I've realized that I've been complaining about studying a lot lately. I don't mind sharing annoying, silly, or ridiculous things from my studying, but every one knows studying sucks so I will try to stay away from that side of it -- it makes for boring reading, kind of like studying itself!

Yesterday I went for my first jog in quite a long time, and boy am I aching today! I thought I had sort of conditioned myself on our exercise bike, but I guess running is a whole different story. My quads!!! But having an achy muscle does open your eyes to all the times you use that muscle that you never would have thought of. Your quads are at the front of your thigh and straighten your leg by pulling on the front of your shin via your knee cap. But one of the things that hurts me the most today is sitting down into a chair -- gradually bending my knee. It's the gradual part that is the issue. Sitting down really shouldn't take any muscles -- if you just went limp, you could just fall into the chair. So your quads tense up as your start to sit down and then gradually relax so that the flexing of your knee is a controlled process. Every muscle's role is really dependent on which way gravity is pulling at that moment. OK, yeah, the fact that I think that this is cool is probably why I'm in med school.

Also, I realize that gravity technically always pulls down towards the ground.

I wanted to sleep in today (break day!) but amazingly I have apparently acheived a regular person's sleep schedule. I woke up at around 8:30am without an alarm! I made myself sleep in anyway and just slept lightly until a little after noon. I have the weirdest dreams when I do that. I had this really long one featuring House MD (we've been watching a lot of House during dinner lately -- it's funny and great to help you remember all those really obscure diseases that QBank loves to test on) that really came out like a really creepy nightmare even though I don't think I was particularly scared during the dream. I'll spare you my trying to describe it. I'm always in a daze for like a half hour when I wake up from a nightmare. I'm glad it happened today when I had the time to be dazed!

A new copy of Brides just arrived in the mail and this is the cover:

Doesn't that make you want a puppy in your wedding?
How about this cutie?Well, the cutie on the left is already in the wedding, but what about the one on the right? That's Glen's mom's puppy, Griffey.

Sounds like a good idea unless you've ever actually met a puppy.
This is Griffey at one of his calmer moments, trying to eat my face:

With so many people with fingers to chew in the pews, he'd never make it down the aisle.