Nov

16

Straight line from A to Christmas

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“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”
~ Author Unknown

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
~ Buddhist Proverb

Joyce ran into Brandon and i outside the cafeteria last week and moderately chastised me for doing a bit of a disappearing act this semester. Sarah commented the other day that i’m writing on here less. emails to dear friends are growing fewer and farther between. i swear it’s not Brandon’s fault and i swear i haven’t turned into one of those girls that ditches all of her friends when she starts dating a new fabulous awesome wonderful guy.

i’m just mentally exhausted and trying to conserve my energy.

we have 7 exams and 1 quiz left in the next 4 weeks worth 25% (path) + 25% (pharm) + 55% (physical diagnosis) of our final grade.

and i’m concentrating wholeheartedly on tightening the reins and harnessing my brain from running away on holiday a month early. physically i feel fine — great, even. i am getting my beauty rest each night and eating the best i have on the island now that Brandon is doing the cooking. i’m taking my daily vitamins. i’m not drinking too much coffee. i’m going to the gym 5 mornings a week. my body feels good.

my brain can hardly put a few words together to form this sentence.

so yah. keeping on keeping on. eating my 5 pancakes a day. fighting the good fight. realizing the rest of my life is set up to unfold in a similar manner, which is great, but entitles me to a little corner-cutting here and there. i’m sorry if you’re one of those corners.

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photo: Maddy and i snowshoeing at Hubble Homestead in British Columbia - January 2007.

Comments

8 Comments so far

  1. BCWB on November 16, 2008 9:28 am

    I wish I could help more than I do. If I could make those corners available to work around I would do it. Anything I can do to help I will do. Don’t worry the rest of you, I will never take her away. I like reading this as much as the rest of you. In fact, Jen is studying for the quiz tomorrow and does not even know I am on here reading it!! SHHH… Dont tell that I read everyday : ) ; P

  2. dearheart on November 16, 2008 3:44 pm

    *hugs* You’ll make it through this stretch (and the rest of life) just fine. :-) Just keep your head down (you know, like walking into the wall of snowy Saskatchewan wind that you’ll encounter in about 25 days!) and the time will pass before you know it! :-)

  3. sarah on November 16, 2008 7:08 pm

    I don’t want to hear excuses, just write more. Now. NOW.

  4. RAEB on November 16, 2008 10:29 pm

    sarah’s needs aside, you do what you have to do. You do what you feel is right.

    I said ASIDE from sarah’s needs. Obviously they come first.

  5. jammie dodger on November 17, 2008 2:29 pm

    I think I need to apologise to you, Jen. I just can’t meet Sarah’s insatiable demands, that’s why she keeps wanting more from you.

    Perhaps if we could somehow kidnap move her to a desert island, far, far away from any internet connection. Of course I’d volunteer to be her Man Friday with a large supply of biscuits…

  6. jammie dodger on November 17, 2008 2:30 pm

    OK, that strike through code on “kidnap” didn’t work.

  7. jhawke on November 17, 2008 5:38 pm

    you guys crack me up.

  8. sarah on November 17, 2008 6:06 pm

    I could work with that idea

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