Highs and Lows

In my first year of university I was part of a bible study that we called "DG" (discipleship group), and its where I met most of my really good friends, and a few of them became my room-mates in second year. We met once a week, tucked our selves away in a corner, ate a lot of candy, and talked about God. At the beginning of our meetings we always did "Highs and Lows" where we would each say what a high was for the week and what a low was for the week. It really helped to put things into perspective when you were having a bad week because it forced you to also find the good things that happened.

So, I'm linking up with "happies and crappies" again this week, because I feel like this a helpful exercise when I am feeling a bit glum.

Happies:

- I met with my PI to discuss summer studentship funding, and I am almost done my applications

- I made it to all of my training sessions this week

- I finally got an MRI of my ankle on Monday

- I went home last weekend (because of said MRI) and got to spend some time with my family. Because I went to boarding school when I was in the 10th grade, and then did my first 2 year of  university thousands of km from home, it was the first time I had gone home on a non-holiday weekend since the 9th grade.

- I made my grandmother very happy on Monday when I brought her flowers, which in turn made me happy to see her so happy (and surprised).

Crappies:

- I haven't slept very well in a few weeks. I keep waking up throughout the night (usually at 1 am, 2:30 am, 3:30 am and 4 am) because my leg hurts. I wake up after I have a dream about something happening to my leg, like it gets cut off or like last night, when I dreamed I was shot in the leg. 

- I'm super tired of doing spin pyramids at training

- I almost died driving to my MRI on Monday due to black ice and a freak snow storm, thankfully the big guy was looking out for me.

- Because I went home I got less work done on the weekend

- While this probably doesn't seem like a "crappie," I was disappointed that I only got 91% on my cardiovascular exam in physiology. One question that was marked wrong, is in fact correct based on our lecture notes, so now I have to argue with my prof which I hate doing. I don't like grade grubbers, but when things are marked incorrect when they are actually correct, it makes me upset. 

That is all! Have a good weekend!

5 for 5

I decided to join this link up:

I think it's pretty self explanatory, so here it goes.

Happies

1. My mice arrived! 

2. I am starting a conference at school, it will be the first student lead conference in my program

3. I had an awesome time in Tucson riding bikes with Team Alberta a few weeks ago

4. I got an A+ in pharmacology last semester (its the only one semester course I have, so it is my only grade from last semester). 

5. I like most of my classes this semester

Crappies

1. I don't have access to get my mice out of animal care My PI just had a grant proposal emergancy and needed the mice, so now I have no mice.

2. My schedule is so full I am starting to panic

3. Reading a stats text book is horrible

4. I'm too busy to study

5. One of my prof's is a bit of a bigget from Georgia (no offence to anyone from Georgia, but this particular individual from Georgia is rather sexist and racist).