So I shot a basketball for the first time in months and I can’t tell you how unbelievably gratifying it was. Right from the first shot I literally had a stupid grin on my face. Thankfully there was no one else there haha. Despite not having played in such a long time, my shot actually felt a lot better than I thought it would. Obviously not nearly as good as when I used to play damn near everyday, but still pretty efficient. I also ran for a little bit to see just how out of shape I was and yes, I was out of shape. My ankle actually gave out on me before I lost my breath if that’s any consolation (which it’s not lol). I really ought to make an effort to exercise more often because the stress of school is really killing me and we’re only entering week 4. That and fixing my diet so I don’t feel like a complete piece of crap all the damn time.

It has been big week of firsts: first real nursing classes, first clinical, first time I’ve used the Muni metro, first time I haven’t watched a movie in an entire week (okay… that one’s more like since 2006 or 2007 haha). 

I don’t know why, but I was REALLY stressing out about the classes I had to attend. I don’t know, I guess I thought the instructors would be completely assholes but they turned out to be EXTREMELY nice and friendly. The more stressful part is staying on top of all the readings, homework, skills, and other stuff that I need to keep track of to keep myself from falling behind.

Now that this first week is done school feels… I don’t want to say manageable because it still feels overwhelming, but I’ll say more manageable than it was before the first week of classes. I’m basically just studying, reading, doing work round the clock with occasional breaks for relaxing (or trying to) as well as eating and drinking water to make sure I don’t die lol. As I’ve said many times before, I’m a worrier, so I am nervous as hell about this semester, but at the same time I’m unbelievably excited to learn as much as I can about nursing.

Doing a crap ton of research for my final Rhetoric paper. The topic I chose was “Asians in Hollywood movies” so I’m delving into the degrading/stereotypical portrayals of Asians on film from the beginnings of cinema to the current day and what needs to be done to reverse these trends. I have like a dozen pages of notes on topics and points I want to hit on, now I need to synthesize these ideas into one competently argued and coherent paper. Haven’t even gotten my pull quotes from my book, article, or journal sources yet, I’ve sort of just pulled ideas from them that I wanted to run with.

Add this paper on top of my final Asian American Literature paper and my Ethics take home final and it all adds up to the fact that this is going to be an extremely long and strenuous last three weeks of school. Here we go…