My schedule is in ......

I received my actual schedule today, complete with time, location and course directors. My 20 credit hours of courses meet an actual 30.9 hours a week. Mon, Wed & Thur are heavy on the lectures and quality time with our cadaver friend. Tues is comprehensive care all day long and Fri is lectures in the morning with nothing formally scheduled in the afternoon. As nice as it would be to start "happy hour" at noon on Friday, my happy hours for the next few years will be when my head hits the pillow for sleep. Anyone know if they make straight jackets in "scrubs blue"?

Latest with John and George.

John has his first loose tooth! It's his right mandibular central incisor (or tooth "P" for all you dental types out there). He's very excited about it. He has also found his athletic niche ..... swimming. We've starting calling him "Otter Boy" because he took to floating on his back so quickly. He can float forever and in the midst of all sorts of chaos at the pool. And his freestyle and backstroke are really good for just learning them. He passed level 2 swimming with flying colors and will definitely zoom through level 3. In fact, he learned so much so quickly, he only has two new things to learn to pass level 3 and that's treading water and the basics of the butterfly. He's quite amazing. He's as adept and coordinated in the water as Roslyn is on land. Ros still has four things to master before she passes level 2, but she's doing just fine.

As far as George, my lovable dufus dog, he got into the garbage about a week ago and we thought he ate the BBQ rib bones. Which he probably did, but it turned out that what made him very sick (from both ends, but I'll spare you the details) was the corn cobs that he ate from the trash. Fortunately, he appears to have puked them all up and is about 90% back to normal. I had to take him to the vet and make sure that he didn't have any internal "blockages" that required surgical removal. What a knucklehead!!

Fall Classes

I forgot to mention last week that I registered for my fall semester. I have 20 credit hours total, but the contact hours will be far higher. I don't know exactly how much higher because the actual weekly schedule has not been determined. Our entire D1 class takes all the same courses at the exact same time. All 66 of us will get to know each other very well! But as an example, I do know that the 4 credit hours of Anatomy & lab actually meets for 8 hours each week, therefore, 8 contact hours to earn 4 credits.

Anatomy 315 & Lab - 4 credits
Comprehensive Care 314 - 6 credits
Oral Histology 451 - 4 credits
Microbiology for Dental Students 322 & Lab - 4 credits
Human Physiology for Dental Students 321 - 2 credits

Orientation is the week of Aug 18th and classes begin full speed on the 25th. We start dissecting our cadavers on day 1, very cool. The undergrad anatomy course that I took had a prosected cadaver. This time we get to do the cutting.

Hinsdale Memorial Hall.

Yesterday, Hinsdale had a party for the 80th b-day of the village hall building. There were free hot dogs, moon bounces, inflatable slides and face painting. Not to mention all the public service vehicles on display, bands & freebies being given out. Ros & John had their faces painted. (Peter & Mitchell are too cool for that now). Roslyn's is a bit hard to see but it's a faery princess adornment. You can also see that they both got new summer 'doos. Roslyn's was long enough to donate her hair to Pantene's hair for wigs program. They only require 8 inches of hair instead of the 10 inches that the Locks of Love program requires. Today we watched the village parade. It was actually a good parade and I usually find parades boring. I may take the kids to see the fire works tonight if they don't drive me to drink before I have to drive them there. Obviously, Jim is flying this weekend.

Bozo the Clown died Thursday.

And I never got to go on his show like I wanted to. I was still holding out hope all these years that I could win a tall insulated yellow cup with his picture on it. I rock at Bozo buckets. I guess this is truly the end of a childhood dream. And I don't think he ever had any little clowns. How sad.

Happy Independence Day!

Finally, W signed the new GI bill into law, yeah! Unfortunately, I don't qualify for it, but I'm still really glad it's available for those who do qualify.

***********Happy Birthday America!***********