Oh The Guilt...

When you start down the path for medical school, there are lots of things that people tell you.

"You should totally do it! Go to medical school!"

"You have got to be out of your *(&$% mind!"

"Seriously?! Are you nuts?!"

"You can do it!"

People tell you all about the stress and the time and the studying and the feeling of drinking from a fire hose going full blast.

But no one mentioned the guilt. The guilt that you aren't studying enough. The guilt that you aren't doing enough work or that you aren't smart enough and didn't really deserve to be there.

And all the other guilt -- that you are neglecting your friends (you are, although they will understand, at least for a while) and your family (you are, and they might understand, or at least they will pretend to) and your coworkers if you are dumb enough to think that you can still work and the things that need to be done around the house (you are, and your neighbors probably are wondering when your yard turned into a jungle and when you might do something about that).

And I was prepared for the stress. And the studying. And the feeling like my brain would explode if I tried to cram one more little factoid into it.

But I was completely and totally unprepared for the overwhelming guilt.

Because Three Consecutive Hours of Sleep is Way Too Many....Meet Zoe!

4 AM

Natalie wanted to know what I looked like RIGHT NOW. And because she knows that I always follow directions that I love a good meme, she promptly tagged me. Thus exposing all of your poor, poor eyes to what I look like at 4:00 in the morning. Because apparently that is the time that I got up this morning.

Why get up at that god-forsaken early hour? I haven't the SLIGHTEST idea. But in any case, here I am. In all of my bleary-eyed, early morning glory.

Oy. It's a good thing I have no shame, or I perhaps would have thought a bit harder about putting that out there for the world to see...

Now I do believe that I am supposed to do some tagging. So if your eyes aren't bleeding from the slight of me without make-up or a shower, then consider yourself tagged. And drop what you're doing to snap your own photo. Unless you are freshly showered or looking nice. Then feel free to wait to snap that photo until later.

Theme Thursday - Unrefined

Since I missed last week's celebration theme, I don't want to look like a slacker and miss two weeks in a row -- although I will say that this one is a lot harder....I guess I should have been more together last week!

I wish that I would have gotten some time to try to shoot in RAW this week, but I didn't quite find the time to make that happen. So that means that I have to be a little creative with something for this week.

I will say that while I attempt to be somewhat refined, and I think that I mostly manage to pull this off. This is not to say that I always succeed. Which is why if you would have looked in the backyard this week, you *may* have seen this:

Why yes, that is me. On a slip 'n' slide. That has been doctored up with a lot a little soap. I assure you that there are many other pictues from this little event...unfortunately due to that pesky time factor I didn't have time to process any more of them.

Ahhh, the internet. It's good for nothing if not embarrassing yourself.

Head to Stacy's to see some other bits of unrefinement!