Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Central Park East - 6:55am

Good morning!  Aaggghh this morning was ROUGH.  I woke up at 5:50, realized it was 5:50 and thought, "Oh dear lord it's only 10 minutes until I have to get up.  How can this be?  I'm so tired!"
I went back to sleep for the 10 mins, then when my alarm went off I picked up my phone and reset the alarm for 7am.  "I need another hour." 

Guilt.....

"Get up - you have studying to do!"

"But I'm sick, I can feel it coming on!"

"No matter - get up.  If you get up now, you can make yourself the special Kona weekend-only coffee that Mom and Dad brought from Hawaii instead of your regular Maxwell House"

"Fine."

I dragged myself out of bed with not one inch of me wanting to get up.  Not one inch!!  I put my oversized sweatshirt on and pulled the hood up.  "I don't want to talk to anyone." 

Right when I marched into the Park I met up with Yu, the owner of Niko, the little black & white Japanese Chin dog.  This lady is seriously chipper all the time.  "Great - I'll have to be pleasant."  She and I walked together the entire route chit-chatting with Sofie and Niko playing the whole time (they love each other).  It was so nice that I forgot I was tired, cranky, and on the verge of sick.  It was a beautiful morning again.  Just look at that picture!  Look at what I would have missed had I not gotten up! 

In other news, I did my Immuno final yesterday and it went great - it was a huge burden to have off my shoulders.  I'm officially done with that class!  Now I just have Cell Bio to finish off.  I have all day today and then at 1pm tomorrow I'll be done.  Last night I was dreaming about the archenteron (I'm not kidding).  The archenteron is the primitive gut - the first tube that's formed during embryogenesis that will eventually form the gut.  Study, study, study. 

Have a great day!