Wow. I cannot believe how long I was sick for. And I was really, really, really, really, really sick. I looked at my calendar to see when my microbiology exam was—February 8. That was the first day I was sick. And it wasn’t until yesterday, March 12, that I felt better. That’s a month and four days! Okay, sorry, I wasn’t trying to be condescending—I know that most people who can read this can also comprehend that 12-8=4. I suppose it was all for the effect.

But here I am, feeling reborn because I was sick for so long, I forgot what it was like to be healthy! And I can tell you that it is amazing…incredible…uplifting…out of this world mind-boggling! I know, some may say I am going overboard, but I challenge them to try having bronchitis, pneumonia, and sinusitis for a month. Seriously. Health is something I have taken for granted for a long time, but it’s not going to be like that for a while, after this.

Anyway, life is great now. I am HEALTHY! I am on spring break, and tomorrow I am going to Washington, D.C. to stay with my lovely friend Amy and her mom. They will show me around since they kind of live there (and I mean kind of as in Amy’s dad is in the military, so they live places only temporarily) so they have seen everything. I am super excited. I plan on taking a ridiculous amount of pictures.

So yeah. Anything else? Oh yeah. I have decided I spend so much time on the internet, it’s ruining my life. So my goal is to only sign on to AIM two hours a week. And only on the weekends. NO WEEKDAY AIM! And then I only get to check my email once a day, unless I am expecting a very important email—usually related to school or career, though I suppose there are some social situations that can be considered important (like a friend with a predicament, etc.) Oh, and no facebook except during the weekends too! I can only look at that during my two hours on AIM.

And with the many, many, many hours that I have open due to the internet not occupying so much of my time, I want to study and practice piano now. I mean, study, and then when I need a break, play piano for fifteen minutes, then get back to it. My psychology teacher in highschool informed us of how short our attention spans really are, and how if we want our minds to still be actively engaged, every so often we have to take a break and do something to get the chemicals in our brains flowing again. One of the big ways to do that was cross-lateral activities. What cross-lateral activities do is involve some physical activity that forces the left and right brain to communicate with one-another. And piano is definitely a task that does that—the right hand and left hand, when playing piano, have to play different notes, sometimes at different rhythms, but they have to do it in conjunction with one-another.

Anyway, I have the most long-winded method of explaining that playing piano in between studying should be an effective study-method for me.

But I don’t have to do that for five days, ‘cause I get to go play in D.C. first! Yay!