Oh, November.

What a month. I'm exhausted and it's only the 16th!

My days are running together so much now that I don't remember what has happened when or if I've already written about some of this stuff, so bear with me please!

Finals start 3 weeks from yesterday. YIKES. Just so you get an understanding of how stressful that is, my eye twitch is back. My eye hasn't twitched since hell weeks back in high school. If you're unfamiliar with hell week, it's the week before a show opens where we do all the technical stuff. We would sometimes stay up at the school until 2am and then have to be in class at 8 in the morning.

Our open memo is finished, but this week is settlement week which is adding to the stress level. In theory (I think) it is supposed to be relatively simple. Since we're plaintiffs' attorney we ask for a number and we bargain back and forth to reach an agreement with the defense. In real life, if you can't reach a settlement you go to court, but we've been told we HAVE to settle.

So, like it said, it isn't supposed to be too difficult- the problem is that our professor told us ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about how this process works. Everyone else was talking about signing up with negotiation partners for settlement and our LLR group had NO idea what was going on. We got an email last weekend saying "Here is your partner and here's who you're negotiating with. Good luck!" No joke. Nothing more. He did give us a sample settlement agreement, but that is really just so we can copy and paste our terms into the same format and turn that in. We've had NO guidance about what we're supposed to do. It's frustrating.

Also, I am SO READY FOR THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!! I haven't had a break since we started school. I know that "real adults" don't really get breaks, but c'mon- if MED SCHOOL can get a fall break, I think we can get one too. Everyone is beyond exhausted, and you can really tell in class. The girls that used to show up every day in class with all their makeup on and put-together outfits are starting to look pretty ragged. That's one good thing about not looking picture perfect every day- no one really notices when you're having a bad day.

Kiyoshi and I went on a lunch date today, and that was nice. It did, however, put me behind on my readings for tomorrow and that's not making me any less stressed, especially since I have 3 classes tomorrow instead of just 2.

The UAB Ethics Team won the Regional Ethics Bowl again. Yay them! They go on to Nationals in January (I think) and hopefully they'll win nationals again!

Mom and Dad get to go to the beach on Saturday already (jealous), but they're going to stop in Birmingham and have brunch with Kiyoshi and me. I'm excited- free food is awesome. And so is seeing my parents :-)

I love you all!