Sweet! I finished my LAST Excel exam/homework for Biostats yesterday!! Ah ha. Take that, Microsoft. I think it went well enough... It felt better than the last one, for sure. It just takes me FOREVER to do a test at home. It's like 'hey I'll answer one question and... call my mom' or 'I'll work for like twenty minutes and I'm hungry'. But it did take me probably seven hours total. But hey, no more. Now I just have to worry about the in class test tomorrow. I have sucked at those in the past, so wish me luck. And I'm working on my paper for Community Health Assessment but haven't written a word yet. But I have pages of data. Hopefully the paper will essentially write itself? That's what I'm banking on at least. I actually cancelled plans to go out tonight to do homework. Yipee for me. And I guess I'll start my epic research paper for eugenics after Thursday and after I've done everything else. I think I can write it fairly fast as I've been thinking about it for a month... and years. I just want it to be really fantastic. It's kind of sad when yesterday I decided to go on an hour and a half run in order to procrastinate on homework.
I had an interview with the American Heart Association last Friday for an internship over the summer! I've worked with the organization through my field experience with the MN Dietetic Association. I'm really just not getting what I wanted out of a field experience through them and this would be a perfect overlap of interest for the AHA and the MDA. I'd be working on policy reserach and grassroots advocacy if I get it. It sounds absolutely perfect! In fact that's pretty much what I think I want to do after I graduate, so I REALLY hope I get it. It's unpaid, so hopefully it won't be too competetive? I should find out this week!
As far as fun stuff, boy, I've been doing my share and the share of someone else. Last weekend I saw Dosh, a local electronic musician, at the Walker Art Center. It was instrumental/electronic post-rock-tastic. Then last Sunday was the May Day parade. It was perfect. The weather was phenomenal, the puppets were spectacular and the energy was infectious. It was a day that would have been tragic to miss. Everyone must see it! Then I saw Devotchka last Wednesday at First Ave. They put on a hell of a show. The string section, the tuba, the ribbon acrobat artists... it was sensory overload. In a good way, of course. And Saturday morning I participated in my first official race! It was a duathlon- run 5K, bike 20K and run another 5K. It was really actually quite fun. I finished in about an hour and 45 minutes, which seemed pretty good for me. I thought it'd take about two hours. I'd like to do more organized stuff like that. And then Saturday night I saw a fantastic local show at the 400 Bar. The Hasbeen, Action vs. Action and International Espionage! played. I really love all those bands. It was just one of those really fun nights wiith lots of friends there and everyone was having a swell time.
So, I have lots to do in the next few days. I'll be back though. Promise.