Your Mom Goes to College
As my dad would say … I resemble that remark.
So I’m two weeks in to my five-week semester. Anatomy & Physiology I is just as hard or harder than I expected. Computer is ridiculously easy. Well, for me anyway … I’ve been using computers long enough to know what I’m doing. I have barely cracked my book in that class and I made a 102 on my first test. Thank God that class is easy because I’m expending so many of my brain cells in A&P I …
Our first exam in A&P I was today. It was 180 questions. 75 fill-in-the-blank questions were over various body parts from each of the 11 body systems. Now I know how to spell latissimus dorsi and orbicularus oculi. Not that I particularly wanted to. Anyway, the test – there were also about 70 multiple-choice questions, maybe 15 short-answer, an essay on homeostasis (I wrote 3 pages and used two examples when he asked for one … he darn well better give me the full 20 points!), and the rest was matching. It covered an overview of the body’s organ systems and functions, a chapter on chemistry, and looots of body parts. Oh, and a bunch of (mostly) Latin prefixes and suffixes that we also had to learn. My typed-out study guide was 21 pages long. I spent dozens of hours studying. And I think I did pretty well. But all the same – I can’t wait until this class is over.
The kids seem to be enjoying daycare. They both came home with heat exhaustion last week (with high fevers, hot and dry and dehydrated), compelling me to have several very pointed discussions with the daycare staff, finally resulting in me telling them they have to keep my kids inside during the afternoon. They are complying but I am irked that they would have kids playing outside for any length of time on days with 100-degree heat indices.
Jay is the best husband ever. He has been cleaning and tending to the kids while I’ve been burning the midnight oil studying for A&P. He’s also helped me study – probably for hours total over the last few days. He’s good with helping me to come up with mnemonic devices. Like when I had to remember that nitric acid has Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen (HNO) … he said “Heck NO I’m not drinking that nitric acid!” … silly but it stuck. 
