The Book: Maybe it's a good thing

[Meg Demeranville]

In message 13460 (
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/13460>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/13460) Heidi
wrote:
I'm taking this from the main list, as I thing I'm taking it quite off
topic. 
What does the not-quite-six-month wait mean for you?
For me it's:
1 healthy baby born (God willing)
Approx 25+ sponsors of Nimbus - 2003 signed
Likely 10,000 fics and chapters submitted to FictionAlley - and about
6000 uploaded
1 chapter - the last - of surfeit of curses, my fanfic, which I really
do need to finish
Hundreds, if not thousands of newbies to this wonderful fandom
One and a half plane trips - I'm writing this somewhere over colorado
And just over 250 pieces of sushi. 
Sounds like a solid few months. 

 
Meg replies:
Good luck Heidi (and happy belated birthday!)
 
What does six months mean for me?
1 hepatitis shot
4 Student Assembly meetings
4 Presentations to my class
6 Trips to the movies with the kid that started my Harry Potter
obsession
7 Days of vacation from class (5 days of Spring Break, MLK Day, Mardi
Gras)
15 Student Government Association meetings (yes, it's a different
organization than Student Assembly)
18 Nights spent working in the morgue
16 tests in four subjects (Neuroanatomy (3), Biochemistry (5),
Physiology (5), Introduction to Clinical Medicine (3))
229 Classes or Labs in the four mentioned classes
450+ Hours spent in class or lab
480+ Diet Cokes (1 case consumed per week of class)
Untold reams of loose leaf and printer paper, index cards, post-it notes
of all sizes, and tape flags for transcripts and notes
 
Man I need spare time. Thank God OoP will be coming out during my break
so I can actually read it without feeling like I am slighting my
studies.
 
-- Meg (who needs to get back to studying and stop counting classes)
 
Read the untold story of life as a first year medical student at:
As The Scalpel Turns - http://www.livejournal.com/users/megd/


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