Well, though I seemed to have fallen off the planet, I was actually fighting for my sanity as I was responsible for 26 credit hours this Spring, as well as preparing for my Part I of the National Board Exam.

I passed!! So I am deemed competant in the Basic Sciences and can now try my hand at real patients. I currently have 4 denture patients (immediates - which means I have to prepare the denture BEFORE they have their teeth pulled. Believe me hard work!!) as well as various other patients with issues best discussed later.

After my exam I spent the week at my sister's house in Colorado. I was able to hold the very cuddly Millie (Amelia Young Linder - 8 wks old now and oh so adorable) as well as play with Maggie (my 3 year old niece). Lots of fun, but my sister is going through Chemo again, and that is very tough on her family. Keep us in your prayers. Well, her mostly :) I can handle myself. -- Kung fu and all that jazz.

I earned my green belt in the spring. I then proceeded to get very rusty - and have to relearn a ton. Of course that is the way of the world.

My sorority sisters Carla and Francis are in town for the week, and I have been trying to entertain them by having them run free during the day, and taking them out at night. Tonight we went Salsa dancing. LOTS of FUN. I will have to go dancing more often. I was pitiful like all first time dancers, but several guys danced with me more than once, so I guess I didn't kill too many toes. One guy in particular kept trying to monopolize my time -- annoying -- but he knows about all of the dancing events in town, so I let him hang around. Not a bad guy I guess, but when you are out with your friends, you don't want anyone to monopolize your time but the people you brought with you :) I was able to wear a fun blue dress that I made this past year....one of the hardest things I have ever made - and probably a one-of-a-kind forever due to the difficulty of the pattern. I only wore it for an hour or so before slipping out of my dancing shoes and dress (in the restroom--dirty minds) into a tank top and skirt that were a little cooler and with less risk of "falling out" as the saying goes. :) I will have to find a great swingy skirt and high necked tank top to wear if I continue with such outings. It makes dancing much more fun if you aren't worried about how much cleavage you are showing (avoiding a "wardrobe malfunction" is the key here).

On sad news my favorite breakfast place has closed. They say it will become a Noodle and Sake bar, but it still hasn't morphed... Ah well what can you do. I suppose I will have to cook my own eggs and bacon from now on. I will certainly miss the beniets though.

Well there is the update...a new and thought provoking quote to come (from "THUD" by Terry Pratchett)...stay posted.

And another month passes. I did manage to live through another "singles awareness day" as a good friend of mine so aptly puts it. School is not so much fun. Nothing bad...just...bleh. Though I did a little dance when I made a 95 on a difficult class III prep. (that's a cutting out a simulated cavity between two front teeth---from the back side).

I went to an 80s prom last night put on by Delta Sigma dental fraternity. I put video up on my myspace page, and pictures on facebook if you can find me. That was more fun that I've had in a while. I actually watched Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion to get inspiration.

The only other major fun recently was seeing Enter the Haggis (www.enterthehaggis.org) on Sullivan's Island last month. The band was great, but the turnout, unfortunately, was not. I think there were 12 people in the entire bar. It was cold...but really for an awsome band that is NO EXCUSE. Though I did get free beer from the bartender. Go WindJammer! Despite my general aversion to beer I do really like Blue Moon. It is kind of like heppavise (sorry I can't spell german beer---it's the one you get with an orange stuck in it).

I suppose I can no longer put off studying for my Pharmacology test even though it seems hopeless. It took 5 hrs of studying to pass a single quiz. I'm sunk...all those durned names...most of which I can't pronounce, making it hard to keep them all straight.

Oh, I have found the best place for breakfast/brunch in Charleston. Marie Laveau's... yummy, and just a short walk from my house. Making it the most convienient thing in Charleston, short of my church which is also only a 5 minute walk from my front door.

And my second week of classes is now over. Bleh. I should be more excited. Last weekend I found a senior who likes Buffy as much as I do....of course after I suggested that we watch again this weekend I got an email saying, "That was fun, we should do it again...and I just want to be friends." It actually took me a few minutes to realize why my feelings had been hurt :) Isn't that supposed to be my line? Anyway, I have been spending way too many hours in front of the tv, watching nothing good, and am getting sick of myself. So this weekend I plan to get off my tucus (ie. butt) and do some studying and something fun. Something that doesn't involve shopping, since I bought 4 pairs of shoes the other day. They were on sale, I promise. Not that that makes it much better.

Any ideas?

Ah, so another new year has arrived. The fun of the holidays is over, and school begins again. Tomorrow. So much for sleeping late. I am not even going to try to pull a JackBoot and fill you in on New Year's/the end of last year. Too much to even begin...Suffice to say at Christmas there was snow. Lots of snow. So much snow I could not even go skiing. "You jest" you say. "No" says I. "I jest not".