I'm not trying to host a pity party, or anything...

...but between now and April 8, in order (with the stuff in italics taking place over 2 days:
-senior project draft due
-Ottawa interview
-Mac interview
-senior project poster day
-Western interview
-virology oral exam
-virology essay due
-Toronto interview
-English exam

I'm happy to have interviews and all, but they still require preparation and engender nervousness. Also I'm stressed over the virology and concerned about screwing up Shakespeare and confused about poster/project stuff and scared for absolutely everything and I have developed a strong, strong aversion to getting out of bed.

I'm not writing this to get comments about how everything will be fine (because I know it will be, eventually) or about how I should be grateful to have interviews (because I am, believe me) or about how stress is a useless and time-consuming emotion and how I just need to get down to brass tacks (because brass tacks are things I want to stick into my eye sockets, right about now). I'm writing this because, as per usual when overwhelmed, I'm a bit paralyzed, and this felt slightly more productive than reading TWoP reviews of seasons of The Amazing Race that I didn't even watch.

~SQ

Weather: today was bright and sunny, and I sunbathed in our living room window

Interviewese

Brazil trip?
why yes sir
and yes ma’am,
a Group Trip.
A tight ship.

A Lesson in
Communication.
I Learned So Much about
Mediation
and Realized My Potential for
Dedication.

I Modeled A
Role
to Achieve Our
Goal
of Performing As
A Whole.

It Taught Me So Much about
Group Dynamics.
Group Enhancement.
Personal Development
In The
          Context Of
                              A Team.

Whoo-eee.

(but how to explain the heat?

        we bathed
        in the air.

        we breathed
        ceaseless waves and newborn sun,
        the temperature of a heartbeat.

        we were
        suspended
        in a broth of sea and sky and skin.)

I am Grateful To Have Had
this Learning Opportunity

These Skills
will Serve Me Well
As A Physician

I Have
Developed As
A Person


(but how to explain the heat?)

~SQ