And now another word from our sponsor

So, I'm feeling more sane this morning, thank god, if much more congested + with that uncomfortable distant feeling of being drunk off Nighttime Cold Meds. Blergh. The Ubiquitous Impressive Cough developed yesterday, too. I'm treating for the moment w/ OTC mucinex (how is that stuff so effective? But it is) and if that doesn't work in a day or two, I'll hit up the on-campus clinic.

Also on today's agenda: drive down to old doc's office to pick up the written Rx for ye olde ritalin. I'm trying to work up the energy to be really pissy about this, but the truth is I'm kinda happy to have a brief respite from homework.

Yesterday was apparently the last interview day @ the med school. The last two of my classmates had their interviews. One of them had an interview with someone *else* in the pathology dept, and it was apparently just as hilariously random as mine. She called me up and said, 'If I hadn't already heard your story I'd be freaking out right about now!' She had a brief conversation with the dean of admissions after her interviews were over, and he all but said that none of us have anything to worry about WRT being admitted; 'the only thing you need to worry about,' he said, 'is the MCAT.' So, yay for that.

My score on the practice MCAT isn't budging (staying steady @32 over the past 3 practice tests, w/ most recent section scores Verbal: 13, Physical Sciences: 9, Biological Sciences: 10), but I've made a plan w/ one of the classmates who is also trying to link to this school that once or twice a week after the MCAT class we're teaching ourselves the two of us will hang out together and do practice problems for an hour. Also, we haven't yet covered some topics in biology that are big draws on the MCAT, such as the immune system and the kidney, so I expect that section will get better on its own as we cover some more info.

I am tired, tired, tired. Very happy that today is Southland day. I never got around to posting thoughts on last week's ep, but suffice to say it continues to be awesome.