Confession

I've turned into the very person at whom I've always rolled my eyes. I can't seem to stop though. Allow me to explain: There was a decorating magazine on my table this morning. I looked through the Christmas section. Everytime I look at our front window, I can't help but think, that with a touch of frost, it would exactly resemble a Christmas window (you know the kind--with the white squared panes where a lonely stranger gazes in as he wanders by to see a family happily having a warm Christmas inside). My roommate and I have already strategically planned where we will place mistletoe in such a way that people will be trapped in the entryway. Christmas songs are starting to randomly pop into my head. I make very little effort to be rid of them.

I'm getting excited for Christmas.

It's only mid October.

Typical Day of Learning

Much of the past week was spent in the library, learning lots of things. Here's about how the process went:

• TBI stands for Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Blasterball on my phone is amazingly distracting and addictive.
• For every female that stutters, there are 5 males.
• It's amazing the places you can actually fall asleep when you reach a certain point of exhaustion.
• Areas of communication challenge in TBI (see bullet point 1): semantic, verbal pragmatics, nonverbal pragmatics
• When I put my Flava-craze Tropical Twist chapstick on right before I drink a bunch of water it tastes like juice.
• High school seniors aren't the only ones that suffer from seniorities.
• Something about z scores, standard deviations, normal curves, sampling, blah, blah, blah...
• Even if I'm not particularly tired, I can still manage to fall asleep studying this real special information.
• Wait until you're fully awakened before going to the bathroom after waking up from a nap in the library or you might stumble into the wrong bathroom: Lesson learned.
• There are 23 muscles that attach to the Hyoid Bone, most of which assist in the speech process.
• Fact: The day you don't shower or put much care into outward appearance is the day you will run into the majority of people you know.
• If I don't focus better, I will do very poorly on the tests I have this week...but then again, I kind of quit caring. Vicious cycle.

It's been a productive week.