• Medical school - studying and all..


• RA stuff - mostly letting maintenance into student rooms and supervising while they do their repairs


• Registering for next term


• Getting loans/financial aid squared away for next term


• Deciding if I wanted to do the RA thing Terms 5 and 6 in St. Vincent. I decided that I wanted to take a break and live off-campus with some friends, so now that has entailed:
  
  • Looking at the St. Vincent off-campus housing lists/photos in the housing office
  
  
  • Calling all the landlords
  
  
  • Planning a trip to St. Vincent to view apartments/put down a deposit/sign a lease. (Yes, you really have to do it 2 terms in advance, otherwise the good places are gone.) This entailed:
    
    • Trying to find flights that wouldn't require an overnight stay. We had originally planned to stay the weekend and do some scuba diving, but when the costs creeped upwards of $700, that was scratched, since we can dive when we are there for four months anyways.
    
    
    • Booking a rental car.

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The autopsy of Terri Schiavo found no evidence that the severely brain-damaged woman was strangled or abused and that no amount of therapy would have reversed her condition, a medical examiner said Wednesday.

He said his examination turned up no sign of abuse or trauma -- allegations leveled by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, against her husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo.

A report from a neuropathologist who served as a consultant to the autopsy said Schiavo's brain was "grossly abnormal and weighed only 615 grams [1.35 pounds]."

That weight is less than half that expected for a woman of her age, said the report written by Dr. Stephen J. Nelson.

Schiavo's brain damage "was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons," Thogmartin said. "Her brain was profoundly atrophied, and the vision centers of her brain were dead," he said.

Source: CNN.com

Regardless of the autopsy findings, the Schindlers continue to believe their daughter was not in a persistent vegetative state, their lawyer, David Gibbs III, said after Thogmartin’s report was issued. He said they plan to discuss the autopsy with other medical experts and may take some unspecified legal action.

Source: MSNBC.com