A Little ♥ and Soul

Whenever I work the graveyard shift on Saturdays, by the time Monday comes around, I feel like I've worked five days in a row of straight graveyard shifts. I don't sleep on Sunday until the evening and then I wake up at 5:30 am on Monday. At this point, my toes are edging on exhausted. It doesn't help that I have a whole week ahead of me to accomplish stuff. bleh... Anyway, I've spent sometime outside today. The sun is shining, and even if it's a little bit chilly, I love that the sun is making a more consistent appearance. My cheeks are a little more rosy which makes the bags under my eyes even more apparent, but at this moment, I don't care. If the sun weren't in the perfect spot to shine in my eyes while I sit at my desk, I'd have my blinds open. But I'll settle for half opened blinds with my sliding glass door wide open. My birthday is in a few days. I doubt that anyone will really remember it if it weren't for the fact that my birthday...

So, I started school...again. I've completed my third week and I've already been absent F I V E times. Horrible, I know. I'm attending MATC - Mountainlands Applied Technology College - in Lehi by Thanksgiving Point. It takes me about an hour to get there on the bus. Anyway, I'm taking the Medical Assistant course, and so far, it's been a little stressful. The first two tests I took, I had to retake to get the program passing grade. If this were a regular university level course, I wouldn't have had to retake the tests. Well...I guess I would have had to anyway. The nursing program at UVU requires an 80% passing grade for the whole program. So why would this be any different?? My grade so far is an 82.5%. Not too shabby. Although, my attendance will be the undoing of all my studying. The hardest thing, aside from all the medical terminology I have to memorize, is the fact that I'm still working graveyard shifts. If I had a different job, I think I'd hav...