last month

Why April was pretty good:

1. New favorite drapey shirt from Forever 21.
   
2. Donated blood for the second time ever, didn't feel terribly hung-over the next day like last time. Yay for proper post-donation hydration.
3. Chance to rock a pencil skirt for my research presentation. Shirt also from F21*.
4. Presentation went very well. I was the most nervous out of my group, but we got such great feedback from the audience, which was comprised mostly of doctors and health professionals. Also, I think my clinic's director finally knows my name, cause she told me she enjoyed my part of the presentation more than once. And she said this to me only. Eek.
5. "Keep working on those eye exams" said Dr. M, one the clinic's regular preceptor, after clinic one day. The first time we met, back in 2010, I had asked if I could sit in on him with a retinopathic patient (I was pretty interested in opthamology at the time). Not only was he totally fine with it, he even let me hold a fundoscope to peer into the patient's pupils. I can see the inside of their eye, it was friggin' awesome. Fast forward to now, and he still remembers me (and there's like 50-something student volunteers). Dr. M is way cool.
6. Catching up over froyo. My friend shared the great news with me that she got hired at this summer internship she wanted - in Alaska. How cool is that? And the following week, I shared the news with her that I got hired as a science reporter for my university's newspaper.

So yeah, the end of April was good (the beginning, not so much).

*A Forever 21 opened around the corner from where I live. No joke, it's a two-minute walk away. It's a good stress reliever after midterms, but the traffic around my block is crazy now.