"Good things......"

Tonight my fortune cookie read: "Good things are coming to you in the due course of time". How true. While I am incredibly stressed out I've felt quite invigorated and happy over the past week. Why? Don't know. But, I'm guessing it has something to do with a subconscious feeling of accomplishment for actually getting shit done for a change. I finished my big presentation this past Monday, finished my 10 page final paper for Global Health today (it was due at 3....) and I'm finally making very promising progress on the PhD front.

I am happy to report that I've had two very successful meetings this week with MDs who are interested in working with me on my dissertation. YAY!! Both are very accomplished and incredibly intelligent, and big players at the school of public health and the UM medical school. I had very little expectation going into these meetings that I'd get much more than a "yes, well, I wish you luck in your pursuits" so you can imagine my surprise when I was met with "let me know if you want to sit down in the future and really brain storm on your dissertation ideas.....let me know if you need an internship or work study......I'm going down to this conference in March, if you attend I'll introduce you around if this is the area you want to focus on......I'd be happy to be on your dissertation committee". And that was only one of the MDs at one of the meetings. The second meeting was even more promising: "....when I looked at your CV I thought that this is someone I'd really like to sit down with........I have a project in mind that I think you'd be perfect for since our interests are in line with one another........I'm excited about the possibility of working with you as either a co-chair or chair of your dissertation committee".

So now I ask: do you ever feel like you're fooling everyone?

This was way more than I expected and nothing is decided on or set in stone by any means, but just the thought that these two very influential men were interested in working with me is enough to make me a little happy. And none of this was meant as bragging :)

It is going to be non-stop studying until December 19. I have another 10 page paper to write by this coming Monday, two finals next Thursday, and my final final on the 19th. Too bad next Tuesday is my birthday--no time to celebrate! I will be going to Detroit to hang out with Kyle this weekend, if you can call writing a paper and studying for 2 med school finals "hanging out". I'm sure we'll have fun, even if it is through me making fun of his big headphones as he watches his med school lectures.....I can be brutal ; )

OK, the Mega M&Ms I was munching on are starting to make me sleepy--the down fall of a sugar high. I'll make sure to try and squeeze in some updates on the ever exciting happenings of my life when I can. That was a joke.

Here's a pic of me being maliciously attacked by my sister. She employed the debilitating face-smush manuever. Damn her.