Tri-7 Wk6 Day 426, continued

[9:45 p.m.] I did get out before 6 this morning and made it home about an hour ago.

A lot of my blogs contain tangents of thoughts. This morning's chat about a benefit of smoking was derived from an analogy pertaining to intestinal flora. Intestinal flora refers to the bacteria and "bugs" that live in the gastrointestinal tract. One benefit of having the normal, more innocuous bugs living in our GI tract is that it helps keep other, not so friendly, bugs from making a home in your gut. That line of thinking let me to the analog with smoking in that, like the normal flora, it's helped to keep out other, less friendly addictions from being able to gain a foothold in the first place. I'm pretty much spent. I'll have to make one more early morning tomorrow to get *some* time put in towards my Physical Therapy II quiz tomorrow.

Next week will be a bit odd. Clinic is closed on Monday due to the holiday and also closed on Thursday and Friday due to National Boards Part II review with NBS (National Boards Specialist).

It looks like Part II boards will be on the 18th and 19th of March, Friday and Saturday respectively. We have off on March 17th for final studying but ...that's a Thursday which is my clinic day. One of our EC's (educational coordinators) mentioned that day was a free-for-all should anybody want to schedule any patients but was unclear if those of us who had that day as their clinic day would still be able to have their room guaranteed to be available.

I did make it to the gym again on my way home from school. Can't say I really wanted to go there but, I did it and it was probably good for me. I just did five sets of leg presses, working up to 585 pounds for a dozen or so reps then hopped on a bike for 20 minutes. I think it has been easier waking up in the morning since i've been hitting the gym on a regular basis. My lunches are still salads and I've added a single broiled piece of chicken to top off the salad however, when I added the piece of chicken today I got a total of well over $11! yikes. Apparently, the chicken is $3.50 per piece. That seems a bit high to me. I have some protein type bars at home with about 20 grams of protein each and that should be plenty of protein for lunch and I still have about 1/2 a bottle of some fat free Thousand Island dressing so maybe I can lighten the lunch price up a bit.

I'm pounding down my third bottle of water now and will head to bed when it's finished. I think the breakfast I've been having at school has been improved a bit as well. They have a pretty good breakfast burrito at school. The improvement has been in having a class of fresh made orange juice instead of the soda I used to have when I first started at Logan. The freshly made stuff is only 75 cents to boot so that's a good deal :)

tonight/tomorrow:

sleep / study PT / Geriatrics / Activator / PT test / patient @ 12:30 / Irene Gold 3 to 8 p.m.

then a huge weekend of SOT which also contains homework and another exam ....oh crap. I just remembered I have another PT paper due tomorrow.

I'm not so sure about getting 100% on my PT exam tomorrow ....but, I'll still get through it.

MONDAY I'M OFF!!!!! :) no school, no clinic, no driving!