Back to the blog (about 6 months and 20 days after we last posted). Sorry about that, I really don't mean to be so dang lazy, but sometimes I just can't help myself. Starting in January was my very last semester as an undergraduate student. I took 3 econ classes, a history class, and a portuguese lit class to finish off school. Financial Econ was a blast and helped me understand the things that people ask me about when I tell them that I studied economics. Its kind of funny, but sometimes I think that they get economics mixed up with finance. Economics focuses more on what people do because of money or while interacting with money, whereas Finance focuses more on money markets, investments and other ways of
making the money that we interact with. :) My Health Econ class was basically a semester of preparation for the discussion that is bound to arise when I tell med school interviewers that I majored in economics and they ask me "so what do you think about the whole healthcare situation right now?", to which I can now answer "I think the whole thing is a joke," and go on to explain my newfound cynicism tied to the ability of governments to plan health care. Its not that they can't help, just that they are too blind to do anything that would actually make a difference, or it would lose them votes, or whatever excuse the local politician has in his pocket. I guess I should also mention that we as an Economics breed have special loathing for politicians as a whole.
Moving on from that deviation, I managed to graduate, and get a job in Salt Lake City at Primary Children's Hospital while I apply to medical schools. Mindy (as Melinda now calls herself) is taking her classes in Salt Lake City, and we moved up to SLC in order to 1) not live in Provo and 2) not have to drive an hour to work and class. Our apartment is old, but I like it, and its slowly (
slowly) growing on Mindy as well.
We hope to take a vacation at some point this summer, but don't really know when or where. For now, we just entertain ourselves with Netflix and walks to wherever our fancy guides us. Since my paragraphs are very quickly getting shorter, we will just move on to some pictures that we have taken in the past few months since January.
Melinda in our giant Target bag for some reason or another
Tyson (recently married to Kelsey) deciding if he could actually use
the "Emergency Throne" if he had to
Sharing our love of Pho with others
We went and saw Lady Gaga in Feb. :)
Jake's first trip to La Casita # Uno
