Yesterday in between studying I finished John Grisham's The Associate.  I thought it was good in a fast and easy reading kind of way.  When I was younger I would not have liked the dangled endings, not at all.  I liked my books tidily cleaned up at the end - resolution was important to me back then.  These days, I don't mind it at all. I think it might be because of several reasons.  One, life rarely has tidy endings.  Being more maturer than I used to be, I can allow that untidiness to follow me into my entertainment and I don't get bothered by it so much.  Secondly, I have a much stronger sense of participation in the creative process that the author shares in writing his or her story.  By that I mean that if the main character gets dangled at the end I can come up with and settle upon a more agreeable resolution in my own mind and accept it.  So maybe in the end I'm not so much un-bothered by it as much as I am simply extending the writer's idea and ending it on my own terms.  If I care to think about it much at all.

I am studying neuropharmacology today, along with how to conduct a GI-focused history and exam.  I'll have an opportunity for a practical test on the latter in about a week and I'll need to practice for it.  Neuropharm is interesting, today's topics include antidepressants, sedatives and anxiolytics.  I'm going to also delve into cardiology, too.  Hopefully.  I'm shooting for about 10 hours of study today.  I've stopped going to classes except for when it's required.

Right now my goal is simply to stay current with the lectures from the day before (always trying to catch up to yesterday) and then catching up on Friday's lectures on Saturday, with time left over every day for review.  Time to study...