I read Isaiah once in BP... and this post is almost as long.

First things first-- this blog is long as crap, so if you are in a hurry or just don't have the fortitude to make it through, feel free to skip to the 2-sentence "SUMMARY" section located conveniently at the end of the post.

i forget what questions i'm supposed to answer here. something about the time-- it's 11:25 eastern... 10:25 back where a lot of you are... and 4:25pm where john is. and then something about who's within a stone's throw of me... which is nobody. that's kindof par for the course during the day while david's at school and i sit around the apartment studying, napping, reading, boredoming. But hopefully that'll change soon... i start working at starbucks next week as a barista (i checked, and unfortunately "barista" is both the feminine and masculine form of the word... how lame is that?). as for the ugly baby-- i stick by the "baby ruths look kindof like poop" thing. no one will ever convince me otherwise. and let's all admit it-- poop is ugly.

that's all of the suggested questions i can remember off the top of my head... hope everyone is cool w/ me slacking on the rest.

alright... for those of you who haven't had the luxury of keeping up w/ my ridiculous game of changing plans... a quick review:

i'm living in louisville w/ david, which is cool. and nice since i literally haven't made any other friends here yet. i'm considering using the PA system at the grocery store next time i go to announce my availability as a new friend. anyways-- i moved up here to do a master's in physiology as a precursor to med or dental school... but got shafted once i got here. long story, and i'll spare the details. now i'm taking biochemistry at a local college (it's catholic- weeeiiirrrd) to strengthen my dental and/or med school application, and distance-learning 2 courses through LSU, which qualifies me for my dad's health insurance... sweet. But teaching myself Calculus III and Differential Equations might be a little rough; it awaits to be seen.

now... here's the newest news:

there's a chance i'll be starting a DMD/PhD dual-degree program at none other than (prepare to roll your eyes at the irony) UAB. they've been talking to me about it, and the PhD would likely be in biomedical engineering, with cool oral/maxillofacial surgery-related research. it's been about a week since i've heard from them, but i just got an email from the director saying that they like my test scores and grades, and that since i'm distance-learning those 2 math courses, i'll only be 1 pre-requisite short of their normal students, which is no big deal. They're not sure yet whether they'd want me to start in the spring or the fall... for david's sake, fall would be better. but i'm not really in a position to make demands, so we'll just have to see what they say. oh-- and it would make dental school free, and set me up well for a surgery residency afterwards.

so that's the gist of it. and if yall could be praying about it for me, that'd be really great. i'm pretty worried about getting my hopes up because the master's program falling through here was such a kick in the face... but it seems like the program chair is pretty interested, so who knows. i'd love for it to work out, but i'm trying not to count on it. but yeah, your prayers would be awesome.

Here's the short version for those who took my advice and skipped to the end-

SUMMARY:
There's a chance I might get admitted to a freakin' awesome DMD/PhD program at UAB that would make dental school free and position me well for an oral/maxillofacial surgery residency afterwards. It's pretty much the ideal situation, and I'd love it if yall could be praying about that for me.

later duuudes.
-brian