterwards. But surprisingly, I'm not very sore today. I'm a pretty slow runner. And I saw There Will be Blood last night at a really cool old second-run theatre called The Riverview. It was just ok I guess. I really liked the ending though. Gross.
Ok. Wish me luck on having a better run at focusing. It's really hard for me to turn down fun stuff.