“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
~ Jane Austen
“My library
Was dukedom large enough.”
~ William Shakespeare
for 8 hours each day from Tuesday through Saturday, you can find me in the “quiet room” of the Moose Jaw public library.
this first week, i have been sharing the space with transient wireless web seekers, a homeless(?) man who comes to read the newspaper around lunch time, a woman working on some sort of paper or thesis, and a guy with textbooks about hydraulics and The Strength of Materials sprawled out in front of him.
it’s a gorgeous building and i’ve been trying to learn a little more about it. kind of like wanting to know the history of a good friend you’re going for coffee with every day. so far, i’ve learned that it was built in 1911-12 with city-raised funds and no government assistance, has imported Italian marble pillars, and the southeast corner of the silent study room has nice warm air pumping out of the vents.
not as an excuse — but just in case you’re wondering why i haven’t responded to your email yet — here is an idea of what my schedule looks like these days:
i get up around 6am and have coffee, putter about on the internet, and get dressed (usually in that order). my mom and i go to the gym most mornings and it takes us about 2 hours round-trip door-to-door, not including a quick maneuver through Tim Horton’s drive-thru (always insanely busy) and then to check the mail. back home, i shower and get dressed again, pack a lunch and head back into town.
then comes the 8 hours in that honestly-more-comfortable-than-it-probably-looks chair.
if we go to the gym extra early or if the library closes early (ie: Friday and Saturday), i usually shower at the gym and just head straight to the books. either way, my day so far has consisted of 1 hour of internet, 2 hours of gym and 8 hours of studying. priorities. hmh.
whenever i get home, i eat more, drink a few gallons of liquids to combat this dry prairie air and hop online. my evenings usually consist of USMLE Step 1 question banks. right now i am going through USMLE World (again) and Kaplan QBank (mostly again).
by 10pm i am obviously exhausted and fall into bed while dialing Brandon’s number to see how his day went and wish him sweet dreams.
i sort of live for Mondays: the days i get to hang out with my mom and brainstorm wedding planning stuff. this week we’re going through old photo albums to look for pictures to send Brandon’s mom for a (somewhat embarrassing) slideshow of the two of us. then i have to get photos, colours and visual ideas together for the (potential! keeping my fingers crossed!) cake gal in Vancouver and May 25th appointment with the florist here in Moose Jaw.
life is good. life is great.
wowsa, moose jaw sure has a beautiful library!! happy studying beautiful, xo
Awesome building! And I remember that pink coffee travel mug fondly! :-) *hugs*
I love hearing about how people spend their days! I love pictures of lunches…mmmm. Looks very healthy! And I LOVE that library! It’s very regal. My library is 7 floors, always packed, and I need to be standing in LINE before it opens so I can run like mad for a tiny, smelly, cubicle. Who has ever heard of standing in line for the library?! Your day does make me feel a tad bit better about my own days, although not by much!
I get up at 5 am, get ready for my day, have breakfast, get dressed and am out the door by 6:15.
I arrive at school by 8, with a detour to a market where I pick up a salad for lunch. I start my ‘simulated clinical’ at 8 and work straight through until 11:30. Then it’s lunch. From 12:30 until 4 I work again, sometimes with a break, if i’m lucky. Then at 4:30 I head off to real work. Work until 8. Head home. Get home by 10. Relax and eat something. If I’m lucky, bed by 12. Up again at 5, repeat :(
Wow… Sarah is my new hero…. Love that pink mug where ever did you find that?!? : P
This feels like an old typical post of yours. Weird.
They closed schools down where I am in Mexico due to the H1N1 strain floating around. So a bunch of us went to Puerto Vallarta to study. Yeah, nothing like going through lemnisci and the enterics by the beach, but you knew that already right?
You and sarah are making me feel guilty at how much free time I have.
An hour to drive to the gym? I could be in another country from here in an hour. Canada’s so big!
Wow, you have quite a busy schedule my dear. And the library in Moose Jaw is so nice! I love libraries! There is so much knowledge in all those books! I wish you very great times in this beautiful quiet room!
jammie, i think the 2 hour round-trip gym thing actually includes being at the gym and working out.
THAT library is fantastic. Truly!!!
So this may be highlighting the less important aspects of your post, but I have that same pink Starbucks mug. It is a good friend, no?
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