this time of year

oh good. the fire alarm just turned off. it's 10:30 am and the excrutiatingly loud fire alarm in the hallway spontaneously turned on about 15 minutes ago. i called our caretakers, and they weren't home. so i called the landlord/company that owns this place and they said that they'd call me back. (i didn't really want them to call me, i just wanted them to make my ears stop bleeding). this is not the first time this has happened, so that's why i didn't vacate the premises immediately.

well, i have to be honest. i'm a little anxious. yes, i tend to get anxious at this time of year. by "this time of year" i mean the 8 months that i'm in school. technically classes start today, and i have orientation starting 12:30. but school is only part of it. okay, it's most of it. i have been forewarned that 3rd year is the hardest of the 4 years (4th year is apparently a breeze compared to 3rd). and not just by past students, but by our professors last year too! for example, "does anyone know why this would happen to this patient? ...no? okay, well i'll give you a hint. but you know, in 3rd year you are going to have to think through the physiology of it and figure it out yourself. we won't be giving you hints...." hmmm. the one glimmer of hope in statements like this is that i LOVE physiology. in first year, i took anatomy and physiology, and i spent a lot of extra time studying those courses... and it showed in some of my other marks. for example, the C+ that i got on a different exam could have probably been a bit higher, had i evened out my focus slightly. [i ended up with an A+ in both anatomy and physio]
so this year is supposed to be very hard. but another bright side is that my year that i spent at U of W has completely transferred over and i have no electives to do during my whole 4 years of nursing. so, i'm doing 6 credit hours less than a full courseload.
did i mention that R and i are helping in jr. youth this year?? should be fun! we had a meeting last night and planned the events up until christmas. R's also teaching sunday school. and right now he's in his practicum.... crazy crazy time here right now.

oh and one more thing. Bozo moved out at the end of July (hallelujah!!!!!) and we've had a quiet month or so. it was beautiful. but now the 'single, quiet, female student' has a moved in beneath us, and i'm a little nervous about that to. she may be single, but we have heard a male voice a lot, at night when we're trying to sleep. (okay, i've heard all this. it never bothers R) and we heard her music pretty loud yesterday, but that was totally okay, because it was classical and no pounding bass. i wrote her a note, welcoming her to the apartment, trying to start out on friendly terms. i also mentioned that we try to keep it quiet especially at night when voices (especially male voices) carry very easily. i was talking about us, but maybe she'll read a little more into it and find that we'd like her to try to keep it down too.

i guess i'll just have to keep praying about this crazy time that we're in and keep working on my attitude towards all of this and see how things turn out.