October 1, 2010

Dear Grace,

            I’m sorry my letters are getting so spread out now, but life has been pretty hectic trying to keep up with school and work and Young Women’s. Don’t think I’m getting careless about writing you, but my letters will be coming in slower now that I’m so busy. But I’ll try to keep up with everything that’s been going on.

            Ok, so let’s start as far back as I can remember. So I took the ACT in September, and I studied for it and everything and guess what? I did worse!! I got a twenty! I don’t think studying does crap for that stupid test anyway. Why is it that if you can’t think a hundred miles an hour they label you as stupid, and most colleges don’t want you? Grg, sometimes I really hate being so severely right-brained. Well anyway, Grandma was stressing about it worse than I was, and it was making me mad because she wanted me to be stressed, and I was trying to focus on not being stressed, but she was so stressed out that she stressed me out, so next time she’s not allowed to be around me a week before I’m taking the test so I can just focus on what I’ve studied.

            Next, I’ve been spending every spare minute I have over at Andrea’s house. We’re in love with this show right now called Dr. Who.  I can’t remember if I already told you that, but we try and get together at least once a week and watch a couple of episodes, so we won’t be totally out of touch with each other like we were last year. About a week or so ago, I brought a friend of mine, Rachel Ockey, with me to Andrea’s house, and Andrea had to take her brother somewhere, so she left the TV running, but it was on some weird bull-riding channel, and we couldn’t figure out how to change the channel, so we ended up doing cartwheels and summersaults and ninja spin-kicks around the living room, and then Rachel decided to stand in front of the massive TV screen and pretend to be a bull-rider. It actually turned out really cool looking, and of course it was Rachel, so it was hilarious. I love my friends J.

            My internship is going great. We do a lot of sitting around, and we mostly just do portable chest x-rays, but it’s still pretty cool, because I get to help with that, and I get to visit all areas in the hospital. Funny story! So one day I freaked out while I was in the emergency room because we were getting a chest x-ray of this lady, and as we stood back to take the x-ray, I noticed that she was flat-lining. It took me a second to realize she wasn't even hooked up to the heart monitor. So yeah, that kind of scared me. Other than a ton of chest x-rays, we don’t really do much, haha.

            A couple days later, Jordan texted me while I was in my math class, and asked me to take the hall pass and come hang out with him because he was bored. So I did, and I pretty much left class for like thirty minutes, haha. We went down and got food at the vending machines and just goofed around. When I got back to class, I thought my teacher was going to be pissed. But was he? No. He was all concerned about me and had been worried that something had happened to me! Haha, yay.

And then, when I went to my next class, (I have four classes with this same teacher, and she loves me, so she lets me skip class if she’s teaching the same lesson as the other English class I have with her) and I realized that we were starting a new unit, and I didn’t have my medical terminology book with me. So I asked her if I could go home and get it, and she said sure. So then Jordan and I went to my house and got my book and then we went and got doughnuts. So when I got back to that class, I had missed pretty much thirty minutes, haha. So yes, adventures with Jordan are always fun. Stupid, but fun.

Okay, moving on. So a couple of weeks ago, Grandma, Grandpa, and Andrea and I all went up the alpine loop to visit Josh and Jessica and her family. While we were up there, Andrea and I were playing with the kids, sword fighting with sticks and lighting stuff on fire…you know, fun kid stuff. Anyway, so while we were sword fighting, I suddenly remembered that I had the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song on my phone. So while we were sword fighting I turned that on. Yeah, it was totally epic, haha.

Well, that’s about all I can think about that’s been happening lately, so I’ll just end by saying that I love you and I hope all is well with you.

Love always,

Katie Jo