What a difference a month makes!

So luckily the weather is warming up a bit again here in Iowa, but fall is definitely here! I have to say no matter what the fall colors make me SOOOOO happy! Everytime I drive down the street I get excessively excited about all of the bright red and yellow trees. Iowa City gets really beautiful this time of year because it has so many trees being along the river and all. This year it is even more colorful bc of the cold snap we had, so I've been really excited. I just love fall!! I've decided that someday when I build a house I'm going to plant my trees based on the color the leaves change - I just wanted to go around this weekend taking pictures of the different trees - I didn't, but here are a couple of pics from my phone...


I also came across a couple of tailgating pictures that really showed the difference...
September:


October:


The last month has also taken a bit of a toll on my apartment and my ability to keep up on my activities of daily living... here is my living room/kitchen as of Saturday morning:


And the pile of laundry that I had accumulated:


We all went out on Friday night, which was fun (of course). This semester has taken it's toll, so it had been a long time since we'd gone out, which means I did not bounce back Saturday morning! Plus we are all so tired and sleep deprived all of the time that you need to get caught up sometime! Saturday I did tackle that pile of laundry, hung out with some friends, and then Saturday night we went to Buffalo wild wings in Coralville to watch the Iowa game. THAT was a blast! It definitely shouldn't have been an exciting game against Michigan State, but per usual the hawks only performed well under pressure at the end. The entire restaurant went CRAZY - everyone was screaming, jumping up and down, freaking out. My poor voice was scratchy for the rest of the night! Gotta love Hawk fans!!!

Alright, well I'd best get to my Pathology cases. I think I speak for all the M2s when I say I don't feel like being a med student this week. It's been a rough 3 weeks, so it's getting harder and harder to keep plodding along. Nonetheless we'll keep going bc we have to! This week will be relatively mild by comparison, so I'm SUPER DUPER excited about the prospect of getting caught back up and even more excited about getting 7/8hrs of sleep a night rather than 5/6. I think it will make all the difference in the world! We have FCP test this Friday, and it has become tradition that you get 5 professionalism points for the class if you wear a costume to the test Friday (to be PC you can get them if you dress in "colors of the season"), so that should be fun! Hope everyone had a good weekend!! Love, Andrea