I'm free! I'm free!

I always loved this old man from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's also about how I feel every time I finish a quarter. "I'm free! I'm free!" After a short week-long break I find myself in another 8 AM class. . ."Dangit!" But either way I am done with my last full quarter of classroom work in my doctorate program. I have a week off and then I go back for only 2 weeks of classes and then I'm off for a 3-week summer break before heading out to Napa Valley for training camp. I'll have more on that in another blog. When I come back from Napa Valley/Oakland, I start into my clinicals. What a breath of fresh air! It's such sweet relief to be done, especially after all that has happened this quarter. It has been the hardest quarter yet for me to focus on my work and do a good job, yet so far it somehow looks like I'll be receiving my best grades yet. Only God knows how that happened because He's the one that carried me through it. There's no other explanation for how I got through the hard times that I've recently encountered. But now it's behind me and i'm done. And that means more time to write blogs. I've had a lot that I've been waiting to get off my chest.