A Quickie...

This is gonna be short because I should probably still be studying for pharmacology and therapy instead of blogging and watching the NBA All-Star game. But, because my girlfriend is awesome, I feel good about my exam tomorrow because she helped me study so much yesterday. So, thank you Sarah, for allowing me to watch the 4th quarter of the NBA All-Star game and not be so stressed. You're the best!

Freakin' Therapeutics

Right now I'm trying to create some sort of study guide for my Therapy exam on Tuesday. Clearly it's going really well. It's really frustrating that there is absolutely no consistency whatsoever between what one professor tells us and the next. That makes it really freaking tough to do well on the exam, because not only do you have to remember all of the information for the exam, which are all open ended and in case format, but you have to remember who taught which subject and how exactly they wanted the case to be formatted. That's ridiculous. One professor wants us to prescribe an amount of lotion/cream/etc. in addition to saying what product to get. In my profession, I won't say "Hey go grab that 11.3 gram tube of hydrocortisone," I'll say, "I recommend you use hydrocortisone 1% cream and it's in aisle whatever." Another professor insists that clipping fingernails in a non pharmacologic treatment, while others say it is a patient education point.

The worst is that the course coordinator acts as if she can do nothing about this, saying that everyone has their own "quirks." I say BS. She is the coordinator and if she wanted to say, "This is how the cases should be, period end of story," she could. Only she doesn't. And this is just the OTC therapy. Can't wait till it actually gets more difficult. But, no one said it would be easy and I did choose this path. For everyone who reads this (probably 1, thanks Sarah) and is in Therapy too, good luck and may the Force be with you.

M-I-Z... F-K-U!

As I sit here eating my free Pizza Hut pizza, I can only think of one thing: How 'bout those Tigers!!!! Tonight's victory over ku was one of the best, if not the best, games I've ever seen in person. The energy in Mizzou Arena was amazing. The students section filled up ridiculously early: Sarah and I got to the arena over 2 hours before game time and it still took us over 30 minutes to get in once they opened the doors. It was by far the best student crowd I've seen in 4 years at Mizzou. Our key guys really stepped up tonight, especially down the stretch. Tiller's and Taylor's shots were both amazing and DeMarre always brings it. I could not be happier right now. I knew before the season, the Tigers were going to be a much improved team, but I never thought this was possible. To already have 8 wins in the Big 12 with 6 games to go was almost unfathomable. This sounds weird for me to say, but I am so damn proud of this team and even more proud to be a Tiger! Coach just needed his players who bought into his style and he has them and guess what? They're exciting to watch, play hard, and winning!!! How 'bout those Tigers?!!!!

MIZ-ZOU!