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So I realized that I really haven't posted for a while, so it may not be a bad thing to post something on here. (Well, also I'm pretty sleep deprived, and for some reason that's when I tend to feel like posting to LJ...I guess I'm less inhibited, if also less coherent, when sleep deprived...) But I guess there really hasn't been all that much going on lately... It's actually hard to believe that it's already almost spring break, but on the other hand, I'm not all that upset by that. This semester has just been sort of "blah", and at least at this point, I don't forsee too much excitement happening. (Of course, once I say that, that makes it more possible that the opposite will happen, but we'll see. ;) ) But I don't know, I guess after all of the times of intense pleasure and emotional stimulation in general last semester, nothing can really compare to that with Susan in Germany. But hopefully I'll have more of that next year?

Oh, that reminds me--I still really want to go visit gerbilicious85 in Germany in June, but I'm also a little bit worried that it could end up being a bad idea, even though it could also be really great. Or it may be both. I still need to talk to her about that, though, so hopefully I'll get in touch with her on the phone sometime soon to talk about it more. I started to talk to her about it a week ago Monday when I talked to her on the phone, but then JUST as we started to talk about that, the damn connection died. (According to arctangent, that happens sometimes with really long distance calls, but the way it happened was just so frustrating it was comical. Because after we got disconnected, after I had JUST started to try to get on the same page with her about whether I should definitely get a ticket to come there or if I should wait to buy it, she had already left to go somewhere with her host mother (which she had said she had to do soon anyway). Then, I tried calling back, and first she still wasn't there, and THEN, I think I might have somehow called just as someone was getting online or something, because it rang, and then it clicked off, and then when I called back, it was busy. And then I've been busy the past few days with classes and my seminar presentation. So I still haven't actually talk to her to figure that out, but I don't think it's a bad thing that I've waited... And even with that frustration, I still was incredibly happy just from talking to her. Susan, you really are a pleasure-inducing drug... :)

I guess I do also need to do more stuff with the whole looking for a job thing sometime soon. ( Complaining about how annoying that process is... )

Edit: Oh also, I am thinking now that I'm at least a bit more sure about wanting to do an MD/PhD from my classes this semester (although still not completely sure), but I guess it depends what I find for next year whether I'll be taking 1 year off or two. (If I find a job with a 2 year committment, or one that would be really interesting in general, I guess I would plan on taking two years off, where if the only thing I get is some not-fun research tech job, I would plan on taking one year. Of course, I can't decide anything on that now, and who knows if I'll even be able to tell by June what would be fun and what wouldn't be, but I thought I might as well add this on here while I'm at it.

( My seminar presentation today )

( About working in a group, and about the seminar in general )

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I just thought I should add as an addition to my last post that even though this semester hasn't been all that exciting, things definitely could be worse. I am still at Swarthmore, which is better than most places in the world, and I do still have some people around to keep me sane. So I'm writing this to remind myself that I shouldn't be TOO eager for this semester to end. But now I really should stop procrastinating and go back to studying for that midterm...