The Week in Bullets

*What made me most nervous on Monday morning? Figuring out how to signal the bus driver that I needed to get off at the next stop...luckily someone else pulled the cord first and I stopped hyperventilating. What happened to the old school shuttle buses?

*There are people born in 1988 in my class....and they'll be your nurse in 15 months.

*I got to see an open chest in the ICU on day 3.

*I wrote my first paper since the year 2000 and turned it in via email yesterday.

*It seems walking miles across campus is much harder and more tiring when you're 10 years older and 75 pounds heavier than the last time you did it.

*The best way to spoil the joy of a Friday morning is to walk into Starbucks and be asked by the barista how old you are because your face looks young but your hair is gray.