It's embarrassing. It's been well over 10 days since I purchased Ken Evoy's SBI and I'm still at the point of getting the 600 page manual printed. I had somewhat envisioned that I would have that done by the time Michael Green released his "How To Promote a Product" product. Sigh. (The manual is due to arrive from Quebec on Wednesday. Close to $20 CDN to have it UPS'd to me--and 8 days.)

School is full bore. I dropped my advanced medical terminology. Not because I don't want to learn more medical terminology (that would a heck of a thing for a pre-med, don't you think?) That leaves 4 classes...er, 5 classes or 6, depending upon how you count. There's "Medical Law and Ethics" class, required for getting a phlebotomy certificate. There's the 2nd quarter of my EMT class--which I'm taking from a different instructor than the first quarter.

I changed from taking a Saturday class to a TTh evening class because I thought I was going to take some practice MCATs on some Saturdays thru Princeton Review. I bought a whole stack of MCAT prep material, just about everything except ExamKrackers, which I already had. The guy I bought it from, John, recommended against taking TPR--"Save your money. You have everything you need." He got a 34. I think I'd be pretty happy with a 34. I got a 29 9 years ago (9 in verbal--my bane.)

So, let's see, that's 2 classes. Then there are the two hand-in-hand PE classes--"lifetime fitness" and "lifetime fitness lab". That's why I was walking last week. This week I managed 2.5 miles in under 50 minutes. Only 17.5 more hours of exercise until an "A" in the lab :).

The 2 other classes are html classes. This is so I can 1) do some website work, maybe for others; and 2) I have a website, a forum, that I want to get up, for re-entry students (at, not to surprisingly: Watch this link :) I have the webhosting company, installed phpBB2 over the Christmas break, but still need to create the "guts" for the board. Having phpBB2 installed is kind of like having your house framed...you still have to do the interior finishing. That webhost is on a system which provides me with a shell account--I more-or-less inherited the account because I had ISP service with one company which was bought by Verio and the ISP service was dropped, but they kept the webhosting. Since I was 1 course short of a Unix sys admin certificate, you can guess I kinda like Unix.

It seems like there are a zillion other things that went on this week that I didn't write about. I tried to put links up along the side bar here, and they did show up--but they are gone now.
It was interesting looking at the blogger code--it looks like it is some sort of xml, as far as I can tell. The other significant occurrence is that I was up late Sunday night and so was tired when I got up for my 8:30am Monday class. I paid for it though--in real dollars. On my way out of the parking structure after class I left the parking brake on, and didn't discover it until I got off the freeway about 15 miles later. $465.55.
Ka-ching!

(With globalization, which makes software jobs uninteresting because they can be -- and have been -- shipped over seas. Medical jobs, those involving patient care, are a lot harder to ship over seas. What my experience this week taught me is that car repair might be another secure job. Hmmm....bloody hands or greasy hands? Malpractice insurance or no. I don't think we've come quite to the point of seeing female car mechanics as a usual thing. However, over half the medical students in the U.S., I understand, are women. A far cry from when I was first in college where their numbers were around 10%).

Talk with you later... :) And remember: re-entry-students.com forum, coming soon   ¶ 11:27 PM