I had totally forgotten it's Memorial Day Weekend. That explains why there were so many tourists in Washington Square yesterday, and paying especially close attention to the tomb of the unknown soldier. And why our upstairs neighbors have all been gone for a couple of days. And why my doctor is on vacation. I guess that means that all of that mailing I was going to do tomorrow isn't going to happen... (what a difference a day makes... [if not our first dance song, I want it played some time at our wedding]).

Nesting parentheses -- more evidence that my mother is a math teacher. Last week I had to explain that to Selene after I repeatedly used 'X' to stand for an unknown/variable in a hypothetical situation I was talking about. And yesterday in the park I read that 10% of African Americans have the X-linked disorder Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, so I spent fifteen minutes seeing if I could calculate the carrier rate among women (28%!).

We're headed back to the park, and I'm glad we bought these plastic lined picnic blankets at CVS because I'm sure the ground is soaked from last night's storm. Maybe we'll have the park to ourselves :) It's supposed to rain again today, earlier this time, so I hope we make it home without getting (our books) drenched. I dry off well, my review books not so much. I think the reason that Pathology is so much harder than I expected is because what we called Path in our FCM class was just strictly what a pathologist does -- looks at biopsies, slides, whole organs and makes a diagnosis. In boards studying, pathology means disease, anything that can go wrong with the body. It's all of FCM, all 5 months, that we're supposed to review in 4 days. I think I was just in gear to be looking at pictures and describing cellular changes, not learning all of the meat of the boards. It's gonna be OK, especially when we take a break on Tuesday and then I study Behavioral Science next week :-D

Lastly, woohoo Blue Jays! Hopkins crushed Delaware in the semi-finals in front of a record crowd of 52,000 at Baltimore's own M&T stadium yesterday and now they'll play Duke in the Lacrosse championship game tomorrow. It should be a really good game -- ESPN, 1pm... I wish we could watch!