Week 13: Famous Last Words

This is me in Arezzo eating delicious gelato.
Trying to pretend I'm there right now.
Taken by my friend Tara.

This week I've really been struggling with inspiration for one of my stories for my storybook project. I am supposed to be writing about Andromache and her marriage to Hector, and I'm about half way through the story and I just am not feeling inspired. I am really disappointed because Andromache and Hector are one of my favorite couples in Greek mythology. I love that they had such a happy marriage. I am really just a huge Hector fan. I'm hoping that by the end of the night, I'll feel a spark of inspiration and really be able to finish the story.

I may be struggling because this week has been so incredibly stressful. I had two projects due for my major microbiology classes and both of them were ridiculously hard and time consuming. This week I have barely had any sleep, and I have just felt completely brain dead since. Not to mention our capstone independent projects are winding down and I have an intensely long paper to write so that I'll be able to graduate looming over my head. Not really a great combination that is conducive to writing. Hopefully though I'll be able to finish it tonight and be happy with it.

One great thing did happen this weekend. My mom came in town for Mom's weekend! I was really excited to see her and have a girl day. We didn't do much, but we had such a fun time. We went to Chuy's and had margaritas. The prickly pear one is back, which is my absolute favorite! Then we went and looked around at houses for lease in Moore, which is where I plan to live with some roommates next year while I attend medical school at OU. It was really fun. She's coming up again next weekend too for my little sister's birthday, so yay for more mom time!

Week 7: Famous Last Words

Wow what a week this has been. I'll start by saying that I have officially accepted a position at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine for the coming fall! I am so glad to finally have an idea of what the next four years will be like for me. I have already started apartment hunting in Oklahoma City, and am having a small problem because I may or may not have really expensive taste and a college student budget, haha.

Personal photo of my friends and I hanging
out in the snow after class!

I've been thinking a lot about my storybook project this week and am so very excited about it. It's been a little hard to decide how I want to organize it, and has taken a lot of revision, but I am finally so so happy with my introduction, and am really really excited about what I have of my first story. (I'll be posting my first story tomorrow). I just really feel like I've chosen such great characters to write about, and I love writing in first person (which I'll be doing through the entire story book) so I'm really excited to get everything done and up on the website. I hope you guys will like the characters I've chosen and their stories. They are stories which I have read over the years or studied in different classes and really felt a connection to the women characters, so I hope that I can do them and their stories justice.

Other than that I've just really been enjoying the snow this weekend. I actually have never been a fan of cold weather or snow at all.. but I guess its because being from Dallas all we ever seem to get is that stupid icy, sleety, disgusting mix. Not a fan. But this weekend the snow has been so so beautiful! My boyfriend and I even had an impromptu snowball fight this morning while we tried to clean off my car. I lost miserably and was literally covered head to toe in snow by the time it was over, but it was so much fun, and got me so excited about the snow. I kind of wish it would just snow for the whole week... so if that's not a change of heart, I don't know what is.